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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
151f4e2b 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, 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 }
151f4e2b 226 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
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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.
898bd37a 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
080506ad 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 cpufreq_driver= [X86] Allow only the named cpu frequency scaling driver
684 to register. Example: cpufreq_driver=powernow-k8
685 Format: { none | STRING }
686
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687 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
688 disable the cpuidle sub-system
689
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690 cpuidle.governor=
691 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
692
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693 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
694 disable the cpufreq sub-system
695
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696 cpu_init_udelay=N
697 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
698 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
699 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
700 Default: 10000
701
1da177e4 702 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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703 Format:
704 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 705
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706 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
707 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
708 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
709 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
710 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
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711 is selected automatically.
712 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
713 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
714 hasn't been specified.
330d4810 715 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
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717 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
718 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
719 in the running system. The syntax of range is
720 start-[end] where start and end are both
721 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
330d4810 722 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
fb391599 723
adbc742b 724 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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725 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
726 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
727 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
728 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
729 available.
730 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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731 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
732 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
733 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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734 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
735 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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736 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
737 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
738 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
739 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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740 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
741 for second kernel instead.
742 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 743 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 744 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 745
9e5c9fe4 746 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 747 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 748
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749 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
750 Format: <dma>
751
752 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
753 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 755 dasd= [HW,NET]
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756 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
757
758 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
759 (one device per port)
760 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 761 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 762
6dddd7a7 763 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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764 time. See
765 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 766 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 767
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768 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
769
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770 debug_boot_weak_hash
771 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
772 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
773 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
774 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
775 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
776 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
777
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778 debug_locks_verbose=
779 [KNL] verbose self-tests
780 Format=<0|1>
781 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
782 self-tests.
783 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
784 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
785 only useful to kernel developers.
786
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787 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
788
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789 no_debug_objects
790 [KNL] Disable object debugging
791
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792 debug_guardpage_minorder=
793 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
794 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
795 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
796 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
797 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
798 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
799 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
800 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
801 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
802 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
803 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
804 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
805 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
806 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
807 bypassed) which are not detectable by
808 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
809 tracking down these problems.
810
031bc574 811 debug_pagealloc=
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812 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
813 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
814 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
815 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
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816 on: enable the feature
817
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818 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
819
2d27a966 820 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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821 Format: <area>[,<node>]
822 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
823
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825 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
826 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
827 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
828 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
829 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
830 if not specified.
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832 deferred_probe_timeout=
833 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
834 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
835 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
836 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
837 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
838 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
839 retrying.
840
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841 dhash_entries= [KNL]
842 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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844 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
845 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
846 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
847 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
848 miss to occur.
849
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850 disable= [IPV6]
851 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
852
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853 hardened_usercopy=
854 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
855 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
856 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
857 from reading or writing beyond known memory
858 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
859 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
860 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
861 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
862 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
863
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864 disable_radix [PPC]
865 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
866
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867 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
868 Format: <int>
869 The number of initial APIC ID for the
870 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
871 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
872 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
873 causing system reset or hang due to sending
874 INIT from AP to BSP.
875
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876 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
877 Format: <bool>
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878 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
879 The feature only exists starting from
880 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
881
6dddd7a7 882 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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883 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
884 to workaround buggy firmware.
885
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886 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
887 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
888
95ffa243 889 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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890 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
891 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 892 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 893
093af8d7 894 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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895 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
896 memory out of your available memory pool based on
897 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
898 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
899
6cececfc 900 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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901 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
902 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
903
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904 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
905
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906 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
907 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
908
909 dma_debug_entries=<number>
910 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
911 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
912 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
913 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
914 architectural default is too low.
915
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916 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
917 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
918 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
919 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
920 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
921 driver later using sysfs.
922
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923 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
924 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
925 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
926
53fd40a9 927 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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928 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
929 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
930 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
931 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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932 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
933 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
934 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
935 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
936 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
baa293e9 937 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
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938 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
939 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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940 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
941 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
942 data set with no connector name will be used for
943 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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945 dscc4.setup= [NET]
946
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947 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
948 Format: {"off" | "known"}
949 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
950 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
951 exists).
952 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
953 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
954 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
955
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956 dump_apple_properties [X86]
957 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
958 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
959 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
960
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961 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
962 module.dyndbg[="val"]
963 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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965 for details.
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8c3641e9 967 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
cb1aaebe 968 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
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969 information about the feature.
970
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971 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
972 in some Intel CPUs.
973
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974 module.async_probe [KNL]
975 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
976
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977 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
978 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
979 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
980 which are not unmapped.
981
0cb55ad2 982 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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984 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
985 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
986 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
987
988 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
989 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 990
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991 cdns,<addr>[,options]
992 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
993 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
994 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
995 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
996 configured.
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998 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
999 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 1000 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 1001 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 1002 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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1003 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1004 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1005 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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1006 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1007 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1008 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1009 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1010 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
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0d3c673e 1012 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1013 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1014 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1015 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1016 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1017 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1018 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1019 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1020
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1021 meson,<addr>
1022 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1023 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1024 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1025 supported.
1026
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1027 msm_serial,<addr>
1028 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1029 port at the specified address. The serial port
1030 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1031 yet supported.
1032
1033 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1034 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1035 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1036 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1037 yet supported.
1038
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1039 owl,<addr>
1040 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1041 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1042 specified address. The serial port must already be
1043 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1044
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1045 rda,<addr>
1046 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1047 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1048 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1049 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1050
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1051 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1052
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1053 s3c2410,<addr>
1054 s3c2412,<addr>
1055 s3c2440,<addr>
1056 s3c6400,<addr>
1057 s5pv210,<addr>
1058 exynos4210,<addr>
1059 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1060 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1061 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1062 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1063 Options are not yet supported.
1064
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1065 lantiq,<addr>
1066 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1067 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1068 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1069 yet supported.
1070
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1071 lpuart,<addr>
1072 lpuart32,<addr>
1073 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1074 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1075 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1076 port must already be setup and configured.
1077
f7c864e7 1078 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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WD
1079 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1080 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1081 address. The serial port must already be setup
1082 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1083
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KR
1084 qcom_geni,<addr>
1085 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1086 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1087 specified address. The serial port must already be
1088 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1089
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AB
1090 efifb,[options]
1091 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1092 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1093 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1094 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1095 mapped with the correct attributes.
1096
4ba66a97 1097 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1098 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1099 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1100 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1101 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1102 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1103 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1104 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1105 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1106 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1107
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DH
1108 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1109 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1110 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1111
a9913044 1112 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1113 takes over.
1114
72548e83
MF
1115 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1116 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1117
147ea091
DH
1118 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1119 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1120 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1121 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1122 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1123 You can find the port for a given device in
1124 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1125 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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LT
1126
1127 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1128 very good.
1129
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MF
1130 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1131 the real console.
1da177e4 1132
2482a92e
KRW
1133 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1134
89175cf7
HC
1135 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1136
d2266bbf
FT
1137 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1138 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1139 UART class.
1140
c700f013
CG
1141 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1142 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1143 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1144 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1145 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1146 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1147 default: on.
1148
9731191f
JW
1149 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1150 ekgdboc=kbd
1151
25985edc 1152 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1153 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1154
1da177e4 1155 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1156 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1157
d2f7cbe7 1158 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1159 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1160 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1161 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1162 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1163 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1164 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1165 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1166 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1167 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1168
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RW
1169 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1170 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1171 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1172 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1173 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1174
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TI
1175 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1176 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1177 updating original EFI memory map.
1178 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1179 from ss to ss+nn.
1180 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1181 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1182 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1183 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1184
1185 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1186 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1187 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1188 doesn't support it.
1189
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OP
1190 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1191 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1192 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1193 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
cb1aaebe 1194 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
475fb4e8
OP
1195
1196
1da177e4
LT
1197 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1198 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1199
cd4f0ef7 1200 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1201 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1202 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1203
1204 elevator= [IOSCHED]
31dcbbef 1205 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
898bd37a
MCC
1206 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst,
1207 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.rst and
1208 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.rst for details.
a9913044 1209
d3bf3795 1210 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1211 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1212 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1213 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
330d4810 1214 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1da177e4 1215
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RD
1216 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1217 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1218 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1219 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1220
ca1eda2d 1221 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1222 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1223 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1224 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1225 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1226
1da177e4
LT
1227 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1228 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1229 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1230 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1231 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1232 Default value is 0.
1233 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1234
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HY
1235 erst_disable [ACPI]
1236 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1237 support.
1238
1da177e4
LT
1239 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1240 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1241 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1242
7102ebcd
MZ
1243 evm= [EVM]
1244 Format: { "fix" }
1245 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1246 current integrity status.
1247
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AM
1248 failslab=
1249 fail_page_alloc=
1250 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1251 General fault injection mechanism.
1252 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1253 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1254
1da177e4 1255 floppy= [HW]
e7751617 1256 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1da177e4 1257
f13ae30e
AC
1258 force_pal_cache_flush
1259 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1260 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1261 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1262 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1263
6dddd7a7 1264 forcepae [X86-32]
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CB
1265 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1266 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1267 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1268 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1269 and may cause unknown problems.
1270
d9e54076 1271 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1272 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1273 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1274 boot debugging.
1275
cecbca96 1276 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1277 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1278 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1279 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1280 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1281 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1282
1283 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1284 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1285 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1286 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1287 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1288 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1289
1290 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1291 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1292 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1293 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1294 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1295
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SA
1296 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1297 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1298 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1299 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1300 that can be changed at run time by the
1301 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1302
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NK
1303 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1304 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1305 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1306 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1307 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1308
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TB
1309 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1310 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1311 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1312 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1313 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1314
1da177e4
LT
1315 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1316 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1317 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1318 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1319 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1320
1321 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1322
6dddd7a7 1323 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1324 Format: off | on
1325 default: on
1326
2521f2c2
PO
1327 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1328 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1329 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1330 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1331 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1332
47512cfd
TG
1333 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1334 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1335 android emulator
1336
1da177e4 1337 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1338 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1339 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1340 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1341
6cec9b07
AL
1342 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1343 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1344 Format: 0 | 1
1345 Default: 0
1346 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1347 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1348 Format: 0 | 1
1349 Default: 0
1350 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1351 Format: 0 | 1
1352 Default: 0
1353 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1354 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1355 Default: 1024
1356 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1357 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1358 Default: 1024
1359
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1360 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1361 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1362 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1363
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JK
1364 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1365 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1366 backtraces on all cpus.
1367 Format: <integer>
1368
1da177e4
LT
1369 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1370 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1371 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1372 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1373
1374 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1375
1376 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1377 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1378
ea8c071c
HY
1379 hest_disable [ACPI]
1380 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1381 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1382 logic will be disabled.
1383
1da177e4
LT
1384 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1385 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1386 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1387 size on bigger boxes.
1388
54cdfdb4
TG
1389 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1390 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1391 Default: "on"
1392
0cb55ad2
RD
1393 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1394
1395 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1396 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1397 verbose }
1398 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1399 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1400 VIA, nVidia)
1401 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1402
3d035f58
PB
1403 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1404 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1405
b4718e62
AK
1406 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1407 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1408 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1409 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1410 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1411 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1412 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1413
a49d9c0a
OS
1414 hung_task_panic=
1415 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1416 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1417
a49d9c0a
OS
1418 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1419 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1420 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1421 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1422 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1423
6dddd7a7
TB
1424 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1425 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1426 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1427 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1428 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1429
1430 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1431 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1432 guest on lock contention.
1433
7bf69395
FDN
1434 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1435 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1436 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1437 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1438 the real console.
1439
6dddd7a7
TB
1440 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1441 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1442 registered from board initialization code.
1443 Format:
1444 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1445
36d95739 1446 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1447 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1448 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1449 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1450 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1451 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1452 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1453 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1454 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1455 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1456 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1457 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1458 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1459 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1460 controller
1da177e4
LT
1461 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1462 controllers
24775d65 1463 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1464 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1465 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1466 transitions, or never reset
1467 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1468 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1469 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1470 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1471 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1472 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1473 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1474
1475 i810= [HW,DRM]
1476
e70c9d5e
DT
1477 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1478 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1479 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1480 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1481 does not match list of supported models.
1482 i8k.power_status
1483 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1484 (disabled by default)
1485 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1486 capability is set.
1487
4dca20ef 1488 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1489 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1490 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1491 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1492 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1493 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1494 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1495 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1496 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1497 value switches the backlight off.
1498 -1 -- never invert brightness
1499 0 -- machine default
1500 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1501
1da177e4
LT
1502 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1503 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1504
0af80c04
DF
1505 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1506 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1507 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1508 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
d7b461c5 1509 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1da177e4 1510
0f8b7f5d
MR
1511 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1512 Format: <int>
1513 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1514 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1515 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1516 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1517 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1518 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1519 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1520 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1521 was 0x3.
1522
0cb55ad2
RD
1523 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1524 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1525
f039b754 1526 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1527 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1528 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1529 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1530 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1531 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1532 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1533 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1534 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1535
503943e0
MR
1536 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1537 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1538 Default: strict
1539
1540 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1541 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1542 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1543 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1544 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1545 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1546 encoding mode.
1547
1548 Available settings are as follows:
1549 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1550 supported by the FPU
1551 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1552 by the FPU
1553 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1554 by the FPU
1555 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1556 supported by the FPU
1557
1558 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1559 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1560 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1561 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1562 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1563 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1564 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1565 MIPS64 CPUs.
1566
1567 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1568 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1569 except where unsupported by hardware.
1570
79290822
IM
1571 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1572 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1573 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1574 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1575 could change it dynamically, usually by
1576 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1577
d977d56c
KK
1578 ignore_rlimit_data
1579 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1580 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1581 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1582
1da177e4
LT
1583 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1584 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1585
2fe5d6de 1586 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1587 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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1588 default: "enforce"
1589
41475a3e 1590 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1591 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1592 owned by uid=0.
1593
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1594 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1595 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1596 measurements, instead of host native format.
1597
3323eec9 1598 ima_hash= [IMA]
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1599 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1600 | sha512 | ... }
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1601 default: "sha1"
1602
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1603 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1604 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1605
24fd03c8 1606 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1607 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
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1608 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1609 fail_securely"
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1610
1611 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1612 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1613 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1614 uid=0.
1615
1616 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1617 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1618
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1619 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1620 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1621 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1622
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1623 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1624 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1625 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1626 flag.
1627
24fd03c8 1628 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1629 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1630 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1631 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1632 opened for read by uid=0.
1633
6dddd7a7 1634 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1635 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1636 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1637 Default: "ima-ng"
1638
c2426d2a 1639 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1640 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1641 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1642
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1643 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1644 Format: <min_file_size>
1645 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1646 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1647
1648 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1649 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1650 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1651
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1652 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1653 Format: <bufsize>
1654 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1655
1656 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1657 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1658 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1659
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1660 init= [KNL]
1661 Format: <full_path>
1662 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1663 process.
1664
1665 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1666 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1667 startup.
1668
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1669 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1670 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1671 modules and initcalls.
1672
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1673 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1674
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1675 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1676 zeroes.
1677 Format: 0 | 1
1678 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1679
1680 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1681 Format: 0 | 1
1682 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1683
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1684 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1685 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1686 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1687 override in debugfs after boot.
1688
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1689 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1690 Format: <irq>
1691
6dddd7a7 1692 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1693
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1694 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1695 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1696 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1697 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1698
ba395927 1699 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1700 on
1701 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1702 off
1703 Disable intel iommu driver.
1704 igfx_off [Default Off]
1705 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1706 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1707 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1708 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1709 DMA.
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1710 forcedac [x86_64]
1711 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1712 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1713 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1714 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1715 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1716 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1717 strict [Default Off]
1718 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1719 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1720 to batching them for performance.
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1721 sp_off [Default Off]
1722 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1723 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1724 not be supported.
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1725 sm_on [Default Off]
1726 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
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1727 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1728 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
8950dcd8 1729 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
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1730 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1731 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1732 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1733 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1734 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1735 mapping is enabled.
1736 Note that using this option lowers the security
1737 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1738 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1739
1740 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1741 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1742 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1743
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1744 intel_pstate= [X86]
1745 disable
1746 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1747 scaling driver for the supported processors
1748 passive
1749 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1750 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1751 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1752 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1753 feature.
1754 force
1755 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1756 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1757 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1758 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1759 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1760 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1761 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1762 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1763 no_hwp
1764 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1765 if available.
1766 hwp_only
1767 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1768 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1769 support_acpi_ppc
1770 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1771 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1772 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1773 then this feature is turned on by default.
1774 per_cpu_perf_limits
1775 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1776 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1777
d1423d56 1778 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1779 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1780 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1781 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1782 no_x2apic_optout
1783 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1784 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1785
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1786 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1787 strict regions from userspace.
1788 relaxed
1789
1790 iommu= [x86]
1791 off
1792 force
1793 noforce
1794 biomerge
1795 panic
1796 nopanic
1797 merge
1798 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1799 soft
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1800 pt [x86]
1801 nopt [x86]
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1802 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1803 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1804
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1805 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1806 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1807 0 - Lazy mode.
1808 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1809 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1810 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1811 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1812 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1813 1 - Strict mode (default).
1814 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1815 synchronously.
1816
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1817 iommu.passthrough=
1818 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1819 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1820 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1821 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1822 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
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1823
1824 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1825 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1826 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1827
6cececfc 1828 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1829 0x80
1830 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1831 0xed
1832 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1833 udelay
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1834 Simple two microseconds delay
1835 none
1836 No delay
b02aae9c 1837
1da177e4 1838 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1839 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1840
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1841 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1842 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1843
fbf19803 1844 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1845 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1846
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1847 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1848 [ARM, ARM64]
1849 Format: <bool>
1850 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1851 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1852 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1853
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1854 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1855 [ARM, ARM64]
1856 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1857 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1858 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1859 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1860 LPIs.
1861
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1862 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1863 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1864 requires the kernel to be built with
1865 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1866
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1867 irqfixup [HW]
1868 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1869 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1870 firmware running.
1871
1872 irqpoll [HW]
1873 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1874 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1875 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1876 firmware running.
1877
1da177e4 1878 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1879 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1880
d94d1053 1881 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1882 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1883 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1884
1885 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1886 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1887
1888 nohz
1889 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1890
1891 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1892 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1893 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1894 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1895 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1896
1897 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1898 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1899 be configured manually after bootup.
1900
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1901 domain
1902 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1903 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1904 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1905 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1906 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1907 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1908 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1909 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1910
1911 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1912 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1913 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1914 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1915
1916 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1917
1da177e4 1918
1da177e4 1919
a9913044 1920 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1921
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1922 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1923 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1924 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1925 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1926 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1927 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1928
1929 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1930 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1931 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1932 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1933 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1934 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1935
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1936 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1937 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1938 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1939 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1940 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1941 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1942
1da177e4 1943 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1944 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1945
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1946 nokaslr [KNL]
1947 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1948 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1949 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1950
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1951 kasan_multi_shot
1952 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1953 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1954 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1955 invalid access.
1956
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1957 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1958
342332e6 1959 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1960 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1961 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1962 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1963 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1964 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1965 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1966 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1967 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1968 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1969
1970 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1971 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1972 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1973 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1974 zone if it does not.
1975
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1976 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1977 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1978 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1979 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1980 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1981 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1982 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1983
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1984 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1985 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1986 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1987 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1988 optional and is the number seconds in between
1989 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1990 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1991 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1992 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1993 the kernel debugger.
1994
84c08fd6 1995 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1996 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1997 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1998 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1999 keyboard only format: kbd
2000 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2001 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2002 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2003 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 2004
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2005 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2006 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2007
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2008 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2009 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2010 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2011
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2012 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2013 Valid arguments: on, off
2014 Default: on
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2015 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2016 the default is off.
04f70336 2017
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2018 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2019 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2020 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2021 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2022 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2023 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2024 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2025
2026 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2027
2028 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2029 Boot Parameter" section.
2030
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2031 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2032 and kernel address spaces.
2033 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2034 0: force disabled
2035 1: force enabled
2036
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2037 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2038 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2039
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2040 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2041 Default is false (don't support).
2042
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2043 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2044 KVM MMU at runtime.
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2045 Default is 0 (off)
2046
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2047 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2048 [KVM] Controls the sw workaround for bug
2049 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2050 force : Always deploy workaround.
2051 off : Default. Never deploy workaround.
2052 auto : Deploy workaround based on presence of
2053 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2054
2055 If the sw workaround is enabled for the host, guests
2056 need not enable it for nested guests.
2057
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2058 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2059 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2060 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2061 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2062 minute. The default is 60.
2063
fef07aae 2064 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2065 Default is 1 (enabled)
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2066
2067 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2068 for all guests.
16290246 2069 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
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2071 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2072 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2073 system registers
2074
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2075 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2076 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2077 system registers
2078
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2079 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2080 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2081 system registers
2082
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2083 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2084 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2085 LPIs.
2086
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2087 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2088 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2089 Default is 1 (enabled)
2090
2091 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2092 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2093 Default is 0 (disabled)
2094
2095 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2096 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2097 Default is 1 (enabled)
2098
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2099 kvm-intel.nested=
2100 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2101 Default is 0 (disabled)
2102
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2103 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2104 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2105 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2106 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2107
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2108 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2109 CVE-2018-3620.
2110
2111 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2112
2113 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2114 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2115 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2116 never: Disables the mitigation
2117
2118 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2119
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2120 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2121 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2122 Default is 1 (enabled)
2123
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2124 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2125 affected CPUs
2126
2127 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2128 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2129
2130 full
2131 Provides all available mitigations for the
2132 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2133 enables all mitigations in the
2134 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2135
2136 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2137 sysfs interface is still possible after
2138 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2139 when the first VM is started in a
2140 potentially insecure configuration,
2141 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2142
2143 full,force
2144 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2145 flush runtime control. Implies the
2146 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2147 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2148
2149 flush
2150 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2151 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2152 L1D flush.
2153
2154 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2155 sysfs interface is still possible after
2156 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2157 when the first VM is started in a
2158 potentially insecure configuration,
2159 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2160
2161 flush,nosmt
2162
2163 Disables SMT and enables the default
2164 hypervisor mitigation.
2165
2166 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2167 sysfs interface is still possible after
2168 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2169 when the first VM is started in a
2170 potentially insecure configuration,
2171 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2172
2173 flush,nowarn
2174 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2175 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2176 insecure configuration.
2177
2178 off
2179 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2180 emit any warnings.
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2181 It also drops the swap size and available
2182 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2183 bare metal.
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2184
2185 Default is 'flush'.
2186
65fd4cb6 2187 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2188
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2189 l2cr= [PPC]
2190
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RB
2191 l3cr= [PPC]
2192
cd4f0ef7 2193 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2194 disabled it.
1da177e4 2195
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SS
2196 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2197 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2198 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2199
6cececfc 2200 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2201 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2202
fcb71f6f
FC
2203 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2204 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2205 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2206 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2207 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
fcb71f6f
FC
2208 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2209 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2210
20308871
MP
2211 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2212 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2213 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2214
78e70c23
DJ
2215 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2216 when set.
2217 Format: <int>
2218
33267325
TH
2219 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2220 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2221 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
33267325
TH
2222 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2223 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2224 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2225 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2226 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2227
2228 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2229 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2230 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2231 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2232 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2233 host link and device attached to it.
2234
2235 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2236 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2237 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2238 The following configurations can be forced.
2239
2240 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2241 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2242
2243 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2244
2245 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2246 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2247 allowed.
2248
2249 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2250
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MP
2251 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2252
05944bdf 2253 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2254 and both resets.
05944bdf 2255
ca6d43b0
DW
2256 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2257 hot-unplug link recovery
2258
43c9c591
TH
2259 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2260
966fbe19
VP
2261 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2262
b8bd6dc3
RJ
2263 * disable: Disable this device.
2264
33267325
TH
2265 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2266 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2267
95f72d1e 2268 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2269
1da177e4 2270 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
e7751617 2271 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 2272
a6b25b67
RD
2273 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2274 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2275
a6b25b67
RD
2276 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2277 Format: <integer>
2278
2279 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2280 Format: <integer>
2281
2282 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2283 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2284
ec4518aa
PM
2285 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2286 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2287 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2288 number of online CPUs.
2289
2290 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2291 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2292
2293 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2294 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2295
2296 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2297 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2298 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2299
2300 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2301 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2302 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2303 mode during the locktorture test.
2304
2305 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2306 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2307 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2308
2309 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2310 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2311
2312 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2313 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2314 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2315 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2316 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2317 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2318
ec4518aa
PM
2319 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2320 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2321
2322 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2323 Enable additional printk() statements.
2324
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2325 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2326 Format: <irq>
2327
2328 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2329 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2330 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2331 loglevels are defined as follows:
2332
2333 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2334 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2335 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2336 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2337 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2338 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2339 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2340 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2341
c756d08a 2342 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
23b2899f
LR
2343 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2344 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2345 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2346 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2347 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2348 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2349
accaa24c
RD
2350 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2351 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2352 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2353 kernel boot problems.
2354
1da177e4
LT
2355 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2356 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2357 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2358 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2359 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2360 attached printers to be reset. Using
2361 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2362 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2363 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2364 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2365 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2366 port specification list means that device IDs
2367 from each port should be examined, to see if
2368 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2369 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2370 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2371
2372 lpj=n [KNL]
2373 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2374 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2375 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2376 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2377 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2378 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2379 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2380 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2381 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2382 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2383 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2384 hardware.
2385
2386 ltpc= [NET]
2387 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2388
9b8c7c14
KC
2389 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2390
79f7865d
KC
2391 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2392 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2393 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2394
16290246 2395 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
a9913044
RD
2396 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2397 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2398
3209e70e
WZ
2399 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2400 yeeloong laptop.
2401 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2402
0cb55ad2
RD
2403 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2404 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1da177e4
LT
2405
2406 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2407 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2408 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2409 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2410 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2411 only takes effect during system bootup.
2412 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2413 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2414
d134b00b
KS
2415 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2416 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2417 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2418 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2419 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2420 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2421
cd4f0ef7 2422 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2423
cb1aaebe 2424 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
909dd324 2425
1da177e4 2426 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2427 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2428
1da177e4
LT
2429 mdacon= [MDA]
2430 Format: <first>,<last>
2431 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2432
bc124170
TG
2433 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2434 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2435 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2436
2437 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2438 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2439 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2440
2441 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2442 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2443 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2444 not have direct access.
2445
2446 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2447 options are:
2448
d71eb0ce
JP
2449 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2450 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2451 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2452 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170
TG
2453
2454 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2455 mds=full.
2456
5999bbe7
TG
2457 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2458
1da177e4
LT
2459 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2460 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2461 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2462 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2463 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2464 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2465 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2466
cd4f0ef7 2467 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2468 memory.
2469
6902aa84
PM
2470 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2471 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2472 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2473
6dddd7a7 2474 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2475 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2476 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2477 set according to the
2478 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2479 option.
cb1aaebe 2480 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
86dd995d 2481
6cececfc 2482 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2483 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2484 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2485 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2486 option description.
2487
2488 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2489 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2490 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2491 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2492 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2493 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2494 comma delimited.
2495 Example:
2496 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2497
2498 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2499 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2500 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2501
2502 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2503 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2504 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2505 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2506 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2507 or
2508 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2509 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2510 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2511 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2512
ec776ef6
CH
2513 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2514 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2515 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2516 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2517 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2518
ef61f8a3
JS
2519 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2520 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2521 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2522 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2523 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2524 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2525 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2526 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2527
9f077871
JF
2528 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2529 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2530 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2531 Setting this option will scan the memory
2532 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2533 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2534 from using the memory being corrupted.
2535 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2536 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2537 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2538 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2539
2540 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2541 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2542 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2543 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2544 corruption in more or less memory.
2545
2546 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2547 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2548 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2549 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2550
d90fe2ac 2551 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2552 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2553 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2554 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2555 performed. Each pass selects another test
2556 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2557 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2558 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2559 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2560
c262f3b9
TL
2561 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2562 Valid arguments: on, off
2563 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2564 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2565 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2566 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2567 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2568
2f5947df 2569 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
c262f3b9
TL
2570 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2571
406e7938
RW
2572 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2573 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2574 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2575 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2576 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2577
1da177e4 2578 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2579 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2580
8f36881b
AS
2581 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2582 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2583 platforms.
2584
e6c4dc6c
WT
2585 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2586 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2587 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2588 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2589
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LT
2590 mga= [HW,DRM]
2591
1c207f95
RD
2592 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2593 physical address is ignored.
2594
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MP
2595 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2596 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2597 Default: "0tb"
2598 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2599 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2600 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2601 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2602 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2603 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2604 unconfigured.
2605 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2606 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2607 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2608 VGA shield.
2609 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2610 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2611 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2612 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2613 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2614 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2615
98af8452 2616 mitigations=
a111b7c0
JP
2617 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2618 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
2619 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2620 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
2621
2622 off
2623 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2624 improves system performance, but it may also
2625 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 2626 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2627 kpti=0 [ARM64]
a2059825 2628 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
0336e04a 2629 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 2630 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 2631 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 2632 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2633 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 2634 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 2635 mds=off [X86]
e17c368d 2636 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
b04ce25d
PG
2637 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86].
2638
2639 Exceptions:
2640 This does not have any effect on
2641 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2642 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
98af8452
JP
2643
2644 auto (default)
2645 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2646 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2647 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2648 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2649 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 2650 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
98af8452
JP
2651
2652 auto,nosmt
2653 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2654 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2655 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 2656 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 2657 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
e17c368d 2658 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 2659
6b74ab97
MG
2660 mminit_loglevel=
2661 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2662 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2663 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2664 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2665 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2666 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2667
106a4ee2
RR
2668 module.sig_enforce
2669 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2670 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2671 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2672 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2673
be7de5f9
PB
2674 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2675 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2676
1da177e4
LT
2677 mousedev.tap_time=
2678 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2679 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2680 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2681 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2682 Format: <msecs>
2683 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2684 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2685 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2686 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2687
a5c6d650
DR
2688 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2689 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2690 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2691 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2692 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2693 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2694 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2695 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
2696 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2697 is not too small.
2698
f70029bb
MH
2699 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2700 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2701 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2702 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2703 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2704
1da177e4
LT
2705 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2706 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2707
a9913044
RD
2708 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2709 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2710
2711 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2712 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2713
4e89a2d8
WS
2714 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2715 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2716 at a time.
2717
5988af23
RH
2718 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2719
2720 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2721
2722 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2723 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2724 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2725 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2726 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2727
9db829f4
BD
2728 mtdset= [ARM]
2729 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2730
2731 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2732
1da177e4 2733 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2734 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2735 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2736
0cb55ad2 2737 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2738 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2739 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2740
2741 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2742 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2743 Default is 1.
2744 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2745 using up MTRRs.
2746
2747 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2748 Format: <integer>
2749 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2750 Default : 1
2751 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2752 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2753
1da177e4
LT
2754 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2755
1da177e4
LT
2756 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2757 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2758 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2759 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2760 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2761 file if at all.
2762
58401572
KPO
2763 nf_conntrack.acct=
2764 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2765 0 to disable accounting
2766 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2767 Default value is 0.
58401572 2768
306a0753 2769 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2770 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2771
2772 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2773 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2774
306a0753
CL
2775 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2776 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2777
5405fc44
TM
2778 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2779 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2780 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2781 requests.
2782
a72b4422
TM
2783 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2784 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2785 channel should listen.
2786
e571cbf1
TM
2787 nfs.cache_getent=
2788 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2789 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2790
2791 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2792 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2793 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2794
58df095b
TM
2795 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2796 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2797 entries.
2798
f43bf0be
TM
2799 nfs.enable_ino64=
2800 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2801 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2802 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2803 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2804 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2805
5405fc44
TM
2806 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2807 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2808 slots the client will assign to the callback
2809 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2810 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2811 a particular server.
2812
ef159e91
TM
2813 nfs.max_session_slots=
2814 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2815 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2816 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2817 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2818 Note that there is little point in setting this
2819 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2820
b064eca2 2821 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2822 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2823 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2824 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2825 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2826 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2827 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2828 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2829 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2830 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2831 back to using the idmapper.
2832 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2833 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2834 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2835 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2836 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2837 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2838
db8ac8ba
WAA
2839 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2840 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2841 information in exchange_id requests.
2842 If zero, no implementation identification information
2843 will be sent.
2844 The default is to send the implementation identification
2845 information.
e52347bd 2846
f6de7a39
TM
2847 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2848 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2849 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2850 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2851 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2852 after the locks are lost.
2853 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2854 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2855 parameter to '1'.
2856 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2857 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2858
bbf58bf3
TM
2859 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2860 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2861 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2862
2863 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2864 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2865 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2866 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2867
e9541ce8
BF
2868 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2869 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2870 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2871 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2872 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2873 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2874
c0c74acb 2875 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2876 when a NMI is triggered.
2877 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2878
6cececfc 2879 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2880 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2881 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2882 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2883 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2884 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
93285c01
ZD
2885 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2886 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2887 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
334bb79c 2888 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2889 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2890 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2891
d22881dc
SW
2892 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2893 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2894
bff38771
AV
2895 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2896 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2897 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2898 waits 4 seconds.
2899
cd4f0ef7 2900 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2901 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2902 is present.
2903
372fddf7
KS
2904 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2905 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2906
0cb55ad2
RD
2907 no_console_suspend
2908 [HW] Never suspend the console
2909 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2910 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2911 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2912 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2913 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2914 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2915 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2916 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2917 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2918 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2919 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2920 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2921
c6c40533
KS
2922 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
2923 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
2924 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
2925 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
2926 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
2927 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
2928 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
2929 data will be no longer available. This parameter
2930 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
2931 is set.
2932
c1aee215
CL
2933 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2934 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2935 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2936
a9913044
RD
2937 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2938
686140a1
VG
2939 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2940 (CPU alternatives feature).
2941
1da177e4
LT
2942 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2943 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2944
5091faa4
MG
2945 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2946
1da177e4
LT
2947 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2948 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2949
2950 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2951
0cb55ad2
RD
2952 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2953
163ecdff
SN
2954 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2955
6902aa84
PM
2956 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2957
b2e0a54a 2958 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2959
1da177e4
LT
2960 noexec [IA-64]
2961
6cececfc 2962 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2963 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2964 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2965 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2966
de78a9c4 2967 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
2968 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2969 even if it is supported by processor.
2970
0fb1c25a 2971 nosmep [X86,PPC]
52b6179a 2972 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2973 even if it is supported by processor.
2974
f5a1b191
JS
2975 noexec32 [X86-64]
2976 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2977 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2978 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2979 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2980 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2981
fab43ef4 2982 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2983
cd4f0ef7 2984 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2985 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2986 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2987
d909f910 2988 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
0ddab1d2 2989
52c48c51
SS
2990 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2991 Equivalent to smt=1.
2992
05736e4a 2993 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2994 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2995 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 2996
a2059825
JP
2997 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2998 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
2999 possible in the system.
05736e4a 3000
e5ce5e72
JL
3001 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3002 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3003 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3004 option.
da285121 3005
24f7fc83
KRW
3006 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3007 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3008
0c752a93
SS
3009 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3010 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3011 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3012
b6f42a4a
FY
3013 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3014 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3015 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3016 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3017 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3018 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3019
3020 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3021 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3022 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3023 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3024 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3025 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3026 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3027
01a24d2b
PZ
3028 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3029 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3030 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 3031
1f29fae2
SH
3032 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3033 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3034 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3035
1da177e4
LT
3036 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3037 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3038 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3039 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3040 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3041 real-time systems.
3042
a6e15a39
KC
3043 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3044
79bf2bb3
TG
3045 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3046 Valid arguments: on, off
3047 Default: on
3048
d94d1053 3049 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 3050 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 3051 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 3052 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 3053 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
3054 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3055 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3056 just as if they had also been called out in the
3057 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 3058
eeee7853
PM
3059 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3060
cd4f0ef7 3061 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3062 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3063
6cececfc 3064 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3065 broken timer IRQ sources.
3066
1da177e4
LT
3067 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3068
3069 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3070 initial RAM disk.
3071
03ea8155
WH
3072 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3073 remapping.
d1423d56 3074 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3075
1da177e4
LT
3076 nointroute [IA-64]
3077
d12a72b8
AL
3078 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3079
16290246 3080 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3081
9cf4c4fc
JK
3082 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3083
fd10cde9
GN
3084 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3085 fault handling.
3086
80e9a4f2
AM
3087 no-vmw-sched-clock
3088 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3089 clock and use the default one.
3090
6dddd7a7 3091 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
3092 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3093 behaviour
3094
cd4f0ef7 3095 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3096
cd4f0ef7 3097 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3098
1da177e4 3099 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3100 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3101
312f1f01
H
3102 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3103
13696e0a 3104 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3105
83d7384f
AS
3106 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3107 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3108
bda62633
DZ
3109 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3110 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3111 irq.
3112
02608bef
DY
3113 nomodule Disable module load
3114
016ddd9b
JK
3115 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3116 pagetables) support.
3117
0790c9aa
AL
3118 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3119
0cb55ad2
RD
3120 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3121 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3122
cd4f0ef7 3123 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3124 with UP alternatives
3125
7a5091d5
PA
3126 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3127 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3128 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3129 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3130
a9913044
RD
3131 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3132 space.
3133
1da177e4
LT
3134 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3135 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3136 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3137
3138 nosbagart [IA-64]
3139
cd4f0ef7 3140 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3141
61ec7567
LB
3142 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3143 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3144
97842216
DJ
3145 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3146
1da177e4
LT
3147 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3148
195daf66 3149 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3150 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3151
1da177e4 3152 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3153
2b2fd87a
WH
3154 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3155
f78cff48
FY
3156 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3157 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3158 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3159 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3160 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3161 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3162 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3163 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3164 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3165 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3166 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3167 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3168 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3169
6dddd7a7 3170 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3171 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3172 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3173 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3174 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3175 parameter's value.
3176 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3177 Default: 255
3178
16290246 3179 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3180 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3181 SAL PALO.
3182
2b633e3f
YL
3183 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3184 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3185 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3186 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3187 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3188 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3189 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3190 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3191
0cb55ad2
RD
3192 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3193
1a687c2e
MG
3194 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3195 Allowed values are enable and disable
3196
f0c0b2b8 3197 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3198 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8 3199 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
57043247 3200 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
f0c0b2b8 3201
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RD
3202 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3203 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3204 info.
3205
3ef0e1f8
AS
3206 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3207 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3208 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3209 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3210 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3211 interrupts *may* be lost!
3212
15ac7afe
TL
3213 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3214 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3215 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3216 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3217
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LT
3218 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3219 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3220
7e4e0bd5
RR
3221 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3222 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3223 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3224 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3225 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3226 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3227 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3228 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3229 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3230 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3231
44a4dcf7
RD
3232 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3233 process, but there is a small probability of
3234 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3235 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3236 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3237
e900a918
DW
3238 page_alloc.shuffle=
3239 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3240 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3241 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3242 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3243 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3244 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3245 can be read from sysfs at:
3246 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3247
48c96a36
JK
3248 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3249 Storage of the information about who allocated
3250 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3251 we can turn it on.
3252 on: enable the feature
3253
8823b1db 3254 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3255 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3256 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3257 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3258 on: turn on poisoning
3259
44a4dcf7 3260 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3261 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3262 timeout = 0: wait forever
3263 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3264 Format: <timeout>
3265
d999bd93
FT
3266 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3267 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3268 bit 0: print all tasks info
3269 bit 1: print system memory info
3270 bit 2: print timer info
3271 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3272 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3273 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
d999bd93 3274
9e3961a0
PB
3275 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3276 on a WARN().
3277
f06e5153
MH
3278 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3279 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3280 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3281 succeeds in any situation.
3282 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3283 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3284 kernel more unstable.
3285
1da177e4
LT
3286 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3287 connected to, default is 0.
3288 Format: <parport#>
3289 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3290 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
3291 Format: <mode>
3292
3293 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3294 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3295 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3296 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3297 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3298 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3299 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3300 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3301 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3302 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3303 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3304 are specified on the command line, starting
3305 with parport0.
3306
3307 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3308 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3309 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3310 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3311 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3312 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3313 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3314
dd287796
AM
3315 pause_on_oops=
3316 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3317 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3318 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3319
1da177e4
LT
3320 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3321
3322 pcd. [PARIDE]
3323 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
e7751617 3324 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3325
07d8d7e5
LG
3326 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3327
3328 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3329 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3330 specified in one of the following formats:
3331
45db3370 3332 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3333 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3334
3335 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3336 bus/device/function address which may change
3337 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3338 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3339 by other kernel parameters. If the
3340 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3341 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3342 to a device through multiple device/function
3343 addresses can be specified after the base
3344 address (this is more robust against
3345 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3346 selects devices using IDs from the
3347 configuration space which may match multiple
3348 devices in the system.
3349
11eb0e0e 3350 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3351 changes anything
c0115606 3352 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3353 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3354 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3355 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3356 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3357 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3358 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3359 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3360 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3361 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3362 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3363 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3364 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3365 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3366 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3367 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3368 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3369 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3370 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3371 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3372 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3373 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3374 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3375 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3376 Configuration
12983077
AH
3377 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3378 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3379 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3380 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3381 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3382 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
90247e8c
GP
3383 clearmsi [X86] Clears MSI/MSI-X enable bits early in boot
3384 time in order to avoid issues like adapters
3385 screaming irqs and preventing boot progress.
3386 Also, it enforces the PCI Local Bus spec
3387 rule that those bits should be 0 in system reset
3388 events (useful for kexec/kdump cases).
a9322f64
SA
3389 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3390 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3391 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3392 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3393 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3394 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3395 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3396 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3397 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3398 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3399 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3400 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3401 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3402 on several machines and they hang the machine
3403 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3404 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3405 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3406 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3407 motherboard.
c0115606 3408 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3409 Use with caution as certain devices share
3410 address decoders between ROMs and other
3411 resources.
c0115606 3412 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3413 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3414 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3415 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3416 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3417 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3418 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3419 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3420 this way.
c0115606 3421 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3422 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3423 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3424 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3425 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3426 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3427 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3428 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3429 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3430 numbers ourselves, overriding
3431 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3432 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3433 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3434 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3435 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3436 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3437 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3438 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3439 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3440 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3441 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3442 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3443 please report a bug.
3444 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3445 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3446 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3447 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3448 so this option is a temporary workaround
3449 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3450 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3451 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3452 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3453 This might help on some broken boards which
3454 machine check when some devices' config space
3455 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3456 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3457 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3458 This sorting is done to get a device
3459 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3460 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3461 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3462 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3463 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3464 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3465 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3466 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3467 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3468 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3469 or bus can support) for best performance.
3470 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3471 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3472 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3473 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3474 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3475 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3476 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3477 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3478 The default value is 256 bytes.
3479 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3480 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3481 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3482 resource_alignment=
3483 Format:
07d8d7e5 3484 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3485 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3486 aligned memory resources. How to
3487 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3488 If <order of align> is not specified,
3489 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3490 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3491 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3492 To specify the alignment for several
3493 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3494 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3495 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3496 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3497 end-to-end CRC checking).
3498 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3499 the default.
3500 off: Turn ECRC off
3501 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3502 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3503 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3504 Default size is 256 bytes.
3505 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3506 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3507 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3508 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3509 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3510 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3511 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3512 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3513 accommodate resources required by all child
3514 devices.
3515 off: Turn realloc off
3516 on: Turn realloc on
3517 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3518 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3519 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3520 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3521 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3522 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3523 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3524 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3525 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3526 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3527 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3528 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3529 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3530 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3531 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3532 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3533 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3534 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3535 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3536 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3537 this removes isolation between devices and
3538 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 3539 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 3540 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
6b4b78fe 3541
e5665a45
CE
3542 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3543 Management.
3544 off Disable ASPM.
3545 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3546 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3547
4c0fd764
BH
3548 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3549 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3550 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3551 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3552 also tries to use these services.
3553 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3554 hotplug).
79dd9182 3555
9d26d3a8
MW
3556 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3557 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3558 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3559
c7f48656 3560 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3561 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3562 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3563
1da177e4
LT
3564 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3565
39ac5ba5
TB
3566 pd_ignore_unused
3567 [PM]
3568 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3569 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3570 for debug and development, but should not be
3571 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3572
1da177e4 3573 pd. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3574 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3575
3576 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3577 boot time.
3578 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3579 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3580
f58dc01b 3581 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3582 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3583 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3584 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3585 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3586 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3587
1da177e4 3588 pf. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3589 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3590
3591 pg. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3592 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3593
3594 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
cb1aaebe 3595 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3596
3597 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3598 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3599 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3600
16290246 3601 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3602 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3603 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3604
96242116
BH
3605 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3606 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3607 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3608 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3609 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3610 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3611
1da177e4
LT
3612 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3613 { off }
3614
3615 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3616 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3617
3618 pnp_reserve_irq=
3619 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3620
3621 pnp_reserve_dma=
3622 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3623
3624 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3625 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3626
3627 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3628 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3629 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3630 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3631
4af94f39
RD
3632 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3633 Default is 21.
3634 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3635 may be specified.
3636 Format: <port>,<port>....
3637
c3cbd075
BS
3638 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3639 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3640 platform machine description specific power_save
3641 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3642 execution priority.
3643
3eb5d588
AB
3644 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3645 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3646 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3647 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3648 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3649
07fd1761
CB
3650 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3651 Format: {"off"}
3652 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3653
45807a1d
IM
3654 print-fatal-signals=
3655 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3656
3657 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3658 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3659 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3660 coredump - etc.
3661
3662 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3663 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3664
45807a1d
IM
3665 default: off.
3666
c22ab332
MG
3667 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3668 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3669 panics
3670 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3671 default: disabled
3672
750afe7b
BP
3673 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3674 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3675 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3676 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3677 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3678 Default: ratelimit
3679
e84845c4
RD
3680 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3681 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3682
0cb55ad2
RD
3683 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3684 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3685 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3686
3687 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3688 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3689 instead using the legacy FADT method
3690
1da177e4 3691 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3692 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3693 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3694 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3695 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3696 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3697 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3698 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3699 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3700 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3701
1da177e4
LT
3702 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3703 before loading.
e7751617 3704 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 3705
e0c27447
JW
3706 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3707 tracking.
3708 Format: <bool>
3709
a9913044
RD
3710 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3711 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3712 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3713 per second.
a9913044
RD
3714 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3715 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3716 (0 = never).
3717 psmouse.resolution=
3718 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3719 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3720 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3721 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3722
dee28e72
MG
3723 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3724
1da177e4 3725 pt. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3726 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3727
01c9b17b
DH
3728 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3729 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3730 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3731 system calls and interrupts.
3732
3733 on - unconditionally enable
3734 off - unconditionally disable
3735 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3736 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3737
3738 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3739
3740 nopti [X86_64]
3741 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3742
dc8c8587
KS
3743 pty.legacy_count=
3744 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3745 default number.
3746
7d2c502f 3747 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3748
1da177e4
LT
3749 r128= [HW,DRM]
3750
3751 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3752 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3753
1da177e4 3754 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
e7751617 3755 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 3756
9b254366
KC
3757 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3758 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3759 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3760 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3761 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3762
011d8261
BP
3763 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3764
3765 cec_disable [X86]
3766 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3767 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3768
4102adab 3769 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
da8739f2
PM
3770 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3771 except that the string "all" can be used to
3772 specify every CPU on the system.
2d13e6ca 3773
3fbfbf7a
PM
3774 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3775 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
3776 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3777 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3778 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3779 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3780 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3781 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3782 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3783 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 3784
4102adab 3785 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3786 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3787 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3788 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3789 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3790 This improves the real-time response for the
3791 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3792 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3793 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3794 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3795
4102adab 3796 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3797 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3798 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3799
a3dc2948
PM
3800 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3801 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3802 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3803 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3804
0f41c0dd
PM
3805 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3806 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3807 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3808
37745d28
PM
3809 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3810 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3811 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3812
3813 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3814 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3815 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3816 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3817 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3818
48d07c04
SAS
3819 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
3820 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3821 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
3822 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3823 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3824
7fa27001
PM
3825 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3826 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3827 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3828 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3829 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3830
4102adab 3831 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3832 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3833 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3834 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3835 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3836 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3837 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3838
4102adab 3839 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3840 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3841 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3842 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3843 and maximum value is HZ.
3844
4102adab 3845 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3846 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3847 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3848 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3849
1a4762b9
PM
3850 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3851 Set required age in jiffies for a
3852 given grace period before RCU starts
3853 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3854 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3855 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3856 a value based on the most recent settings
3857 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3858 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3859 This calculated value may be viewed in
3860 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
3861 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3862 overwritten.
3863
21871d7e 3864 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3865 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3866 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3867 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3868 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3869 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3870 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3871 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3872 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3873 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3874
fbce7497
PM
3875 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3876 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3877 defaults to the square root of the number of
3878 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3879 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3880 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3881
4102adab 3882 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3883 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3884 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3885
4102adab 3886 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3887 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3888 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3889
4102adab 3890 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3891 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3892 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3893
4102adab 3894 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3895 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3896 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3897 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3898 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3899
e3c50dfb
PM
3900 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3901 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3902 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3903 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3904 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3905 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3906
2ccaff10
PM
3907 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3908 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3909 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3910 why a new grace period has not yet started.
3911
881ed593
PM
3912 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3913 Measure performance of asynchronous
3914 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3915
3916 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3917 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3918 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3919 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3920 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3921 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3922
bdea9e34
PM
3923 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3924 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3925 grace-period primitives.
3926
df37e66b
PM
3927 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3928 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3929 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3930 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3931 interference.
3932
bdea9e34
PM
3933 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3934 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3935 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3936 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3937 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3938 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3939 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3940 a single reader.
3941
3942 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3943 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3944 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3945 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3946
820687a7
PM
3947 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3948 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3949
bdea9e34
PM
3950 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3951 Shut the system down after performance tests
3952 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3953 testing.
3954
bdea9e34
PM
3955 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3956 Enable additional printk() statements.
3957
820687a7
PM
3958 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3959 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3960 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3961 no holdoff.
3962
4102adab 3963 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3964 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3965 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3966
4102adab 3967 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3968 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3969 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3970
4102adab 3971 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3972 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3973 in seconds.
3974
ed8f6fb2
PM
3975 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3976 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3977 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3978
3979 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3980 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3981 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3982
3983 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3984 Number of seconds to wait between successive
3985 forward-progress tests.
3986
3987 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3988 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3989 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3990 testing.
3991
21b05de4
PM
3992 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3993 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3994 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3995
4102adab 3996 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3997 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3998
3999 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4000 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4001 update-side primitives, if available.
4002
4003 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4004 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4005 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4006 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4007 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4008 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4009 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 4010
4102adab 4011 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4012 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4013
4102adab 4014 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4015 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4016 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4017 test, hence the "fake".
4018
4102adab 4019 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
4020 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4021 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4022 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4023 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4024 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 4025
4102adab
PM
4026 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4027 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4028
4029 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4030 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4031
4102adab 4032 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
4033 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4034 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 4035
4102adab 4036 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4037 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4038 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4039 during the rcutorture test.
4040
4102adab 4041 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4042 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4043 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4044
4102adab 4045 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4046 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4047 warnings, zero to disable.
4048
4102adab 4049 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4050 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4051
2b1516e5
PM
4052 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4053 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4054
4102adab 4055 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4056 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4057
4102adab 4058 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4059 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4060 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4061 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4062 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4063
4102adab 4064 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4065 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4066 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4067 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4068
4102adab 4069 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4070 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4071
4102adab 4072 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4073 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4074
4102adab 4075 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4076 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4077 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4078
4102adab 4079 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4080 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4081
4102adab 4082 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4083 Enable additional printk() statements.
4084
5a9be7c6
PM
4085 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4086 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4087
4088 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4089 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4090
4102adab
PM
4091 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4092 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4093 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4094 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4095 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4096 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4097 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4098
5a9be7c6
PM
4099 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4100 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4101 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4102 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4103 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4104 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4105 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4106 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4107 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4108
3e42ec1a
PM
4109 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4110 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4111 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4112 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4113 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4114
52db30ab
PM
4115 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4116 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4117 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4118 to zero.
4119
74860fee
PK
4120 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4121 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4122
ffdfc409
OJ
4123 rdinit= [KNL]
4124 Format: <full_path>
4125 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4126 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4127
c49a0a80
TL
4128 rdrand= [X86]
4129 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4130 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4131 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4132 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4133 path).
4134
1d9807fc
TL
4135 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4136 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4137 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4138 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4139 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4140 rdt=cmt,!mba
4141
1b3a5d02
RH
4142 reboot= [KNL]
4143 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4144 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4145 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4146 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4147 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4148 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4149 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4150 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4151 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4152 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4153 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4154 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4155
46b6d94e
PJ
4156 relax_domain_level=
4157 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
da82c92f 4158 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
46b6d94e 4159
ffd2e8df
BH
4160 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4161 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4162 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4163 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4164 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 4165
cd4f0ef7 4166 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
4167 Format: nn[KMG]
4168 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4169 address space.
4170
9ea77bdb
PA
4171 reservelow= [X86]
4172 Format: nn[K]
4173 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4174 the bottom of the address space.
4175
7e96287d
VG
4176 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4177 during initialization.
4178
a9913044
RD
4179 resume= [SWSUSP]
4180 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4181 Format:
4182 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4183
ecbd0da1
RW
4184 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4185 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4186 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4187 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
151f4e2b 4188 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
ecbd0da1 4189
f126f733
BS
4190 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4191 read the resume files
4192
6f8d7022
BS
4193 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4194 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4195 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4196
f996fc96
BS
4197 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4198 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4199 present during boot.
4200 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4201 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4202 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4203 (that will set all pages holding image data
4204 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4205
0a7b35cb
MN
4206 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4207
0efbb786
AC
4208 rfkill.default_state=
4209 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4210 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4211 1 Unblocked.
4212
4213 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4214 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4215 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4216 blocked and the previous configuration.
4217 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4218 blocked and everything unblocked.
4219
1da177e4
LT
4220 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4221 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4222
e16fd002
GA
4223 ring3mwait=disable
4224 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4225 CPUs.
4226
1da177e4
LT
4227 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4228
d2aa1aca
KC
4229 rodata= [KNL]
4230 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4231 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4232
605df8af
HS
4233 rockchip.usb_uart
4234 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4235 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4236 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4237 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4238
1da177e4 4239 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4240 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4241
4242 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4243 mount the root filesystem
4244
4245 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4246
4247 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4248
cc1ed754
PO
4249 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4250 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4251 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4252
5c71d618
RT
4253 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4254 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4255 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4256 managed by CMA.
4257
1da177e4
LT
4258 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4259
4260 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4261
c60d1ae4
GS
4262 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4263 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4264 strict
4265 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4266 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4267 which is faster.
4268
1da177e4
LT
4269 sa1100ir [NET]
4270 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4271
1da177e4 4272 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4273
f6630114
MT
4274 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4275
cb251765
MG
4276 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4277 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4278 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4279 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4280
5307c955
MG
4281 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4282 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4283 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4284 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4285 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4286 1 -- enable.
4287 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4288 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4289
89a9684e
KC
4290 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4291 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4292 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
4293
4294 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4295 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4296 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4297 0 -- disable.
4298 1 -- enable.
4299 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4300 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4301 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4302
c1c124e9
JJ
4303 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4304 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4305 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4306 0 -- disable.
4307 1 -- enable.
4308 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4309
cd4f0ef7 4310 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4311
1da177e4
LT
4312 shapers= [NET]
4313 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4314
1da177e4
LT
4315 simeth= [IA-64]
4316 simscsi=
a9913044 4317
1da177e4
LT
4318 slram= [HW,MTD]
4319
423c929c
JK
4320 slab_nomerge [MM]
4321 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4322 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4323 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4324 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4325 layout control by attackers can usually be
4326 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4327 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4328 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4329 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4330 own.
ad56b738 4331 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4332
3df1cccd
DR
4333 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4334 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4335 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4336 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4337 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4338
f0630fff
CL
4339 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4340 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4341 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4342 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4343 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4344 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4345 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4346
1663f26d
TH
4347 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4348 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4349 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4350 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4351 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4352 directories and files being created under
4353 /sys/kernel/slub.
4354
c1aee215 4355 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4356 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4357 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4358 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4359 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4360
4361 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4362 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4363 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4364 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4365 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4366 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4367 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4368 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4369
4370 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4371 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4372 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4373 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4374
4375 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4376 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4377 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4378
1da177e4
LT
4379 smart2= [HW]
4380 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4381
d0d4f69b
BH
4382 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4383 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4384 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4385 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4386 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4387 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4388 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4389 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4390 1: Fast pin select (default)
4391 2: ATC IRMode
4392
52c48c51
SS
4393 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4394 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4395 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4396 actual hardware limit.
4397 Format: <integer>
4398 Default: -1 (no limit)
4399
9c44bc03
IM
4400 softlockup_panic=
4401 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4402 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4403
3ce62385
BP
4404 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4405 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4406 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4407 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4408 functionality.
4409
ed235875
AT
4410 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4411 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4412 backtraces on all cpus.
4413 Format: <integer>
4414
1da177e4 4415 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
9e1cbede 4416 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
1da177e4 4417
da285121
DW
4418 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4419 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4420 The default operation protects the kernel from
4421 user space attacks.
da285121 4422
fa1202ef
TG
4423 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4424 spectre_v2_user=on
4425 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4426 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4427 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4428 vulnerable
4429
4430 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4431 mitigation method at run time according to the
4432 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4433 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4434 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4435
fa1202ef
TG
4436 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4437 against user space to user space task attacks.
4438
4439 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4440 the user space protections.
4441
da285121
DW
4442 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4443
4444 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4445 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4446 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4447
4448 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4449 spectre_v2=auto.
4450
fa1202ef
TG
4451 spectre_v2_user=
4452 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4453 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4454 user space tasks
4455
4456 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4457 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4458
4459 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4460 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4461
7cc765a6
TG
4462 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4463 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4464 per thread. The mitigation control state
4465 is inherited on fork.
4466
55a97402
TG
4467 prctl,ibpb
4468 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4469 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4470 always when switching between different user
4471 space processes.
4472
6b3e64c2
TG
4473 seccomp
4474 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4475 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4476 they explicitly opt out.
4477
55a97402
TG
4478 seccomp,ibpb
4479 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4480 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4481 always when switching between different
4482 user space processes.
4483
fa1202ef
TG
4484 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4485 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
4486
4487 Default mitigation:
4488 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
4489
4490 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4491 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4492
24f7fc83
KRW
4493 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4494 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4495 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4496
4497 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4498 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4499 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4500 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4501 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4502 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4503 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4504 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4505
4506 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4507 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4508 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4509 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4510
4511 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4512 Bypass optimization is used.
4513
6b4c1360
ME
4514 On x86 the options are:
4515
f21b53b2
KC
4516 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4517 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4518 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4519 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4520 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4521 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4522 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4523 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4524 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4525 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4526 for a process by default. The state of the control
4527 is inherited on fork.
4528 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4529 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4530
f21b53b2
KC
4531 Default mitigations:
4532 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4533
6b4c1360
ME
4534 On powerpc the options are:
4535
4536 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4537 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4538 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4539 exit.
4540 off - No action.
4541
4542 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4543 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4544
1da177e4
LT
4545 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4546 spia_fio_base=
4547 spia_pedr=
4548 spia_peddr=
4549
c350c008
PM
4550 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4551 Specifies how frequently to check for
4552 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4553 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4554 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4555 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4556 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4557 are ignored.
4558
22607d66
PM
4559 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4560 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4561 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4562 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4563 grace period will be considered for automatic
4564 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4565 expediting.
4566
a43ae4df
MZ
4567 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4568 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4569
4570 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4571 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4572 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4573 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4574
4575 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4576 for both kernel and userspace
4577 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4578 for both kernel and userspace
4579 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4580 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4581 to allow userspace to register its
4582 interest in being mitigated too.
4583
1be7107f
HD
4584 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4585 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4586 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4587 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4588 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4589 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4590
f38f1d2a
SR
4591 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4592 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4593
762e1207
SR
4594 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4595 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4596 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4597 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4598 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4599 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4600 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4601
1da177e4
LT
4602 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4603 Format: <num>
4604 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4605 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4606 as the initial boot-console.
4607 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4608
4609 sti_font= [HW]
4610 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4611
4612 stifb= [HW]
4613 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4614
cbf11071
TM
4615 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4616 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4617 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4618 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4619 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4620 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4621 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4622 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4623 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4624 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4625 maximum port values.
4626
ff3ac5c3
TM
4627 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4628 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4629 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4630 process in parallel from a single connection.
4631 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4632
42a7fc4a
GB
4633 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4634 [NFS]
4635 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4636 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4637 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4638 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4639 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4640 NFS server is running.
4641
4642 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4643 automatically using heuristics
4644 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4645 percpu one pool for each CPU
4646 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4647 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4648
cbf11071
TM
4649 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4650 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4651 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4652 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4653 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4654 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4655 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4656 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4657
1d4a9c17
BN
4658 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4659 [SUSPEND]
4660 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4661 mode before resuming the system (see
4662 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4663 is set. Default value is 5.
4664
07555ac1 4665 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4666 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4667 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
da82c92f 4668 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
a42c390c 4669
91fec0f5 4670 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4671 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4672 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4673 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4674 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4675 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4676
1da177e4
LT
4677 switches= [HW,M68k]
4678
e52eec13
AK
4679 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4680 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4681 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4682 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4683 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4684 in older udev will not work anymore.
4685 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4686 the kernel configuration.
4687
5d6f647f
IM
4688 sysrq_always_enabled
4689 [KNL]
4690 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4691 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4692 Useful for debugging.
4693
747029a5
FF
4694 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4695 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4696 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4697 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4698 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4699 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4700
1da177e4
LT
4701 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4702
acc82342 4703 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4704 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4705 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4706 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4707 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4708 The system is woken from this state using a
4709 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4710
1da177e4
LT
4711 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4712 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4713
f8707ec9
LB
4714 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4715 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4716 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4717
c52a7419
LB
4718 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4719 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4720 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4721
f5487145
LB
4722 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4723 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4724 critical and hot trip points.
4725
72b33ef8
LB
4726 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4727 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4728
a70cdc52
LB
4729 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4730 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4731 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4732 value
a70cdc52 4733
730ff34d
LB
4734 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4735 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4736 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4737 0: no polling (default)
4738
8d32a307
TG
4739 threadirqs [KNL]
4740 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4741 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4742
2b1a61f0
HC
4743 topology= [S390]
4744 Format: {off | on}
4745 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4746 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4747 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4748 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4749 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4750
2d73bae1
NA
4751 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4752 Format: {off}
4753 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4754 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4755 LPAR.
4756
1da177e4
LT
4757 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4758
225a9be2
RA
4759 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4760 Format: integer pcr id
4761 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4762 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4763 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4764 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4765 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4766 are saved.
4767
9d612bef 4768 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4769 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4770
020e5f85
LZ
4771 trace_event=[event-list]
4772 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4773 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4774 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4775 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4776
7bcfaf54
SR
4777 trace_options=[option-list]
4778 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4779 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4780 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4781 to echo the option name into
4782
4783 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4784
4785 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4786 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4787
4788 trace_options=stacktrace
4789
5fb94e9c 4790 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4791 section.
4792
0daa2302
SRRH
4793 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4794 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4795 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4796 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4797 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4798 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4799
4800 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4801 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4802 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4803 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4804
4805 ** CAUTION **
4806
4807 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4808 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4809 the system to live lock.
4810
de7edd31
SRRH
4811 traceoff_on_warning
4812 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4813 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4814 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4815 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4816
4817 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4818 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4819 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4820
4821 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4822 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4823
fcf4d821
JK
4824 transparent_hugepage=
4825 [KNL]
4826 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4827 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4828 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4829 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4830 for more details.
fcf4d821 4831
d3b8f889 4832 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4833 Format: <string>
4834 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4835 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4836 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4837 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4838 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4839 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4840 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4841 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4842 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4843 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4844 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4845 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
4846 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4847 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4848 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4849 acceptable).
395628ef 4850
c2b0c4ce
PG
4851 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4852 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4853 support TSX control.
4854
4855 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4856
4857 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4858 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4859 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4860 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4861 so there may be unknown security risks associated
4862 with leaving it enabled.
4863
4864 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4865 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4866 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4867 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4868 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4869 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4870 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4871
976f24e4
PG
4872 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4873 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4874
c2b0c4ce
PG
4875 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4876
4877 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4878 for more details.
4879
e17c368d
PG
4880 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
4881 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
4882
4883 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
4884 certain CPUs that support Transactional
4885 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
4886 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
4887 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
4888 conditions.
4889
4890 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4891 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
4892 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
4893 access.
4894
4895 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
4896 options are:
4897
4898 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4899 if TSX is enabled.
4900
4901 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
4902 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
4903 is not disabled because CPU is not
4904 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
4905 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
4906
4907 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4908 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
4909 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
4910 required and doesn't provide any additional
4911 mitigation.
4912
4913 For details see:
4914 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4915
a9913044
RD
4916 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4917 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4918 Format:
4919 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4920 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4921
b6935f8c 4922 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4923 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4924 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4925 help "seeing" what's going on.
4926
f86dcc5a
ED
4927 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4928 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4929
5f8364b7
AS
4930 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4931 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4932 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4933 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4934 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4935 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4936 reported either.
4937
e3a61b0a 4938 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4939 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4940
c4fc2342
CDH
4941 usbcore.authorized_default=
4942 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4943 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
4944 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4945 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 4946
b5e795f8
AS
4947 usbcore.autosuspend=
4948 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4949 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4950 is the time required before an idle device will be
4951 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4952 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4953
fd7c519d
JK
4954 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4955 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4956
0290cc9f
AS
4957 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4958 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4959 (default = 65536).
4960
fd7c519d
JK
4961 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4962 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4963
4964 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4965 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
bd0e6c96
ZT
4966 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
4967 (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 4968
3f5eb8d5
AS
4969 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4970 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4971 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4972
fd7c519d
JK
4973 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4974 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4975 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4976
4977 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4978 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4979 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4980 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4981
40d58148
ON
4982 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4983
027bd6ca
KHF
4984 usbcore.quirks=
4985 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4986 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4987 commas. Each entry has the form
4988 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4989 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4990 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4991 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4992 the following meanings:
4993 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4994 descriptors must not be fetched using
4995 a 255-byte read);
4996 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4997 correctly so reset it instead);
4998 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4999 Set-Interface requests);
5000 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5001 handle its Configuration or Interface
5002 strings);
5003 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5004 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5005 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5006 more interface descriptions than the
5007 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5008 talking to these interfaces);
5009 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5010 during initialization, after we read
5011 the device descriptor);
5012 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5013 high speed and super speed interrupt
5014 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5015 require the interval in microframes (1
5016 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5017 calculated as interval = 2 ^
5018 (bInterval-1).
5019 Devices with this quirk report their
5020 bInterval as the result of this
5021 calculation instead of the exponent
5022 variable used in the calculation);
5023 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5024 handle device_qualifier descriptor
5025 requests);
5026 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5027 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5028 remote wakeup capability);
5029 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5030 Power Management);
5031 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5032 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
5033 frames instead of the USB 2.0
5034 calculation);
5035 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5036 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
5037 prevent spurious wakeup);
5038 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5039 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
5040 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5041 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
5042 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5043
1da177e4
LT
5044 usbhid.mousepoll=
5045 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 5046
933bfe4d
TJ
5047 usbhid.jspoll=
5048 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5049
2ddc8e2d
FA
5050 usbhid.kbpoll=
5051 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5052
d4f373e5
AS
5053 usb-storage.delay_use=
5054 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 5055 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
5056
5057 usb-storage.quirks=
5058 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5059 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
5060 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
5061 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5062 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5063 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5064 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
5065 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5066 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
5067 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5068 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
5069 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5070 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
5071 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5072 READ_DISC_INFO command);
5073 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5074 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
5075 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5076 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
5077 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5078 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
5079 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5080 reported device capacity by one
5081 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
5082 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5083 device);
13630746
HG
5084 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5085 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
5086 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5087 unlock ejectable media);
5088 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5089 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
5090 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5091 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
5092 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5093 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
5094 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5095 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
5096 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5097 bogus residue values);
5098 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5099 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
5100 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5101 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 5102 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
5103 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5104 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
5105 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5106 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
5107 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5108
ac1667db
SB
5109 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5110 Format: <int>
5111 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5112 1 - undefined instruction events
5113 2 - system calls
5114 4 - invalid data aborts
5115 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5116 16 - SIGBUS faults
5117 Example: user_debug=31
5118
14315592
IC
5119 userpte=
5120 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5121
5122 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5123 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5124 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5125
6cececfc 5126 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
5127 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5128
5129 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
5130 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5131
b0b49f26
AL
5132 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5133 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5134 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5135
5136 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5137 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5138 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5139
5140 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5141 alias for vdso32=0.
5142
5143 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5144 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 5145
d080d397
YI
5146 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5147 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5148
1da177e4 5149 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
ab42b818 5150 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
1da177e4 5151
3afe6dab
AL
5152 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5153 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5154 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5155 level and then send out the event to user space through
5156 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5157 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5158 brightness level.
2843768b 5159 default: 1
3afe6dab 5160
81a054ce
PM
5161 virtio_mmio.device=
5162 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5163
5164 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5165 where:
5166 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5167 like K, M and G)
5168 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5169 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5170 request_irq())
5171 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5172 example:
5173 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5174
5175 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5176
cd4f0ef7 5177 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
cb1aaebe 5178 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
4f4cfa6c 5179 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
1da177e4
LT
5180 Use vga=ask for menu.
5181 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5182 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5183
f682a97a
AD
5184 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5185 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5186 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5187 All options are enabled by default, and this
5188 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5189 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5190 debugging features.
5191
5192 Available options are:
5193 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5194 - Disable all of the above options
5195
a9913044 5196 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
5197 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5198 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5199 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5200 mapped kernel RAM.
5201
3f429842
HC
5202 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5203 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5204 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5205
585c3047
PO
5206 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5207 Format: <command>
1da177e4 5208
585c3047
PO
5209 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5210 Format: <command>
5211
5212 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5213 Format: <command>
a9913044 5214
3ae36655
AL
5215 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5216 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5217 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5218 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5219 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5220 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5221 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5222
2e57ae05 5223 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
bd49e16e
AL
5224 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5225 page is readable.
3ae36655 5226
bd49e16e
AL
5227 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5228 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5229 page is not readable.
3ae36655
AL
5230
5231 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5232 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5233 might break your system.
5234
3855ae1c
CL
5235 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5236 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5237 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5238
9ea9a886
CL
5239 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5240 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5241 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5242 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5243
0cb55ad2
RD
5244 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5245 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5246 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5247 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5248 ranging from 0-255.
5249
5250 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5251 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5252 Change the default green palette of the console.
5253 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5254 ranging from 0-255.
5255
5256 vt.default_red= [VT]
5257 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5258 Change the default red palette of the console.
5259 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5260 ranging from 0-255.
5261
5262 vt.default_utf8=
5263 [VT]
5264 Format=<0|1>
5265 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5266 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5267 newly opened terminals.
5268
f6c06b68
MG
5269 vt.global_cursor_default=
5270 [VT]
5271 Format=<-1|0|1>
5272 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5273 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5274 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5275 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5276 cursors, 1 will display them.
5277
3855ae1c
CL
5278 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5279 Default: 2 = green.
5280
5281 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5282 Default: 3 = cyan.
5283
4724ba57 5284 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
cc2a2d19 5285 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
4724ba57
RD
5286 or other driver-specific files in the
5287 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 5288
11295055
LO
5289 watchdog_thresh=
5290 [KNL]
5291 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5292 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5293 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5294 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5295 seconds.
5296
82607adc
TH
5297 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5298 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5299 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5300 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5301 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5302 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5303 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5304 corresponding sysfs file.
5305
d55262c4
TH
5306 workqueue.disable_numa
5307 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5308 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5309 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5310 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5311 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5312 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5313 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5314
cee22a15
VK
5315 workqueue.power_efficient
5316 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5317 they show better performance thanks to cache
5318 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5319 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5320
5321 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5322 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5323 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5324 power usage at the cost of small performance
5325 overhead.
5326
5327 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5328 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5329
f303fccb
TH
5330 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5331 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5332 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5333 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5334 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5335 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5336 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5337 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5338 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5339 impacted.
5340
0cb55ad2
RD
5341 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5342 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5343 supporting x2apic.
5344
712b6aa8
KS
5345 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5346 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
5347 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5348 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5349 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5350
c70727a5
JG
5351 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5352 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5353 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5354 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5355 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5356 domains.
5357
c1c5413a
SS
5358 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5359 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5360 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5361 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5362 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5363 nics -- unplug network devices
5364 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
5365 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5366 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5367 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5368 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5369
cf07ab7a
BO
5370 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
5371 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5372 panic() code such as dumping handler.
5373
15a3eac0
KRW
5374 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5375 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5376 optimizations.
5377
8d693b91
KRW
5378 xen_nopv [X86]
5379 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5380 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
b39b0497
ZD
5381 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5382 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8d693b91 5383
197ecb38
MMG
5384 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5385 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5386 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5387 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5388 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5389
2ec16bc0
RT
5390 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5391 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5392 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5393 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5394 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5395 more timer interrupts.
5396
30978346
ZD
5397 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5398 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5399 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5400 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5401
1da177e4 5402 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
5403 Format:
5404 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a 5405
ba45cff6
MN
5406 xive= [PPC]
5407 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5408 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5409 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5410
5411 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5412 controller on both pseries and powernv
5413 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5414
c0addc9a
LT
5415 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5416 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5417 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5418 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.