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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
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109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
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119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
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124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 126
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127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
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130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 139
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140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 144
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145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
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148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
0cb55ad2 154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
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160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
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162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
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164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
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189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
6cececfc 212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
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217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
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220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
c3b0795c 226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
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237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
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247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
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250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
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256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
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259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
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264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
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272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
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274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
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277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
89e0b9a3 284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
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287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
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291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
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293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 298
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299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
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305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
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314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
395cf969 317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
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318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
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324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
ca1eda2d 331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 336
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337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
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346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
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349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
1da177e4 358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 360
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361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
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368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
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373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 384
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385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
a106fb0c 395 Default: unset
f3411cb2 396
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397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
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401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
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408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 410
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411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
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415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
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420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
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425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
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429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
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434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
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436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
1da177e4 439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
1da177e4 442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
395cf969 443 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 444
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445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
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449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
cd4f0ef7 451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
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458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
32c4741c 461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
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463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
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469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 471
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472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 482
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483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
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488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 492
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493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
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498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
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503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
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507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
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cd4f0ef7 517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 518 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
592913ec 524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
534 [AVR32] avr32
9863c90f 535 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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536 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
537 [MIPS] MIPS
538 [PARISC] cr16
539 [S390] tod
540 [SH] SuperH
541 [SPARC64] tick
542 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
543
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544 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
545 [ARM,ARM64]
546 Format: <bool>
547 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
548 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
549 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
550 systems.
551
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552 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
553 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 554 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 555 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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556 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
557 ones should be.
558 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
559 or using the feature without checking anything
560 will still see it. This just prevents it from
561 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
562 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
563 some critical bits.
564
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565 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
566 [ARM,X86,KNL]
567 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
568 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
569 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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570 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
571 altogether. For more information, see
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572 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
573
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574 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
575 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
576 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
577 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
578 a hypervisor.
579 Default: yes
580
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581 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
582 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 583 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 584
6cececfc 585 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 586 in an oops report.
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587 Range: 0 - 8192
588 Default: 64
589
1da177e4 590 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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591 Format:
592 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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593
594 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
595 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
596
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597 com90xx= [HW,NET]
598 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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599 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
600
601 condev= [HW,S390] console device
602 conmode=
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604 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
605
606 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
607
608 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 609 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 610 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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611 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
612 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
613 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
614 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
615
e52347bd 616 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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617 information. See
618 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
619 alternative.
1da177e4 620
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621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 623 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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624 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
625 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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626 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
627 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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628 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
629 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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630 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
631 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
632 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
633 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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634 the h/w is not re-initialized.
635
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636 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
637 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 638
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639 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
640 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
641 console=brl,ttyS0
642 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
643
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644 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
645 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
646 disables the blank timer.
647
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648 coredump_filter=
649 [KNL] Change the default value for
650 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
651 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
652
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653 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
654 disable the cpuidle sub-system
655
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656 cpu_init_udelay=N
657 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
658 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
659 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
660 Default: 10000
661
1da177e4 662 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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663 Format:
664 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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666 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
667 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
668 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
669 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
670 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
671 is selected automatically. Check
672 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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674 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
675 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
676 in the running system. The syntax of range is
677 start-[end] where start and end are both
678 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 679 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 680
adbc742b 681 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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682 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
683 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
684 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
685 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
686 available.
687 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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688 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
689 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
690 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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691 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
692 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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693 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
694 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
695 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
696 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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697 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
698 for second kernel instead.
699 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 700 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 701 or memory reserved is below 4G.
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703 cryptomgr.notests
704 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
705
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706 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
707 Format: <dma>
708
709 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
710 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 712 dasd= [HW,NET]
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714
715 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
716 (one device per port)
717 Format: <port#>,<type>
718 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
719
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720 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
721 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
29e36c9f 722 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 723
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724 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
725
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726 debug_locks_verbose=
727 [KNL] verbose self-tests
728 Format=<0|1>
729 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
730 self-tests.
731 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
732 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
733 only useful to kernel developers.
734
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735 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
736
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737 no_debug_objects
738 [KNL] Disable object debugging
739
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740 debug_guardpage_minorder=
741 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
742 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
743 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
744 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
745 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
746 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
747 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
748 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
749 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
750 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
751 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
752 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
753 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
754 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
755 bypassed) which are not detectable by
756 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
757 tracking down these problems.
758
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759 debug_pagealloc=
760 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
761 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
762 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
763 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
764 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
765 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
766 on: enable the feature
767
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768 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
769
2d27a966 770 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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771 Format: <area>[,<node>]
772 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
773
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775 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
776 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
777 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
778 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
779 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
780 if not specified.
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782 dhash_entries= [KNL]
783 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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786 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
787 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
788 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
789 miss to occur.
790
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791 disable= [IPV6]
792 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
793
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794 disable_radix [PPC]
795 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
796
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797 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
798 Format: <int>
799 The number of initial APIC ID for the
800 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
801 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
802 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
803 causing system reset or hang due to sending
804 INIT from AP to BSP.
805
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806 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
807 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
808 to workaround buggy firmware.
809
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810 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
811 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
812
95ffa243 813 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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814 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
815 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 816 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 817
093af8d7 818 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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819 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
820 memory out of your available memory pool based on
821 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
822 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
823
6cececfc 824 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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825 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
826 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
827
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828 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
829
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830 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
831 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
832
833 dma_debug_entries=<number>
834 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
835 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
836 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
837 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
838 architectural default is too low.
839
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840 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
841 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
842 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
843 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
844 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
845 driver later using sysfs.
846
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847 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
848 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
849 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
850 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
851 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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852 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
853 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
854 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
855 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
856 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
857 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
858 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
859 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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860 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
861 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
862 data set with no connector name will be used for
863 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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865 dscc4.setup= [NET]
866
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867 dump_apple_properties [X86]
868 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
869 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
870 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
871
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872 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
873 module.dyndbg[="val"]
874 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
875 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
876
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877 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
878 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
879 information about the feature.
880
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881 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
882 in some Intel CPUs.
883
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884 module.async_probe [KNL]
885 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
886
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887 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
888 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
889 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
890 which are not unmapped.
891
0cb55ad2 892 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 893
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894 When used with no options, the early console is
895 determined by the stdout-path property in device
896 tree's chosen node.
897
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898 cdns,<addr>[,options]
899 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
900 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
901 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
902 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
903 configured.
6fa62fc4 904
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905 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
906 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 907 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 908 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 909 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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910 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
911 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 912 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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913 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
914 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
915 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
916 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 917 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 918
0d3c673e 919 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 920 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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921 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
922 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
923 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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924 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
925 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
926 the device registers.
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928 meson,<addr>
929 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
930 port at the specified address. The serial port must
931 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
932 supported.
933
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934 msm_serial,<addr>
935 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
936 port at the specified address. The serial port
937 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
938 yet supported.
939
940 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
941 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
942 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
943 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
944 yet supported.
945
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946 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
947
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948 s3c2410,<addr>
949 s3c2412,<addr>
950 s3c2440,<addr>
951 s3c6400,<addr>
952 s5pv210,<addr>
953 exynos4210,<addr>
954 Use early console provided by serial driver available
955 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
956 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
957 serial port must already be setup and configured.
958 Options are not yet supported.
959
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960 lpuart,<addr>
961 lpuart32,<addr>
962 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
963 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
964 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
965 port must already be setup and configured.
966
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967 armada3700_uart,<addr>
968 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
969 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
970 address. The serial port must already be setup
971 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
972
7913ad1a 973 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
1da177e4 974 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 975 earlyprintk=efi
2482a92e 976 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 977 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 978 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 979 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 980 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 981 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1da177e4 982
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983 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
984 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
985 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
986
a9913044 987 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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988 takes over.
989
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990 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
991 be used at a time.
1da177e4 992
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993 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
994 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
995 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
996 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
997 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
998 You can find the port for a given device in
999 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1000 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1002 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1003 very good.
1004
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1005 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1006 the real console.
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1009
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1010 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1011 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1012 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1013 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1014 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1015 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1016 default: on.
1017
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1018 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1019 ekgdboc=kbd
1020
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1022 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1023
1da177e4 1024 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1025 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1026
d2f7cbe7 1027 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1028 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1029 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1030 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1031 default.
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1032 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1033 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1034 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1035 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1036 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1037
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1038 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1039 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1040 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1041 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1042 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1043
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1044 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1045 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1046 updating original EFI memory map.
1047 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1048 from ss to ss+nn.
1049 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1050 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1051 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1052 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1053
1054 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1055 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1056 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1057 doesn't support it.
1058
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1059 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1060 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1061 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1062 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1063 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1064
1065
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1066 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1067 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1068
cd4f0ef7 1069 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1070 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1071 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
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1072
1073 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1074 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1075 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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1076 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1077
d3bf3795 1078 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1079 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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1080 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1081 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1082 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1083
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1084 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1085 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1086 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1087 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1088
ca1eda2d 1089 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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1090 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1091 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1092 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1093 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1094
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1095 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1096 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1097 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1098 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1099 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1100 Default value is 0.
1101 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1102
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1103 erst_disable [ACPI]
1104 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1105 support.
1106
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1107 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1108 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1109 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1110
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1111 evm= [EVM]
1112 Format: { "fix" }
1113 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1114 current integrity status.
1115
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1116 failslab=
1117 fail_page_alloc=
1118 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1119 General fault injection mechanism.
1120 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1121 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1122
1da177e4 1123 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1124 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1125
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1126 force_pal_cache_flush
1127 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1128 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1129 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1130 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1131
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1132 forcepae [X86-32]
1133 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1134 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1135 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1136 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1137 and may cause unknown problems.
1138
d9e54076 1139 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1140 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
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1141 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1142 boot debugging.
1143
cecbca96 1144 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1145 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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1146 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1147 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1148 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1149 oops.
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1150
1151 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1152 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1153 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1154 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1155 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1156 tracing directory.
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SR
1157
1158 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1159 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1160 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1161 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1162 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1163
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1164 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1165 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1166 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1167 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1168 that can be changed at run time by the
1169 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1170
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1171 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1172 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1173 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1174 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1175 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1176
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1177 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1178 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1179 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1180 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1181 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1182
1183 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1184
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1185 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1186 Format: off | on
1187 default: on
1188
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1189 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1190 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1191 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1192 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1193 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1194
1da177e4 1195 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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1196 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1197 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1198 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1199
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1200 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1201 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1202 Format: 0 | 1
1203 Default: 0
1204 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1205 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1206 Format: 0 | 1
1207 Default: 0
1208 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1209 Format: 0 | 1
1210 Default: 0
1211 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1212 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1213 Default: 1024
1214 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1215 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1216 Default: 1024
1217
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1218 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1219 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1220 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1221
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1222 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1223 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1224 backtraces on all cpus.
1225 Format: <integer>
1226
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LT
1227 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1228 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1229 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1230 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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1231
1232 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1233
1234 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1235 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1236
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1237 hest_disable [ACPI]
1238 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1239 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1240 logic will be disabled.
1241
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LT
1242 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1243 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1244 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1245 size on bigger boxes.
1246
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1247 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1248 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1249 Default: "on"
1250
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LT
1251 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1252 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1253
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1254 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1255
1256 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1257 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1258 verbose }
1259 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1260 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1261 VIA, nVidia)
1262 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1263
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1264 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1265 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1266
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1267 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1268 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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1269 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1270 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1271 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1272 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1273 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1274
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1275 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1276 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
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HB
1277 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1278 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1279 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1280
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JH
1281 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1282 hardware thread id mappings.
1283 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1284
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1285 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1286 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1287 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1288 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1289 the real console.
1290
3a853fb9 1291 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
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JN
1292 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1293 registered from board initialization code.
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1294 Format:
1295 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1296
36d95739 1297 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
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1298 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1299 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1300 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1301 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1302 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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1303 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1304 keyboard and cannot control its state
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LT
1305 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1306 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1307 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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1308 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1309 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1310 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1311 controller
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LT
1312 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1313 controllers
24775d65 1314 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
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1315 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1316 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1317 transitions, or never reset
1318 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1319 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1320 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1321 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1322 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1323 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1324 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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LT
1325
1326 i810= [HW,DRM]
1327
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DT
1328 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1329 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1330 hardware.
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LT
1331 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1332 does not match list of supported models.
1333 i8k.power_status
1334 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1335 (disabled by default)
1336 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1337 capability is set.
1338
4dca20ef 1339 i915.invert_brightness=
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1340 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1341 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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1342 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1343 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1344 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1345 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1346 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1347 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1348 value switches the backlight off.
1349 -1 -- never invert brightness
1350 0 -- machine default
1351 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1352
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1353 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1354 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1355
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DF
1356 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1357 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
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1358 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1359 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1360 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1361
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1362 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1363 Format: <int>
1364 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1365 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1366 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1367 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1368 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1369 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1370 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1371 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1372 was 0x3.
1373
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1374 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1375 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1376
f039b754 1377 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1378 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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1379 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1380 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1381 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1382 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1383 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1384 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1385 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1386
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MR
1387 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1388 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1389 Default: strict
1390
1391 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1392 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1393 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1394 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1395 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1396 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1397 encoding mode.
1398
1399 Available settings are as follows:
1400 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1401 supported by the FPU
1402 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1403 by the FPU
1404 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1405 by the FPU
1406 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1407 supported by the FPU
1408
1409 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1410 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1411 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1412 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1413 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1414 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1415 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1416 MIPS64 CPUs.
1417
1418 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1419 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1420 except where unsupported by hardware.
1421
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IM
1422 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1423 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1424 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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1425 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1426 could change it dynamically, usually by
1427 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1428
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KK
1429 ignore_rlimit_data
1430 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1431 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1432 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1433
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LT
1434 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1435 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1436
2fe5d6de 1437 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1438 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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MZ
1439 default: "enforce"
1440
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MZ
1441 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1442 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1443 owned by uid=0.
1444
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MZ
1445 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1446 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1447 measurements, instead of host native format.
1448
3323eec9 1449 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1450 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1451 | sha512 | ... }
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MZ
1452 default: "sha1"
1453
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MZ
1454 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1455 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1456
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MZ
1457 ima_policy= [IMA]
1458 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1459 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1460 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1461 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1462 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1463 Format: "tcb"
1464
1465 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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EP
1466 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1467 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1468 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1469 opened for read by uid=0.
1470
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RS
1471 ima_template= [IMA]
1472 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1473 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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RS
1474 Default: "ima-ng"
1475
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RS
1476 ima_template_fmt=
1477 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1478 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1479
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DK
1480 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1481 Format: <min_file_size>
1482 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1483 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1484
1485 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1486 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1487 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1488
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DK
1489 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1490 Format: <bufsize>
1491 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1492
1493 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1494 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1495 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1496
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LT
1497 init= [KNL]
1498 Format: <full_path>
1499 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1500 process.
1501
1502 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1503 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1504 startup.
1505
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PB
1506 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1507 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1508 modules and initcalls.
1509
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LT
1510 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1511
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DH
1512 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1513 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1514 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1515 override in debugfs after boot.
1516
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LT
1517 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1518 Format: <irq>
1519
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FY
1520 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1521
d726d8d7
MZ
1522 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1523 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1524 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1525 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1526
ba395927 1527 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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KM
1528 on
1529 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1530 off
1531 Disable intel iommu driver.
1532 igfx_off [Default Off]
1533 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1534 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1535 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1536 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1537 DMA.
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KA
1538 forcedac [x86_64]
1539 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1540 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1541 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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RD
1542 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1543 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1544 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1545 strict [Default Off]
1546 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1547 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1548 to batching them for performance.
6dd9a7c7
YS
1549 sp_off [Default Off]
1550 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1551 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1552 not be supported.
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DW
1553 ecs_off [Default Off]
1554 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1555 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1556 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1557 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1558 on hardware which claims to support them.
2e92c7ad
MI
1559
1560 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1561 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1562 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1563
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DB
1564 intel_pstate= [X86]
1565 disable
1566 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1567 scaling driver for the supported processors
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RW
1568 passive
1569 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1570 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1571 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1572 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1573 feature.
aa4ea34d
EZ
1574 force
1575 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1576 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1577 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1578 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1579 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1580 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1581 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1582 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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DB
1583 no_hwp
1584 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1585 if available.
d64c3b0b
KCA
1586 hwp_only
1587 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1588 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1589 support_acpi_ppc
2b3ec765
SP
1590 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1591 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1592 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1593 then this feature is turned on by default.
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SP
1594 per_cpu_perf_limits
1595 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1596 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1597
d1423d56 1598 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1599 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1600 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1601 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1602 no_x2apic_optout
1603 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1604 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1605
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1606 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1607 strict regions from userspace.
1608 relaxed
1609
1610 iommu= [x86]
1611 off
1612 force
1613 noforce
1614 biomerge
1615 panic
1616 nopanic
1617 merge
1618 nomerge
1619 forcesac
1620 soft
bcb71abe 1621 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1622 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1623 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
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1625
1626 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1627 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1628 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1629
6cececfc 1630 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1631 0x80
1632 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1633 0xed
1634 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1635 udelay
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1636 Simple two microseconds delay
1637 none
1638 No delay
b02aae9c 1639
1da177e4 1640 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1641 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1642
fbf19803 1643 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1644 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1645
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1646 irqfixup [HW]
1647 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1648 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1649 firmware running.
1650
1651 irqpoll [HW]
1652 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1653 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1654 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1655 firmware running.
1656
1da177e4 1657 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1658 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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1659
1660 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
2d13e6ca 1661 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
b225d44e 1662
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1663 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1664 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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1665 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1666 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
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1667 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1668 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1669
1670 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1671 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1672 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1673 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1674
a9913044 1675 iucv= [HW,NET]
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1677 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1678 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1679 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1680 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1681 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1682 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1683
1684 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1685 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1686 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1687 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1688 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1689 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1690
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1691 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1692 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1693 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1694 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1695 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1696 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1697
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1698 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1699 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1700
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1701 nokaslr [KNL]
1702 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1703 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1704 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1705
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1706 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1707
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1708 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1709 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1710 This parameter
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1711 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1712 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1713 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1714 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1715 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1716 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1717 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1718 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1719 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1720 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1721 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1722 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1723 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1724 zone if it does not.
1725
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1726 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1727 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1728 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1729 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1730 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1731 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1732 time.
ed7ed365 1733
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1734 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1735 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1736 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1737 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1738 optional and is the number seconds in between
1739 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1740 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1741 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1742 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1743 the kernel debugger.
1744
84c08fd6 1745 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1746 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1747 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1748 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1749 keyboard only format: kbd
1750 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1751 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1752 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1753 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1754
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1755 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1756 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1757
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1758 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1759 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1760 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1761
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1762 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1763 Valid arguments: on, off
1764 Default: on
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1765 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1766 the default is off.
04f70336 1767
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1768 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1769 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1770 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1771 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1772 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1773 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1774
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1775 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1776 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1777
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1778 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1779 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1780 Default is 0 (off)
1781
fef07aae 1782 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1783 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1784
1785 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1786 for all guests.
16290246 1787 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1788
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1789 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1790 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1791 Default is 1 (enabled)
1792
1793 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1794 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1795 Default is 0 (disabled)
1796
1797 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1798 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1799 Default is 1 (enabled)
1800
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1801 kvm-intel.nested=
1802 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1803 Default is 0 (disabled)
1804
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1805 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1806 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1807 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1808 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1809
1810 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1811 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1812 Default is 1 (enabled)
1813
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1814 l2cr= [PPC]
1815
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1816 l3cr= [PPC]
1817
cd4f0ef7 1818 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1819 disabled it.
1da177e4 1820
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1821 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1822 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1823 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1824
6cececfc 1825 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1826 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1827
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1828 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1829 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1830 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1831 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1832 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1833 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1834 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1835
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1836 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1837 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1838 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1839
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1840 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1841 when set.
1842 Format: <int>
1843
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1844 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1845 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1846 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1847 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1848 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1849 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1850 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1851 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1852
1853 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1854 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1855 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1856 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1857 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1858 host link and device attached to it.
1859
1860 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1861 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1862 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1863 The following configurations can be forced.
1864
1865 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1866 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1867
1868 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1869
1870 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1871 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1872 allowed.
1873
1874 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1875
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1876 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1877
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1878 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1879 and both resets.
1880
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1881 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1882 hot-unplug link recovery
1883
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1884 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1885
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1886 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1887
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1888 * disable: Disable this device.
1889
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1890 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1891 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1892
95f72d1e 1893 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1894
1da177e4 1895 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1896 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1897
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1898 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1899 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1900
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1901 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1902 Format: <integer>
1903
1904 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1905 Format: <integer>
1906
1907 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1908 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1909
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1910 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1911 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1912 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1913 number of online CPUs.
1914
1915 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1916 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1917
1918 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1919 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1920
1921 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1922 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1923 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1924
1925 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1926 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1927 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1928 mode during the locktorture test.
1929
1930 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1931 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1932 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1933
1934 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1935 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1936
1937 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1938 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1939 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1940 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1941 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1942 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1943
1944 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1945 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1946
1947 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1948 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1949
1950 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1951 Enable additional printk() statements.
1952
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1953 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1954 Format: <irq>
1955
1956 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1957 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1958 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1959 loglevels are defined as follows:
1960
1961 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1962 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1963 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1964 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1965 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1966 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1967 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1968 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1969
c756d08a 1970 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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1971 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1972 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1973 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1974 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1975 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1976 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 1977
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1978 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1979 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1980 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1981 kernel boot problems.
1982
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1983 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1984 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1985 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1986 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1987 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1988 attached printers to be reset. Using
1989 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1990 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1991 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1992 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1993 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1994 port specification list means that device IDs
1995 from each port should be examined, to see if
1996 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1997 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1998 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1999
2000 lpj=n [KNL]
2001 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2002 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2003 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2004 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2005 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2006 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2007 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2008 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2009 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2010 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2011 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2012 hardware.
2013
2014 ltpc= [NET]
2015 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2016
16290246 2017 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2018 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2019 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2020
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2021 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2022 yeeloong laptop.
2023 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2024
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2025 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2026 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2027
2028 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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2029 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2030 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2031 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2032 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2033 only takes effect during system bootup.
2034 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2035 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2036
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2037 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2038 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2039 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2040 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2041 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2042 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2043
cd4f0ef7 2044 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2045
71cced6e 2046 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2047
1da177e4 2048 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2049 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2050
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2051 mdacon= [MDA]
2052 Format: <first>,<last>
2053 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2054
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2055 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2056 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2057 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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2058 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2059 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2060 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2061 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2062
cd4f0ef7 2063 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2064 memory.
2065
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2066 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2067 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2068 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2069
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2070 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2071 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2072 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2073 set according to the
2074 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2075 option.
2076 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2077
6cececfc 2078 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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2079 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2080 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2081 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2082 option description.
2083
2084 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2085 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2086 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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2087
2088 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2089 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2090 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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2091
2092 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2093 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2094 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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2095 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2096 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2097 or
2098 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1da177e4 2099
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2100 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2101 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2102 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2103 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2104 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2105
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2106 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2107 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2108 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2109 Setting this option will scan the memory
2110 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2111 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2112 from using the memory being corrupted.
2113 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2114 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2115 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2116 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2117
2118 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2119 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2120 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2121 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2122 corruption in more or less memory.
2123
2124 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2125 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2126 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2127 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2128
e4b0db72 2129 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2130 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2131 default : 0 <disable>
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2132 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2133 performed. Each pass selects another test
2134 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2135 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2136 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2137 regions that are detected.
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2139 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2140 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2141 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2142 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2143 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2144
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LT
2145 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2146 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2147
8f36881b
AS
2148 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2149 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2150 platforms.
2151
e6c4dc6c
WT
2152 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2153 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2154 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2155 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2156
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LT
2157 mga= [HW,DRM]
2158
1c207f95
RD
2159 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2160 physical address is ignored.
2161
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MP
2162 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2163 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2164 Default: "0tb"
2165 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2166 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2167 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2168 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2169 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2170 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2171 unconfigured.
2172 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2173 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2174 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2175 VGA shield.
2176 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2177 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2178 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2179 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2180 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2181 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2182
6b74ab97
MG
2183 mminit_loglevel=
2184 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2185 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2186 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2187 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2188 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2189 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2190
106a4ee2
RR
2191 module.sig_enforce
2192 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2193 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2194 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2195 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2196
be7de5f9
PB
2197 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2198 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2199
1da177e4
LT
2200 mousedev.tap_time=
2201 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2202 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2203 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2204 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2205 Format: <msecs>
2206 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2207 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2208 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2209 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2210
6cececfc 2211 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2212 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2213 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2214 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2215 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2216 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2217 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2218 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2219 is not too small.
2220
39fa104d 2221 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
c5320926
TC
2222 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2223
1da177e4
LT
2224 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2225 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2226
a9913044
RD
2227 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2228 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2229
2230 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2231 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2232
4e89a2d8
WS
2233 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2234 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2235 at a time.
2236
5988af23
RH
2237 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2238
2239 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2240
2241 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2242 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2243 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2244 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2245 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2246
9db829f4
BD
2247 mtdset= [ARM]
2248 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2249
2250 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2251
1da177e4 2252 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2253 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2254 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2255
0cb55ad2 2256 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2257 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2258 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2259
2260 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2261 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2262 Default is 1.
2263 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2264 using up MTRRs.
2265
2266 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2267 Format: <integer>
2268 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2269 Default : 1
2270 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2271 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2272
1da177e4
LT
2273 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2274
1da177e4
LT
2275 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2276 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2277 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2278 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2279 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2280 file if at all.
2281
58401572
KPO
2282 nf_conntrack.acct=
2283 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2284 0 to disable accounting
2285 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2286 Default value is 0.
58401572 2287
306a0753 2288 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2289 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2290
2291 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2292 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2293
306a0753
CL
2294 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2295 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2296
5405fc44
TM
2297 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2298 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2299 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2300 requests.
2301
a72b4422
TM
2302 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2303 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2304 channel should listen.
2305
e571cbf1
TM
2306 nfs.cache_getent=
2307 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2308 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2309
2310 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2311 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2312 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2313
58df095b
TM
2314 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2315 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2316 entries.
2317
f43bf0be
TM
2318 nfs.enable_ino64=
2319 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2320 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2321 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2322 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2323 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2324
5405fc44
TM
2325 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2326 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2327 slots the client will assign to the callback
2328 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2329 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2330 a particular server.
2331
ef159e91
TM
2332 nfs.max_session_slots=
2333 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2334 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2335 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2336 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2337 Note that there is little point in setting this
2338 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2339
b064eca2 2340 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2341 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2342 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2343 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2344 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2345 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2346 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2347 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2348 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2349 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2350 back to using the idmapper.
2351 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2352 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2353 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2354 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2355 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2356 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2357
db8ac8ba
WAA
2358 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2359 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2360 information in exchange_id requests.
2361 If zero, no implementation identification information
2362 will be sent.
2363 The default is to send the implementation identification
2364 information.
e52347bd 2365
f6de7a39
TM
2366 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2367 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2368 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2369 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2370 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2371 after the locks are lost.
2372 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2373 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2374 parameter to '1'.
2375 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2376 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2377
bbf58bf3
TM
2378 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2379 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2380 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2381
2382 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2383 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2384 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2385 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2386
e9541ce8
BF
2387 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2388 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2389 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2390 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2391 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2392 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2393
18d98f6c
SB
2394 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2395 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2396 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2397 osd-targets. Please see:
2398 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2399
1e1030dc 2400 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2401 when a NMI is triggered.
2402 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2403
6cececfc 2404 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2405 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2406 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2407 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2408 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2409 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2410 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2411 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2412 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2413 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2414 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2415
bff38771
AV
2416 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2417 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2418 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2419 waits 4 seconds.
2420
cd4f0ef7 2421 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2422 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2423 is present.
2424
0cb55ad2
RD
2425 no_console_suspend
2426 [HW] Never suspend the console
2427 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2428 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2429 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2430 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2431 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2432 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2433 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2434 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2435 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2436 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2437 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2438 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2439
c1aee215
CL
2440 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2441 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2442 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2443
a9913044
RD
2444 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2445
1da177e4
LT
2446 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2447 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2448
5091faa4
MG
2449 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2450
1da177e4
LT
2451 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2452 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2453
2454 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2455
0cb55ad2
RD
2456 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2457
163ecdff
SN
2458 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2459
6902aa84
PM
2460 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2461
b2e0a54a 2462 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2463
1da177e4
LT
2464 noexec [IA-64]
2465
6cececfc 2466 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2467 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2468 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2469 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2470
52b6179a
PA
2471 nosmap [X86]
2472 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2473 even if it is supported by processor.
2474
de5397ad 2475 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2476 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2477 even if it is supported by processor.
2478
f5a1b191
JS
2479 noexec32 [X86-64]
2480 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2481 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2482 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2483 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2484 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2485
fab43ef4 2486 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2487
cd4f0ef7 2488 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2489 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2490 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2491
0ddab1d2
TK
2492 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2493
52c48c51
SS
2494 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2495 Equivalent to smt=1.
2496
0c752a93
SS
2497 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2498 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2499 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2500
b6f42a4a
FY
2501 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2502 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2503 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2504 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2505 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2506 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2507
2508 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2509 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2510 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2511 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2512 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2513 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2514 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2515
01a24d2b
PZ
2516 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2517 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2518 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2519
1f29fae2
SH
2520 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2521 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2522 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2523
1da177e4
LT
2524 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2525 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2526 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2527 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2528 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2529 real-time systems.
2530
a6e15a39
KC
2531 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2532
79bf2bb3
TG
2533 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2534 Valid arguments: on, off
2535 Default: on
2536
c5bfece2 2537 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2d13e6ca 2538 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2539 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2540 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2541 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2542 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2543 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2544 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2545
eeee7853
PM
2546 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2547
cd4f0ef7 2548 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2549 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2550
6cececfc 2551 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2552 broken timer IRQ sources.
2553
1da177e4
LT
2554 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2555
2556 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2557 initial RAM disk.
2558
03ea8155
WH
2559 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2560 remapping.
d1423d56 2561 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2562
1da177e4
LT
2563 nointroute [IA-64]
2564
d12a72b8
AL
2565 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2566
16290246 2567 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2568
9cf4c4fc
JK
2569 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2570
fd10cde9
GN
2571 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2572 fault handling.
2573
80e9a4f2
AM
2574 no-vmw-sched-clock
2575 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2576 clock and use the default one.
2577
d910f5c1
GC
2578 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2579 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2580 behaviour
2581
cd4f0ef7 2582 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2583
cd4f0ef7 2584 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2585
1da177e4 2586 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2587 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2588
312f1f01
H
2589 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2590
13696e0a 2591 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2592
83d7384f
AS
2593 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2594 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2595
bda62633
DZ
2596 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2597 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2598 irq.
2599
02608bef
DY
2600 nomodule Disable module load
2601
016ddd9b
JK
2602 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2603 pagetables) support.
2604
0cb55ad2
RD
2605 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2606 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2607
bbff2168 2608 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2609
cd4f0ef7 2610 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2611 with UP alternatives
2612
7a5091d5
PA
2613 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2614 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2615 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2616 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2617
a9913044
RD
2618 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2619 space.
2620
1da177e4
LT
2621 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2622 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2623 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2624
2625 nosbagart [IA-64]
2626
cd4f0ef7 2627 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2628
61ec7567
LB
2629 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2630 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2631
97842216
DJ
2632 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2633
1da177e4
LT
2634 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2635
cd4f0ef7 2636 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2637
195daf66
UO
2638 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2639 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2640
1da177e4 2641 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2642
2b2fd87a
WH
2643 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2644
f78cff48
FY
2645 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2646 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2647 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2648 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2649 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2650 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2651 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2652 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2653 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2654 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2655 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2656 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2657 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2658
16290246 2659 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2660 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2661 SAL PALO.
2662
2b633e3f
YL
2663 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2664 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2665 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2666 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2667 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2668 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2669 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2670 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2671
0cb55ad2
RD
2672 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2673
1a687c2e
MG
2674 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2675 Allowed values are enable and disable
2676
f0c0b2b8
KH
2677 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2678 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2679 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2680 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2681
7c4be253
RD
2682 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2683 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2684 info.
2685
3ef0e1f8
AS
2686 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2687 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2688 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2689 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2690 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2691 interrupts *may* be lost!
2692
15ac7afe
TL
2693 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2694 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2695 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2696 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2697
1da177e4
LT
2698 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2699 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2700
7e4e0bd5
RR
2701 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2702 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2703 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2704 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2705 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2706 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2707 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2708 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2709 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2710 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2711
44a4dcf7
RD
2712 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2713 process, but there is a small probability of
2714 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2715 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2716 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2717
bcfde334
RD
2718 OSS [HW,OSS]
2719 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2720
48c96a36
JK
2721 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2722 Storage of the information about who allocated
2723 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2724 we can turn it on.
2725 on: enable the feature
2726
8823b1db
LA
2727 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2728 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2729 off: turn off poisoning
2730 on: turn on poisoning
2731
44a4dcf7 2732 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2733 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2734 timeout = 0: wait forever
2735 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2736 Format: <timeout>
2737
9e3961a0
PB
2738 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2739 on a WARN().
2740
f06e5153
MH
2741 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2742 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2743 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2744 succeeds in any situation.
2745 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2746 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2747 kernel more unstable.
2748
1da177e4
LT
2749 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2750 connected to, default is 0.
2751 Format: <parport#>
2752 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2753 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
2754 Format: <mode>
2755
2756 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2757 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2758 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2759 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2760 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2761 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2762 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2763 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2764 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2765 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2766 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2767 are specified on the command line, starting
2768 with parport0.
2769
2770 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2771 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2772 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2773 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2774 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2775 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2776 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2777
dd287796
AM
2778 pause_on_oops=
2779 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2780 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2781 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2782
1da177e4
LT
2783 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2784
2785 pcd. [PARIDE]
2786 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2787 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2788
a9913044 2789 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2790 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2791 changes anything
c0115606 2792 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2793 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2794 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2795 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2796 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2797 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2798 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2799 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2800 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2801 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2802 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2803 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2804 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2805 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2806 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2807 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2808 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2809 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2810 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2811 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2812 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2813 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2814 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2815 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2816 Configuration
12983077
AH
2817 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2818 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2819 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2820 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2821 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2822 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2823 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2824 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2825 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2826 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2827 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2828 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2829 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2830 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2831 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2832 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2833 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2834 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2835 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2836 on several machines and they hang the machine
2837 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2838 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2839 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2840 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2841 motherboard.
c0115606 2842 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2843 Use with caution as certain devices share
2844 address decoders between ROMs and other
2845 resources.
c0115606 2846 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2847 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2848 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2849 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2850 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2851 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
2852 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2853 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2854 this way.
c0115606 2855 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
2856 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2857 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2858 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2859 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
2860 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2861 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2862 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2863 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
2864 numbers ourselves, overriding
2865 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2866 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
2867 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2868 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2869 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2870 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2871 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2872 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2873 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
2874 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2875 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2876 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2877 please report a bug.
2878 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2879 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
2880 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2881 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2882 so this option is a temporary workaround
2883 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2884 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2885 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
2886 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2887 This might help on some broken boards which
2888 machine check when some devices' config space
2889 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2890 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
2891 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2892 This sorting is done to get a device
2893 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2894 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2895 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2896 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2897 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2898 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2899 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2900 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2901 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2902 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2903 or bus can support) for best performance.
2904 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2905 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2906 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2907 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2908 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2909 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2910 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2911 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2912 The default value is 256 bytes.
2913 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2914 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2915 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
2916 resource_alignment=
2917 Format:
2918 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
2919 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2920 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
2921 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2922 aligned memory resources.
2923 If <order of align> is not specified,
2924 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2925 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2926 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
2927 To specify the alignment for several
2928 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2929 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2930 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
2931 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2932 end-to-end CRC checking).
2933 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2934 the default.
2935 off: Turn ECRC off
2936 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
2937 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2938 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2939 Default size is 256 bytes.
2940 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2941 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2942 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
2943 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2944 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2945 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
2946 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2947 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2948 accommodate resources required by all child
2949 devices.
2950 off: Turn realloc off
2951 on: Turn realloc on
2952 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 2953 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
2954 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2955 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2956 port.
6b4b78fe 2957
e5665a45
CE
2958 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2959 Management.
2960 off Disable ASPM.
2961 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2962 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2963
7570a333
MT
2964 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2965 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2966 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2967
79dd9182 2968 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
2969 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2970 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2971 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2972 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2973 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
2974 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2975 ports driver.
2976
9d26d3a8
MW
2977 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
2978 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
2979 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
2980
c7f48656 2981 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 2982 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 2983 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 2984
1da177e4
LT
2985 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2986
39ac5ba5
TB
2987 pd_ignore_unused
2988 [PM]
2989 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2990 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2991 for debug and development, but should not be
2992 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2993
1da177e4 2994 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2995 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2996
2997 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2998 boot time.
2999 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3000 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3001
f58dc01b 3002 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3003 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3004 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3005 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3006 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3007 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3008
1da177e4 3009 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3010 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3011
3012 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3013 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3014
3015 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3016 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3017
3018 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3019 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3020 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3021
16290246 3022 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3023 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3024 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3025
96242116
BH
3026 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3027 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3028 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3029 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3030 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3031 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3032
1da177e4
LT
3033 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3034 { off }
3035
3036 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3037 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3038
3039 pnp_reserve_irq=
3040 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3041
3042 pnp_reserve_dma=
3043 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3044
3045 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3046 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3047
3048 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3049 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3050 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3051 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3052
4af94f39
RD
3053 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3054 Default is 21.
3055 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3056 may be specified.
3057 Format: <port>,<port>....
3058
c3cbd075
BS
3059 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3060 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3061 platform machine description specific power_save
3062 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3063 execution priority.
3064
3eb5d588
AB
3065 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3066 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3067 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3068 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3069 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3070
45807a1d
IM
3071 print-fatal-signals=
3072 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3073
3074 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3075 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3076 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3077 coredump - etc.
3078
3079 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3080 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3081
45807a1d
IM
3082 default: off.
3083
c22ab332
MG
3084 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3085 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3086 panics
3087 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3088 default: disabled
3089
750afe7b
BP
3090 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3091 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3092 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3093 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3094 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3095 Default: ratelimit
3096
e84845c4
RD
3097 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3098 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3099
0cb55ad2
RD
3100 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3101 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3102 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3103
3104 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3105 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3106 instead using the legacy FADT method
3107
1da177e4 3108 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
a9913044
RD
3109 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3110 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3111 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3112 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
3113 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3114 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3115 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 3116
1da177e4
LT
3117 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3118 before loading.
31c00fc1 3119 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3120
a9913044
RD
3121 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3122 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3123 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3124 per second.
a9913044
RD
3125 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3126 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3127 (0 = never).
3128 psmouse.resolution=
3129 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3130 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3131 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3132 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3133
dee28e72
MG
3134 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3135
1da177e4 3136 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3137 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3138
dc8c8587
KS
3139 pty.legacy_count=
3140 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3141 default number.
3142
7d2c502f 3143 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3144
1da177e4
LT
3145 r128= [HW,DRM]
3146
3147 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3148 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3149
1da177e4 3150 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3151 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3152
4102adab 3153 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3154 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3155
3fbfbf7a
PM
3156 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3157 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3158 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
3159 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3160 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3161 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3162 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
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3163 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3164 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3165 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3166
4102adab 3167 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
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3168 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3169 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3170 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3171 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3172 This improves the real-time response for the
3173 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3174 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3175 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3176 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3177
4102adab 3178 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
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3179 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3180 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3181
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3182 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3183 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3184 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3185 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3186
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3187 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3188 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3189 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3190 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3191
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3192 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3193 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3194 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
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3195 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3196 is set.
3197
3198 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3199 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3200 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3201 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3202 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3203 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
37745d28 3204
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3205 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3206 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3207 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3208 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3209 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3210
4102adab 3211 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
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3212 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3213 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3214 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3215 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3216 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3217 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3218
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3219 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3220 Set required age in jiffies for a
3221 given grace period before RCU starts
3222 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3223 rcu_note_context_switch().
3224
4102adab 3225 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
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3226 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3227 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3228 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3229 and maximum value is HZ.
3230
4102adab 3231 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
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3232 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3233 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3234 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3235
21871d7e 3236 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
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3237 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3238 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3239 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3240 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3241 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3242 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3243 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3244 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3245 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
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3247 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3248 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3249 defaults to the square root of the number of
3250 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3251 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3252 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3253
4102adab 3254 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
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3255 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3256 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3257
4102adab 3258 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
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3259 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3260 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3261
4102adab 3262 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
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3263 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3264 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3265
4102adab 3266 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
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3267 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3268 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3269 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3270 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3271
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3272 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3273 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3274 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3275 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3276 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3277 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3278
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3279 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3280 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3281 grace-period primitives.
3282
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3283 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3284 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3285 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3286 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3287 interference.
3288
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3289 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3290 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3291 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3292 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3293 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3294 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3295 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3296 a single reader.
3297
3298 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3299 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3300 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3301 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3302
3303 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3304 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3305
3306 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3307 Shut the system down after performance tests
3308 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3309 testing.
3310
3311 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3312 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3313
3314 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3315 Enable additional printk() statements.
3316
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3317 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3318 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3319 callback-flood tests.
3320
3321 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3322 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3323 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3324 test.
3325
3326 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3327 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3328 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3329 disable callback-flood testing.
3330
3331 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3332 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3333 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3334
4102adab 3335 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
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3336 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3337 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3338
4102adab 3339 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
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3340 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3341 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3342
4102adab 3343 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
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3344 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3345 in seconds.
3346
3347 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3348 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3349 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3350
4102adab 3351 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3352 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
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3353
3354 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
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3355 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3356 update-side primitives, if available.
3357
3358 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3359 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3360 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3361 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3362 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3363 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3364 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3365
4102adab 3366 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
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3367 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3368
4102adab 3369 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
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3370 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3371 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3372 test, hence the "fake".
3373
4102adab 3374 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
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3375 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3376 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3377 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3378 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3379 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3380
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3381 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3382 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3383
3384 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
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3385 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3386
4102adab 3387 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
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3388 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3389 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3390
4102adab 3391 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
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3392 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3393 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3394 during the rcutorture test.
3395
4102adab 3396 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
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3397 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3398 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3399
4102adab 3400 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
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3401 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3402 warnings, zero to disable.
3403
4102adab 3404 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
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3405 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3406
4102adab 3407 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
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3408 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3409
4102adab 3410 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
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3411 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3412 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3413 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3414 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3415
4102adab 3416 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
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3417 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3418 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3419 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3420
4102adab 3421 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
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3422 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3423
4102adab 3424 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
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3425 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3426
4102adab 3427 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
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3428 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3429 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3430
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3431 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3432 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3433
4102adab 3434 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
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3435 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3436
4102adab 3437 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
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3438 Enable additional printk() statements.
3439
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3440 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3441 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3442
3443 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3444 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3445
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3446 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3447 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3448 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3449 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3450 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3451 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3452 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3453
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3454 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3455 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3456 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3457 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
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3458 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3459 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3460 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3461 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3462 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3463
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3464 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3465 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3466 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
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3467 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3468 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3469
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3470 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3471 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3472 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3473 to zero.
3474
74860fee
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3475 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3476 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3477
3478 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3479 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3480
3481 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3482 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3483
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3484 rdinit= [KNL]
3485 Format: <full_path>
3486 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3487 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3488
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3489 reboot= [KNL]
3490 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3491 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3492 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3493 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3494 [[,]f[orce]
3495 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3496 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3497 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3498 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3499 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3500
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3501 relax_domain_level=
3502 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3503 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3504
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3505 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3506
cd4f0ef7 3507 reservetop= [X86-32]
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3508 Format: nn[KMG]
3509 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3510 address space.
3511
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3512 reservelow= [X86]
3513 Format: nn[K]
3514 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3515 the bottom of the address space.
3516
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3517 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3518 during initialization.
3519
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3520 resume= [SWSUSP]
3521 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3522 Format:
3523 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3524
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3525 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3526 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3527 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3528 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3529 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3530
f126f733
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3531 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3532 read the resume files
3533
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3534 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3535 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3536 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3537
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3538 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3539 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3540 present during boot.
3541 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3542 no Disable hibernation and resume.
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3543 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3544 (that will set all pages holding image data
3545 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3546
0a7b35cb
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3547 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3548
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AC
3549 rfkill.default_state=
3550 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3551 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3552 1 Unblocked.
3553
3554 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3555 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3556 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3557 blocked and the previous configuration.
3558 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3559 blocked and everything unblocked.
3560
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3561 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3562 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3563
e16fd002
GA
3564 ring3mwait=disable
3565 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3566 CPUs.
3567
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3568 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3569
d2aa1aca
KC
3570 rodata= [KNL]
3571 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3572 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3573
605df8af
HS
3574 rockchip.usb_uart
3575 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3576 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3577 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3578 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3579
1da177e4 3580 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3581 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3582
3583 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3584 mount the root filesystem
3585
3586 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3587
3588 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3589
cc1ed754
PO
3590 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3591 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3592 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3593
5c71d618
RT
3594 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3595 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3596 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3597 managed by CMA.
3598
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3599 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3600
3601 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3602
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GS
3603 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3604 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3605 strict
3606 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3607 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3608 which is faster.
3609
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LT
3610 sa1100ir [NET]
3611 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3612
1da177e4 3613 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3614
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3615 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3616
cb251765
MG
3617 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3618 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3619 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3620 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3621
5307c955
MG
3622 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3623 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3624 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3625 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3626 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3627 1 -- enable.
3628 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3629 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3630
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RD
3631 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3632 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3633 security module asking for security registration will be
3634 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3635 as if no module has been chosen.
3636
3637 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3638 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3639 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3640 0 -- disable.
3641 1 -- enable.
3642 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3643 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3644 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3645
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JJ
3646 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3647 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3648 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3649 0 -- disable.
3650 1 -- enable.
3651 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3652
cd4f0ef7 3653 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3654
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3655 shapers= [NET]
3656 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3657
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3658 simeth= [IA-64]
3659 simscsi=
a9913044 3660
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LT
3661 slram= [HW,MTD]
3662
423c929c
JK
3663 slab_nomerge [MM]
3664 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3665 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3666 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3667 merging on their own.
3668 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3669
3df1cccd
DR
3670 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3671 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3672 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3673 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3674 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3675
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CL
3676 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3677 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3678 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3679 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3680 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3681 last alloc / free. For more information see
3682 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
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CL
3683
3684 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3685 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3686 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3687 fragmentation. For more information see
3688 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3689
3690 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3691 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3692 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3693 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3694 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3695 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3696 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3697 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3698
3699 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3700 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3701 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3702 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3703
3704 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3705 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3706 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3707
1da177e4
LT
3708 smart2= [HW]
3709 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3710
d0d4f69b
BH
3711 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3712 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3713 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3714 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3715 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3716 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3717 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3718 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3719 1: Fast pin select (default)
3720 2: ATC IRMode
3721
52c48c51
SS
3722 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3723 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3724 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3725 actual hardware limit.
3726 Format: <integer>
3727 Default: -1 (no limit)
3728
9c44bc03
IM
3729 softlockup_panic=
3730 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3731 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3732
ed235875
AT
3733 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3734 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3735 backtraces on all cpus.
3736 Format: <integer>
3737
1da177e4 3738 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3739 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3740
1da177e4
LT
3741 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3742 spia_fio_base=
3743 spia_pedr=
3744 spia_peddr=
3745
f38f1d2a
SR
3746 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3747 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3748
762e1207
SR
3749 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3750 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3751 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3752 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3753 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3754 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3755 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3756
1da177e4
LT
3757 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3758 Format: <num>
3759 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3760 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3761 as the initial boot-console.
3762 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3763
3764 sti_font= [HW]
3765 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3766
3767 stifb= [HW]
3768 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3769
cbf11071
TM
3770 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3771 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3772 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3773 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3774 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3775 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3776 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3777 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3778 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3779 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3780 maximum port values.
3781
ff3ac5c3
TM
3782 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3783 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3784 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3785 process in parallel from a single connection.
3786 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3787
42a7fc4a
GB
3788 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3789 [NFS]
3790 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3791 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3792 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3793 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3794 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3795 NFS server is running.
3796
3797 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3798 automatically using heuristics
3799 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3800 percpu one pool for each CPU
3801 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3802 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3803
cbf11071
TM
3804 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3805 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3806 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3807 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3808 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3809 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3810 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3811 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3812
1d4a9c17
BN
3813 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3814 [SUSPEND]
3815 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3816 mode before resuming the system (see
3817 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3818 is set. Default value is 5.
3819
07555ac1 3820 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3821 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3822 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 3823 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 3824
91fec0f5 3825 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 3826 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
3827 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3828 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3829 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 3830 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 3831
1da177e4
LT
3832 switches= [HW,M68k]
3833
e52eec13
AK
3834 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3835 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3836 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3837 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3838 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3839 in older udev will not work anymore.
3840 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3841 the kernel configuration.
3842
5d6f647f
IM
3843 sysrq_always_enabled
3844 [KNL]
3845 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3846 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3847 Useful for debugging.
3848
747029a5
FF
3849 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3850 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3851 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3852 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3853 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3854 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3855
1da177e4
LT
3856 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3857
acc82342 3858 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 3859 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
3860 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3861 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3862 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3863 The system is woken from this state using a
3864 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 3865
1da177e4
LT
3866 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3867 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3868
f8707ec9
LB
3869 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3870 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3871 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3872
c52a7419
LB
3873 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3874 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 3875 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 3876
f5487145
LB
3877 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3878 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3879 critical and hot trip points.
3880
72b33ef8
LB
3881 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3882 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3883
a70cdc52
LB
3884 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3885 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
3886 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3887 value
a70cdc52 3888
730ff34d
LB
3889 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3890 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3891 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3892 0: no polling (default)
3893
8d32a307
TG
3894 threadirqs [KNL]
3895 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 3896 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 3897
2ca62b04
KRW
3898 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3899 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3900
3901 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3902 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3903 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3904
3905 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3906 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
3907 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3908 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
3909
3910 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3911 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3912 to the hypervisor.
3913
3914 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3915 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3916 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3917 kernel based on different criteria.
3918
2b1a61f0
HC
3919 topology= [S390]
3920 Format: {off | on}
3921 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
3922 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3923 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 3924 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 3925 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 3926
2d73bae1
NA
3927 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3928 Format: {off}
3929 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3930 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3931 LPAR.
3932
1da177e4
LT
3933 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3934
225a9be2
RA
3935 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3936 Format: integer pcr id
3937 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3938 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3939 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3940 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3941 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3942 are saved.
3943
9d612bef 3944 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 3945 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 3946
020e5f85
LZ
3947 trace_event=[event-list]
3948 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
3949 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
3950 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
3951 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 3952
7bcfaf54
SR
3953 trace_options=[option-list]
3954 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3955 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3956 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3957 to echo the option name into
3958
3959 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3960
3961 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3962 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3963
3964 trace_options=stacktrace
3965
3966 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3967 section.
3968
0daa2302
SRRH
3969 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3970 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3971 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3972 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3973 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3974 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3975
3976 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3977 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3978 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3979 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3980
3981 ** CAUTION **
3982
3983 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3984 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3985 the system to live lock.
3986
de7edd31
SRRH
3987 traceoff_on_warning
3988 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3989 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3990 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3991 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3992
3993 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3994 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3995 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3996
3997 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3998 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3999
fcf4d821
JK
4000 transparent_hugepage=
4001 [KNL]
4002 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4003 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4004 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4005 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4006
d3b8f889 4007 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4008 Format: <string>
4009 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4010 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4011 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4012 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4013 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4014 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4015 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4016 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4017 can add overhead.
395628ef 4018
a9913044
RD
4019 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4020 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4021 Format:
4022 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
4023 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4024
b6935f8c 4025 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4026 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4027 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4028 help "seeing" what's going on.
4029
f86dcc5a
ED
4030 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4031 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4032
5f8364b7
AS
4033 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4034 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4035 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4036 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4037 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4038 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4039 reported either.
4040
e3a61b0a 4041 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4042 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4043
c4fc2342
CDH
4044 usbcore.authorized_default=
4045 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4046 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4047 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4048
b5e795f8
AS
4049 usbcore.autosuspend=
4050 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4051 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4052 is the time required before an idle device will be
4053 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4054 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4055
fd7c519d
JK
4056 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4057 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4058
0290cc9f
AS
4059 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4060 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4061 (default = 65536).
4062
fd7c519d
JK
4063 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4064 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4065
4066 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4067 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4068 scheme (default 0 = off).
4069
3f5eb8d5
AS
4070 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4071 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4072 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4073
fd7c519d
JK
4074 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4075 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4076 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4077
4078 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4079 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4080 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4081 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4082
40d58148
ON
4083 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4084
1da177e4
LT
4085 usbhid.mousepoll=
4086 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4087
d4f373e5
AS
4088 usb-storage.delay_use=
4089 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4090 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4091
4092 usb-storage.quirks=
4093 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4094 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4095 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4096 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4097 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4098 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4099 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4100 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4101 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4102 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4103 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4104 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4105 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4106 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4107 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4108 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4109 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4110 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4111 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4112 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4113 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4114 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4115 reported device capacity by one
4116 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4117 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4118 device);
13630746
HG
4119 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4120 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4121 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4122 unlock ejectable media);
4123 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4124 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4125 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4126 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4127 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4128 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4129 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4130 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4131 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4132 bogus residue values);
4133 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4134 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4135 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4136 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4137 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4138 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4139 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4140 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4141 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4142 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4143
ac1667db
SB
4144 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4145 Format: <int>
4146 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4147 1 - undefined instruction events
4148 2 - system calls
4149 4 - invalid data aborts
4150 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4151 16 - SIGBUS faults
4152 Example: user_debug=31
4153
14315592
IC
4154 userpte=
4155 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4156
4157 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4158 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4159 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4160
6cececfc 4161 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4162 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4163
4164 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4165 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4166
b0b49f26
AL
4167 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4168 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4169 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4170
4171 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4172 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4173 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4174
4175 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4176 alias for vdso32=0.
4177
4178 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4179 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4180
d080d397
YI
4181 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4182 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4183
1da177e4
LT
4184 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4185 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4186
3afe6dab
AL
4187 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4188 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4189 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4190 level and then send out the event to user space through
4191 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4192 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4193 brightness level.
2843768b 4194 default: 1
3afe6dab 4195
81a054ce
PM
4196 virtio_mmio.device=
4197 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4198
4199 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4200 where:
4201 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4202 like K, M and G)
4203 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4204 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4205 request_irq())
4206 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4207 example:
4208 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4209
4210 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4211
cd4f0ef7 4212 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4213 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4214 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4215 Use vga=ask for menu.
4216 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4217 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4218
a9913044 4219 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4220 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4221 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4222 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4223 mapped kernel RAM.
4224
585c3047
PO
4225 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4226 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4227
585c3047
PO
4228 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4229 Format: <command>
4230
4231 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4232 Format: <command>
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4234 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4235 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4236 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4237 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4238 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4239 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4240 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4241
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4242 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4243 emulated reasonably safely.
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2e57ae05 4245 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
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4246 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4247 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4248 better than they would in emulation mode.
4249 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4250
4251 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4252 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4253 might break your system.
4254
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4255 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4256 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4257 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4258
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4259 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4260 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4261 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4262 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4263
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4264 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4265 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4266 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4267 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4268 ranging from 0-255.
4269
4270 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4271 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4272 Change the default green palette of the console.
4273 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4274 ranging from 0-255.
4275
4276 vt.default_red= [VT]
4277 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4278 Change the default red palette of the console.
4279 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4280 ranging from 0-255.
4281
4282 vt.default_utf8=
4283 [VT]
4284 Format=<0|1>
4285 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4286 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4287 newly opened terminals.
4288
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4289 vt.global_cursor_default=
4290 [VT]
4291 Format=<-1|0|1>
4292 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4293 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4294 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4295 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4296 cursors, 1 will display them.
4297
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4298 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4299 Default: 2 = green.
4300
4301 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4302 Default: 3 = cyan.
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4304 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4305 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4306 or other driver-specific files in the
4307 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
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4309 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4310 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4311 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4312 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4313 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4314 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4315 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4316 corresponding sysfs file.
4317
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4318 workqueue.disable_numa
4319 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4320 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4321 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4322 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4323 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4324 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4325 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4326
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4327 workqueue.power_efficient
4328 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4329 they show better performance thanks to cache
4330 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4331 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4332
4333 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4334 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4335 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4336 power usage at the cost of small performance
4337 overhead.
4338
4339 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4340 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4341
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4342 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4343 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4344 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4345 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4346 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4347 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4348 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4349 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4350 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4351 impacted.
4352
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4353 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4354 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4355 supporting x2apic.
4356
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4357 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4358 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
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4359 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4360 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4361 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
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4363 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4364 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4365 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4366 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4367 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4368 domains.
4369
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4370 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4371 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4372 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4373 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4374 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4375 nics -- unplug network devices
4376 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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4377 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4378 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4379 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4380 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
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4382 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4383 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4384 optimizations.
4385
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4386 xen_nopv [X86]
4387 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4388 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4389
1da177e4 4390 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
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4391 Format:
4392 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]