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1 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
5implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
6and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
7punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
8manner), and with descriptions where known.
9
10The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
11if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
12parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
13environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
14Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
15
16Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
17line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
18
19 (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
21
22Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
23specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
24kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
25when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
26loadable modules too.
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28Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
29 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
30can also be entered as
31 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
32
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33Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
34 param="spaces in here"
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36This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
37"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
38module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
39reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
40parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
41"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
42
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43The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
44enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
45the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
46parameter is applicable:
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47
48 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
c99c108a 49 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
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50 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
51 APIC APIC support is enabled.
52 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
16290246 53 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
e7ba176b 54 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 55 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
0ae53640 56 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
1e435256 57 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
5c71d618 58 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
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59 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
60 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
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61 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
62 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
63 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
7102ebcd 64 EVM Extended Verification Module
1da177e4 65 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
16290246 66 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
2521f2c2 67 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
1da177e4 68 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
1da177e4 69 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
6146f0d5 70 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 71 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
41e2e8be 72 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
b0f83b28 73 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
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74 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
75 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
76 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
84c08fd6 77 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
fef07aae 78 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
11ef697b 79 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
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80 LP Printer support is enabled.
81 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
82 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
83 These options have more detailed description inside of
84 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
1da177e4 85 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
16290246 86 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 87 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
309e57df 88 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
c8facbb6 89 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
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90 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
91 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
92 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
93 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
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94 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
95 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
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96 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
97 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
7f785763 98 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
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99 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
100 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
101 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
102 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
103 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
104 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
105 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
106 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
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107 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
108 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
20510f2f 109 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
1da177e4 110 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
c1c124e9 111 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
1da177e4 112 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
e523d93c 113 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
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114 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
115 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
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116 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
117 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
225a9be2 118 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
1da177e4 119 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
d4f373e5 120 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
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121 USB USB support is enabled.
122 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
123 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
81a054ce 124 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
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125 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
126 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
127 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
128 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
cd4f0ef7 129 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
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130 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
131 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
71cced6e 132 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
16290246 133 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
c1c5413a 134 XEN Xen support is enabled
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135
136In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
137
138 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
139 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
140 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
141
142Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
143loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
144Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
954a8b81 145need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
1da177e4 146
5558870b 147There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
71cced6e 148See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
5558870b 149
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150Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
151a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
152be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
153it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
154running once the system is up.
155
9c4751fd 156The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
157complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
158a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
159and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
160./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
161
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162Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
163parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
164multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
165bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
166
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b10d79f7 168 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 169 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
68ca4069 170 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt }
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171 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
172 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
173 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 174 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 175 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 176 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 177 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
b10d79f7 178 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off" or "acpi=force" are available
1da177e4 179
395cf969 180 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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182 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
183 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
184 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
185 second kernel for kdump.
186
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187 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
188 Format: <int>
189 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
190 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 191 default: 0
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193 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
194 acpi_backlight=vendor
195 acpi_backlight=video
196 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
197 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
198 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
199
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200 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
201 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 202 Format: <int>
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203 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
204 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
205 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
206 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
207 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
208 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
209 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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210 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
211 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
212 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 213
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214 Enable processor driver info messages:
215 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
216 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
217 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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218 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
219 object while interpreting AML:
220 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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221 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
222 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
223
224 Some values produce so much output that the system is
225 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
226 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 227
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228 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
229 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
230 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
231 size limitation.
232
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233 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
234 ACPI will balance active IRQs
235 default in APIC mode
236
237 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
238 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
239 default in PIC mode
240
241 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
242 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
243
244 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
245 use by PCI
246 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
247
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248 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
249 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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250 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
251 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
252 auto-serialization feature.
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253 This feature is enabled by default.
254 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 255
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256 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
257 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
258 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
259 installed automatically and they will appear under
260 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
261 This option turns off this feature.
262 Note that specifying this option does not affect
263 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
264 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 265
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266 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
267 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
268 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
269 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
270 This option is useful for developers to identify the
271 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
272 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
273
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274 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
275 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
276
277 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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278 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
279 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 280 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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281 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
282 strings
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283 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
284
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285 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
286 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
287 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
288 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
289 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
290 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
291 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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292 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
293 care about the state of the feature group strings which
294 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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295 Examples:
296 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
297 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
298 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
299
300 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
301 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
302 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
303 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
304 multiple times through kernel command line is also
305 meaningless.
306 Examples:
307 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
308 FALSE.
309
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310 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
311 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
312 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
313 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
314 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
315 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
316 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
317 there are quirks related to this string. This command
318 is useful when one want to control the state of the
319 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
320 the OSPM features.
321 Examples:
322 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
323 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
324 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
325 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
326 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
327 equivalent to
328 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
329 and
330 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
331 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
332
6cececfc 333 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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334 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
335 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
336 and always returns good values.
337
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338 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
339 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
340
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341 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
342 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
343 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
344
345 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
346 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
c3b0795c 347 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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348 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
349 s3_bios and s3_mode.
350 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
351 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
352 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
353 used during resume from hibernation.
354 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
355 control method, with respect to putting devices into
356 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
357 of _PTS is used by default).
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358 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
359 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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360 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
361 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
362 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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363
364 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
365 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
366 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
367
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368 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
369 { strict | lax | no }
370 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
371 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
372 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
373 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
374 can interfere with legacy drivers.
375 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
376 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
377 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
378 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
379 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
380 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
381 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
382 no further checks are performed.
383
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384 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
385 kernels.
386
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387 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
388 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
389
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390 agp= [AGP]
391 { off | try_unsupported }
392 off: disable AGP support
393 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
394 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
395
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396 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
397 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
398
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399 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
400 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
401 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
402 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
403
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404 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
405 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
406 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
407 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
408 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
409 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
410 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
411
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412 32: only for 32-bit processes
413 64: only for 64-bit processes
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414 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
415 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
416
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417 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
418 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
419 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
420 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
421 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
422 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
423
89e0b9a3 424 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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425 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
426 Possible values are:
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427 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
428 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
429 flushed before they will be reused, which
430 is a lot of faster
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431 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
432 the system
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433 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
434 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
435 allowed anymore to lift isolation
436 requirements as needed. This option
437 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 438
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439 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
440 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
441 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
442 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
443 IOMMU initialization.
444
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445 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
446 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
447 Format: <a>,<b>
395cf969 448 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
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449
450 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
451 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
452 connected to one of 16 gameports
453 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
454
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455 apc= [HW,SPARC]
456 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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457 Format: noidle
458 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
459 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
460 APC and your system crashes randomly.
461
ca1eda2d 462 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 463 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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464 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
465 Change the amount of debugging information output
466 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 467
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468 autoconf= [IPV6]
469 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
470
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471 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
472 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
473 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
474 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
475 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
476 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
477 apic=verbose is specified.
478 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
479
1da177e4 480 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 481 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 482
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483 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
484 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
485
486 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
487
488 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
489
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490 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
491 EzKey and similar keyboards
492
493 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
494
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495 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
496 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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497
498 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
499 keyboards
500
501 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
502 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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503
504 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
505 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 506
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507 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
508 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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509 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
510 until the next reboot
511 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
512 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
513 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
514 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
515 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
516 auditd.
a106fb0c 517 Default: unset
f3411cb2 518
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519 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
520 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
521 Default: 64
522
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523 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
524 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 525
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526 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
527 Format: <io>,<mode>
528 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
529
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530 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
531 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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532 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
533 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
534
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535 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
536 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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537 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
538 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
539
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540 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
541 embedded devices based on command line input.
542 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
543
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544 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
545 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
546 no delay (0).
547 Format: integer
548
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549 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
550
1da177e4 551 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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552 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
553 kernel args too.
1da177e4 554 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
395cf969 555 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 556
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557 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
558 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
559 at a time.
560
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561 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
562
cd4f0ef7 563 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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564 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
565 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
566 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
567 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
568 This option provides an override for these situations.
569
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570 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
571 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
572 trust validation.
32c4741c 573 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 574
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575 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
576 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
577 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
578 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
579 others).
580
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581 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
582 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 583
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584 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
585 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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586 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
587 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
588 a single hierarchy
589 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
590 subsystem
591 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
592 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
593 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 594
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595 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
596 Format: { "0" | "1" }
597 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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598 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
599 any implied execute protection).
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600 1 -- check protection requested by application.
601 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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602 Value can be changed at runtime via
603 /selinux/checkreqprot.
604
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605 cio_ignore= [S390]
606 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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607 clk_ignore_unused
608 [CLK]
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609 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
610 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
611 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
612 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
613 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
614 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
615 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
616 platform with proper driver support. For more
617 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
661ca0da 618
cd4f0ef7 619 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 620 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 621 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 622 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 623 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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624 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
625
592913ec 626 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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627 Format: <string>
628 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
629 with the name specified.
630 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
631 the platform:
632 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
633 [ACPI] acpi_pm
634 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
635 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
636 [AVR32] avr32
9863c90f 637 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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638 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
639 [MIPS] MIPS
640 [PARISC] cr16
641 [S390] tod
642 [SH] SuperH
643 [SPARC64] tick
644 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
645
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646 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
647 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
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648 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
649 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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650 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
651 ones should be.
652 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
653 or using the feature without checking anything
654 will still see it. This just prevents it from
655 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
656 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
657 some critical bits.
658
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659 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
660 [ARM,X86,KNL]
661 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
662 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
663 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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664 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
665 altogether. For more information, see
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666 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
667
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668 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
669 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
670 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
671 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
672 a hypervisor.
673 Default: yes
674
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675 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
676 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 677 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 678
6cececfc 679 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 680 in an oops report.
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681 Range: 0 - 8192
682 Default: 64
683
1da177e4 684 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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685 Format:
686 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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687
688 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
689 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
690
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691 com90xx= [HW,NET]
692 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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693 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
694
695 condev= [HW,S390] console device
696 conmode=
a9913044 697
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698 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
699
700 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
701
702 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 703 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 704 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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705 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
706 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
707 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
708 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
709
710 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
711 information. See
712 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
713 alternative.
1da177e4 714
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715 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
716 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
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717 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
718 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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719 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
720 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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721 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
722 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
723 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
724 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32], <addr> is assumed to be
725 equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in the
726 same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
727 the h/w is not re-initialized.
728
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729 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
730 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 731
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732 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
733 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
734 console=brl,ttyS0
735 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
736
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737 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
738 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
739 disables the blank timer.
740
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741 coredump_filter=
742 [KNL] Change the default value for
743 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
744 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
745
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746 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
747 disable the cpuidle sub-system
748
1da177e4 749 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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750 Format:
751 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 752
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753 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
754 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
755 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
756 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
757 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
758 is selected automatically. Check
759 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
dc009d92 760
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761 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
762 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
763 in the running system. The syntax of range is
764 start-[end] where start and end are both
765 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 766 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 767
adbc742b 768 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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769 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
770 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
771 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
772 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
773 available.
774 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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775 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
776 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
777 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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778 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
779 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
780 requires at least 64M+32K low memory. Kernel would
781 try to allocate 72M below 4G automatically.
782 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
783 for second kernel instead.
784 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 785 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 786 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 787
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788 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
789 Format: <dma>
790
791 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
792 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 793
a9913044 794 dasd= [HW,NET]
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795 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
796
797 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
798 (one device per port)
799 Format: <port#>,<type>
800 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
801
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802 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
803 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
29e36c9f 804 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 805
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806 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
807
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808 debug_locks_verbose=
809 [KNL] verbose self-tests
810 Format=<0|1>
811 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
812 self-tests.
813 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
814 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
815 only useful to kernel developers.
816
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817 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
818
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819 no_debug_objects
820 [KNL] Disable object debugging
821
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822 debug_guardpage_minorder=
823 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
824 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
825 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
826 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
827 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
828 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
829 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
830 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
831 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
832 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
833 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
834 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
835 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
836 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
837 bypassed) which are not detectable by
838 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
839 tracking down these problems.
840
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841 debug_pagealloc=
842 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
843 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
844 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
845 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
846 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
847 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
848 on: enable the feature
849
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850 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
851
2d27a966 852 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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853 Format: <area>[,<node>]
854 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
855
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856 default_hugepagesz=
857 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
858 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
859 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
860 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
861 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
862 if not specified.
55ff9780 863
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864 dhash_entries= [KNL]
865 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
a9913044 866
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867 disable= [IPV6]
868 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
869
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870 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
871 Format: <int>
872 The number of initial APIC ID for the
873 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
874 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
875 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
876 causing system reset or hang due to sending
877 INIT from AP to BSP.
878
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879 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
880 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
881 to workaround buggy firmware.
882
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883 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
884 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
885
95ffa243 886 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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887 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
888 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 889 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 890
093af8d7 891 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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892 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
893 memory out of your available memory pool based on
894 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
895 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
896
6cececfc 897 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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898 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
899 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
900
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901 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
902 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
903
904 dma_debug_entries=<number>
905 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
906 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
907 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
908 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
909 architectural default is too low.
910
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911 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
912 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
913 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
914 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
915 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
916 driver later using sysfs.
917
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918 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>
919 Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may
920 send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter
921 allows to specify an EDID data set in the
922 /lib/firmware directory that is used instead.
923 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
924 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
925 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
926 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
927 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
928 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
929 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
930 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
931 name.
932
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933 dscc4.setup= [NET]
934
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935 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
936 module.dyndbg[="val"]
937 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
938 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
939
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940 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
941 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
942 information about the feature.
943
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944 eagerfpu= [X86]
945 on enable eager fpu restore
946 off disable eager fpu restore
947 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
948 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
949
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950 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
951 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
952 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
953 which are not unmapped.
954
0cb55ad2 955 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 956
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957 cdns,<addr>
958 Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
959 port at the specified address. The cadence serial port
960 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
961 yet supported.
962
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963 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
964 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 965 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 966 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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967 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
968 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
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969 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
970 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
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971 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32], <addr> is assumed to be
972 equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in the
973 same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
974 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 975
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976 pl011,<addr>
977 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
978 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
979 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
980 yet supported.
981
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982 msm_serial,<addr>
983 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
984 port at the specified address. The serial port
985 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
986 yet supported.
987
988 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
989 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
990 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
991 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
992 yet supported.
993
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994 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
995
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996 s3c2410,<addr>
997 s3c2412,<addr>
998 s3c2440,<addr>
999 s3c6400,<addr>
1000 s5pv210,<addr>
1001 exynos4210,<addr>
1002 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1003 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1004 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1005 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1006 Options are not yet supported.
1007
7913ad1a 1008 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
1da177e4 1009 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1010 earlyprintk=efi
2482a92e 1011 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1012 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1013 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1014 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1015 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1da177e4 1016
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1017 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1018 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1019 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1020
a9913044 1021 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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1022 takes over.
1023
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1024 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1025 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1026
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1027 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1028 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1029 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1030 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1031 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1032 You can find the port for a given device in
1033 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1034 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1035
1036 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1037 very good.
1038
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1039 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1040 the real console.
1da177e4 1041
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1042 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1043
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1044 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1045 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1046 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1047 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1048 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1049 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1050 default: on.
1051
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1052 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1053 ekgdboc=kbd
1054
25985edc 1055 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
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1056 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1057
1da177e4 1058 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1059 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1060
d2f7cbe7 1061 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1062 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1063 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1064 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1065 default.
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1066 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1067 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1068 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1069 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1070 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1071
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1072 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1073 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1074 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1075 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1076 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1077
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1078 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1079 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1080
cd4f0ef7 1081 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1082 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1083 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
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1084
1085 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1086 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1087 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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1088 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1089
d3bf3795 1090 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1091 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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1092 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1093 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1094 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1095
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1096 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1097 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1098 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1099 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1100
ca1eda2d 1101 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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1102 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1103 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1104 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1105 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1106
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1107 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1108 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1109 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1110 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1111 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1112 Default value is 0.
1113 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1114
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1115 erst_disable [ACPI]
1116 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1117 support.
1118
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LT
1119 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1120 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1121 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1122
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1123 evm= [EVM]
1124 Format: { "fix" }
1125 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1126 current integrity status.
1127
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1128 failslab=
1129 fail_page_alloc=
1130 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1131 General fault injection mechanism.
1132 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1133 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1134
1da177e4 1135 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1136 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1137
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AC
1138 force_pal_cache_flush
1139 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1140 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1141 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1142 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1143
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CB
1144 forcepae [X86-32]
1145 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1146 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1147 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1148 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1149 and may cause unknown problems.
1150
d9e54076 1151 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1152 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1153 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1154 boot debugging.
1155
cecbca96 1156 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1157 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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FW
1158 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1159 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1160 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1161 oops.
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SR
1162
1163 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1164 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1165 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1166 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1167 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1168 tracing directory.
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SR
1169
1170 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1171 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1172 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1173 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1174 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1175
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SA
1176 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1177 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1178 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1179 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1180 that can be changed at run time by the
1181 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1182
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NK
1183 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1184 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1185 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1186 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1187 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1188
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LT
1189 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1190 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1191 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1192 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1193 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1194
1195 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1196
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1197 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1198 Format: off | on
1199 default: on
1200
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1201 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1202 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1203 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1204 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1205 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1206
1da177e4 1207 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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1208 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1209 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1210 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1211
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AL
1212 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1213 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1214 Format: 0 | 1
1215 Default: 0
1216 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1217 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1218 Format: 0 | 1
1219 Default: 0
1220 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1221 Format: 0 | 1
1222 Default: 0
1223 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1224 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1225 Default: 1024
1226 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1227 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1228 Default: 1024
1229
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LT
1230 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1231 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1232 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1233 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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LT
1234
1235 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1236
1237 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1238 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1239
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HY
1240 hest_disable [ACPI]
1241 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1242 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1243 logic will be disabled.
1244
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LT
1245 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1246 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1247 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1248 size on bigger boxes.
1249
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TG
1250 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1251 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1252 Default: "on"
1253
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LT
1254 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1255 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1256
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1257 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1258
1259 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1260 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1261 verbose }
1262 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1263 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1264 VIA, nVidia)
1265 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1266
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1267 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1268 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1269
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1270 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1271 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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1272 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1273 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1274 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1275 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1276 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1277
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HB
1278 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1279 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
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HB
1280 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1281 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1282 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1283
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JH
1284 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1285 hardware thread id mappings.
1286 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1287
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1288 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1289 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1290 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1291 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1292 the real console.
1293
3a853fb9 1294 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1295 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1296 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1297 Format:
1298 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1299
36d95739 1300 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1da177e4 1301 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1302 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1303 keyboard and cannot control its state
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LT
1304 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1305 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1306 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1307 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1308 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1309 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1310 controller
1da177e4
LT
1311 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1312 controllers
24775d65 1313 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
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1314 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
1315 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1316 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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1317
1318 i810= [HW,DRM]
1319
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DT
1320 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1321 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1322 hardware.
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LT
1323 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1324 does not match list of supported models.
1325 i8k.power_status
1326 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1327 (disabled by default)
1328 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1329 capability is set.
1330
4dca20ef 1331 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
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1332 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1333 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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1334 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1335 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1336 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1337 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1338 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1339 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1340 value switches the backlight off.
1341 -1 -- never invert brightness
1342 0 -- machine default
1343 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1344
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1345 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1346 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1347
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DF
1348 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1349 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
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1350 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1351 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1352 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1353
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MR
1354 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1355 Format: <int>
1356 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1357 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1358 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1359 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1360 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1361 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1362 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1363 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1364 was 0x3.
1365
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1366 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1367 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1368
f039b754 1369 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1370 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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1371 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1372 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1373 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1374 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1375 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1376 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1377 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1378
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1379 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1380 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1381 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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YZ
1382 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1383 could change it dynamically, usually by
1384 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1385
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1386 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1387 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1388
2fe5d6de 1389 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1390 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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1391 default: "enforce"
1392
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MZ
1393 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1394 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1395 owned by uid=0.
1396
3323eec9 1397 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1398 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1399 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1400 default: "sha1"
1401
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MZ
1402 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1403 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1404
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1405 ima_tcb [IMA]
1406 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1407 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1408 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1409 opened for read by uid=0.
1410
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RS
1411 ima_template= [IMA]
1412 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1413 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" }
1414 Default: "ima-ng"
1415
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RS
1416 ima_template_fmt=
1417 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1418 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1419
3bcced39
DK
1420 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1421 Format: <min_file_size>
1422 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1423 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1424
1425 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1426 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1427 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1428
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DK
1429 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1430 Format: <bufsize>
1431 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1432
1433 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1434 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1435 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1436
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LT
1437 init= [KNL]
1438 Format: <full_path>
1439 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1440 process.
1441
1442 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1443 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1444 startup.
1445
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PB
1446 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1447 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1448 modules and initcalls.
1449
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LT
1450 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1451
1452 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1453 Format: <irq>
1454
6bb2ff84
FY
1455 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1456
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MZ
1457 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1458 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1459 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1460 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1461
ba395927 1462 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1463 on
1464 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1465 off
1466 Disable intel iommu driver.
1467 igfx_off [Default Off]
1468 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1469 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1470 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1471 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1472 DMA.
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KA
1473 forcedac [x86_64]
1474 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1475 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1476 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1477 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1478 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1479 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1480 strict [Default Off]
1481 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1482 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1483 to batching them for performance.
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YS
1484 sp_off [Default Off]
1485 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1486 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1487 not be supported.
2e92c7ad
MI
1488
1489 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1490 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1491 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1492
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DB
1493 intel_pstate= [X86]
1494 disable
1495 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1496 scaling driver for the supported processors
aa4ea34d
EZ
1497 force
1498 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1499 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1500 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1501 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1502 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1503 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1504 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1505 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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DB
1506 no_hwp
1507 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1508 if available.
d64c3b0b
KCA
1509 hwp_only
1510 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1511 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
6be26498 1512
d1423d56 1513 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
d1423d56
CW
1514 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1515 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1516 nosid disable Source ID checking
41750d31
SS
1517 no_x2apic_optout
1518 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
d1423d56 1519
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RD
1520 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1521 strict regions from userspace.
1522 relaxed
1523
1524 iommu= [x86]
1525 off
1526 force
1527 noforce
1528 biomerge
1529 panic
1530 nopanic
1531 merge
1532 nomerge
1533 forcesac
1534 soft
bcb71abe 1535 pt [x86, IA-64]
4e287840
TLSC
1536 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1537 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1538
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RD
1539
1540 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1541 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1542 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1543
6cececfc 1544 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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IM
1545 0x80
1546 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1547 0xed
1548 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1549 udelay
6e7c4025
IM
1550 Simple two microseconds delay
1551 none
1552 No delay
b02aae9c 1553
1da177e4 1554 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1555 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1556
200803df
AC
1557 irqfixup [HW]
1558 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1559 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1560 firmware running.
1561
1562 irqpoll [HW]
1563 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1564 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1565 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1566 firmware running.
1567
1da177e4 1568 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1569 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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LT
1570
1571 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
22f2e280
DF
1572 Format:
1573 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1574 or
b225d44e
LZ
1575 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1576 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
22f2e280
DF
1577 or a mixture
1578 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
b225d44e 1579
1da177e4
LT
1580 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1581 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
b225d44e
LZ
1582 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1583 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1da177e4
LT
1584 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1585 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1586
1587 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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RD
1588 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1589 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1590 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1591
a9913044 1592 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1593
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JR
1594 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1595 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1596 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1597 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1598 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1599 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1600
1601 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1602 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1603 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1604 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1605 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1606 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1607
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1608 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1609 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1610
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1611 kaslr/nokaslr [X86]
1612 Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR
1613 (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into
1614 the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected,
1615 kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled,
1616 hibernation will be disabled.
1617
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1618 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1619
6cececfc 1620 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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1621 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1622 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1623 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1624 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1625 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1626 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1627 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1628 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1629 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1630 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1631 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1632 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1633 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1634 zone if it does not.
1635
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1636 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1637 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1638 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1639 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1640 optional and is the number seconds in between
1641 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1642 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1643 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1644 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1645 the kernel debugger.
1646
84c08fd6 1647 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1648 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1649 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1650 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1651 keyboard only format: kbd
1652 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1653 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1654 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1655 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1656
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1657 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1658 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1659
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1660 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1661 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1662 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1663
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1664 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1665 Valid arguments: on, off
1666 Default: on
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1667 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1668 the default is off.
04f70336 1669
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1670 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1671 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1672 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1673 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1674 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1675 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1676
6cececfc 1677 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
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1678 in oops dumps.
1679
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1680 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1681 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1682
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1683 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1684 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1685 Default is 0 (off)
1686
fef07aae 1687 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1688 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1689
1690 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1691 for all guests.
16290246 1692 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1693
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1694 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1695 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1696 Default is 1 (enabled)
1697
1698 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1699 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1700 Default is 0 (disabled)
1701
1702 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1703 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1704 Default is 1 (enabled)
1705
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1706 kvm-intel.nested=
1707 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1708 Default is 0 (disabled)
1709
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1710 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1711 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1712 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1713 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1714
1715 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1716 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1717 Default is 1 (enabled)
1718
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1719 l2cr= [PPC]
1720
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1721 l3cr= [PPC]
1722
cd4f0ef7 1723 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1724 disabled it.
1da177e4 1725
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1726 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1727 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1728 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1729
6cececfc 1730 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1731 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1732
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1733 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1734 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1735 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1736 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1737 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1738 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1739 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1740
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1741 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1742 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1743 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1744
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1745 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1746 when set.
1747 Format: <int>
1748
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1749 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1750 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1751 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1752 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1753 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1754 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1755 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1756 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1757
1758 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1759 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1760 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1761 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1762 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1763 host link and device attached to it.
1764
1765 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1766 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1767 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1768 The following configurations can be forced.
1769
1770 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1771 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1772
1773 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1774
1775 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1776 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1777 allowed.
1778
1779 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1780
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1781 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1782 and both resets.
1783
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1784 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1785 hot-unplug link recovery
1786
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1787 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1788
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1789 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1790
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1791 * disable: Disable this device.
1792
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1793 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1794 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1795
95f72d1e 1796 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1797
1da177e4 1798 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1799 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1800
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1801 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1802 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1803
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1804 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1805 Format: <integer>
1806
1807 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1808 Format: <integer>
1809
1810 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1811 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1812
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1813 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1814 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1815 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1816 number of online CPUs.
1817
1818 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1819 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1820
1821 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1822 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1823
1824 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1825 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1826 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1827
1828 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1829 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1830 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1831 mode during the locktorture test.
1832
1833 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1834 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1835 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1836
1837 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1838 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1839
1840 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1841 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1842 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1843 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1844 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1845 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1846
1847 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1848 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1849
1850 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1851 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1852
1853 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1854 Enable additional printk() statements.
1855
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1856 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1857 Format: <irq>
1858
1859 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1860 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1861 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1862 loglevels are defined as follows:
1863
1864 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1865 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1866 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1867 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1868 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1869 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1870 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1871 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1872
c756d08a 1873 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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1874 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1875 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1876 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1877 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1878 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1879 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 1880
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1881 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1882 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1883 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1884 kernel boot problems.
1885
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1886 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1887 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1888 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1889 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1890 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1891 attached printers to be reset. Using
1892 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1893 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1894 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1895 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1896 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1897 port specification list means that device IDs
1898 from each port should be examined, to see if
1899 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1900 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1901 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1902
1903 lpj=n [KNL]
1904 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1905 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1906 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1907 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1908 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1909 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1910 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1911 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1912 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1913 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1914 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1915 hardware.
1916
1917 ltpc= [NET]
1918 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1919
16290246 1920 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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1921 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1922 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 1923
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1924 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
1925 yeeloong laptop.
1926 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
1927
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1928 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1929 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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1930
1931 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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1932 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1933 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1934 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1935 the IO APIC.
1da177e4 1936
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1937 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
1938 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
1939 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
1940 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
1941 devices can be requested on-demand with the
1942 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 1943
cd4f0ef7 1944 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 1945
71cced6e 1946 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 1947
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1948 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1949 See Documentation/md.txt.
a9913044 1950
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1951 mdacon= [MDA]
1952 Format: <first>,<last>
1953 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 1954
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1955 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1956 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1957 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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1958 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
1959 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
1960 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
1961 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 1962
cd4f0ef7 1963 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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1964 memory.
1965
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1966 memchunk=nn[KMG]
1967 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1968 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1969
6cececfc 1970 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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1971 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1972 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1973 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1974 option description.
1975
1976 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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1977 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
1978 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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1979
1980 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1981 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 1982 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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1983
1984 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1985 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 1986 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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1987 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1988 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1989 or
1990 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1da177e4 1991
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1992 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
1993 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
1994 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1995 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
1996 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
1997
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1998 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
1999 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2000 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2001 Setting this option will scan the memory
2002 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2003 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2004 from using the memory being corrupted.
2005 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2006 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2007 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2008 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2009
2010 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2011 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2012 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2013 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2014 corruption in more or less memory.
2015
2016 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2017 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2018 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2019 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2020
e4b0db72 2021 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2022 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2023 default : 0 <disable>
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2024 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2025 performed. Each pass selects another test
2026 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2027 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2028 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2029 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2030
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2031 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2032 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2033
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2034 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2035 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2036 platforms.
2037
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2038 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2039 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2040 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2041 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2042
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2043 mga= [HW,DRM]
2044
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2045 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2046 physical address is ignored.
2047
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2048 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2049 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2050 Default: "0tb"
2051 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2052 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2053 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2054 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2055 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2056 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2057 unconfigured.
2058 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2059 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2060 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2061 VGA shield.
2062 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2063 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2064 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2065 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2066 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2067 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2068
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2069 mminit_loglevel=
2070 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2071 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2072 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2073 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2074 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2075 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2076
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2077 module.sig_enforce
2078 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2079 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2080 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
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2081 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2082
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2083 mousedev.tap_time=
2084 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2085 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2086 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2087 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2088 Format: <msecs>
2089 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2090 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2091 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2092 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2093
6cececfc 2094 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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2095 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2096 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2097 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2098 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2099 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2100 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2101 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2102 is not too small.
2103
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2104 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2105 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2106
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2107 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2108 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2109
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2110 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2111 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
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2112
2113 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2114 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2115
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2116 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2117 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2118 at a time.
2119
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2120 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2121
2122 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2123
2124 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2125 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2126 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2127 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2128 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2129
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2130 mtdset= [ARM]
2131 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2132
2133 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2134
1da177e4 2135 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
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RD
2136 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2137 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2138
0cb55ad2 2139 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2140 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2141 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2142
2143 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2144 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2145 Default is 1.
2146 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2147 using up MTRRs.
2148
2149 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2150 Format: <integer>
2151 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2152 Default : 1
2153 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2154 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2155
1da177e4
LT
2156 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2157
1da177e4
LT
2158 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2159 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2160 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2161 something different and driver-specific.
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RD
2162 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2163 file if at all.
2164
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KPO
2165 nf_conntrack.acct=
2166 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2167 0 to disable accounting
2168 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2169 Default value is 0.
58401572 2170
306a0753 2171 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2172 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2173
2174 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2175 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2176
306a0753
CL
2177 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2178 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2179
a72b4422
TM
2180 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2181 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2182 channel should listen.
2183
e571cbf1
TM
2184 nfs.cache_getent=
2185 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2186 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2187
2188 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2189 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2190 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2191
58df095b
TM
2192 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2193 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2194 entries.
2195
f43bf0be
TM
2196 nfs.enable_ino64=
2197 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2198 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2199 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2200 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2201 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2202
ef159e91
TM
2203 nfs.max_session_slots=
2204 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2205 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2206 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2207 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2208 Note that there is little point in setting this
2209 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2210
b064eca2 2211 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2212 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2213 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2214 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2215 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2216 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2217 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2218 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2219 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2220 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2221 back to using the idmapper.
2222 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2223 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2224 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2225 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2226 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2227 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2228
db8ac8ba
WAA
2229 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2230 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2231 information in exchange_id requests.
2232 If zero, no implementation identification information
2233 will be sent.
2234 The default is to send the implementation identification
2235 information.
f6de7a39
TM
2236
2237 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2238 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2239 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2240 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2241 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2242 after the locks are lost.
2243 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2244 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2245 parameter to '1'.
2246 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2247 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2248
e9541ce8
BF
2249 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2250 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2251 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2252 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2253 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2254 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2255
18d98f6c
SB
2256 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2257 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2258 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2259 osd-targets. Please see:
2260 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2261
1e1030dc 2262 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2263 when a NMI is triggered.
2264 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2265
6cececfc 2266 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2267 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2268 Valid num: 0 or 1
5b9a0e14 2269 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
195daf66 2270 1 - turn nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2271 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc
DZ
2272 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2273 default).
0cb55ad2
RD
2274 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2275 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2276
bff38771
AV
2277 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2278 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2279 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2280 waits 4 seconds.
2281
cd4f0ef7 2282 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2283 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2284 is present.
2285
0cb55ad2
RD
2286 no_console_suspend
2287 [HW] Never suspend the console
2288 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2289 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2290 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2291 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2292 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2293 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2294 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2295 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2296 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2297 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2298 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2299 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2300
c1aee215
CL
2301 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2302 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2303 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2304
a9913044
RD
2305 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2306
1da177e4
LT
2307 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2308 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2309
5091faa4
MG
2310 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2311
1da177e4
LT
2312 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2313 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2314
2315 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2316
0cb55ad2
RD
2317 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2318
163ecdff
SN
2319 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2320
1da177e4
LT
2321 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
2322
6902aa84
PM
2323 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2324
b2e0a54a 2325 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2326
1da177e4
LT
2327 noexec [IA-64]
2328
6cececfc 2329 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2330 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2331 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2332 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2333
52b6179a
PA
2334 nosmap [X86]
2335 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2336 even if it is supported by processor.
2337
de5397ad 2338 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2339 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2340 even if it is supported by processor.
2341
f5a1b191
JS
2342 noexec32 [X86-64]
2343 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2344 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2345 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2346 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2347 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2348
fab43ef4 2349 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2350
cd4f0ef7 2351 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2352 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2353 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2354
0ddab1d2
TK
2355 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2356
0c752a93
SS
2357 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2358 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2359 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2360
b6f42a4a
FY
2361 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2362 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2363 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2364 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2365 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2366 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2367
2368 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2369 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2370 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2371 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2372 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2373 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2374 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2375
01a24d2b
PZ
2376 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2377 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2378 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2379
1f29fae2
SH
2380 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2381 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2382 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2383
1da177e4
LT
2384 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2385 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2386 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2387 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2388 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2389 real-time systems.
2390
a6e15a39
KC
2391 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2392
79bf2bb3
TG
2393 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2394 Valid arguments: on, off
2395 Default: on
2396
c5bfece2
FW
2397 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2398 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2399 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2400 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2401 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2402 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2403 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2404
eeee7853
PM
2405 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2406
cd4f0ef7 2407 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2408 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2409
6cececfc 2410 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2411 broken timer IRQ sources.
2412
1da177e4
LT
2413 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2414
2415 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2416 initial RAM disk.
2417
03ea8155
WH
2418 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2419 remapping.
d1423d56 2420 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2421
1da177e4
LT
2422 nointroute [IA-64]
2423
16290246 2424 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2425
9cf4c4fc
JK
2426 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2427
fd10cde9
GN
2428 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2429 fault handling.
2430
d910f5c1
GC
2431 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2432 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2433 behaviour
2434
cd4f0ef7 2435 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2436
cd4f0ef7 2437 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2438
1da177e4
LT
2439 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2440 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
2441
312f1f01
H
2442 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2443
cd4f0ef7 2444 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2445
83d7384f
AS
2446 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2447 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2448
bda62633
DZ
2449 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2450 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2451 irq.
2452
02608bef
DY
2453 nomodule Disable module load
2454
016ddd9b
JK
2455 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2456 pagetables) support.
2457
0cb55ad2
RD
2458 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2459 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2460
bbff2168 2461 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2462
cd4f0ef7 2463 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2464 with UP alternatives
2465
7a5091d5
PA
2466 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2467 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2468 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2469 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2470
a9913044
RD
2471 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2472 space.
2473
1da177e4
LT
2474 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2475 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2476 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2477
2478 nosbagart [IA-64]
2479
cd4f0ef7 2480 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2481
61ec7567
LB
2482 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2483 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2484
97842216
DJ
2485 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2486
1da177e4
LT
2487 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2488
cd4f0ef7 2489 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4
LT
2490
2491 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
2492
195daf66
UO
2493 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2494 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2495
1da177e4 2496 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2497
2b2fd87a
WH
2498 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2499
f78cff48
FY
2500 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2501 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2502 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2503 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2504 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2505 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2506 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2507 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2508 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2509 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2510 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2511 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2512 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2513
16290246 2514 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2515 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2516 SAL PALO.
2517
2b633e3f
YL
2518 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2519 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2520 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
2521 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
2522 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
2523
0cb55ad2
RD
2524 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2525
1a687c2e
MG
2526 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2527 Allowed values are enable and disable
2528
f0c0b2b8
KH
2529 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2530 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2531 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2532 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2533
7c4be253
RD
2534 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2535 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2536 info.
2537
3ef0e1f8
AS
2538 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2539 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2540 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2541 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2542 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2543 interrupts *may* be lost!
2544
15ac7afe
TL
2545 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2546 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2547 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2548 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2549
1da177e4
LT
2550 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2551 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2552
7e4e0bd5
RR
2553 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2554 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2555 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2556 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2557 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2558 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2559 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2560 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2561 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2562 for generic hr timer mode)
dd3c4670
AK
2563 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
2564 (report cpu_type "timer")
1dcdb5a9 2565
44a4dcf7
RD
2566 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2567 process, but there is a small probability of
2568 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2569 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2570 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2571
bcfde334
RD
2572 OSS [HW,OSS]
2573 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2574
48c96a36
JK
2575 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2576 Storage of the information about who allocated
2577 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2578 we can turn it on.
2579 on: enable the feature
2580
44a4dcf7 2581 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2582 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2583 timeout = 0: wait forever
2584 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2585 Format: <timeout>
2586
9e3961a0
PB
2587 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2588 on a WARN().
2589
f06e5153
MH
2590 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2591 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2592 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2593 succeeds in any situation.
2594 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2595 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2596 kernel more unstable.
2597
1da177e4
LT
2598 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2599 connected to, default is 0.
2600 Format: <parport#>
2601 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2602 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
2603 Format: <mode>
2604
2605 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2606 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2607 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2608 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2609 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2610 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2611 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2612 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2613 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2614 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2615 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2616 are specified on the command line, starting
2617 with parport0.
2618
2619 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2620 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2621 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2622 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2623 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2624 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2625 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2626
dd287796
AM
2627 pause_on_oops=
2628 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2629 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2630 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2631
1da177e4
LT
2632 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2633
2634 pcd. [PARIDE]
2635 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2636 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2637
a9913044 2638 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2639 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2640 changes anything
c0115606 2641 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2642 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2643 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2644 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2645 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2646 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2647 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2648 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
c0115606 2649 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
a9913044 2650 Mechanism 1.
c0115606 2651 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
a9913044 2652 Mechanism 2.
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2653 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2654 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2655 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2656 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2657 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2658 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2659 Configuration
12983077
AH
2660 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2661 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2662 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2663 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2664 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2665 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2666 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2667 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2668 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2669 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2670 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2671 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2672 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2673 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2674 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2675 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2676 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2677 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
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RD
2678 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2679 on several machines and they hang the machine
2680 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2681 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2682 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2683 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2684 motherboard.
c0115606 2685 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2686 Use with caution as certain devices share
2687 address decoders between ROMs and other
2688 resources.
c0115606 2689 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2690 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2691 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2692 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2693 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2694 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
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RD
2695 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2696 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2697 this way.
c0115606 2698 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
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RD
2699 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2700 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2701 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2702 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
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RD
2703 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2704 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2705 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2706 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
2707 numbers ourselves, overriding
2708 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2709 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
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RD
2710 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2711 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2712 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2713 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2714 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2715 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2716 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
2717 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2718 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2719 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2720 please report a bug.
2721 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2722 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
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RD
2723 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2724 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2725 so this option is a temporary workaround
2726 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2727 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2728 handle more pci cards
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RD
2729 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2730 just use the configuration from the
2731 bootloader. This is currently used on
2732 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2733 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
0637a70a
AK
2734 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2735 This might help on some broken boards which
2736 machine check when some devices' config space
2737 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2738 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
2739 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2740 This sorting is done to get a device
2741 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2742 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2743 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2744 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2745 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2746 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2747 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2748 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2749 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2750 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2751 or bus can support) for best performance.
2752 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2753 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2754 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2755 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2756 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2757 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2758 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2759 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2760 The default value is 256 bytes.
2761 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2762 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2763 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
2764 resource_alignment=
2765 Format:
2766 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2767 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2768 aligned memory resources.
2769 If <order of align> is not specified,
2770 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2771 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2772 windows need to be expanded.
43c16408
AP
2773 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2774 end-to-end CRC checking).
2775 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2776 the default.
2777 off: Turn ECRC off
2778 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
2779 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2780 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2781 Default size is 256 bytes.
2782 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2783 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2784 Default size is 2 megabytes.
b55438fd
YL
2785 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2786 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2787 accommodate resources required by all child
2788 devices.
2789 off: Turn realloc off
2790 on: Turn realloc on
2791 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 2792 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
2793 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2794 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2795 port.
6b4b78fe 2796
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CE
2797 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2798 Management.
2799 off Disable ASPM.
2800 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2801 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2802
7570a333
MT
2803 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2804 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2805 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2806
79dd9182 2807 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
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RW
2808 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2809 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2810 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2811 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2812 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
2813 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2814 ports driver.
2815
c7f48656 2816 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 2817 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 2818 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 2819
1da177e4
LT
2820 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2821
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TB
2822 pd_ignore_unused
2823 [PM]
2824 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2825 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2826 for debug and development, but should not be
2827 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2828
1da177e4 2829 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2830 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2831
2832 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2833 boot time.
2834 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2835 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2836
f58dc01b 2837 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
2838 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2839 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2840 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2841 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2842 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 2843
1da177e4 2844 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2845 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2846
2847 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2848 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2849
2850 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 2851 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2852
2853 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2854 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2855 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2856
16290246 2857 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
2858 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2859 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
2860
96242116
BH
2861 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
2862 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
2863 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
2864 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
2865 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
2866 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 2867
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LT
2868 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
2869 { off }
2870
2871 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
2872 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2873
2874 pnp_reserve_irq=
2875 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2876
2877 pnp_reserve_dma=
2878 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2879
2880 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 2881 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
2882
2883 pnp_reserve_mem=
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2884 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2885 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
2886 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2887
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RD
2888 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2889 Default is 21.
2890 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
2891 may be specified.
2892 Format: <port>,<port>....
2893
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IM
2894 print-fatal-signals=
2895 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
2896
2897 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
2898 related application anomalies: too many signals,
2899 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
2900 coredump - etc.
2901
2902 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
2903 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
2904
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IM
2905 default: off.
2906
c22ab332
MG
2907 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
2908 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
2909 panics
2910 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2911 default: disabled
2912
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RD
2913 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
2914 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2915
0cb55ad2
RD
2916 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
2917 Limit processor to maximum C-state
2918 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
2919
2920 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
2921 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
2922 instead using the legacy FADT method
2923
1da177e4 2924 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
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2925 Format: [schedule,]<number>
2926 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
2927 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
2928 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
2929 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
2930 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 2931 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 2932
1da177e4
LT
2933 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
2934 before loading.
31c00fc1 2935 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2936
a9913044
RD
2937 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
2938 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
2939 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
2940 per second.
a9913044
RD
2941 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
2942 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
2943 (0 = never).
2944 psmouse.resolution=
2945 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
2946 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 2947 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
2948 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
2949
dee28e72
MG
2950 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
2951
1da177e4 2952 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2953 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2954
dc8c8587
KS
2955 pty.legacy_count=
2956 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
2957 default number.
2958
7d2c502f 2959 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 2960
1da177e4
LT
2961 r128= [HW,DRM]
2962
2963 raid= [HW,RAID]
2964 See Documentation/md.txt.
2965
a9913044 2966 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
31c00fc1 2967 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
a9913044 2968
1da177e4 2969 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 2970 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2971
4102adab 2972 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
2973 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
2974 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
2975 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
2976 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
2977 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
2978 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
2979 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
2980 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
2981 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
2982 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
2983
4102adab 2984 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
2985 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
2986 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
2987 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
2988 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
2989 This improves the real-time response for the
2990 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
2991 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
2992 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
2993 periodically wake up to do the polling.
2994
4102adab 2995 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
2996 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
2997 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 2998
37745d28
PM
2999 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3000 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3001 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
3002 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is
3003 set.
3004
4102adab 3005 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
f885b7f2
PM
3006 Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each
3007 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
3008 systems.
3009
4a81e832
PM
3010 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3011 Set required age in jiffies for a
3012 given grace period before RCU starts
3013 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3014 rcu_note_context_switch().
3015
4102adab 3016 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3017 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3018 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3019 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3020 and maximum value is HZ.
3021
4102adab 3022 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3023 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3024 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3025 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3026
21871d7e 3027 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3028 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3029 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3030 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3031 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3032 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3033 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3034 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3035 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3036 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3037
fbce7497
PM
3038 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3039 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3040 defaults to the square root of the number of
3041 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3042 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3043 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3044
4102adab 3045 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3046 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3047 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3048
4102adab 3049 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3050 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3051 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3052
4102adab 3053 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3054 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3055 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3056
4102adab 3057 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3058 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3059 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3060 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3061 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3062
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PM
3063 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3064 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3065 callback-flood tests.
3066
3067 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3068 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3069 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3070 test.
3071
3072 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3073 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3074 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3075 disable callback-flood testing.
3076
3077 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3078 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3079 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3080
4102adab 3081 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3082 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
3083
4102adab 3084 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3085 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts.
3086
4102adab 3087 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3088 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts.
3089
4102adab
PM
3090 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3091 Use expedited update-side primitives.
3092
3093 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3094 Use normal (non-expedited) update-side primitives.
3095 If both gp_exp and gp_normal are set, do both.
3096 If neither gp_exp nor gp_normal are set, still
3097 do both.
dabb8aa9 3098
4102adab 3099 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3100 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3101
4102adab 3102 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3103 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3104 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3105 test, hence the "fake".
3106
4102adab 3107 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3108 Set number of RCU readers.
3109
4102adab
PM
3110 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3111 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3112
3113 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3114 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3115
4102adab 3116 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3117 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3118 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3119
59da22a0 3120 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
4102adab
PM
3121 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3122
3123 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3124 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3125 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3126 during the rcutorture test.
3127
4102adab 3128 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3129 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3130 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3131
4102adab 3132 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3133 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3134 warnings, zero to disable.
3135
4102adab 3136 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3137 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3138
4102adab 3139 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3140 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3141
4102adab 3142 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3143 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3144 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3145 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3146 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3147
4102adab 3148 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3149 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3150 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3151 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3152
4102adab 3153 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3154 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3155
4102adab 3156 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3157 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3158
4102adab 3159 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3160 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3161 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3162
4102adab 3163 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3164 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3165
4102adab 3166 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3167 Enable additional printk() statements.
3168
4102adab
PM
3169 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3170 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3171 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3172 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3173 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3174 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3175
3176 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3177 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3178
3179 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3180 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3181
52db30ab
PM
3182 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3183 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3184 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3185 to zero.
3186
74860fee
PK
3187 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3188 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3189
3190 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3191 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3192
3193 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3194 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3195
ffdfc409
OJ
3196 rdinit= [KNL]
3197 Format: <full_path>
3198 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3199 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3200
1b3a5d02
RH
3201 reboot= [KNL]
3202 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3203 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3204 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3205 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3206 [[,]f[orce]
3207 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3208 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3209 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3210 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3211 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3212
46b6d94e
PJ
3213 relax_domain_level=
3214 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
21acb9ca 3215 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3216
0399d4db
RW
3217 relative_sleep_states=
3218 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3219 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3220 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3221 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3222 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3223
1da177e4
LT
3224 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3225
cd4f0ef7 3226 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3227 Format: nn[KMG]
3228 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3229 address space.
3230
9ea77bdb
PA
3231 reservelow= [X86]
3232 Format: nn[K]
3233 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3234 the bottom of the address space.
3235
7e96287d
VG
3236 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3237 during initialization.
3238
a9913044
RD
3239 resume= [SWSUSP]
3240 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3241 Format:
3242 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3243
ecbd0da1
RW
3244 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3245 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3246 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3247 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3248 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3249
f126f733
BS
3250 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3251 read the resume files
3252
6f8d7022
BS
3253 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3254 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3255 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3256
f996fc96
BS
3257 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3258 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3259 present during boot.
3260 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3261 no Disable hibernation and resume.
f996fc96 3262
0a7b35cb
MN
3263 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3264
0efbb786
AC
3265 rfkill.default_state=
3266 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3267 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3268 1 Unblocked.
3269
3270 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3271 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3272 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3273 blocked and the previous configuration.
3274 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3275 blocked and everything unblocked.
3276
1da177e4
LT
3277 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3278 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3279
1da177e4
LT
3280 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3281
3282 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3283 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3284
3285 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3286 mount the root filesystem
3287
3288 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3289
3290 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3291
cc1ed754
PO
3292 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3293 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3294 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3295
5c71d618
RT
3296 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3297 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3298 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3299 managed by CMA.
3300
1da177e4
LT
3301 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3302
3303 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3304
c60d1ae4
GS
3305 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3306 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3307 strict
3308 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3309 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3310 which is faster.
3311
1da177e4
LT
3312 sa1100ir [NET]
3313 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3314
1da177e4 3315 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3316
f6630114
MT
3317 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3318
5307c955
MG
3319 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3320 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3321 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3322 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3323 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3324 1 -- enable.
3325 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3326 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3327
0cb55ad2
RD
3328 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3329 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3330 security module asking for security registration will be
3331 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3332 as if no module has been chosen.
3333
3334 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3335 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3336 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3337 0 -- disable.
3338 1 -- enable.
3339 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3340 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3341 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3342
c1c124e9
JJ
3343 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3344 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3345 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3346 0 -- disable.
3347 1 -- enable.
3348 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3349
cd4f0ef7 3350 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3351
1da177e4
LT
3352 shapers= [NET]
3353 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3354
b05f78f5
YL
3355 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3356 Format: { <integer> }
3357 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3358 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3359 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3360
1da177e4
LT
3361 simeth= [IA-64]
3362 simscsi=
a9913044 3363
1da177e4
LT
3364 slram= [HW,MTD]
3365
423c929c
JK
3366 slab_nomerge [MM]
3367 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3368 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3369 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3370 merging on their own.
3371 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3372
3df1cccd
DR
3373 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3374 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3375 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3376 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3377 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3378
f0630fff
CL
3379 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3380 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3381 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3382 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3383 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3384 last alloc / free. For more information see
3385 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3386
3387 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3388 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3389 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3390 fragmentation. For more information see
3391 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3392
3393 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3394 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3395 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3396 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3397 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3398 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3399 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3400 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3401
3402 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3403 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3404 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3405 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3406
3407 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3408 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3409 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3410
1da177e4
LT
3411 smart2= [HW]
3412 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3413
d0d4f69b
BH
3414 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3415 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3416 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3417 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3418 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3419 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3420 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3421 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3422 1: Fast pin select (default)
3423 2: ATC IRMode
3424
9c44bc03
IM
3425 softlockup_panic=
3426 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3427 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3428
ed235875
AT
3429 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3430 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3431 backtraces on all cpus.
3432 Format: <integer>
3433
1da177e4 3434 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3435 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3436
1da177e4
LT
3437 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3438 spia_fio_base=
3439 spia_pedr=
3440 spia_peddr=
3441
f38f1d2a
SR
3442 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3443 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3444
762e1207
SR
3445 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3446 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3447 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3448 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3449 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3450 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3451 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3452
1da177e4
LT
3453 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3454 Format: <num>
3455 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3456 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3457 as the initial boot-console.
3458 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3459
3460 sti_font= [HW]
3461 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3462
3463 stifb= [HW]
3464 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3465
cbf11071
TM
3466 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3467 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3468 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3469 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3470 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3471 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3472 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3473 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3474 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3475 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3476 maximum port values.
3477
42a7fc4a
GB
3478 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3479 [NFS]
3480 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3481 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3482 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3483 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3484 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3485 NFS server is running.
3486
3487 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3488 automatically using heuristics
3489 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3490 percpu one pool for each CPU
3491 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3492 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3493
cbf11071
TM
3494 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3495 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3496 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3497 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3498 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3499 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3500 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3501 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3502
1d4a9c17
BN
3503 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3504 [SUSPEND]
3505 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3506 mode before resuming the system (see
3507 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3508 is set. Default value is 5.
3509
07555ac1 3510 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3511 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3512 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3513 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
3514
91fec0f5
JK
3515 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3516 Format: { <int> | force }
3517 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3518 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3519 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
a9913044 3520
1da177e4
LT
3521 switches= [HW,M68k]
3522
e52eec13
AK
3523 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3524 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3525 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3526 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3527 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3528 in older udev will not work anymore.
3529 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3530 the kernel configuration.
3531
5d6f647f
IM
3532 sysrq_always_enabled
3533 [KNL]
3534 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3535 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3536 Useful for debugging.
3537
747029a5
FF
3538 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3539 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3540 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3541 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3542 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3543 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3544
1da177e4
LT
3545 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3546
acc82342 3547 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 3548 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
3549 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3550 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3551 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3552 The system is woken from this state using a
3553 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 3554
1da177e4
LT
3555 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3556 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3557
f8707ec9
LB
3558 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3559 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3560 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3561
c52a7419
LB
3562 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3563 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 3564 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 3565
f5487145
LB
3566 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3567 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3568 critical and hot trip points.
3569
72b33ef8
LB
3570 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3571 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3572
a70cdc52
LB
3573 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3574 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
3575 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3576 value
a70cdc52 3577
730ff34d
LB
3578 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3579 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3580 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3581 0: no polling (default)
3582
8d32a307
TG
3583 threadirqs [KNL]
3584 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 3585 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 3586
2ca62b04
KRW
3587 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3588 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3589
3590 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3591 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3592 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3593
3594 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3595 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
3596 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3597 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
3598
3599 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3600 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3601 to the hypervisor.
3602
3603 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3604 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3605 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3606 kernel based on different criteria.
3607
2b1a61f0
HC
3608 topology= [S390]
3609 Format: {off | on}
3610 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
3611 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3612 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 3613 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 3614 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 3615
2d73bae1
NA
3616 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3617 Format: {off}
3618 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3619 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3620 LPAR.
3621
1da177e4
LT
3622 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3623
225a9be2
RA
3624 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3625 Format: integer pcr id
3626 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3627 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3628 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3629 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3630 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3631 are saved.
3632
9d612bef 3633 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 3634 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 3635
020e5f85
LZ
3636 trace_event=[event-list]
3637 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
3638 to facilitate early boot debugging.
3639 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
3640
7bcfaf54
SR
3641 trace_options=[option-list]
3642 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3643 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3644 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3645 to echo the option name into
3646
3647 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3648
3649 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3650 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3651
3652 trace_options=stacktrace
3653
3654 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3655 section.
3656
0daa2302
SRRH
3657 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3658 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3659 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3660 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3661 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3662 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3663
3664 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3665 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3666 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3667 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3668
3669 ** CAUTION **
3670
3671 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3672 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3673 the system to live lock.
3674
de7edd31
SRRH
3675 traceoff_on_warning
3676 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3677 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3678 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3679 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3680
3681 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3682 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3683 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3684
3685 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3686 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3687
fcf4d821
JK
3688 transparent_hugepage=
3689 [KNL]
3690 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3691 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3692 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3693 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3694
d3b8f889 3695 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
3696 Format: <string>
3697 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
3698 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3699 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
3700 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3701 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
3702 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3703 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3704 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
3705 can add overhead.
395628ef 3706
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3707 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
3708 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
3709 Format:
3710 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
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LT
3711 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
3712
b6935f8c
CK
3713 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
3714 happen after console_init() and before a proper
3715 console driver takes over, this boot options might
3716 help "seeing" what's going on.
3717
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ED
3718 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3719 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
3720
5f8364b7
AS
3721 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
3722 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
3723 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
3724 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
3725 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
3726 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
3727 reported either.
3728
e3a61b0a 3729 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 3730 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 3731
c4fc2342
CDH
3732 usbcore.authorized_default=
3733 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
3734 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
3735 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
3736
b5e795f8
AS
3737 usbcore.autosuspend=
3738 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
3739 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
3740 is the time required before an idle device will be
3741 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 3742 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 3743
fd7c519d
JK
3744 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
3745 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
3746
3747 usbcore.blinkenlights=
3748 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
3749
3750 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
3751 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3752 scheme (default 0 = off).
3753
3f5eb8d5
AS
3754 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
3755 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
3756 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
3757
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JK
3758 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
3759 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
3760 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
3761
3762 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
3763 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
3764 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
3765 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
3766
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LT
3767 usbhid.mousepoll=
3768 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 3769
d4f373e5
AS
3770 usb-storage.delay_use=
3771 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 3772 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
3773
3774 usb-storage.quirks=
3775 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
3776 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
3777 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
3778 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
3779 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
3780 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
3781 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
3782 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
3783 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
3784 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
3785 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
3786 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
3787 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
3788 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
3789 READ_DISC_INFO command);
3790 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
3791 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
3792 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
3793 command, uas only);
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HG
3794 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
3795 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
3796 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
3797 reported device capacity by one
3798 sector if the number is odd);
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AS
3799 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
3800 device);
3801 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
3802 unlock ejectable media);
3803 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
3804 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
3805 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
3806 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
3807 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
3808 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
3809 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
3810 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
3811 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
3812 bogus residue values);
3813 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
3814 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
3815 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
3816 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 3817 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
3818 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
3819 medium is write-protected).
3820 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
3821
ac1667db
SB
3822 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
3823 Format: <int>
3824 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
3825 1 - undefined instruction events
3826 2 - system calls
3827 4 - invalid data aborts
3828 8 - SIGSEGV faults
3829 16 - SIGBUS faults
3830 Example: user_debug=31
3831
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IC
3832 userpte=
3833 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
3834
3835 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
3836 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
3837 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
3838
6cececfc 3839 vdso= [X86,SH]
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AL
3840 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
3841
3842 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
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IM
3843 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
3844
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AL
3845 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
3846 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
3847 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
3848
3849 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
3850 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
3851 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
3852
3853 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
3854 alias for vdso32=0.
3855
3856 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
3857 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 3858
d080d397
YI
3859 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
3860 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
3861
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LT
3862 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
3863 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
3864
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AL
3865 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
3866 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
3867 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
3868 level and then send out the event to user space through
3869 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
3870 will only send out the event without touching backlight
3871 brightness level.
2843768b 3872 default: 1
3afe6dab 3873
81a054ce
PM
3874 virtio_mmio.device=
3875 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
3876
3877 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
3878 where:
3879 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
3880 like K, M and G)
3881 <baseaddr> := physical base address
3882 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
3883 request_irq())
3884 <id> := (optional) platform device id
3885 example:
3886 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
3887
3888 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
3889
cd4f0ef7 3890 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 3891 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 3892 Documentation/svga.txt.
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LT
3893 Use vga=ask for menu.
3894 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
3895 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
3896
a9913044 3897 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
3898 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
3899 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
3900 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
3901 mapped kernel RAM.
3902
585c3047
PO
3903 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
3904 Format: <command>
1da177e4 3905
585c3047
PO
3906 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
3907 Format: <command>
3908
3909 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
3910 Format: <command>
a9913044 3911
3ae36655
AL
3912 vsyscall= [X86-64]
3913 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
3914 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
3915 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
3916 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
3917 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
3918 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
3919
2e57ae05
AL
3920 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
3921 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 3922
2e57ae05 3923 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
3924 This is a little bit faster than trapping
3925 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
3926 better than they would in emulation mode.
3927 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
3928
3929 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
3930 them quite hard to use for exploits but
3931 might break your system.
3932
3855ae1c
CL
3933 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
3934 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
3935 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
3936
9ea9a886
CL
3937 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
3938 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
3939 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
3940 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
3941
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RD
3942 vt.default_blu= [VT]
3943 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
3944 Change the default blue palette of the console.
3945 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3946 ranging from 0-255.
3947
3948 vt.default_grn= [VT]
3949 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
3950 Change the default green palette of the console.
3951 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3952 ranging from 0-255.
3953
3954 vt.default_red= [VT]
3955 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
3956 Change the default red palette of the console.
3957 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3958 ranging from 0-255.
3959
3960 vt.default_utf8=
3961 [VT]
3962 Format=<0|1>
3963 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
3964 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
3965 newly opened terminals.
3966
f6c06b68
MG
3967 vt.global_cursor_default=
3968 [VT]
3969 Format=<-1|0|1>
3970 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
3971 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
3972 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
3973 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
3974 cursors, 1 will display them.
3975
3855ae1c
CL
3976 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
3977 Default: 2 = green.
3978
3979 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
3980 Default: 3 = cyan.
3981
4724ba57
RD
3982 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
3983 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
3984 or other driver-specific files in the
3985 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 3986
d55262c4
TH
3987 workqueue.disable_numa
3988 By default, all work items queued to unbound
3989 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
3990 issued on, which results in better behavior in
3991 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
3992 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
3993 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
3994 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
3995
cee22a15
VK
3996 workqueue.power_efficient
3997 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
3998 they show better performance thanks to cache
3999 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4000 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4001
4002 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4003 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4004 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4005 power usage at the cost of small performance
4006 overhead.
4007
4008 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4009 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4010
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RD
4011 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4012 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4013 supporting x2apic.
4014
712b6aa8
KS
4015 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4016 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
4017 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4018 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4019 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4020
c1c5413a
SS
4021 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4022 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4023 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4024 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4025 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4026 nics -- unplug network devices
4027 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
4028 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4029 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4030 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4031 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4032
15a3eac0
KRW
4033 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4034 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4035 optimizations.
4036
8d693b91
KRW
4037 xen_nopv [X86]
4038 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4039 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4040
1da177e4 4041 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
4042 Format:
4043 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
1da177e4 4044
a9913044 4045______________________________________________________________________
1da177e4
LT
4046
4047TODO:
4048
1da177e4 4049 Add more DRM drivers.