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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, ...
e76f4276 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
cb1aaebe 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
e76f4276 57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
6dddd7a7 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
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226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 334 Change the output verbosity while booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
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435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
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440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
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442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
1da177e4 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
a405ed85 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 449 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 450
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451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
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455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
cd4f0ef7 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
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464 carrier_timeout=
465 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
466 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
467 it waits 120 seconds.
468
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469 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
470 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
471 trust validation.
32c4741c 472 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
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474 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
475 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
476 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
477 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
478 others).
479
6dddd7a7 480 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
8b4a503d 481 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
1da177e4 482
6dddd7a7 483 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 484 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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485 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
486 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
487 a single hierarchy
488 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
489 subsystem
490 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
491 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
492 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 493
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494 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
495 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
496 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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497 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
498 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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499 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
500 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
501 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 502
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503 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
504 Format: <string>
505 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 506 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 507
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508 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
509 Format: { "0" | "1" }
510 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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511 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
512 any implied execute protection).
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513 1 -- check protection requested by application.
514 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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515 Value can be changed at runtime via
516 /selinux/checkreqprot.
517
661ca0da 518 cio_ignore= [S390]
8b4a503d 519 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
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520 clk_ignore_unused
521 [CLK]
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522 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
523 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
524 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
525 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
526 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
527 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
528 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
529 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 530 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 531
cd4f0ef7 532 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 533 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 534 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 535 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 536 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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537 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
538
592913ec 539 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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540 Format: <string>
541 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
542 with the name specified.
543 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
544 the platform:
545 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
546 [ACPI] acpi_pm
547 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
548 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 549 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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550 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
551 [MIPS] MIPS
552 [PARISC] cr16
553 [S390] tod
554 [SH] SuperH
555 [SPARC64] tick
556 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
557
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558 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
559 [ARM,ARM64]
560 Format: <bool>
561 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
562 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
563 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
564 systems.
565
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566 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
567 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 568 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 569 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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570 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
571 ones should be.
572 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
573 or using the feature without checking anything
574 will still see it. This just prevents it from
575 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
576 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
577 some critical bits.
578
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579 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
580 [ARM,X86,KNL]
581 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
582 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
583 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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584 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
585 altogether. For more information, see
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586 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
587
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588 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
589 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
590 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
591 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
592 a hypervisor.
593 Default: yes
594
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595 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
596 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 597 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 598
1da177e4 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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600 Format:
601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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602
603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
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606 com90xx= [HW,NET]
607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610 condev= [HW,S390] console device
611 conmode=
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613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 618 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
624
e52347bd 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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626 information. See
627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628 alternative.
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630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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637 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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643 the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
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645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 647
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648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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650 console=brl,ttyS0
651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
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653 console_msg_format=
654 [KNL] Change console messages format
655 default
656 By default we print messages on consoles in
657 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
658 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
659 `printk_time' param).
660 syslog
661 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
662 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
663 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
664 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
665 from /proc/kmsg.
666
f324edc8 667 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 668 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 669 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 670
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671 coredump_filter=
672 [KNL] Change the default value for
673 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
674 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
675
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676 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
677 [ARM,ARM64]
678 Format: <bool>
679 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
680 0: default value, disable debugging
681 1: enable debugging at boot time
682
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683 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
684 disable the cpuidle sub-system
685
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686 cpuidle.governor=
687 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
688
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689 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
690 disable the cpufreq sub-system
691
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692 cpu_init_udelay=N
693 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
694 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
695 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
696 Default: 10000
697
1da177e4 698 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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699 Format:
700 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 701
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702 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
703 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
704 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
705 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
706 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
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707 is selected automatically.
708 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
709 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
710 hasn't been specified.
d67297ad 711 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
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713 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
714 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
715 in the running system. The syntax of range is
716 start-[end] where start and end are both
717 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
d67297ad 718 Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
fb391599 719
adbc742b 720 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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721 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
722 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
723 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
724 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
725 available.
726 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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727 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
728 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
729 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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730 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
731 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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732 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
733 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
734 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
735 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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736 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
737 for second kernel instead.
738 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 739 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 740 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 741
9e5c9fe4 742 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 743 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 744
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745 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
746 Format: <dma>
747
748 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
749 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 750
a9913044 751 dasd= [HW,NET]
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752 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
753
754 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
755 (one device per port)
756 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 757 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 758
6dddd7a7 759 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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760 time. See
761 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 762 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 763
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764 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
765
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766 debug_boot_weak_hash
767 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
768 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
769 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
770 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
771 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
772 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
773
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774 debug_locks_verbose=
775 [KNL] verbose self-tests
776 Format=<0|1>
777 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
778 self-tests.
779 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
780 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
781 only useful to kernel developers.
782
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783 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
784
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785 no_debug_objects
786 [KNL] Disable object debugging
787
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788 debug_guardpage_minorder=
789 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
790 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
791 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
792 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
793 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
794 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
795 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
796 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
797 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
798 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
799 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
800 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
801 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
802 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
803 bypassed) which are not detectable by
804 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
805 tracking down these problems.
806
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808 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
809 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
810 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
811 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
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812 on: enable the feature
813
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814 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
815
2d27a966 816 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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817 Format: <area>[,<node>]
818 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
819
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821 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
822 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
823 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
824 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
825 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
826 if not specified.
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828 deferred_probe_timeout=
829 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
830 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
831 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
832 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
833 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
834 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
835 retrying.
836
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837 dhash_entries= [KNL]
838 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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840 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
841 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
842 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
843 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
844 miss to occur.
845
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846 disable= [IPV6]
847 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
848
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849 hardened_usercopy=
850 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
851 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
852 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
853 from reading or writing beyond known memory
854 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
855 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
856 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
857 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
858 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
859
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860 disable_radix [PPC]
861 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
862
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863 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
864 Format: <int>
865 The number of initial APIC ID for the
866 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
867 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
868 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
869 causing system reset or hang due to sending
870 INIT from AP to BSP.
871
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872 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
873 Format: <bool>
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874 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
875 The feature only exists starting from
876 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
877
6dddd7a7 878 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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879 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
880 to workaround buggy firmware.
881
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882 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
883 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
884
95ffa243 885 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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886 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
887 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 888 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 889
093af8d7 890 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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891 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
892 memory out of your available memory pool based on
893 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
894 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
895
6cececfc 896 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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897 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
898 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
899
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900 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
901
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902 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
903 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
904
905 dma_debug_entries=<number>
906 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
907 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
908 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
909 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
910 architectural default is too low.
911
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912 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
913 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
914 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
915 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
916 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
917 driver later using sysfs.
918
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919 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
920 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
921 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
922
53fd40a9 923 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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924 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
925 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
926 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
927 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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928 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
929 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
930 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
931 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
932 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
a2f405a5 933 available in Documentation/EDID/howto.rst. An EDID
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934 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
935 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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936 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
937 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
938 data set with no connector name will be used for
939 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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941 dscc4.setup= [NET]
942
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943 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
944 Format: {"off" | "known"}
945 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
946 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
947 exists).
948 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
949 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
950 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
951
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952 dump_apple_properties [X86]
953 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
954 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
955 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
956
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957 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
958 module.dyndbg[="val"]
959 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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961 for details.
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8c3641e9 963 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
cb1aaebe 964 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
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965 information about the feature.
966
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967 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
968 in some Intel CPUs.
969
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970 module.async_probe [KNL]
971 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
972
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973 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
974 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
975 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
976 which are not unmapped.
977
0cb55ad2 978 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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980 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
981 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
982 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
983
984 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
985 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
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987 cdns,<addr>[,options]
988 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
989 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
990 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
991 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
992 configured.
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994 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
995 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 996 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 997 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 998 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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999 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1000 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1001 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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1003 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1004 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1005 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1006 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
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0d3c673e 1008 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1009 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1011 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1013 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1014 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1015 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1016
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1017 meson,<addr>
1018 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1019 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1020 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1021 supported.
1022
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1023 msm_serial,<addr>
1024 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1025 port at the specified address. The serial port
1026 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1027 yet supported.
1028
1029 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1030 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1031 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1032 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1033 yet supported.
1034
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1035 owl,<addr>
1036 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1037 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1038 specified address. The serial port must already be
1039 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1040
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1041 rda,<addr>
1042 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1043 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1044 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1045 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1046
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1047 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1048
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1049 s3c2410,<addr>
1050 s3c2412,<addr>
1051 s3c2440,<addr>
1052 s3c6400,<addr>
1053 s5pv210,<addr>
1054 exynos4210,<addr>
1055 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1056 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1057 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1058 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1059 Options are not yet supported.
1060
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1061 lantiq,<addr>
1062 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1063 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1064 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1065 yet supported.
1066
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1067 lpuart,<addr>
1068 lpuart32,<addr>
1069 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1070 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1071 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1072 port must already be setup and configured.
1073
f7c864e7 1074 ar3700_uart,<addr>
30530791
WD
1075 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1076 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1077 address. The serial port must already be setup
1078 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1079
43f1831b
KR
1080 qcom_geni,<addr>
1081 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1082 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1083 specified address. The serial port must already be
1084 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1085
69c1f396
AB
1086 efifb,[options]
1087 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1088 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1089 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1090 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1091 mapped with the correct attributes.
1092
4ba66a97 1093 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1094 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1095 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1096 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1097 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1098 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1099 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1100 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1101 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1102 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1103
147ea091
DH
1104 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1105 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1106 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1107
a9913044 1108 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1109 takes over.
1110
72548e83
MF
1111 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1112 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1113
147ea091
DH
1114 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1115 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1116 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1117 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1118 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1119 You can find the port for a given device in
1120 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1121 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1da177e4
LT
1122
1123 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1124 very good.
1125
72548e83
MF
1126 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1127 the real console.
1da177e4 1128
2482a92e
KRW
1129 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1130
89175cf7
HC
1131 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1132
d2266bbf
FT
1133 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1134 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1135 UART class.
1136
c700f013
CG
1137 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1138 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1139 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1140 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1141 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1142 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1143 default: on.
1144
9731191f
JW
1145 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1146 ekgdboc=kbd
1147
25985edc 1148 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1149 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1150
1da177e4 1151 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1152 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1153
d2f7cbe7 1154 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1155 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1156 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1157 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1158 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1159 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1160 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1161 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1162 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1163 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1164
8c58bf3e
RW
1165 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1166 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1167 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1168 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1169 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1170
0f96a99d
TI
1171 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1172 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1173 updating original EFI memory map.
1174 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1175 from ss to ss+nn.
1176 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1177 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1178 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1179 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1180
1181 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1182 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1183 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1184 doesn't support it.
1185
475fb4e8
OP
1186 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1187 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1188 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1189 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
cb1aaebe 1190 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
475fb4e8
OP
1191
1192
1da177e4
LT
1193 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1194 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1195
cd4f0ef7 1196 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1197 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1198 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1199
1200 elevator= [IOSCHED]
31dcbbef
OS
1201 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
1202 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt,
1203 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.txt and
1204 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for details.
a9913044 1205
d3bf3795 1206 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1207 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1208 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1209 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
d67297ad 1210 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1da177e4 1211
0cb55ad2
RD
1212 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1213 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1214 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1215 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1216
ca1eda2d 1217 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
0cb55ad2
RD
1218 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1219 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1220 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1221 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1222
1da177e4
LT
1223 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1224 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1225 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1226 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1227 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1228 Default value is 0.
1229 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1230
a08f82d0
HY
1231 erst_disable [ACPI]
1232 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1233 support.
1234
1da177e4
LT
1235 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1236 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1237 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1238
7102ebcd
MZ
1239 evm= [EVM]
1240 Format: { "fix" }
1241 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1242 current integrity status.
1243
de1ba09b
AM
1244 failslab=
1245 fail_page_alloc=
1246 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1247 General fault injection mechanism.
1248 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1249 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1250
1da177e4 1251 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1252 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1253
f13ae30e
AC
1254 force_pal_cache_flush
1255 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1256 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1257 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1258 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1259
6dddd7a7 1260 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1261 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1262 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1263 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1264 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1265 and may cause unknown problems.
1266
d9e54076 1267 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1268 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1269 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1270 boot debugging.
1271
cecbca96 1272 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1273 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1274 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1275 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1276 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1277 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1278
1279 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1280 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1281 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1282 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1283 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1284 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1285
1286 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1287 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1288 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1289 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1290 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1291
369bc18f
SA
1292 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1293 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1294 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1295 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1296 that can be changed at run time by the
1297 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1298
0d7d9a16
NK
1299 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1300 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1301 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1302 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1303 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1304
65a50c65
TB
1305 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1306 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1307 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1308 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1309 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1310
1da177e4
LT
1311 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1312 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1313 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1314 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1315 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1316
1317 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1318
6dddd7a7 1319 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1320 Format: off | on
1321 default: on
1322
2521f2c2
PO
1323 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1324 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1325 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1326 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1327 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1328
47512cfd
TG
1329 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1330 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1331 android emulator
1332
1da177e4 1333 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1334 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1335 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1336 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1337
6cec9b07
AL
1338 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1339 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1340 Format: 0 | 1
1341 Default: 0
1342 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1343 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1344 Format: 0 | 1
1345 Default: 0
1346 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1347 Format: 0 | 1
1348 Default: 0
1349 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1350 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1351 Default: 1024
1352 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1353 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1354 Default: 1024
1355
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1356 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1357 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1358 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1359
55537871
JK
1360 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1361 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1362 backtraces on all cpus.
1363 Format: <integer>
1364
1da177e4
LT
1365 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1366 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1367 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1368 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1369
1370 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1371
1372 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1373 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1374
ea8c071c
HY
1375 hest_disable [ACPI]
1376 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1377 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1378 logic will be disabled.
1379
1da177e4
LT
1380 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1381 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1382 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1383 size on bigger boxes.
1384
54cdfdb4
TG
1385 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1386 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1387 Default: "on"
1388
0cb55ad2
RD
1389 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1390
1391 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1392 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1393 verbose }
1394 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1395 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1396 VIA, nVidia)
1397 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1398
3d035f58
PB
1399 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1400 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1401
b4718e62
AK
1402 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1403 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1404 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1405 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1406 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1407 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1408 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1409
a49d9c0a
OS
1410 hung_task_panic=
1411 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1412 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1413
a49d9c0a
OS
1414 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1415 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1416 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1417 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1418 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1419
6dddd7a7
TB
1420 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1421 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1422 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1423 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1424 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1425
1426 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1427 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1428 guest on lock contention.
1429
7bf69395
FDN
1430 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1431 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1432 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1433 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1434 the real console.
1435
6dddd7a7
TB
1436 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1437 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1438 registered from board initialization code.
1439 Format:
1440 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1441
36d95739 1442 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1443 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1444 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1445 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1446 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1447 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1448 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1449 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1450 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1451 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1452 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1453 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1454 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1455 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1456 controller
1da177e4
LT
1457 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1458 controllers
24775d65 1459 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1460 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1461 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1462 transitions, or never reset
1463 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1464 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1465 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1466 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1467 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1468 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1469 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1470
1471 i810= [HW,DRM]
1472
e70c9d5e
DT
1473 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1474 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1475 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1476 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1477 does not match list of supported models.
1478 i8k.power_status
1479 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1480 (disabled by default)
1481 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1482 capability is set.
1483
4dca20ef 1484 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1485 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1486 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1487 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1488 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1489 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1490 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1491 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1492 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1493 value switches the backlight off.
1494 -1 -- never invert brightness
1495 0 -- machine default
1496 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1497
1da177e4
LT
1498 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1499 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1500
0af80c04
DF
1501 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1502 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1503 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1504 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
d7b461c5 1505 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1da177e4 1506
0f8b7f5d
MR
1507 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1508 Format: <int>
1509 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1510 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1511 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1512 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1513 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1514 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1515 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1516 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1517 was 0x3.
1518
0cb55ad2
RD
1519 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1520 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1521
f039b754 1522 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1523 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1524 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1525 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1526 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1527 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1528 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1529 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1530 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1531
503943e0
MR
1532 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1533 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1534 Default: strict
1535
1536 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1537 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1538 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1539 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1540 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1541 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1542 encoding mode.
1543
1544 Available settings are as follows:
1545 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1546 supported by the FPU
1547 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1548 by the FPU
1549 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1550 by the FPU
1551 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1552 supported by the FPU
1553
1554 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1555 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1556 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1557 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1558 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1559 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1560 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1561 MIPS64 CPUs.
1562
1563 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1564 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1565 except where unsupported by hardware.
1566
79290822
IM
1567 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1568 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1569 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1570 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1571 could change it dynamically, usually by
1572 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1573
d977d56c
KK
1574 ignore_rlimit_data
1575 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1576 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1577 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1578
1da177e4
LT
1579 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1580 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1581
2fe5d6de 1582 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1583 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1584 default: "enforce"
1585
41475a3e 1586 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1587 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1588 owned by uid=0.
1589
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1590 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1591 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1592 measurements, instead of host native format.
1593
3323eec9 1594 ima_hash= [IMA]
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1595 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1596 | sha512 | ... }
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1597 default: "sha1"
1598
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1599 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1600 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1601
24fd03c8 1602 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1603 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
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1604 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1605 fail_securely"
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1606
1607 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1608 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1609 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1610 uid=0.
1611
1612 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1613 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1614
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1615 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1616 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1617 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1618
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1619 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1620 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1621 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1622 flag.
1623
24fd03c8 1624 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1625 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1626 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1627 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1628 opened for read by uid=0.
1629
6dddd7a7 1630 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1631 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1632 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1633 Default: "ima-ng"
1634
c2426d2a 1635 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1636 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1637 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1638
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1639 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1640 Format: <min_file_size>
1641 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1642 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1643
1644 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1645 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1646 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1647
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1648 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1649 Format: <bufsize>
1650 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1651
1652 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1653 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1654 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1655
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1656 init= [KNL]
1657 Format: <full_path>
1658 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1659 process.
1660
1661 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1662 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1663 startup.
1664
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1665 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1666 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1667 modules and initcalls.
1668
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1669 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1670
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1671 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1672 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1673 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1674 override in debugfs after boot.
1675
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1676 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1677 Format: <irq>
1678
6dddd7a7 1679 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1680
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1681 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1682 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1683 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1684 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1685
ba395927 1686 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1687 on
1688 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1689 off
1690 Disable intel iommu driver.
1691 igfx_off [Default Off]
1692 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1693 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1694 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1695 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1696 DMA.
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1697 forcedac [x86_64]
1698 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1699 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1700 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1701 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1702 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1703 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1704 strict [Default Off]
1705 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1706 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1707 to batching them for performance.
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1708 sp_off [Default Off]
1709 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1710 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1711 not be supported.
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1712 sm_on [Default Off]
1713 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
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1714 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1715 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
8950dcd8 1716 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
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1717 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1718 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1719 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1720 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1721 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1722 mapping is enabled.
1723 Note that using this option lowers the security
1724 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1725 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1726
1727 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1728 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1729 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1730
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1731 intel_pstate= [X86]
1732 disable
1733 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1734 scaling driver for the supported processors
1735 passive
1736 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1737 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1738 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1739 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1740 feature.
1741 force
1742 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1743 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1744 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1745 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1746 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1747 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1748 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1749 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1750 no_hwp
1751 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1752 if available.
1753 hwp_only
1754 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1755 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1756 support_acpi_ppc
1757 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1758 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1759 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1760 then this feature is turned on by default.
1761 per_cpu_perf_limits
1762 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1763 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1764
d1423d56 1765 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1766 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1767 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1768 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1769 no_x2apic_optout
1770 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1771 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1772
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1773 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1774 strict regions from userspace.
1775 relaxed
1776
1777 iommu= [x86]
1778 off
1779 force
1780 noforce
1781 biomerge
1782 panic
1783 nopanic
1784 merge
1785 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1786 soft
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1787 pt [x86]
1788 nopt [x86]
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1789 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1790 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1791
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1792 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1793 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1794 0 - Lazy mode.
1795 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1796 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1797 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1798 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1799 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1800 1 - Strict mode (default).
1801 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1802 synchronously.
1803
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1804 iommu.passthrough=
1805 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1806 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1807 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1808 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1809 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
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1810
1811 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1812 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1813 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1814
6cececfc 1815 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1816 0x80
1817 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1818 0xed
1819 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1820 udelay
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1821 Simple two microseconds delay
1822 none
1823 No delay
b02aae9c 1824
1da177e4 1825 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1826 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1827
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1828 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1829 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1830
fbf19803 1831 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1832 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1833
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1834 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1835 [ARM, ARM64]
1836 Format: <bool>
1837 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1838 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1839 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1840
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1841 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1842 [ARM, ARM64]
1843 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1844 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1845 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1846 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1847 LPIs.
1848
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1849 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1850 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1851 requires the kernel to be built with
1852 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1853
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1854 irqfixup [HW]
1855 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1856 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1857 firmware running.
1858
1859 irqpoll [HW]
1860 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1861 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1862 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1863 firmware running.
1864
1da177e4 1865 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1866 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1867
d94d1053 1868 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1869 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1870 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1871
1872 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1873 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1874
1875 nohz
1876 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1877
1878 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1879 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1880 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1881 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1882 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1883
1884 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1885 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1886 be configured manually after bootup.
1887
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1888 domain
1889 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1890 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1891 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1892 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1893 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1894 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1895 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1896 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1897
1898 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1899 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1900 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1901 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1902
1903 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1904
1da177e4 1905
1da177e4 1906
a9913044 1907 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1908
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1909 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1910 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1911 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1912 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1913 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1914 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1915
1916 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1917 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1918 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1919 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1920 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1921 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1922
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1923 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1924 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1925 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1926 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1927 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1928 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1929
1da177e4 1930 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1931 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1932
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1933 nokaslr [KNL]
1934 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1935 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1936 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1937
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1938 kasan_multi_shot
1939 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1940 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1941 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1942 invalid access.
1943
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1944 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1945
342332e6 1946 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1947 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1948 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1949 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1950 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1951 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1952 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1953 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1954 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1955 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1956
1957 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1958 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1959 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1960 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1961 zone if it does not.
1962
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1963 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1964 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1965 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1966 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1967 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1968 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1969 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1970
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1971 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1972 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1973 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1974 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1975 optional and is the number seconds in between
1976 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1977 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1978 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1979 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1980 the kernel debugger.
1981
84c08fd6 1982 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1983 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1984 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1985 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1986 keyboard only format: kbd
1987 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1988 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1989 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1990 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1991
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1992 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1993 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1994
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1995 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1996 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1997 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1998
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1999 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2000 Valid arguments: on, off
2001 Default: on
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2002 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2003 the default is off.
04f70336 2004
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2005 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2006 and kernel address spaces.
2007 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2008 0: force disabled
2009 1: force enabled
2010
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2011 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2012 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2013
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2014 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2015 Default is false (don't support).
2016
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2017 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2018 KVM MMU at runtime.
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2019 Default is 0 (off)
2020
fef07aae 2021 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2022 Default is 1 (enabled)
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2023
2024 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2025 for all guests.
16290246 2026 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
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2028 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2029 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2030 system registers
2031
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2032 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2033 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2034 system registers
2035
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2036 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2037 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2038 system registers
2039
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2040 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2041 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2042 LPIs.
2043
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2044 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2045 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2046 Default is 1 (enabled)
2047
2048 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2049 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2050 Default is 0 (disabled)
2051
2052 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2053 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2054 Default is 1 (enabled)
2055
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2056 kvm-intel.nested=
2057 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2058 Default is 0 (disabled)
2059
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2060 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2061 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2062 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2063 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2064
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2065 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2066 CVE-2018-3620.
2067
2068 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2069
2070 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2071 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2072 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2073 never: Disables the mitigation
2074
2075 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2076
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2077 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2078 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2079 Default is 1 (enabled)
2080
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2081 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2082 affected CPUs
2083
2084 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2085 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2086
2087 full
2088 Provides all available mitigations for the
2089 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2090 enables all mitigations in the
2091 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2092
2093 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2094 sysfs interface is still possible after
2095 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2096 when the first VM is started in a
2097 potentially insecure configuration,
2098 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2099
2100 full,force
2101 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2102 flush runtime control. Implies the
2103 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2104 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2105
2106 flush
2107 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2108 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2109 L1D flush.
2110
2111 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2112 sysfs interface is still possible after
2113 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2114 when the first VM is started in a
2115 potentially insecure configuration,
2116 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2117
2118 flush,nosmt
2119
2120 Disables SMT and enables the default
2121 hypervisor mitigation.
2122
2123 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2124 sysfs interface is still possible after
2125 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2126 when the first VM is started in a
2127 potentially insecure configuration,
2128 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2129
2130 flush,nowarn
2131 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2132 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2133 insecure configuration.
2134
2135 off
2136 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2137 emit any warnings.
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2138 It also drops the swap size and available
2139 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2140 bare metal.
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2141
2142 Default is 'flush'.
2143
65fd4cb6 2144 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2145
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2146 l2cr= [PPC]
2147
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2148 l3cr= [PPC]
2149
cd4f0ef7 2150 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2151 disabled it.
1da177e4 2152
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2153 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2154 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2155 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2156
6cececfc 2157 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2158 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2159
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2160 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2161 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2162 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2163 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2164 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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FC
2165 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2166 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2167
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2168 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2169 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2170 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2171
78e70c23
DJ
2172 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2173 when set.
2174 Format: <int>
2175
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TH
2176 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2177 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2178 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
33267325
TH
2179 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2180 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2181 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2182 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2183 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2184
2185 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2186 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2187 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2188 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2189 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2190 host link and device attached to it.
2191
2192 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2193 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2194 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2195 The following configurations can be forced.
2196
2197 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2198 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2199
2200 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2201
2202 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2203 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2204 allowed.
2205
2206 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2207
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MP
2208 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2209
05944bdf 2210 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2211 and both resets.
05944bdf 2212
ca6d43b0
DW
2213 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2214 hot-unplug link recovery
2215
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TH
2216 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2217
966fbe19
VP
2218 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2219
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RJ
2220 * disable: Disable this device.
2221
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TH
2222 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2223 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2224
95f72d1e 2225 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2226
1da177e4 2227 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2228 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2229
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RD
2230 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2231 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2232
a6b25b67
RD
2233 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2234 Format: <integer>
2235
2236 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2237 Format: <integer>
2238
2239 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2240 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2241
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2242 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2243 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2244 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2245 number of online CPUs.
2246
2247 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2248 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2249
2250 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2251 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2252
2253 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2254 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2255 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2256
2257 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2258 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2259 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2260 mode during the locktorture test.
2261
2262 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2263 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2264 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2265
2266 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2267 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2268
2269 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2270 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2271 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2272 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2273 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2274 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2275
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2276 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2277 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2278
2279 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2280 Enable additional printk() statements.
2281
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2282 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2283 Format: <irq>
2284
2285 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2286 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2287 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2288 loglevels are defined as follows:
2289
2290 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2291 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2292 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2293 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2294 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2295 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2296 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2297 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2298
c756d08a 2299 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
23b2899f
LR
2300 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2301 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2302 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2303 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2304 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2305 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2306
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RD
2307 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2308 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2309 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2310 kernel boot problems.
2311
1da177e4
LT
2312 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2313 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2314 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2315 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2316 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2317 attached printers to be reset. Using
2318 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2319 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2320 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2321 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2322 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2323 port specification list means that device IDs
2324 from each port should be examined, to see if
2325 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2326 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2327 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2328
2329 lpj=n [KNL]
2330 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2331 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2332 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2333 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2334 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2335 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2336 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2337 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2338 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2339 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2340 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2341 hardware.
2342
2343 ltpc= [NET]
2344 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2345
9b8c7c14
KC
2346 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2347
79f7865d
KC
2348 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2349 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2350 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2351
16290246 2352 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
a9913044
RD
2353 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2354 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2355
3209e70e
WZ
2356 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2357 yeeloong laptop.
2358 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2359
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RD
2360 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2361 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1da177e4
LT
2362
2363 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2364 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2365 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2366 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2367 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2368 only takes effect during system bootup.
2369 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2370 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2371
d134b00b
KS
2372 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2373 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2374 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2375 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2376 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2377 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2378
cd4f0ef7 2379 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2380
cb1aaebe 2381 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
909dd324 2382
1da177e4 2383 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2384 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2385
1da177e4
LT
2386 mdacon= [MDA]
2387 Format: <first>,<last>
2388 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2389
bc124170
TG
2390 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2391 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2392 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2393
2394 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2395 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2396 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2397
2398 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2399 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2400 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2401 not have direct access.
2402
2403 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2404 options are:
2405
d71eb0ce
JP
2406 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2407 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2408 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2409 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170
TG
2410
2411 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2412 mds=full.
2413
5999bbe7
TG
2414 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2415
1da177e4
LT
2416 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2417 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2418 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2419 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2420 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2421 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2422 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2423
cd4f0ef7 2424 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2425 memory.
2426
6902aa84
PM
2427 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2428 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2429 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2430
6dddd7a7 2431 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2432 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2433 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2434 set according to the
2435 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2436 option.
cb1aaebe 2437 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
86dd995d 2438
6cececfc 2439 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2440 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2441 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2442 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2443 option description.
2444
2445 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2446 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2447 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2448 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2449 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2450 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2451 comma delimited.
2452 Example:
2453 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2454
2455 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2456 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2457 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2458
2459 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2460 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2461 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2462 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2463 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2464 or
2465 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2466 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2467 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2468 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2469
ec776ef6
CH
2470 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2471 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2472 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2473 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2474 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2475
ef61f8a3
JS
2476 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2477 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2478 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2479 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2480 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2481 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2482 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2483 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2484
9f077871
JF
2485 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2486 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2487 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2488 Setting this option will scan the memory
2489 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2490 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2491 from using the memory being corrupted.
2492 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2493 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2494 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2495 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2496
2497 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2498 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2499 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2500 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2501 corruption in more or less memory.
2502
2503 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2504 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2505 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2506 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2507
d90fe2ac 2508 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2509 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2510 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2511 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2512 performed. Each pass selects another test
2513 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2514 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2515 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2516 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2517
c262f3b9
TL
2518 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2519 Valid arguments: on, off
2520 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2521 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2522 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2523 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2524 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2525
cb1aaebe 2526 Refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
c262f3b9
TL
2527 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2528
406e7938
RW
2529 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2530 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2531 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2532 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2533 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2534
1da177e4 2535 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2536 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2537
8f36881b
AS
2538 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2539 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2540 platforms.
2541
e6c4dc6c
WT
2542 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2543 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2544 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2545 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2546
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LT
2547 mga= [HW,DRM]
2548
1c207f95
RD
2549 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2550 physical address is ignored.
2551
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MP
2552 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2553 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2554 Default: "0tb"
2555 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2556 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2557 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2558 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2559 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2560 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2561 unconfigured.
2562 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2563 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2564 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2565 VGA shield.
2566 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2567 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2568 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2569 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2570 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2571 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2572
98af8452 2573 mitigations=
a111b7c0
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2574 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2575 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
2576 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2577 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
2578
2579 off
2580 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2581 improves system performance, but it may also
2582 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 2583 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2584 kpti=0 [ARM64]
782e69ef 2585 nospectre_v1 [PPC]
0336e04a 2586 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 2587 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 2588 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 2589 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2590 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 2591 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 2592 mds=off [X86]
98af8452
JP
2593
2594 auto (default)
2595 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2596 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2597 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2598 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2599 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 2600 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
98af8452
JP
2601
2602 auto,nosmt
2603 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2604 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2605 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 2606 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 2607 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 2608
6b74ab97
MG
2609 mminit_loglevel=
2610 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2611 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2612 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2613 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2614 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2615 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2616
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RR
2617 module.sig_enforce
2618 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2619 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2620 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2621 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2622
be7de5f9
PB
2623 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2624 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2625
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LT
2626 mousedev.tap_time=
2627 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2628 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2629 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2630 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2631 Format: <msecs>
2632 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2633 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2634 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2635 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2636
a5c6d650
DR
2637 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2638 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2639 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2640 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2641 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2642 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2643 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2644 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
2645 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2646 is not too small.
2647
f70029bb
MH
2648 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2649 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2650 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2651 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2652 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2653
1da177e4
LT
2654 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2655 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2656
a9913044
RD
2657 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2658 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2659
2660 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2661 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2662
4e89a2d8
WS
2663 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2664 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2665 at a time.
2666
5988af23
RH
2667 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2668
2669 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2670
2671 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2672 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2673 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2674 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2675 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2676
9db829f4
BD
2677 mtdset= [ARM]
2678 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2679
2680 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2681
1da177e4 2682 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2683 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2684 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2685
0cb55ad2 2686 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2687 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2688 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2689
2690 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2691 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2692 Default is 1.
2693 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2694 using up MTRRs.
2695
2696 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2697 Format: <integer>
2698 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2699 Default : 1
2700 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2701 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2702
1da177e4
LT
2703 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2704
1da177e4
LT
2705 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2706 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2707 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2708 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2709 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2710 file if at all.
2711
58401572
KPO
2712 nf_conntrack.acct=
2713 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2714 0 to disable accounting
2715 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2716 Default value is 0.
58401572 2717
306a0753 2718 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2719 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2720
2721 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2722 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2723
306a0753
CL
2724 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2725 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2726
5405fc44
TM
2727 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2728 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2729 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2730 requests.
2731
a72b4422
TM
2732 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2733 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2734 channel should listen.
2735
e571cbf1
TM
2736 nfs.cache_getent=
2737 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2738 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2739
2740 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2741 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2742 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2743
58df095b
TM
2744 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2745 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2746 entries.
2747
f43bf0be
TM
2748 nfs.enable_ino64=
2749 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2750 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2751 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2752 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2753 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2754
5405fc44
TM
2755 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2756 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2757 slots the client will assign to the callback
2758 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2759 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2760 a particular server.
2761
ef159e91
TM
2762 nfs.max_session_slots=
2763 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2764 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2765 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2766 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2767 Note that there is little point in setting this
2768 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2769
b064eca2 2770 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2771 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2772 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2773 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2774 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2775 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2776 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2777 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2778 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2779 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2780 back to using the idmapper.
2781 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2782 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2783 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2784 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2785 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2786 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2787
db8ac8ba
WAA
2788 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2789 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2790 information in exchange_id requests.
2791 If zero, no implementation identification information
2792 will be sent.
2793 The default is to send the implementation identification
2794 information.
e52347bd 2795
f6de7a39
TM
2796 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2797 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2798 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2799 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2800 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2801 after the locks are lost.
2802 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2803 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2804 parameter to '1'.
2805 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2806 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2807
bbf58bf3
TM
2808 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2809 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2810 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2811
2812 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2813 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2814 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2815 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2816
e9541ce8
BF
2817 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2818 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2819 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2820 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2821 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2822 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2823
c0c74acb 2824 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2825 when a NMI is triggered.
2826 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2827
6cececfc 2828 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2829 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2830 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2831 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2832 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2833 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
93285c01
ZD
2834 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2835 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2836 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
334bb79c 2837 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2838 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2839 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2840
d22881dc
SW
2841 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2842 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2843
bff38771
AV
2844 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2845 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2846 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2847 waits 4 seconds.
2848
cd4f0ef7 2849 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2850 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2851 is present.
2852
372fddf7
KS
2853 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2854 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2855
0cb55ad2
RD
2856 no_console_suspend
2857 [HW] Never suspend the console
2858 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2859 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2860 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2861 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2862 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2863 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2864 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2865 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2866 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2867 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2868 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2869 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2870
c1aee215
CL
2871 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2872 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2873 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2874
a9913044
RD
2875 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2876
686140a1
VG
2877 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2878 (CPU alternatives feature).
2879
1da177e4
LT
2880 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2881 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2882
5091faa4
MG
2883 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2884
1da177e4
LT
2885 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2886 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2887
2888 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2889
0cb55ad2
RD
2890 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2891
163ecdff
SN
2892 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2893
6902aa84
PM
2894 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2895
b2e0a54a 2896 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2897
1da177e4
LT
2898 noexec [IA-64]
2899
6cececfc 2900 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2901 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2902 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2903 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2904
de78a9c4 2905 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
2906 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2907 even if it is supported by processor.
2908
0fb1c25a 2909 nosmep [X86,PPC]
52b6179a 2910 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2911 even if it is supported by processor.
2912
f5a1b191
JS
2913 noexec32 [X86-64]
2914 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2915 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2916 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2917 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2918 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2919
fab43ef4 2920 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2921
cd4f0ef7 2922 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2923 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2924 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2925
0ddab1d2
TK
2926 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2927
52c48c51
SS
2928 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2929 Equivalent to smt=1.
2930
05736e4a 2931 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2932 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2933 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 2934
26cb1f36
DC
2935 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2936 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2937 in the system.
05736e4a 2938
e5ce5e72
JL
2939 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2940 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2941 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2942 option.
da285121 2943
24f7fc83
KRW
2944 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2945 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2946
0c752a93
SS
2947 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2948 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2949 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2950
b6f42a4a
FY
2951 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2952 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2953 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2954 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2955 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2956 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2957
2958 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2959 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2960 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2961 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2962 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2963 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2964 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2965
01a24d2b
PZ
2966 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2967 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2968 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2969
1f29fae2
SH
2970 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2971 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2972 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2973
1da177e4
LT
2974 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2975 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2976 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2977 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2978 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2979 real-time systems.
2980
a6e15a39
KC
2981 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2982
79bf2bb3
TG
2983 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2984 Valid arguments: on, off
2985 Default: on
2986
d94d1053 2987 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2988 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2989 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2990 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2991 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2992 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2993 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2994 just as if they had also been called out in the
2995 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2996
eeee7853
PM
2997 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2998
cd4f0ef7 2999 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3000 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3001
6cececfc 3002 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3003 broken timer IRQ sources.
3004
1da177e4
LT
3005 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3006
3007 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3008 initial RAM disk.
3009
03ea8155
WH
3010 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3011 remapping.
d1423d56 3012 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3013
1da177e4
LT
3014 nointroute [IA-64]
3015
d12a72b8
AL
3016 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3017
16290246 3018 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3019
9cf4c4fc
JK
3020 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3021
fd10cde9
GN
3022 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3023 fault handling.
3024
80e9a4f2
AM
3025 no-vmw-sched-clock
3026 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3027 clock and use the default one.
3028
6dddd7a7 3029 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
3030 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3031 behaviour
3032
cd4f0ef7 3033 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3034
cd4f0ef7 3035 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3036
1da177e4 3037 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3038 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3039
312f1f01
H
3040 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3041
13696e0a 3042 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3043
83d7384f
AS
3044 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3045 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3046
bda62633
DZ
3047 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3048 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3049 irq.
3050
02608bef
DY
3051 nomodule Disable module load
3052
016ddd9b
JK
3053 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3054 pagetables) support.
3055
0790c9aa
AL
3056 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3057
0cb55ad2
RD
3058 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3059 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3060
cd4f0ef7 3061 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3062 with UP alternatives
3063
7a5091d5
PA
3064 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3065 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3066 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3067 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3068
a9913044
RD
3069 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3070 space.
3071
1da177e4
LT
3072 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3073 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3074 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3075
3076 nosbagart [IA-64]
3077
cd4f0ef7 3078 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3079
61ec7567
LB
3080 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3081 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3082
97842216
DJ
3083 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3084
1da177e4
LT
3085 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3086
195daf66 3087 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3088 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3089
1da177e4 3090 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3091
2b2fd87a
WH
3092 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3093
f78cff48
FY
3094 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3095 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3096 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3097 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3098 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3099 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3100 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3101 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3102 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3103 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3104 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3105 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3106 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3107
6dddd7a7 3108 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3109 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3110 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3111 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3112 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3113 parameter's value.
3114 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3115 Default: 255
3116
16290246 3117 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3118 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3119 SAL PALO.
3120
2b633e3f
YL
3121 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3122 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3123 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3124 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3125 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3126 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3127 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3128 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3129
0cb55ad2
RD
3130 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3131
1a687c2e
MG
3132 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3133 Allowed values are enable and disable
3134
f0c0b2b8 3135 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3136 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
3137 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3138 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3139
7c4be253
RD
3140 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3141 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3142 info.
3143
3ef0e1f8
AS
3144 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3145 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3146 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3147 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3148 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3149 interrupts *may* be lost!
3150
15ac7afe
TL
3151 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3152 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3153 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3154 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3155
1da177e4
LT
3156 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3157 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3158
7e4e0bd5
RR
3159 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3160 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3161 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3162 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3163 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3164 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3165 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3166 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3167 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3168 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3169
44a4dcf7
RD
3170 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3171 process, but there is a small probability of
3172 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3173 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3174 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3175
e900a918
DW
3176 page_alloc.shuffle=
3177 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3178 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3179 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3180 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3181 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3182 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3183 can be read from sysfs at:
3184 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3185
48c96a36
JK
3186 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3187 Storage of the information about who allocated
3188 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3189 we can turn it on.
3190 on: enable the feature
3191
8823b1db 3192 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3193 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3194 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3195 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3196 on: turn on poisoning
3197
44a4dcf7 3198 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3199 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3200 timeout = 0: wait forever
3201 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3202 Format: <timeout>
3203
d999bd93
FT
3204 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3205 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3206 bit 0: print all tasks info
3207 bit 1: print system memory info
3208 bit 2: print timer info
3209 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3210 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3211 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
d999bd93 3212
9e3961a0
PB
3213 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3214 on a WARN().
3215
f06e5153
MH
3216 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3217 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3218 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3219 succeeds in any situation.
3220 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3221 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3222 kernel more unstable.
3223
1da177e4
LT
3224 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3225 connected to, default is 0.
3226 Format: <parport#>
3227 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3228 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
3229 Format: <mode>
3230
3231 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3232 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3233 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3234 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3235 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3236 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3237 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3238 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3239 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3240 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3241 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3242 are specified on the command line, starting
3243 with parport0.
3244
3245 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3246 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3247 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3248 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3249 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3250 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3251 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3252
dd287796
AM
3253 pause_on_oops=
3254 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3255 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3256 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3257
1da177e4
LT
3258 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3259
3260 pcd. [PARIDE]
3261 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 3262 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3263
07d8d7e5
LG
3264 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3265
3266 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3267 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3268 specified in one of the following formats:
3269
45db3370 3270 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3271 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3272
3273 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3274 bus/device/function address which may change
3275 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3276 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3277 by other kernel parameters. If the
3278 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3279 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3280 to a device through multiple device/function
3281 addresses can be specified after the base
3282 address (this is more robust against
3283 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3284 selects devices using IDs from the
3285 configuration space which may match multiple
3286 devices in the system.
3287
11eb0e0e 3288 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3289 changes anything
c0115606 3290 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3291 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3292 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3293 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3294 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3295 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3296 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3297 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3298 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3299 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3300 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3301 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3302 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3303 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3304 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3305 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3306 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3307 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3308 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3309 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3310 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3311 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3312 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3313 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3314 Configuration
12983077
AH
3315 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3316 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3317 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3318 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3319 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3320 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3321 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3322 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3323 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3324 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3325 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3326 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3327 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3328 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3329 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3330 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3331 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3332 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3333 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3334 on several machines and they hang the machine
3335 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3336 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3337 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3338 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3339 motherboard.
c0115606 3340 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3341 Use with caution as certain devices share
3342 address decoders between ROMs and other
3343 resources.
c0115606 3344 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3345 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3346 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3347 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3348 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3349 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3350 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3351 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3352 this way.
c0115606 3353 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3354 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3355 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3356 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3357 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3358 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3359 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3360 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3361 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3362 numbers ourselves, overriding
3363 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3364 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3365 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3366 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3367 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3368 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3369 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3370 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3371 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3372 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3373 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3374 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3375 please report a bug.
3376 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3377 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3378 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3379 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3380 so this option is a temporary workaround
3381 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3382 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3383 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3384 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3385 This might help on some broken boards which
3386 machine check when some devices' config space
3387 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3388 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3389 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3390 This sorting is done to get a device
3391 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3392 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3393 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3394 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3395 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3396 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3397 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3398 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3399 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3400 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3401 or bus can support) for best performance.
3402 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3403 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3404 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3405 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3406 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3407 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3408 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3409 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3410 The default value is 256 bytes.
3411 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3412 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3413 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3414 resource_alignment=
3415 Format:
07d8d7e5 3416 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3417 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3418 aligned memory resources. How to
3419 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3420 If <order of align> is not specified,
3421 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3422 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3423 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3424 To specify the alignment for several
3425 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3426 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3427 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3428 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3429 end-to-end CRC checking).
3430 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3431 the default.
3432 off: Turn ECRC off
3433 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3434 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3435 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3436 Default size is 256 bytes.
3437 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3438 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3439 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3440 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3441 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3442 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3443 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3444 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3445 accommodate resources required by all child
3446 devices.
3447 off: Turn realloc off
3448 on: Turn realloc on
3449 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3450 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3451 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3452 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3453 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3454 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3455 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3456 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3457 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3458 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3459 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3460 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3461 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3462 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3463 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3464 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3465 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3466 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3467 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3468 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3469 this removes isolation between devices and
3470 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 3471 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 3472 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
6b4b78fe 3473
e5665a45
CE
3474 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3475 Management.
3476 off Disable ASPM.
3477 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3478 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3479
4c0fd764
BH
3480 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3481 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3482 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3483 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3484 also tries to use these services.
3485 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3486 hotplug).
79dd9182 3487
9d26d3a8
MW
3488 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3489 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3490 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3491
c7f48656 3492 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3493 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3494 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3495
1da177e4
LT
3496 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3497
39ac5ba5
TB
3498 pd_ignore_unused
3499 [PM]
3500 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3501 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3502 for debug and development, but should not be
3503 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3504
1da177e4 3505 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3506 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3507
3508 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3509 boot time.
3510 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3511 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3512
f58dc01b 3513 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3514 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3515 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3516 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3517 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3518 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3519
1da177e4 3520 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3521 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3522
3523 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3524 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3525
3526 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
cb1aaebe 3527 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3528
3529 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3530 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3531 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3532
16290246 3533 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3534 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3535 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3536
96242116
BH
3537 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3538 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3539 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3540 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3541 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3542 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3543
1da177e4
LT
3544 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3545 { off }
3546
3547 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3548 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3549
3550 pnp_reserve_irq=
3551 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3552
3553 pnp_reserve_dma=
3554 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3555
3556 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3557 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3558
3559 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3560 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3561 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3562 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3563
4af94f39
RD
3564 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3565 Default is 21.
3566 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3567 may be specified.
3568 Format: <port>,<port>....
3569
c3cbd075
BS
3570 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3571 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3572 platform machine description specific power_save
3573 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3574 execution priority.
3575
3eb5d588
AB
3576 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3577 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3578 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3579 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3580 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3581
07fd1761
CB
3582 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3583 Format: {"off"}
3584 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3585
45807a1d
IM
3586 print-fatal-signals=
3587 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3588
3589 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3590 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3591 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3592 coredump - etc.
3593
3594 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3595 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3596
45807a1d
IM
3597 default: off.
3598
c22ab332
MG
3599 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3600 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3601 panics
3602 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3603 default: disabled
3604
750afe7b
BP
3605 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3606 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3607 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3608 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3609 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3610 Default: ratelimit
3611
e84845c4
RD
3612 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3613 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3614
0cb55ad2
RD
3615 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3616 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3617 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3618
3619 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3620 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3621 instead using the legacy FADT method
3622
1da177e4 3623 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3624 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3625 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3626 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3627 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3628 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3629 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3630 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3631 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3632 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3633
1da177e4
LT
3634 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3635 before loading.
31c00fc1 3636 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3637
e0c27447
JW
3638 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3639 tracking.
3640 Format: <bool>
3641
a9913044
RD
3642 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3643 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3644 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3645 per second.
a9913044
RD
3646 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3647 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3648 (0 = never).
3649 psmouse.resolution=
3650 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3651 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3652 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3653 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3654
dee28e72
MG
3655 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3656
1da177e4 3657 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3658 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3659
01c9b17b
DH
3660 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3661 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3662 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3663 system calls and interrupts.
3664
3665 on - unconditionally enable
3666 off - unconditionally disable
3667 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3668 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3669
3670 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3671
3672 nopti [X86_64]
3673 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3674
dc8c8587
KS
3675 pty.legacy_count=
3676 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3677 default number.
3678
7d2c502f 3679 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3680
1da177e4
LT
3681 r128= [HW,DRM]
3682
3683 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3684 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3685
1da177e4 3686 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3687 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3688
9b254366
KC
3689 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3690 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3691 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3692 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3693 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3694
011d8261
BP
3695 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3696
3697 cec_disable [X86]
3698 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3699 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3700
4102adab 3701 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
da8739f2
PM
3702 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3703 except that the string "all" can be used to
3704 specify every CPU on the system.
2d13e6ca 3705
3fbfbf7a
PM
3706 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3707 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
3708 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3709 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3710 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3711 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3712 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3713 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3714 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3715 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 3716
4102adab 3717 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3718 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3719 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3720 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3721 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3722 This improves the real-time response for the
3723 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3724 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3725 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3726 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3727
4102adab 3728 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3729 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3730 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3731
a3dc2948
PM
3732 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3733 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3734 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3735 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3736
0f41c0dd
PM
3737 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3738 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3739 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3740
37745d28
PM
3741 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3742 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3743 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3744
3745 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3746 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3747 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3748 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3749 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3750
48d07c04
SAS
3751 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
3752 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3753 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
3754 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3755 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3756
7fa27001
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3757 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3758 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3759 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3760 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3761 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3762
4102adab 3763 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3764 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3765 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3766 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3767 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3768 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3769 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3770
4102adab 3771 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3772 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3773 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3774 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3775 and maximum value is HZ.
3776
4102adab 3777 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3778 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3779 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3780 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3781
1a4762b9
PM
3782 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3783 Set required age in jiffies for a
3784 given grace period before RCU starts
3785 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3786 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3787 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3788 a value based on the most recent settings
3789 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3790 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3791 This calculated value may be viewed in
3792 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
3793 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3794 overwritten.
3795
21871d7e 3796 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3797 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3798 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3799 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3800 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3801 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3802 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3803 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3804 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3805 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3806
fbce7497
PM
3807 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3808 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3809 defaults to the square root of the number of
3810 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3811 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3812 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3813
4102adab 3814 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3815 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3816 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3817
4102adab 3818 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3819 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3820 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3821
4102adab 3822 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3823 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3824 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3825
4102adab 3826 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3827 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3828 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3829 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3830 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3831
e3c50dfb
PM
3832 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3833 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3834 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3835 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3836 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3837 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3838
2ccaff10
PM
3839 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3840 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3841 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3842 why a new grace period has not yet started.
3843
881ed593
PM
3844 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3845 Measure performance of asynchronous
3846 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3847
3848 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3849 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3850 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3851 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3852 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3853 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3854
bdea9e34
PM
3855 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3856 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3857 grace-period primitives.
3858
df37e66b
PM
3859 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3860 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3861 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3862 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3863 interference.
3864
bdea9e34
PM
3865 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3866 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3867 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3868 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3869 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3870 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3871 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3872 a single reader.
3873
3874 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3875 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3876 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3877 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3878
820687a7
PM
3879 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3880 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3881
bdea9e34
PM
3882 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3883 Shut the system down after performance tests
3884 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3885 testing.
3886
bdea9e34
PM
3887 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3888 Enable additional printk() statements.
3889
820687a7
PM
3890 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3891 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3892 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3893 no holdoff.
3894
4102adab 3895 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3896 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3897 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3898
4102adab 3899 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3900 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3901 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3902
4102adab 3903 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3904 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3905 in seconds.
3906
ed8f6fb2
PM
3907 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3908 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3909 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3910
3911 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3912 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3913 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3914
3915 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3916 Number of seconds to wait between successive
3917 forward-progress tests.
3918
3919 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3920 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3921 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3922 testing.
3923
21b05de4
PM
3924 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3925 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3926 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3927
4102adab 3928 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3929 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3930
3931 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3932 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3933 update-side primitives, if available.
3934
3935 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3936 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3937 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3938 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3939 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3940 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3941 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3942
4102adab 3943 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3944 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3945
4102adab 3946 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3947 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3948 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3949 test, hence the "fake".
3950
4102adab 3951 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3952 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3953 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3954 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3955 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3956 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3957
4102adab
PM
3958 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3959 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3960
3961 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3962 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3963
4102adab 3964 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
3965 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3966 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 3967
4102adab 3968 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3969 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3970 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3971 during the rcutorture test.
3972
4102adab 3973 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3974 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3975 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3976
4102adab 3977 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3978 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3979 warnings, zero to disable.
3980
4102adab 3981 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3982 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3983
2b1516e5
PM
3984 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3985 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3986
4102adab 3987 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3988 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3989
4102adab 3990 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3991 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3992 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3993 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3994 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3995
4102adab 3996 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3997 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3998 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3999 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4000
4102adab 4001 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4002 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4003
4102adab 4004 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4005 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4006
4102adab 4007 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4008 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4009 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4010
4102adab 4011 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4012 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4013
4102adab 4014 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4015 Enable additional printk() statements.
4016
5a9be7c6
PM
4017 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4018 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4019
4020 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4021 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4022
4102adab
PM
4023 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4024 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4025 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4026 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4027 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4028 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4029 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4030
5a9be7c6
PM
4031 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4032 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4033 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4034 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4035 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4036 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4037 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4038 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4039 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4040
3e42ec1a
PM
4041 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4042 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4043 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4044 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4045 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4046
52db30ab
PM
4047 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4048 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4049 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4050 to zero.
4051
74860fee
PK
4052 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4053 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4054
ffdfc409
OJ
4055 rdinit= [KNL]
4056 Format: <full_path>
4057 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4058 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4059
1d9807fc
TL
4060 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4061 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4062 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4063 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4064 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4065 rdt=cmt,!mba
4066
1b3a5d02
RH
4067 reboot= [KNL]
4068 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4069 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4070 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4071 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4072 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4073 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4074 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4075 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4076 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4077 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4078 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4079 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4080
46b6d94e
PJ
4081 relax_domain_level=
4082 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
99c8b231 4083 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
46b6d94e 4084
ffd2e8df
BH
4085 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4086 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4087 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4088 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4089 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 4090
cd4f0ef7 4091 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
4092 Format: nn[KMG]
4093 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4094 address space.
4095
9ea77bdb
PA
4096 reservelow= [X86]
4097 Format: nn[K]
4098 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4099 the bottom of the address space.
4100
7e96287d
VG
4101 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4102 during initialization.
4103
a9913044
RD
4104 resume= [SWSUSP]
4105 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4106 Format:
4107 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4108
ecbd0da1
RW
4109 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4110 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4111 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4112 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4113 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
4114
f126f733
BS
4115 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4116 read the resume files
4117
6f8d7022
BS
4118 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4119 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4120 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4121
f996fc96
BS
4122 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4123 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4124 present during boot.
4125 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4126 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4127 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4128 (that will set all pages holding image data
4129 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4130
0a7b35cb
MN
4131 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4132
0efbb786
AC
4133 rfkill.default_state=
4134 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4135 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4136 1 Unblocked.
4137
4138 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4139 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4140 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4141 blocked and the previous configuration.
4142 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4143 blocked and everything unblocked.
4144
1da177e4
LT
4145 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4146 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4147
e16fd002
GA
4148 ring3mwait=disable
4149 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4150 CPUs.
4151
1da177e4
LT
4152 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4153
d2aa1aca
KC
4154 rodata= [KNL]
4155 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4156 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4157
605df8af
HS
4158 rockchip.usb_uart
4159 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4160 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4161 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4162 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4163
1da177e4 4164 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4165 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4166
4167 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4168 mount the root filesystem
4169
4170 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4171
4172 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4173
cc1ed754
PO
4174 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4175 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4176 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4177
5c71d618
RT
4178 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4179 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4180 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4181 managed by CMA.
4182
1da177e4
LT
4183 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4184
4185 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4186
c60d1ae4
GS
4187 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4188 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4189 strict
4190 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4191 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4192 which is faster.
4193
1da177e4
LT
4194 sa1100ir [NET]
4195 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4196
1da177e4 4197 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4198
f6630114
MT
4199 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4200
cb251765
MG
4201 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4202 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4203 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4204 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4205
5307c955
MG
4206 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4207 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4208 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4209 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4210 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4211 1 -- enable.
4212 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4213 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4214
89a9684e
KC
4215 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4216 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4217 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
4218
4219 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4220 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4221 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4222 0 -- disable.
4223 1 -- enable.
4224 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4225 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4226 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4227
c1c124e9
JJ
4228 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4229 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4230 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4231 0 -- disable.
4232 1 -- enable.
4233 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4234
cd4f0ef7 4235 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4236
1da177e4
LT
4237 shapers= [NET]
4238 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4239
1da177e4
LT
4240 simeth= [IA-64]
4241 simscsi=
a9913044 4242
1da177e4
LT
4243 slram= [HW,MTD]
4244
423c929c
JK
4245 slab_nomerge [MM]
4246 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4247 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4248 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4249 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4250 layout control by attackers can usually be
4251 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4252 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4253 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4254 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4255 own.
ad56b738 4256 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4257
3df1cccd
DR
4258 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4259 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4260 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4261 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4262 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4263
f0630fff
CL
4264 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4265 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4266 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4267 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4268 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4269 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4270 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4271
1663f26d
TH
4272 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4273 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4274 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4275 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4276 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4277 directories and files being created under
4278 /sys/kernel/slub.
4279
c1aee215 4280 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4281 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4282 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4283 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4284 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4285
4286 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4287 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4288 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4289 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4290 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4291 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4292 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4293 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4294
4295 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4296 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4297 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4298 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4299
4300 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4301 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4302 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4303
1da177e4
LT
4304 smart2= [HW]
4305 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4306
d0d4f69b
BH
4307 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4308 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4309 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4310 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4311 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4312 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4313 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4314 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4315 1: Fast pin select (default)
4316 2: ATC IRMode
4317
52c48c51
SS
4318 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4319 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4320 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4321 actual hardware limit.
4322 Format: <integer>
4323 Default: -1 (no limit)
4324
9c44bc03
IM
4325 softlockup_panic=
4326 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4327 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4328
3ce62385
BP
4329 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4330 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4331 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4332 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4333 functionality.
4334
ed235875
AT
4335 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4336 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4337 backtraces on all cpus.
4338 Format: <integer>
4339
1da177e4 4340 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 4341 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4342
da285121
DW
4343 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4344 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4345 The default operation protects the kernel from
4346 user space attacks.
da285121 4347
fa1202ef
TG
4348 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4349 spectre_v2_user=on
4350 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4351 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4352 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4353 vulnerable
4354
4355 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4356 mitigation method at run time according to the
4357 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4358 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4359 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4360
fa1202ef
TG
4361 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4362 against user space to user space task attacks.
4363
4364 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4365 the user space protections.
4366
da285121
DW
4367 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4368
4369 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4370 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4371 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4372
4373 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4374 spectre_v2=auto.
4375
fa1202ef
TG
4376 spectre_v2_user=
4377 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4378 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4379 user space tasks
4380
4381 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4382 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4383
4384 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4385 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4386
7cc765a6
TG
4387 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4388 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4389 per thread. The mitigation control state
4390 is inherited on fork.
4391
55a97402
TG
4392 prctl,ibpb
4393 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4394 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4395 always when switching between different user
4396 space processes.
4397
6b3e64c2
TG
4398 seccomp
4399 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4400 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4401 they explicitly opt out.
4402
55a97402
TG
4403 seccomp,ibpb
4404 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4405 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4406 always when switching between different
4407 user space processes.
4408
fa1202ef
TG
4409 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4410 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
4411
4412 Default mitigation:
4413 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
4414
4415 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4416 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4417
24f7fc83
KRW
4418 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4419 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4420 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4421
4422 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4423 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4424 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4425 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4426 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4427 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4428 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4429 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4430
4431 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4432 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4433 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4434 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4435
4436 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4437 Bypass optimization is used.
4438
6b4c1360
ME
4439 On x86 the options are:
4440
f21b53b2
KC
4441 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4442 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4443 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4444 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4445 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4446 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4447 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4448 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4449 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4450 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4451 for a process by default. The state of the control
4452 is inherited on fork.
4453 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4454 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4455
f21b53b2
KC
4456 Default mitigations:
4457 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4458
6b4c1360
ME
4459 On powerpc the options are:
4460
4461 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4462 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4463 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4464 exit.
4465 off - No action.
4466
4467 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4468 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4469
1da177e4
LT
4470 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4471 spia_fio_base=
4472 spia_pedr=
4473 spia_peddr=
4474
c350c008
PM
4475 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4476 Specifies how frequently to check for
4477 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4478 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4479 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4480 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4481 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4482 are ignored.
4483
22607d66
PM
4484 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4485 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4486 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4487 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4488 grace period will be considered for automatic
4489 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4490 expediting.
4491
a43ae4df
MZ
4492 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4493 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4494
4495 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4496 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4497 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4498 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4499
4500 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4501 for both kernel and userspace
4502 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4503 for both kernel and userspace
4504 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4505 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4506 to allow userspace to register its
4507 interest in being mitigated too.
4508
1be7107f
HD
4509 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4510 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4511 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4512 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4513 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4514 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4515
f38f1d2a
SR
4516 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4517 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4518
762e1207
SR
4519 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4520 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4521 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4522 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4523 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4524 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4525 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4526
1da177e4
LT
4527 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4528 Format: <num>
4529 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4530 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4531 as the initial boot-console.
4532 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4533
4534 sti_font= [HW]
4535 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4536
4537 stifb= [HW]
4538 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4539
cbf11071
TM
4540 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4541 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4542 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4543 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4544 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4545 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4546 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4547 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4548 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4549 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4550 maximum port values.
4551
ff3ac5c3
TM
4552 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4553 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4554 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4555 process in parallel from a single connection.
4556 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4557
42a7fc4a
GB
4558 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4559 [NFS]
4560 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4561 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4562 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4563 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4564 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4565 NFS server is running.
4566
4567 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4568 automatically using heuristics
4569 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4570 percpu one pool for each CPU
4571 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4572 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4573
cbf11071
TM
4574 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4575 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4576 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4577 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4578 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4579 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4580 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4581 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4582
1d4a9c17
BN
4583 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4584 [SUSPEND]
4585 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4586 mode before resuming the system (see
4587 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4588 is set. Default value is 5.
4589
07555ac1 4590 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4591 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4592 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
99c8b231 4593 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
a42c390c 4594
91fec0f5 4595 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4596 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4597 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4598 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4599 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4600 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4601
1da177e4
LT
4602 switches= [HW,M68k]
4603
e52eec13
AK
4604 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4605 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4606 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4607 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4608 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4609 in older udev will not work anymore.
4610 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4611 the kernel configuration.
4612
5d6f647f
IM
4613 sysrq_always_enabled
4614 [KNL]
4615 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4616 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4617 Useful for debugging.
4618
747029a5
FF
4619 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4620 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4621 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4622 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4623 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4624 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4625
1da177e4
LT
4626 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4627
acc82342 4628 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4629 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4630 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4631 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4632 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4633 The system is woken from this state using a
4634 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4635
1da177e4
LT
4636 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4637 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4638
f8707ec9
LB
4639 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4640 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4641 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4642
c52a7419
LB
4643 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4644 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4645 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4646
f5487145
LB
4647 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4648 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4649 critical and hot trip points.
4650
72b33ef8
LB
4651 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4652 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4653
a70cdc52
LB
4654 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4655 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4656 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4657 value
a70cdc52 4658
730ff34d
LB
4659 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4660 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4661 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4662 0: no polling (default)
4663
8d32a307
TG
4664 threadirqs [KNL]
4665 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4666 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4667
2ca62b04
KRW
4668 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4669 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4670
4671 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4672 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4673 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4674
4675 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4676 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4677 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4678 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4679
4680 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4681 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4682 to the hypervisor.
4683
4684 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4685 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4686 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4687 kernel based on different criteria.
4688
2b1a61f0
HC
4689 topology= [S390]
4690 Format: {off | on}
4691 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4692 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4693 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4694 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4695 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4696
2d73bae1
NA
4697 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4698 Format: {off}
4699 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4700 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4701 LPAR.
4702
1da177e4
LT
4703 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4704
225a9be2
RA
4705 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4706 Format: integer pcr id
4707 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4708 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4709 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4710 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4711 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4712 are saved.
4713
9d612bef 4714 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4715 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4716
020e5f85
LZ
4717 trace_event=[event-list]
4718 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4719 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4720 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4721 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4722
7bcfaf54
SR
4723 trace_options=[option-list]
4724 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4725 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4726 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4727 to echo the option name into
4728
4729 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4730
4731 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4732 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4733
4734 trace_options=stacktrace
4735
5fb94e9c 4736 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4737 section.
4738
0daa2302
SRRH
4739 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4740 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4741 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4742 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4743 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4744 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4745
4746 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4747 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4748 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4749 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4750
4751 ** CAUTION **
4752
4753 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4754 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4755 the system to live lock.
4756
de7edd31
SRRH
4757 traceoff_on_warning
4758 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4759 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4760 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4761 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4762
4763 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4764 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4765 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4766
4767 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4768 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4769
fcf4d821
JK
4770 transparent_hugepage=
4771 [KNL]
4772 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4773 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4774 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4775 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4776 for more details.
fcf4d821 4777
d3b8f889 4778 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4779 Format: <string>
4780 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4781 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4782 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4783 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4784 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4785 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4786 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4787 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4788 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4789 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4790 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4791 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
4792 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4793 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4794 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4795 acceptable).
395628ef 4796
a9913044
RD
4797 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4798 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4799 Format:
4800 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4801 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4802
b6935f8c 4803 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4804 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4805 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4806 help "seeing" what's going on.
4807
f86dcc5a
ED
4808 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4809 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4810
5f8364b7
AS
4811 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4812 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4813 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4814 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4815 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4816 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4817 reported either.
4818
e3a61b0a 4819 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4820 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4821
c4fc2342
CDH
4822 usbcore.authorized_default=
4823 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4824 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
4825 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4826 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 4827
b5e795f8
AS
4828 usbcore.autosuspend=
4829 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4830 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4831 is the time required before an idle device will be
4832 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4833 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4834
fd7c519d
JK
4835 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4836 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4837
0290cc9f
AS
4838 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4839 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4840 (default = 65536).
4841
fd7c519d
JK
4842 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4843 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4844
4845 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4846 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
bd0e6c96
ZT
4847 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
4848 (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 4849
3f5eb8d5
AS
4850 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4851 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4852 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4853
fd7c519d
JK
4854 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4855 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4856 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4857
4858 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4859 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4860 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4861 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4862
40d58148
ON
4863 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4864
027bd6ca
KHF
4865 usbcore.quirks=
4866 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4867 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4868 commas. Each entry has the form
4869 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4870 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4871 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4872 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4873 the following meanings:
4874 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4875 descriptors must not be fetched using
4876 a 255-byte read);
4877 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4878 correctly so reset it instead);
4879 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4880 Set-Interface requests);
4881 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4882 handle its Configuration or Interface
4883 strings);
4884 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4885 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4886 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4887 more interface descriptions than the
4888 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4889 talking to these interfaces);
4890 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4891 during initialization, after we read
4892 the device descriptor);
4893 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4894 high speed and super speed interrupt
4895 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4896 require the interval in microframes (1
4897 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4898 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4899 (bInterval-1).
4900 Devices with this quirk report their
4901 bInterval as the result of this
4902 calculation instead of the exponent
4903 variable used in the calculation);
4904 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4905 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4906 requests);
4907 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4908 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4909 remote wakeup capability);
4910 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4911 Power Management);
4912 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4913 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4914 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4915 calculation);
4916 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4917 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4918 prevent spurious wakeup);
4919 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4920 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
4921 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4922 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
4923 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4924
1da177e4
LT
4925 usbhid.mousepoll=
4926 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4927
933bfe4d
TJ
4928 usbhid.jspoll=
4929 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4930
2ddc8e2d
FA
4931 usbhid.kbpoll=
4932 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4933
d4f373e5
AS
4934 usb-storage.delay_use=
4935 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4936 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4937
4938 usb-storage.quirks=
4939 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4940 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4941 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4942 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4943 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4944 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4945 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4946 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4947 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4948 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4949 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4950 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4951 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4952 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4953 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4954 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4955 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4956 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4957 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4958 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4959 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4960 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4961 reported device capacity by one
4962 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4963 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4964 device);
13630746
HG
4965 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4966 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4967 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4968 unlock ejectable media);
4969 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4970 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4971 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4972 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4973 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4974 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4975 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4976 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4977 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4978 bogus residue values);
4979 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4980 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4981 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4982 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4983 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4984 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4985 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4986 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4987 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4988 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4989
ac1667db
SB
4990 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4991 Format: <int>
4992 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4993 1 - undefined instruction events
4994 2 - system calls
4995 4 - invalid data aborts
4996 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4997 16 - SIGBUS faults
4998 Example: user_debug=31
4999
14315592
IC
5000 userpte=
5001 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5002
5003 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5004 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5005 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5006
6cececfc 5007 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
5008 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5009
5010 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
5011 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5012
b0b49f26
AL
5013 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5014 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5015 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5016
5017 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5018 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5019 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5020
5021 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5022 alias for vdso32=0.
5023
5024 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5025 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 5026
d080d397
YI
5027 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5028 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5029
1da177e4 5030 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
ab42b818 5031 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
1da177e4 5032
3afe6dab
AL
5033 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5034 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5035 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5036 level and then send out the event to user space through
5037 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5038 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5039 brightness level.
2843768b 5040 default: 1
3afe6dab 5041
81a054ce
PM
5042 virtio_mmio.device=
5043 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5044
5045 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5046 where:
5047 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5048 like K, M and G)
5049 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5050 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5051 request_irq())
5052 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5053 example:
5054 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5055
5056 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5057
cd4f0ef7 5058 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
cb1aaebe 5059 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
a9913044 5060 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
5061 Use vga=ask for menu.
5062 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5063 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5064
f682a97a
AD
5065 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5066 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5067 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5068 All options are enabled by default, and this
5069 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5070 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5071 debugging features.
5072
5073 Available options are:
5074 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5075 - Disable all of the above options
5076
a9913044 5077 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
5078 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5079 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5080 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5081 mapped kernel RAM.
5082
3f429842
HC
5083 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5084 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5085 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5086
585c3047
PO
5087 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5088 Format: <command>
1da177e4 5089
585c3047
PO
5090 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5091 Format: <command>
5092
5093 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5094 Format: <command>
a9913044 5095
3ae36655
AL
5096 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5097 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5098 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5099 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5100 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5101 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5102 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5103
2e57ae05 5104 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
bd49e16e
AL
5105 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5106 page is readable.
3ae36655 5107
bd49e16e
AL
5108 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5109 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5110 page is not readable.
3ae36655
AL
5111
5112 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5113 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5114 might break your system.
5115
3855ae1c
CL
5116 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5117 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5118 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5119
9ea9a886
CL
5120 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5121 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5122 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5123 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5124
0cb55ad2
RD
5125 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5126 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5127 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5128 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5129 ranging from 0-255.
5130
5131 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5132 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5133 Change the default green palette of the console.
5134 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5135 ranging from 0-255.
5136
5137 vt.default_red= [VT]
5138 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5139 Change the default red palette of the console.
5140 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5141 ranging from 0-255.
5142
5143 vt.default_utf8=
5144 [VT]
5145 Format=<0|1>
5146 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5147 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5148 newly opened terminals.
5149
f6c06b68
MG
5150 vt.global_cursor_default=
5151 [VT]
5152 Format=<-1|0|1>
5153 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5154 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5155 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5156 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5157 cursors, 1 will display them.
5158
3855ae1c
CL
5159 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5160 Default: 2 = green.
5161
5162 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5163 Default: 3 = cyan.
5164
4724ba57 5165 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
cc2a2d19 5166 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
4724ba57
RD
5167 or other driver-specific files in the
5168 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 5169
11295055
LO
5170 watchdog_thresh=
5171 [KNL]
5172 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5173 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5174 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5175 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5176 seconds.
5177
82607adc
TH
5178 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5179 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5180 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5181 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5182 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5183 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5184 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5185 corresponding sysfs file.
5186
d55262c4
TH
5187 workqueue.disable_numa
5188 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5189 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5190 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5191 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5192 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5193 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5194 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5195
cee22a15
VK
5196 workqueue.power_efficient
5197 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5198 they show better performance thanks to cache
5199 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5200 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5201
5202 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5203 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5204 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5205 power usage at the cost of small performance
5206 overhead.
5207
5208 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5209 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5210
f303fccb
TH
5211 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5212 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5213 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5214 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5215 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5216 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5217 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5218 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5219 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5220 impacted.
5221
0cb55ad2
RD
5222 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5223 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5224 supporting x2apic.
5225
712b6aa8
KS
5226 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5227 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
5228 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5229 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5230 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5231
c70727a5
JG
5232 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5233 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5234 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5235 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5236 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5237 domains.
5238
c1c5413a
SS
5239 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5240 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5241 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5242 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5243 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5244 nics -- unplug network devices
5245 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
5246 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5247 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5248 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5249 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5250
15a3eac0
KRW
5251 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5252 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5253 optimizations.
5254
8d693b91
KRW
5255 xen_nopv [X86]
5256 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5257 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5258
197ecb38
MMG
5259 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5260 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5261 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5262 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5263 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5264
2ec16bc0
RT
5265 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5266 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5267 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5268 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5269 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5270 more timer interrupts.
5271
1da177e4 5272 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
5273 Format:
5274 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a
LT
5275
5276 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5277 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5278 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5279 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.