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1 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3
4The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented
5(mostly) by the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order
6(defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a
7case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known.
8
9Module parameters for loadable modules are specified only as the
10parameter name with optional '=' and value as appropriate, such as:
11
12 modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
13
14Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image
15are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus
16'.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as:
17
18 usbcore.blinkenlights=1
19
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20Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
21 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
22can also be entered as
23 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
24
25
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26This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
27"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
28module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
29reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
30parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
31"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
32
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33The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
34enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
35the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
36parameter is applicable:
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38 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
c99c108a 39 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
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40 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
41 APIC APIC support is enabled.
42 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
16290246 43 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
e7ba176b 44 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 45 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
0ae53640 46 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
1e435256 47 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
5c71d618 48 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
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49 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
50 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
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51 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
52 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
53 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
7102ebcd 54 EVM Extended Verification Module
1da177e4 55 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
16290246 56 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
2521f2c2 57 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
1da177e4 58 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
1da177e4 59 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
6146f0d5 60 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 61 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
41e2e8be 62 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
b0f83b28 63 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
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64 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
65 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
66 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
84c08fd6 67 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
fef07aae 68 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
11ef697b 69 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
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70 LP Printer support is enabled.
71 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
72 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
73 These options have more detailed description inside of
74 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
1da177e4 75 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
16290246 76 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 77 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
309e57df 78 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
c8facbb6 79 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
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80 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
81 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
82 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
83 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
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84 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
85 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
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86 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
87 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
7f785763 88 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
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89 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
90 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
91 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
92 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
93 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
94 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
95 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
96 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
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97 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
98 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
20510f2f 99 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
1da177e4 100 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
c1c124e9 101 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
1da177e4 102 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
e523d93c 103 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
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104 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
105 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
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106 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
107 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
225a9be2 108 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
1da177e4 109 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
d4f373e5 110 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
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111 USB USB support is enabled.
112 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
113 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
81a054ce 114 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
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115 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
116 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
117 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
118 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
cd4f0ef7 119 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
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120 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
121 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
71cced6e 122 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
16290246 123 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
c1c5413a 124 XEN Xen support is enabled
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125
126In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
127
128 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
129 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
130 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
131
132Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
133loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
134Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
954a8b81 135need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
1da177e4 136
5558870b 137There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
71cced6e 138See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
5558870b 139
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140Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
141a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
142be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
143it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
144running once the system is up.
145
9c4751fd 146The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
147complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
148a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
149and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
150./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
151
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152Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
153parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
154multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
155bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
156
9c4751fd 157
6cececfc 158 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86]
03d926f8 159 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
68ca4069 160 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt }
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161 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
162 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
163 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 164 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 165 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 166 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 167 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
1da177e4 168
395cf969 169 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
1da177e4 170
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171 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
172 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
173 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
174 second kernel for kdump.
175
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176 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
177 Format: <int>
178 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
179 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 180 default: 0
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182 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
183 acpi_backlight=vendor
184 acpi_backlight=video
185 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
186 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
187 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
188
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189 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
190 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 191 Format: <int>
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192 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
193 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
194 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
195 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
196 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
197 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
198 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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199 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
200 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
201 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 202
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203 Enable processor driver info messages:
204 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
205 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
206 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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207 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
208 object while interpreting AML:
209 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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210 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
211 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
212
213 Some values produce so much output that the system is
214 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
215 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 216
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217 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
218 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
219 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
220 size limitation.
221
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222 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
223 ACPI will balance active IRQs
224 default in APIC mode
225
226 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
227 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
228 default in PIC mode
229
230 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
231 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
232
233 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
234 use by PCI
235 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
236
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237 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
238 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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239 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
240 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
241 auto-serialization feature.
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242 This feature is enabled by default.
243 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 244
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245 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
246 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
247 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
248 installed automatically and they will appear under
249 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
250 This option turns off this feature.
251 Note that specifying this option does not affect
252 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
253 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 254
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255 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
256 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
257 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
258 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
259 This option is useful for developers to identify the
260 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
261 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
262
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263 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
264 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
265
266 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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267 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
268 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 269 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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270 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
271 strings
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272 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
273
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274 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
275 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
276 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
277 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
278 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
279 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
280 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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281 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
282 care about the state of the feature group strings which
283 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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284 Examples:
285 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
286 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
287 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
288
289 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
290 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
291 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
292 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
293 multiple times through kernel command line is also
294 meaningless.
295 Examples:
296 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
297 FALSE.
298
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299 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
300 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
301 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
302 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
303 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
304 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
305 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
306 there are quirks related to this string. This command
307 is useful when one want to control the state of the
308 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
309 the OSPM features.
310 Examples:
311 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
312 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
313 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
314 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
315 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
316 equivalent to
317 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
318 and
319 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
320 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
321
6cececfc 322 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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323 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
324 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
325 and always returns good values.
326
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327 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
328 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
329
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330 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
331 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
332 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
333
334 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
335 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
c3b0795c 336 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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337 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
338 s3_bios and s3_mode.
339 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
340 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
341 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
342 used during resume from hibernation.
343 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
344 control method, with respect to putting devices into
345 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
346 of _PTS is used by default).
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347 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
348 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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349 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
350 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
351 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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352
353 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
354 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
355 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
356
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357 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
358 { strict | lax | no }
359 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
360 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
361 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
362 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
363 can interfere with legacy drivers.
364 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
365 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
366 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
367 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
368 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
369 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
370 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
371 no further checks are performed.
372
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373 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
374 kernels.
375
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376 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
377 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
378
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379 agp= [AGP]
380 { off | try_unsupported }
381 off: disable AGP support
382 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
383 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
384
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385 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
386 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
387
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388 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
389 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
390 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
391 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
392
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393 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
394 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
395 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
396 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
397 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
398 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
399 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
400
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401 32: only for 32-bit processes
402 64: only for 64-bit processes
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403 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
404 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
405
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406 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
407 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
408 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
409 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
410 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
411 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
412
89e0b9a3 413 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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414 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
415 Possible values are:
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416 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
417 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
418 flushed before they will be reused, which
419 is a lot of faster
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420 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
421 the system
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422 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
423 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
424 allowed anymore to lift isolation
425 requirements as needed. This option
426 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 427
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428 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
429 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
430 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
431 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
432 IOMMU initialization.
433
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434 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
435 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
436 Format: <a>,<b>
395cf969 437 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
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438
439 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
440 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
441 connected to one of 16 gameports
442 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
443
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444 apc= [HW,SPARC]
445 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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446 Format: noidle
447 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
448 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
449 APC and your system crashes randomly.
450
ca1eda2d 451 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 452 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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453 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
454 Change the amount of debugging information output
455 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 456
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457 autoconf= [IPV6]
458 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
459
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460 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
461 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
462 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
463 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
464 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
465 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
466 apic=verbose is specified.
467 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
468
1da177e4 469 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 470 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 471
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472 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
473 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
474
475 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
476
477 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
478
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479 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
480 EzKey and similar keyboards
481
482 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
483
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484 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
485 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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486
487 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
488 keyboards
489
490 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
491 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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492
493 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
494 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 495
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496 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
497 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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498 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
499 until the next reboot
500 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
501 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
502 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
503 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
504 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
505 auditd.
a106fb0c 506 Default: unset
f3411cb2 507
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508 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
509 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
510 Default: 64
511
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512 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
513 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 514
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515 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
516 Format: <io>,<mode>
517 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
518
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519 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
520 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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521 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
522 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
523
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524 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
525 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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526 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
527 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
528
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529 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
530 embedded devices based on command line input.
531 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
532
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533 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
534 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
535 no delay (0).
536 Format: integer
537
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538 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
539
1da177e4 540 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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541 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
542 kernel args too.
1da177e4 543 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
395cf969 544 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 545
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546 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
547 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
548 at a time.
549
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550 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
551
cd4f0ef7 552 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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553 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
554 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
555 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
556 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
557 This option provides an override for these situations.
558
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559 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
560 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 561
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562 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
563 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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564 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
565 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
566 a single hierarchy
567 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
568 subsystem
569 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
570 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
571 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 572
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573 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
574 Format: { "0" | "1" }
575 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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576 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
577 any implied execute protection).
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578 1 -- check protection requested by application.
579 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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580 Value can be changed at runtime via
581 /selinux/checkreqprot.
582
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583 cio_ignore= [S390]
584 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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585 clk_ignore_unused
586 [CLK]
587 Keep all clocks already enabled by bootloader on,
588 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
589 for debug and development, but should not be
590 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
591 For more information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
661ca0da 592
cd4f0ef7 593 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 594 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 595 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 596 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 597 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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598 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
599
592913ec 600 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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601 Format: <string>
602 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
603 with the name specified.
604 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
605 the platform:
606 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
607 [ACPI] acpi_pm
608 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
609 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
610 [AVR32] avr32
9863c90f 611 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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612 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
613 [MIPS] MIPS
614 [PARISC] cr16
615 [S390] tod
616 [SH] SuperH
617 [SPARC64] tick
618 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
619
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620 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
621 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
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622 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
623 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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624 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
625 ones should be.
626 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
627 or using the feature without checking anything
628 will still see it. This just prevents it from
629 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
630 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
631 some critical bits.
632
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633 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
634 [ARM,X86,KNL]
635 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
636 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
637 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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638 memory allocations. For more information, see
639 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
640
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641 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
642 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
643 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
644 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
645 a hypervisor.
646 Default: yes
647
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648 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
649 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 650 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 651
6cececfc 652 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 653 in an oops report.
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654 Range: 0 - 8192
655 Default: 64
656
1da177e4 657 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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658 Format:
659 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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660
661 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
662 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
663
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664 com90xx= [HW,NET]
665 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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666 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
667
668 condev= [HW,S390] console device
669 conmode=
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671 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
672
673 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
674
675 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 676 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 677 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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678 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
679 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
680 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
681 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
682
683 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
684 information. See
685 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
686 alternative.
1da177e4 687
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688 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
689 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
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690 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
691 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
692 switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
693 options are the same as for ttyS, above.
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694 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
695 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 696
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697 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
698 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
699 console=brl,ttyS0
700 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
701
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702 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
703 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
704 disables the blank timer.
705
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706 coredump_filter=
707 [KNL] Change the default value for
708 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
709 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
710
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711 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
712 disable the cpuidle sub-system
713
1da177e4 714 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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715 Format:
716 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 717
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718 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
719 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
720 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
721 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
722 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
723 is selected automatically. Check
724 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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726 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
727 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
728 in the running system. The syntax of range is
729 start-[end] where start and end are both
730 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 731 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 732
adbc742b 733 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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734 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
735 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
736 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
737 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
738 available.
739 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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740 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
741 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
742 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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743 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
744 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
745 requires at least 64M+32K low memory. Kernel would
746 try to allocate 72M below 4G automatically.
747 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
748 for second kernel instead.
749 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 750 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 751 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 752
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753 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
754 Format: <dma>
755
756 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
757 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 758
a9913044 759 dasd= [HW,NET]
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760 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
761
762 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
763 (one device per port)
764 Format: <port#>,<type>
765 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
766
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767 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
768 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
29e36c9f 769 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 770
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771 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
772
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773 debug_locks_verbose=
774 [KNL] verbose self-tests
775 Format=<0|1>
776 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
777 self-tests.
778 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
779 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
780 only useful to kernel developers.
781
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782 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
783
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784 no_debug_objects
785 [KNL] Disable object debugging
786
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787 debug_guardpage_minorder=
788 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
789 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
790 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
791 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
792 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
793 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
794 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
795 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
796 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
797 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
798 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
799 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
800 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
801 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
802 bypassed) which are not detectable by
803 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
804 tracking down these problems.
805
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806 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
807
2d27a966 808 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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809 Format: <area>[,<node>]
810 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
811
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812 default_hugepagesz=
813 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
814 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
815 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
816 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
817 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
818 if not specified.
55ff9780 819
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820 dhash_entries= [KNL]
821 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
a9913044 822
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823 disable= [IPV6]
824 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
825
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826 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
827 Format: <int>
828 The number of initial APIC ID for the
829 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
830 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
831 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
832 causing system reset or hang due to sending
833 INIT from AP to BSP.
834
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835 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
836 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
837 to workaround buggy firmware.
838
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839 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
840 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
841
95ffa243 842 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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843 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
844 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 845 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 846
093af8d7 847 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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848 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
849 memory out of your available memory pool based on
850 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
851 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
852
6cececfc 853 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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854 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
855 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
856
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857 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
858 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
859
860 dma_debug_entries=<number>
861 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
862 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
863 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
864 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
865 architectural default is too low.
866
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867 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
868 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
869 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
870 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
871 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
872 driver later using sysfs.
873
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874 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>
875 Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may
876 send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter
877 allows to specify an EDID data set in the
878 /lib/firmware directory that is used instead.
879 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
880 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
881 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
882 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
883 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
884 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
885 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
886 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
887 name.
888
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889 dscc4.setup= [NET]
890
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891 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
892 module.dyndbg[="val"]
893 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
894 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
895
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896 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
897 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
898 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
899 which are not unmapped.
900
0cb55ad2 901 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 902
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903 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
904 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 905 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
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906 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
907 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
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908 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
909 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
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910 The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
911
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912 pl011,<addr>
913 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
914 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
915 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
916 yet supported.
917
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918 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
919
7913ad1a 920 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
1da177e4 921 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 922 earlyprintk=efi
2482a92e 923 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 924 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 925 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 926 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 927 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1da177e4 928
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929 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
930 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
931 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
932
a9913044 933 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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934 takes over.
935
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936 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
937 be used at a time.
1da177e4 938
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939 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
940 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
941 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
942 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
943 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
944 You can find the port for a given device in
945 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
946 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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947
948 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
949 very good.
950
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951 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
952 the real console.
1da177e4 953
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954 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
955
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956 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
957 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
958 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
959 by other higher priority error reporting module.
960 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
961 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
962 default: on.
963
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964 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
965 ekgdboc=kbd
966
25985edc 967 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
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968 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
969
1da177e4 970 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 971 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 972
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973 efi= [EFI]
974 Format: { "old_map" }
975 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
976 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
977 default.
978
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979 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
980 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
981 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
982 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
983 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
984
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985 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
986 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
987
cd4f0ef7 988 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 989 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 990 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
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991
992 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 993 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 994 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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995 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
996
d3bf3795 997 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 998 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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999 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1000 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1001 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1002
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1003 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1004 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1005 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1006 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1007
ca1eda2d 1008 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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1009 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1010 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1011 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1012 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1013
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1014 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1015 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1016 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1017 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1018 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1019 Default value is 0.
1020 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1021
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1022 erst_disable [ACPI]
1023 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1024 support.
1025
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1026 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1027 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1028 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1029
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1030 evm= [EVM]
1031 Format: { "fix" }
1032 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1033 current integrity status.
1034
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1035 failslab=
1036 fail_page_alloc=
1037 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1038 General fault injection mechanism.
1039 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1040 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1041
1da177e4 1042 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1043 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1044
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1045 force_pal_cache_flush
1046 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1047 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1048 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1049 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1050
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1051 forcepae [X86-32]
1052 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1053 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1054 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1055 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1056 and may cause unknown problems.
1057
d9e54076 1058 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1059 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
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1060 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1061 boot debugging.
1062
cecbca96 1063 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1064 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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1065 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1066 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1067 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1068 oops.
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1069
1070 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1071 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1072 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1073 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1074 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1075 tracing directory.
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1076
1077 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1078 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1079 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1080 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1081 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1082
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1083 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1084 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1085 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1086 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1087 that can be changed at run time by the
1088 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1089
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1090 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1091 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1092 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1093 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1094 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1095
1096 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1097
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1098 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1099 Format: off | on
1100 default: on
1101
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1102 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1103 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1104 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1105 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1106 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1107
1da177e4 1108 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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1109 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1110 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1111 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1112
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1113 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1114 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1115 Format: 0 | 1
1116 Default: 0
1117 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1118 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1119 Format: 0 | 1
1120 Default: 0
1121 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1122 Format: 0 | 1
1123 Default: 0
1124 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1125 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1126 Default: 1024
1127 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1128 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1129 Default: 1024
1130
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1131 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1132 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1133 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1134 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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1135
1136 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1137
1138 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1139 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1140
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HY
1141 hest_disable [ACPI]
1142 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1143 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1144 logic will be disabled.
1145
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1146 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1147 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1148 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1149 size on bigger boxes.
1150
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1151 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1152 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1153 Default: "on"
1154
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1155 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1156 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1157
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1158 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1159
1160 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1161 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1162 verbose }
1163 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1164 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1165 VIA, nVidia)
1166 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1167
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1168 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1169 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1170
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1171 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1172 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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1173 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1174 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1175 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1176 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1177 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
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1178 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
1179 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
6902aa84 1180
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1181 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1182 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
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1183 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1184 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1185 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1186
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JH
1187 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1188 hardware thread id mappings.
1189 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1190
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FDN
1191 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1192 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1193 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1194 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1195 the real console.
1196
3a853fb9 1197 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
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1198 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1199 registered from board initialization code.
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JN
1200 Format:
1201 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1202
36d95739 1203 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1da177e4 1204 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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1205 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1206 keyboard and cannot control its state
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1207 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1208 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1209 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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1210 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1211 for the AUX port
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LT
1212 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1213 controller
1214 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1215 controllers
24775d65 1216 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
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1217 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
1218 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1219
1220 i810= [HW,DRM]
1221
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DT
1222 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1223 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1224 hardware.
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1225 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1226 does not match list of supported models.
1227 i8k.power_status
1228 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1229 (disabled by default)
1230 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1231 capability is set.
1232
4dca20ef 1233 i915.invert_brightness=
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1234 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1235 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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CE
1236 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1237 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1238 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1239 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1240 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1241 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1242 value switches the backlight off.
1243 -1 -- never invert brightness
1244 0 -- machine default
1245 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1246
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1247 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1248 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1249
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1250 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1251 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
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1252 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1253 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1254 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1255
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1256 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1257 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1258
f039b754 1259 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1260 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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1261 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1262 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1263 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1264 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1265 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1266 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1267 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1268
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1269 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1270 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1271 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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1272 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1273 could change it dynamically, usually by
1274 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1275
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LT
1276 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1277 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1278
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MZ
1279 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1280 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" }
1281 default: "enforce"
1282
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1283 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1284 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1285 owned by uid=0.
1286
3323eec9 1287 ima_hash= [IMA]
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1288 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1289 | sha512 | ... }
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MZ
1290 default: "sha1"
1291
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1292 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1293 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1294
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1295 ima_tcb [IMA]
1296 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1297 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1298 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1299 opened for read by uid=0.
1300
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RS
1301 ima_template= [IMA]
1302 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1303 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" }
1304 Default: "ima-ng"
1305
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LT
1306 init= [KNL]
1307 Format: <full_path>
1308 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1309 process.
1310
1311 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1312 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1313 startup.
1314
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PB
1315 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1316 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1317 modules and initcalls.
1318
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1319 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1320
1321 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1322 Format: <irq>
1323
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FY
1324 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1325
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MZ
1326 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1327 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1328 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1329 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1330
ba395927 1331 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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KM
1332 on
1333 Enable intel iommu driver.
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KA
1334 off
1335 Disable intel iommu driver.
1336 igfx_off [Default Off]
1337 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1338 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1339 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1340 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1341 DMA.
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KA
1342 forcedac [x86_64]
1343 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1344 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1345 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1346 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1347 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1348 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1349 strict [Default Off]
1350 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1351 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1352 to batching them for performance.
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YS
1353 sp_off [Default Off]
1354 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1355 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1356 not be supported.
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MI
1357
1358 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1359 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1360 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1361
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DB
1362 intel_pstate= [X86]
1363 disable
1364 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1365 scaling driver for the supported processors
1366
d1423d56 1367 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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CW
1368 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1369 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1370 nosid disable Source ID checking
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SS
1371 no_x2apic_optout
1372 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
d1423d56 1373
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RD
1374 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1375 strict regions from userspace.
1376 relaxed
1377
1378 iommu= [x86]
1379 off
1380 force
1381 noforce
1382 biomerge
1383 panic
1384 nopanic
1385 merge
1386 nomerge
1387 forcesac
1388 soft
bcb71abe 1389 pt [x86, IA-64]
bcb71abe 1390
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RD
1391
1392 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1393 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1394 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1395
6cececfc 1396 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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IM
1397 0x80
1398 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1399 0xed
1400 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1401 udelay
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IM
1402 Simple two microseconds delay
1403 none
1404 No delay
b02aae9c 1405
1da177e4 1406 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1407 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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LT
1408
1409 ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
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RD
1410 See comment before ip2_setup() in
1411 drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
1da177e4 1412
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AC
1413 irqfixup [HW]
1414 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1415 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1416 firmware running.
1417
1418 irqpoll [HW]
1419 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1420 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1421 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1422 firmware running.
1423
1da177e4 1424 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1425 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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LT
1426
1427 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
22f2e280
DF
1428 Format:
1429 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1430 or
b225d44e
LZ
1431 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1432 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
22f2e280
DF
1433 or a mixture
1434 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
b225d44e 1435
1da177e4
LT
1436 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1437 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
b225d44e
LZ
1438 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1439 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1da177e4
LT
1440 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1441 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1442
1443 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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RD
1444 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1445 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1446 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1447
a9913044 1448 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1449
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JR
1450 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1451 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1452 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1453 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1454 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1455 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1456
1457 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1458 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1459 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1460 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1461 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1462 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1463
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LT
1464 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1465 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1466
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RD
1467 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1468
6cececfc 1469 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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MG
1470 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1471 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1472 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1473 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1474 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1475 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1476 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1477 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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MG
1478 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1479 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1480 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1481 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1482 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1483 zone if it does not.
1484
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JW
1485 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1486 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1487 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1488 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1489 optional and is the number seconds in between
1490 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1491 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1492 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1493 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1494 the kernel debugger.
1495
84c08fd6 1496 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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JW
1497 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1498 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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JW
1499 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1500 keyboard only format: kbd
1501 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1502 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1503 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1504 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1505
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JW
1506 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1507 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1508
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FF
1509 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1510 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1511 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1512
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CM
1513 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1514 Valid arguments: on, off
1515 Default: on
1516
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1517 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1518 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1519 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1520 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1521 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1522 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1523
6cececfc 1524 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
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RD
1525 in oops dumps.
1526
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AP
1527 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1528 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1529
a182d873
XG
1530 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1531 KVM MMU at runtime.
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AP
1532 Default is 0 (off)
1533
fef07aae 1534 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1535 Default is 1 (enabled)
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AP
1536
1537 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1538 for all guests.
16290246 1539 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1540
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AP
1541 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1542 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1543 Default is 1 (enabled)
1544
1545 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1546 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1547 Default is 0 (disabled)
1548
1549 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1550 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1551 Default is 1 (enabled)
1552
e1a72ae2
SL
1553 kvm-intel.nested=
1554 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1555 Default is 0 (disabled)
1556
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AP
1557 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1558 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1559 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1560 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1561
1562 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1563 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1564 Default is 1 (enabled)
1565
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LT
1566 l2cr= [PPC]
1567
a78bfbfc
RB
1568 l3cr= [PPC]
1569
cd4f0ef7 1570 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1571 disabled it.
1da177e4 1572
279f1461
SS
1573 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1574 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1575 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1576
6cececfc 1577 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1578 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1579
fcb71f6f
FC
1580 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1581 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1582 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1583 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1584 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
fcb71f6f
FC
1585 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1586 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1587
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1588 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1589 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1590 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1591
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1592 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1593 when set.
1594 Format: <int>
1595
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1596 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1597 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1598 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1599 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1600 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1601 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1602 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1603 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1604
1605 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1606 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1607 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1608 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1609 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1610 host link and device attached to it.
1611
1612 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1613 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1614 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1615 The following configurations can be forced.
1616
1617 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1618 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1619
1620 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1621
1622 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1623 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1624 allowed.
1625
1626 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1627
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1628 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1629 and both resets.
1630
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1631 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1632 hot-unplug link recovery
1633
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1634 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1635
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1636 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1637
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1638 * disable: Disable this device.
1639
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1640 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1641 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1642
95f72d1e 1643 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1644
1da177e4 1645 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1646 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1647
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1648 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1649 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1650
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1651 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1652 Format: <integer>
1653
1654 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1655 Format: <integer>
1656
1657 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1658 Format: <integer>
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1659
1660 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1661 Format: <irq>
1662
1663 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1664 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1665 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1666 loglevels are defined as follows:
1667
1668 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1669 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1670 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1671 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1672 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1673 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1674 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1675 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1676
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1677 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
1678 in bytes. n must be a power of two. The default
1679 size is set in the kernel config file.
1da177e4 1680
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1681 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1682 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1683 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1684 kernel boot problems.
1685
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1686 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1687 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1688 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1689 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1690 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1691 attached printers to be reset. Using
1692 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1693 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1694 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1695 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1696 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1697 port specification list means that device IDs
1698 from each port should be examined, to see if
1699 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1700 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1701 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1702
1703 lpj=n [KNL]
1704 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1705 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1706 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1707 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1708 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1709 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1710 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1711 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1712 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1713 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1714 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1715 hardware.
1716
1717 ltpc= [NET]
1718 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1719
16290246 1720 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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1721 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1722 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 1723
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1724 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
1725 yeeloong laptop.
1726 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
1727
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1728 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1729 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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1730
1731 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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1732 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1733 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1734 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1735 the IO APIC.
1da177e4 1736
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1737 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
1738 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
1739 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
1740 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
1741 devices can be requested on-demand with the
1742 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 1743
cd4f0ef7 1744 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 1745
71cced6e 1746 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 1747
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1748 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1749 See Documentation/md.txt.
a9913044 1750
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1751 mdacon= [MDA]
1752 Format: <first>,<last>
1753 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 1754
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1755 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1756 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1757 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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1758 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
1759 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
1760 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
1761 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 1762
cd4f0ef7 1763 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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1764 memory.
1765
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1766 memchunk=nn[KMG]
1767 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1768 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1769
6cececfc 1770 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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1771 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1772 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1773 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1774 option description.
1775
1776 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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1777 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
1778 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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1779
1780 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1781 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 1782 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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1783
1784 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1785 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 1786 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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1787 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1788 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1789 or
1790 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1da177e4 1791
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1792 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
1793 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
1794 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
1795 Setting this option will scan the memory
1796 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
1797 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
1798 from using the memory being corrupted.
1799 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
1800 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
1801 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
1802 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
1803
1804 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
1805 By default it checks for corruption in the low
1806 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
1807 use. Use this parameter to scan for
1808 corruption in more or less memory.
1809
1810 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
1811 By default it checks for corruption every 60
1812 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
1813 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
1814
caadbdce 1815 memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
c64df707 1816 Format: <integer>
c64df707 1817 default : 0 <disable>
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1818 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
1819 performed. Each pass selects another test
1820 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
1821 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
1822 memory contents and reserves bad memory
1823 regions that are detected.
c64df707 1824
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1825 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
1826 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
1827
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1828 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
1829 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
1830 platforms.
1831
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1832 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
1833 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
1834 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
1835 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
1836
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1837 mga= [HW,DRM]
1838
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1839 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
1840 physical address is ignored.
1841
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1842 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
1843 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
1844 Default: "0tb"
1845 MINI2440 configuration specification:
1846 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
1847 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
1848 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
1849 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
1850 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
1851 unconfigured.
1852 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
1853 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
1854 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
1855 VGA shield.
1856 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
1857 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
1858 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
1859 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
1860 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
1861 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
1862
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1863 mminit_loglevel=
1864 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
1865 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
1866 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
1867 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
1868 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
1869 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
1870
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1871 module.sig_enforce
1872 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
1873 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 1874 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
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1875 is always true, so this option does nothing.
1876
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1877 mousedev.tap_time=
1878 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
1879 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
1880 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
1881 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
1882 Format: <msecs>
1883 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
1884 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1885 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
1886 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1887
6cececfc 1888 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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1889 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
1890 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
1891 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
1892 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
1893 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
1894 is specified, the administrator must be careful
1895 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
1896 is not too small.
1897
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1898 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
1899 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
1900
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1901 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
1902 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
1903
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1904 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
1905 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
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1906
1907 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 1908 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 1909
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1910 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
1911 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
1912 at a time.
1913
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1914 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
1915
1916 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
1917
1918 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
1919 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
1920 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
1921 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
1922 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
1923
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1924 mtdset= [ARM]
1925 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
1926
1927 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
1928
1da177e4 1929 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
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1930 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
1931 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 1932
0cb55ad2 1933 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 1934 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
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1935 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
1936
1937 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1938 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
1939 Default is 1.
1940 Large value could prevent small alignment from
1941 using up MTRRs.
1942
1943 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
1944 Format: <integer>
1945 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
1946 Default : 1
1947 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
1948 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
1949
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1950 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
1951
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1952 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
1953 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
1954 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
1955 something different and driver-specific.
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1956 This usage is only documented in each driver source
1957 file if at all.
1958
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1959 nf_conntrack.acct=
1960 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
1961 0 to disable accounting
1962 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 1963 Default value is 0.
58401572 1964
306a0753 1965 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 1966 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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1967
1968 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 1969 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1970
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1971 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
1972 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1973
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1974 nfs.callback_tcpport=
1975 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
1976 channel should listen.
1977
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1978 nfs.cache_getent=
1979 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
1980 to update the NFS client cache entries.
1981
1982 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
1983 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
1984 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
1985
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1986 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
1987 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
1988 entries.
1989
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1990 nfs.enable_ino64=
1991 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
1992 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
1993 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
1994 of returning the full 64-bit number.
1995 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
1996
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1997 nfs.max_session_slots=
1998 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
1999 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2000 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2001 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2002 Note that there is little point in setting this
2003 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2004
b064eca2 2005 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
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2006 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2007 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2008 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2009 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2010 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2011 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2012 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2013 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2014 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2015 back to using the idmapper.
2016 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
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2017 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2018 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2019 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2020 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2021 UUID that is generated at system install time.
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2023 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2024 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2025 information in exchange_id requests.
2026 If zero, no implementation identification information
2027 will be sent.
2028 The default is to send the implementation identification
2029 information.
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2030
2031 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2032 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2033 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2034 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2035 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2036 after the locks are lost.
2037 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2038 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2039 parameter to '1'.
2040 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2041 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
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2043 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2044 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2045 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2046 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2047 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2048 migration from NFSv2/v3.
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2050 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2051 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2052 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2053 osd-targets. Please see:
2054 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2055
1e1030dc 2056 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
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2057 when a NMI is triggered.
2058 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2059
6cececfc 2060 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2061 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
5dc30558 2062 Valid num: 0
5b9a0e14 2063 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
0cb55ad2 2064 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
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2065 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2066 default).
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2067 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2068 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2069
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2070 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2071 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2072 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2073 waits 4 seconds.
2074
cd4f0ef7 2075 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
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2076 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2077 is present.
2078
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2079 no_console_suspend
2080 [HW] Never suspend the console
2081 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2082 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2083 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2084 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2085 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2086 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2087 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
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2088 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2089 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2090 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2091 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2092 turn on/off it dynamically.
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2094 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2095 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2096 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2097
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2098 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2099
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2100 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2101 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2102
8ab3820f 2103 nokaslr [X86]
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2104 Disable kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address
2105 Space Layout Randomization) if built into the kernel.
8ab3820f 2106
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2107 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2108
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2109 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2110 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2111
2112 nocache [ARM]
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2114 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2115
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2116 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2117
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2118 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
2119
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2120 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2121
6cececfc 2122 noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2123
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2124 noexec [IA-64]
2125
6cececfc 2126 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2127 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2128 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
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2129 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2130
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2131 nosmap [X86]
2132 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2133 even if it is supported by processor.
2134
de5397ad 2135 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2136 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2137 even if it is supported by processor.
2138
f5a1b191
JS
2139 noexec32 [X86-64]
2140 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2141 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2142 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2143 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2144 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2145
6902aa84
PM
2146 nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2147
cd4f0ef7 2148 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2149 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2150 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2151
0c752a93
SS
2152 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2153 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2154 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2155
5d2bd700 2156 eagerfpu= [X86]
e0022981 2157 on enable eager fpu restore
5d2bd700 2158 off disable eager fpu restore
e0022981
SS
2159 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
2160 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
5d2bd700 2161
01a24d2b
PZ
2162 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2163 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2164 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2165
1f29fae2
SH
2166 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2167 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2168 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2169
1da177e4
LT
2170 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2171 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2172 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2173 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2174 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2175 real-time systems.
2176
79bf2bb3
TG
2177 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2178 Valid arguments: on, off
2179 Default: on
2180
c5bfece2
FW
2181 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2182 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2183 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2184 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2185 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2186 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2187 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2188
eeee7853
PM
2189 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2190
cd4f0ef7 2191 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2192 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2193
6cececfc 2194 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2195 broken timer IRQ sources.
2196
1da177e4
LT
2197 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2198
2199 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2200 initial RAM disk.
2201
03ea8155
WH
2202 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2203 remapping.
d1423d56 2204 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2205
1da177e4
LT
2206 nointroute [IA-64]
2207
16290246 2208 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2209
9cf4c4fc
JK
2210 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2211
fd10cde9
GN
2212 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2213 fault handling.
2214
d910f5c1
GC
2215 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2216 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2217 behaviour
2218
cd4f0ef7 2219 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2220
cd4f0ef7 2221 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2222
1da177e4
LT
2223 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2224 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
2225
312f1f01
H
2226 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2227
cd4f0ef7 2228 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2229
83d7384f
AS
2230 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2231 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2232
bda62633
DZ
2233 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2234 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2235 irq.
2236
02608bef
DY
2237 nomodule Disable module load
2238
016ddd9b
JK
2239 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2240 pagetables) support.
2241
0cb55ad2
RD
2242 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2243 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2244
bbff2168 2245 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2246
cd4f0ef7 2247 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2248 with UP alternatives
2249
7a5091d5
PA
2250 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2251 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2252 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2253 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2254
a9913044
RD
2255 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2256 space.
2257
1da177e4
LT
2258 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2259 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2260 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2261
2262 nosbagart [IA-64]
2263
cd4f0ef7 2264 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2265
61ec7567
LB
2266 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2267 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2268
97842216
DJ
2269 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2270
1da177e4
LT
2271 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2272
cd4f0ef7 2273 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4
LT
2274
2275 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
2276
55142374 2277 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
58687acb 2278
1da177e4 2279 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2280
2b2fd87a
WH
2281 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2282
f78cff48
FY
2283 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2284 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2285 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2286 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2287 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2288 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2289 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2290 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2291 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2292 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2293 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2294 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2295 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2296
16290246 2297 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2298 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2299 SAL PALO.
2300
2b633e3f
YL
2301 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2302 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2303 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
2304 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
2305 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
2306
0cb55ad2
RD
2307 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2308
1a687c2e
MG
2309 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2310 Allowed values are enable and disable
2311
f0c0b2b8
KH
2312 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2313 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2314 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2315 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2316
7c4be253
RD
2317 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2318 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2319 info.
2320
3ef0e1f8
AS
2321 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2322 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2323 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2324 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2325 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2326 interrupts *may* be lost!
2327
15ac7afe
TL
2328 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2329 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2330 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2331 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2332
1da177e4
LT
2333 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2334 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2335
7e4e0bd5
RR
2336 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2337 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2338 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2339 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2340 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2341 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2342 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2343 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2344 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2345 for generic hr timer mode)
dd3c4670
AK
2346 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
2347 (report cpu_type "timer")
1dcdb5a9 2348
44a4dcf7
RD
2349 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2350 process, but there is a small probability of
2351 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2352 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2353 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2354
bcfde334
RD
2355 OSS [HW,OSS]
2356 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2357
44a4dcf7 2358 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2359 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2360 timeout = 0: wait forever
2361 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2362 Format: <timeout>
2363
2364 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2365 connected to, default is 0.
2366 Format: <parport#>
2367 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2368 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
2369 Format: <mode>
2370
2371 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2372 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2373 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2374 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2375 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2376 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2377 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2378 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2379 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2380 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2381 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2382 are specified on the command line, starting
2383 with parport0.
2384
2385 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2386 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2387 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2388 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2389 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2390 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2391 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2392
dd287796
AM
2393 pause_on_oops=
2394 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2395 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2396 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2397
1da177e4
LT
2398 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2399
2400 pcd. [PARIDE]
2401 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2402 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2403
a9913044 2404 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2405 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2406 changes anything
c0115606 2407 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2408 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2409 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2410 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2411 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2412 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2413 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2414 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
c0115606 2415 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
a9913044 2416 Mechanism 1.
c0115606 2417 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
a9913044 2418 Mechanism 2.
7f785763
RD
2419 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2420 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2421 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2422 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2423 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2424 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2425 Configuration
12983077
AH
2426 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2427 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2428 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2429 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2430 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2431 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2432 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2433 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2434 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2435 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2436 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2437 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2438 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2439 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2440 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2441 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2442 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2443 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2444 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2445 on several machines and they hang the machine
2446 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2447 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2448 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2449 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2450 motherboard.
c0115606 2451 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2452 Use with caution as certain devices share
2453 address decoders between ROMs and other
2454 resources.
c0115606 2455 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2456 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2457 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2458 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2459 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2460 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
2461 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2462 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2463 this way.
c0115606 2464 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
2465 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2466 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2467 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2468 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
2469 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2470 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2471 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2472 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
2473 numbers ourselves, overriding
2474 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2475 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
2476 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2477 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2478 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2479 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2480 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2481 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2482 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
2483 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2484 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2485 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2486 please report a bug.
2487 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2488 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
2489 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2490 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2491 so this option is a temporary workaround
2492 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2493 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2494 handle more pci cards
a9913044
RD
2495 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2496 just use the configuration from the
2497 bootloader. This is currently used on
2498 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2499 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
0637a70a
AK
2500 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2501 This might help on some broken boards which
2502 machine check when some devices' config space
2503 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2504 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
2505 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2506 This sorting is done to get a device
2507 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2508 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2509 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2510 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2511 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2512 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2513 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2514 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2515 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2516 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2517 or bus can support) for best performance.
2518 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2519 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2520 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2521 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2522 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2523 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2524 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2525 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2526 The default value is 256 bytes.
2527 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2528 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2529 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
2530 resource_alignment=
2531 Format:
2532 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2533 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2534 aligned memory resources.
2535 If <order of align> is not specified,
2536 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2537 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2538 windows need to be expanded.
43c16408
AP
2539 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2540 end-to-end CRC checking).
2541 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2542 the default.
2543 off: Turn ECRC off
2544 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
2545 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2546 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2547 Default size is 256 bytes.
2548 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2549 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2550 Default size is 2 megabytes.
b55438fd
YL
2551 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2552 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2553 accommodate resources required by all child
2554 devices.
2555 off: Turn realloc off
2556 on: Turn realloc on
2557 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 2558 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
2559 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2560 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2561 port.
6b4b78fe 2562
e5665a45
CE
2563 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2564 Management.
2565 off Disable ASPM.
2566 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2567 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2568
7570a333
MT
2569 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2570 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2571 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2572
79dd9182 2573 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
2574 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2575 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2576 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2577 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2578 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
2579 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2580 ports driver.
2581
c7f48656 2582 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 2583 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 2584 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 2585
1da177e4
LT
2586 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2587
39ac5ba5
TB
2588 pd_ignore_unused
2589 [PM]
2590 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2591 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2592 for debug and development, but should not be
2593 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2594
1da177e4 2595 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2596 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2597
2598 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2599 boot time.
2600 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2601 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2602
f58dc01b 2603 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
2604 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2605 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2606 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2607 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2608 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 2609
1da177e4 2610 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2611 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2612
2613 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2614 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2615
2616 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 2617 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2618
2619 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2620 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2621 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2622
16290246 2623 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
2624 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2625 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
2626
96242116
BH
2627 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
2628 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
2629 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
2630 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
2631 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
2632 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 2633
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LT
2634 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
2635 { off }
2636
2637 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
2638 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2639
2640 pnp_reserve_irq=
2641 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2642
2643 pnp_reserve_dma=
2644 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2645
2646 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 2647 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
2648
2649 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
2650 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2651 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
2652 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2653
4af94f39
RD
2654 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2655 Default is 21.
2656 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
2657 may be specified.
2658 Format: <port>,<port>....
2659
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IM
2660 print-fatal-signals=
2661 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
2662
2663 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
2664 related application anomalies: too many signals,
2665 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
2666 coredump - etc.
2667
2668 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
2669 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
2670
45807a1d
IM
2671 default: off.
2672
c22ab332
MG
2673 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
2674 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
2675 panics
2676 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2677 default: disabled
2678
e84845c4
RD
2679 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
2680 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2681
0cb55ad2
RD
2682 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
2683 Limit processor to maximum C-state
2684 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
2685
2686 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
2687 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
2688 instead using the legacy FADT method
2689
1da177e4 2690 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
a9913044
RD
2691 Format: [schedule,]<number>
2692 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
2693 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
2694 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
2695 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
2696 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 2697 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 2698
1da177e4
LT
2699 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
2700 before loading.
31c00fc1 2701 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2702
a9913044
RD
2703 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
2704 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
2705 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
2706 per second.
a9913044
RD
2707 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
2708 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
2709 (0 = never).
2710 psmouse.resolution=
2711 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
2712 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 2713 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
2714 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
2715
dee28e72
MG
2716 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
2717
1da177e4 2718 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2719 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2720
dc8c8587
KS
2721 pty.legacy_count=
2722 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
2723 default number.
2724
7d2c502f 2725 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 2726
1da177e4
LT
2727 r128= [HW,DRM]
2728
2729 raid= [HW,RAID]
2730 See Documentation/md.txt.
2731
a9913044 2732 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
31c00fc1 2733 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
a9913044 2734
1da177e4 2735 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 2736 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2737
4102adab 2738 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
2739 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
2740 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
2741 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
2742 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
2743 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
2744 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
2745 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
2746 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
2747 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
2748 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
2749
4102adab 2750 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
2751 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
2752 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
2753 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
2754 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
2755 This improves the real-time response for the
2756 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
2757 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
2758 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
2759 periodically wake up to do the polling.
2760
4102adab 2761 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
2762 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
2763 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 2764
4102adab 2765 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
f885b7f2
PM
2766 Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each
2767 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
2768 systems.
2769
4102adab 2770 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
2771 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
2772 first attempt to force quiescent states.
2773 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
2774 and maximum value is HZ.
2775
4102adab 2776 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
2777 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
2778 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
2779 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
2780
4102adab 2781 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
2782 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
2783 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 2784
4102adab 2785 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
2786 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
2787 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 2788
4102adab 2789 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
2790 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
2791 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 2792
4102adab 2793 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
2794 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
2795 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
2796 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
2797 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 2798
4102adab 2799 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2800 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
2801
4102adab 2802 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2803 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts.
2804
4102adab 2805 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2806 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts.
2807
4102adab
PM
2808 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
2809 Use expedited update-side primitives.
2810
2811 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
2812 Use normal (non-expedited) update-side primitives.
2813 If both gp_exp and gp_normal are set, do both.
2814 If neither gp_exp nor gp_normal are set, still
2815 do both.
dabb8aa9 2816
4102adab 2817 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2818 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
2819
4102adab 2820 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2821 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
2822 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
2823 test, hence the "fake".
2824
4102adab 2825 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2826 Set number of RCU readers.
2827
4102adab
PM
2828 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
2829 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
2830
2831 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2832 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2833
4102adab 2834 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2835 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2836 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2837
4102adab
PM
2838 rcutorture.rcutorture_runnable= [BOOT]
2839 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
2840
2841 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2842 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
2843 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
2844 during the rcutorture test.
2845
4102adab 2846 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2847 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2848 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2849
4102adab 2850 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2851 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
2852 warnings, zero to disable.
2853
4102adab 2854 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2855 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
2856
4102adab 2857 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2858 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2859
4102adab 2860 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2861 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
2862 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
2863 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
2864 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
2865
4102adab 2866 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2867 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
2868 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
2869 under test support RCU priority boosting.
2870
4102adab 2871 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2872 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
2873
4102adab 2874 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2875 Interval (s) between each boost test.
2876
4102adab 2877 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2878 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
2879 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
2880
4102adab 2881 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2882 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
2883
4102adab 2884 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
2885 Enable additional printk() statements.
2886
4102adab
PM
2887 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
2888 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
2889 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
2890 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
2891 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
2892 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
2893
2894 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
2895 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
2896
2897 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
2898 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
2899
ffdfc409
OJ
2900 rdinit= [KNL]
2901 Format: <full_path>
2902 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
2903 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
2904
1b3a5d02
RH
2905 reboot= [KNL]
2906 Format (x86 or x86_64):
2907 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
2908 [[,]s[mp]#### \
2909 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
2910 [[,]f[orce]
2911 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
2912 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
2913 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
2914 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
2915 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 2916
46b6d94e
PJ
2917 relax_domain_level=
2918 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
21acb9ca 2919 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 2920
0399d4db
RW
2921 relative_sleep_states=
2922 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
2923 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
2924 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2925 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
2926 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
2927
1da177e4
LT
2928 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
2929
cd4f0ef7 2930 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
2931 Format: nn[KMG]
2932 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
2933 address space.
2934
9ea77bdb
PA
2935 reservelow= [X86]
2936 Format: nn[K]
2937 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
2938 the bottom of the address space.
2939
7e96287d
VG
2940 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
2941 during initialization.
2942
a9913044
RD
2943 resume= [SWSUSP]
2944 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
2945 Format:
2946 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 2947
ecbd0da1
RW
2948 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
2949 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
2950 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
2951 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
2952 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
2953
f126f733
BS
2954 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
2955 read the resume files
2956
6f8d7022
BS
2957 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
2958 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
2959 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
2960
f996fc96
BS
2961 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
2962 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
2963 present during boot.
2964 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
2965
0a7b35cb
MN
2966 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
2967
1da177e4
LT
2968 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2969 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
2970
1da177e4
LT
2971 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
2972
2973 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 2974 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
2975
2976 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
2977 mount the root filesystem
2978
2979 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
2980
2981 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
2982
cc1ed754
PO
2983 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
2984 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
2985 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
2986
5c71d618
RT
2987 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
2988 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
2989 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
2990 managed by CMA.
2991
1da177e4
LT
2992 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
2993
2994 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
2995
2996 sa1100ir [NET]
2997 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
2998
1da177e4 2999 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3000
f6630114
MT
3001 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3002
5307c955
MG
3003 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3004 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3005 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3006 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3007 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3008 1 -- enable.
3009 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3010 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3011
0cb55ad2
RD
3012 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3013 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3014 security module asking for security registration will be
3015 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3016 as if no module has been chosen.
3017
3018 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3019 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3020 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3021 0 -- disable.
3022 1 -- enable.
3023 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3024 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3025 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3026
c1c124e9
JJ
3027 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3028 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3029 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3030 0 -- disable.
3031 1 -- enable.
3032 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3033
cd4f0ef7 3034 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3035
1da177e4
LT
3036 shapers= [NET]
3037 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3038
b05f78f5
YL
3039 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3040 Format: { <integer> }
3041 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3042 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3043 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3044
1da177e4
LT
3045 simeth= [IA-64]
3046 simscsi=
a9913044 3047
1da177e4
LT
3048 slram= [HW,MTD]
3049
3df1cccd
DR
3050 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3051 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3052 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3053 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3054 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3055
f0630fff
CL
3056 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3057 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3058 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3059 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3060 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3061 last alloc / free. For more information see
3062 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3063
3064 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3065 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3066 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3067 fragmentation. For more information see
3068 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3069
3070 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3071 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3072 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3073 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3074 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3075 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3076 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3077 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3078
3079 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3080 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3081 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3082 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3083
3084 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff 3085 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
c1aee215 3086 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
f0630fff
CL
3087 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3088 merging on their own.
c1aee215
CL
3089 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3090
1da177e4
LT
3091 smart2= [HW]
3092 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3093
d0d4f69b
BH
3094 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3095 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3096 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3097 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3098 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3099 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3100 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3101 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3102 1: Fast pin select (default)
3103 2: ATC IRMode
3104
9c44bc03
IM
3105 softlockup_panic=
3106 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3107 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3108
1da177e4 3109 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3110 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3111
1da177e4
LT
3112 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3113 spia_fio_base=
3114 spia_pedr=
3115 spia_peddr=
3116
f38f1d2a
SR
3117 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3118 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3119
762e1207
SR
3120 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3121 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3122 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3123 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3124 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3125 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3126 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3127
1da177e4
LT
3128 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3129 Format: <num>
3130 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3131 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3132 as the initial boot-console.
3133 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3134
3135 sti_font= [HW]
3136 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3137
3138 stifb= [HW]
3139 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3140
cbf11071
TM
3141 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3142 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3143 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3144 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3145 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3146 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3147 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3148 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3149 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3150 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3151 maximum port values.
3152
42a7fc4a
GB
3153 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3154 [NFS]
3155 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3156 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3157 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3158 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3159 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3160 NFS server is running.
3161
3162 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3163 automatically using heuristics
3164 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3165 percpu one pool for each CPU
3166 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3167 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3168
cbf11071
TM
3169 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3170 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3171 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3172 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3173 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3174 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3175 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3176 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3177
07555ac1 3178 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3179 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3180 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3181 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
3182
91fec0f5
JK
3183 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3184 Format: { <int> | force }
3185 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3186 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3187 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
a9913044 3188
1da177e4
LT
3189 switches= [HW,M68k]
3190
e52eec13
AK
3191 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3192 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3193 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3194 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3195 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3196 in older udev will not work anymore.
3197 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3198 the kernel configuration.
3199
5d6f647f
IM
3200 sysrq_always_enabled
3201 [KNL]
3202 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3203 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3204 Useful for debugging.
3205
1da177e4
LT
3206 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3207
77437fd4
DB
3208 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
3209 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
3210 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
3211 enter during system startup. The system is woken from
3212 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
3213
1da177e4
LT
3214 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3215 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3216
f8707ec9
LB
3217 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3218 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3219 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3220
c52a7419
LB
3221 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3222 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 3223 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 3224
f5487145
LB
3225 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3226 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3227 critical and hot trip points.
3228
72b33ef8
LB
3229 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3230 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3231
a70cdc52
LB
3232 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3233 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
3234 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3235 value
a70cdc52 3236
730ff34d
LB
3237 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3238 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3239 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3240 0: no polling (default)
3241
8d32a307
TG
3242 threadirqs [KNL]
3243 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 3244 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 3245
2ca62b04
KRW
3246 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3247 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3248
3249 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3250 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3251 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3252
3253 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3254 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
3255 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3256 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
3257
3258 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3259 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3260 to the hypervisor.
3261
3262 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3263 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3264 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3265 kernel based on different criteria.
3266
2b1a61f0
HC
3267 topology= [S390]
3268 Format: {off | on}
3269 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
3270 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3271 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 3272 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 3273 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 3274
1da177e4
LT
3275 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3276
225a9be2
RA
3277 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3278 Format: integer pcr id
3279 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3280 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3281 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3282 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3283 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3284 are saved.
3285
9d612bef
LZ
3286 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3287 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size.
631595fb 3288
020e5f85
LZ
3289 trace_event=[event-list]
3290 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
3291 to facilitate early boot debugging.
3292 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
3293
7bcfaf54
SR
3294 trace_options=[option-list]
3295 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3296 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3297 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3298 to echo the option name into
3299
3300 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3301
3302 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3303 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3304
3305 trace_options=stacktrace
3306
3307 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3308 section.
3309
de7edd31
SRRH
3310 traceoff_on_warning
3311 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3312 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3313 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3314 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3315
3316 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3317 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3318 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3319
3320 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3321 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3322
fcf4d821
JK
3323 transparent_hugepage=
3324 [KNL]
3325 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3326 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3327 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3328 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3329
d3b8f889 3330 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
3331 Format: <string>
3332 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
3333 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3334 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
3335 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3336 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
3337 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3338 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3339 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
3340 can add overhead.
395628ef 3341
a9913044
RD
3342 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
3343 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
3344 Format:
3345 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
3346 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
3347
b6935f8c
CK
3348 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
3349 happen after console_init() and before a proper
3350 console driver takes over, this boot options might
3351 help "seeing" what's going on.
3352
f86dcc5a
ED
3353 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3354 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
3355
5f8364b7
AS
3356 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
3357 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
3358 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
3359 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
3360 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
3361 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
3362 reported either.
3363
e3a61b0a 3364 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 3365 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 3366
c4fc2342
CDH
3367 usbcore.authorized_default=
3368 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
3369 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
3370 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
3371
b5e795f8
AS
3372 usbcore.autosuspend=
3373 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
3374 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
3375 is the time required before an idle device will be
3376 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 3377 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 3378
fd7c519d
JK
3379 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
3380 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
3381
3382 usbcore.blinkenlights=
3383 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
3384
3385 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
3386 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3387 scheme (default 0 = off).
3388
3f5eb8d5
AS
3389 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
3390 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
3391 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
3392
fd7c519d
JK
3393 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
3394 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
3395 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
3396
3397 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
3398 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
3399 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
3400 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
3401
1da177e4
LT
3402 usbhid.mousepoll=
3403 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 3404
d4f373e5
AS
3405 usb-storage.delay_use=
3406 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
3407 scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
3408
3409 usb-storage.quirks=
3410 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
3411 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
3412 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
3413 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
3414 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
3415 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
3416 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
3417 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
3418 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
3419 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
3420 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
3421 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
3422 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
3423 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
3424 READ_DISC_INFO command);
3425 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
3426 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
c838ea46
AS
3427 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
3428 reported device capacity by one
3429 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
3430 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
3431 device);
3432 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
3433 unlock ejectable media);
3434 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
3435 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
3436 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
3437 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
3438 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
3439 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
3440 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
3441 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
3442 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
3443 bogus residue values);
3444 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
3445 Logical Unit);
3446 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
3447 medium is write-protected).
3448 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
3449
ac1667db
SB
3450 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
3451 Format: <int>
3452 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
3453 1 - undefined instruction events
3454 2 - system calls
3455 4 - invalid data aborts
3456 8 - SIGSEGV faults
3457 16 - SIGBUS faults
3458 Example: user_debug=31
3459
14315592
IC
3460 userpte=
3461 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
3462
3463 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
3464 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
3465 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
3466
6cececfc 3467 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
3468 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
3469
3470 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
3471 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
3472
b0b49f26
AL
3473 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
3474 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
3475 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
3476
3477 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
3478 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
3479 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
3480
3481 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
3482 alias for vdso32=0.
3483
3484 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
3485 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 3486
d080d397
YI
3487 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
3488 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
3489
1da177e4
LT
3490 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
3491 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
3492
3afe6dab
AL
3493 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
3494 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
3495 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
3496 level and then send out the event to user space through
3497 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
3498 will only send out the event without touching backlight
3499 brightness level.
886129a8 3500 default: 0
3afe6dab 3501
81a054ce
PM
3502 virtio_mmio.device=
3503 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
3504
3505 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
3506 where:
3507 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
3508 like K, M and G)
3509 <baseaddr> := physical base address
3510 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
3511 request_irq())
3512 <id> := (optional) platform device id
3513 example:
3514 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
3515
3516 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
3517
cd4f0ef7 3518 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 3519 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 3520 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3521 Use vga=ask for menu.
3522 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
3523 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
3524
a9913044 3525 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
3526 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
3527 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
3528 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
3529 mapped kernel RAM.
3530
585c3047
PO
3531 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
3532 Format: <command>
1da177e4 3533
585c3047
PO
3534 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
3535 Format: <command>
3536
3537 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
3538 Format: <command>
a9913044 3539
3ae36655
AL
3540 vsyscall= [X86-64]
3541 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
3542 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
3543 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
3544 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
3545 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
3546 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
3547
2e57ae05
AL
3548 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
3549 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 3550
2e57ae05 3551 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
3552 This is a little bit faster than trapping
3553 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
3554 better than they would in emulation mode.
3555 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
3556
3557 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
3558 them quite hard to use for exploits but
3559 might break your system.
3560
3855ae1c
CL
3561 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
3562 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
3563 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
3564
9ea9a886
CL
3565 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
3566 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
3567 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
3568 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
3569
0cb55ad2
RD
3570 vt.default_blu= [VT]
3571 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
3572 Change the default blue palette of the console.
3573 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3574 ranging from 0-255.
3575
3576 vt.default_grn= [VT]
3577 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
3578 Change the default green palette of the console.
3579 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3580 ranging from 0-255.
3581
3582 vt.default_red= [VT]
3583 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
3584 Change the default red palette of the console.
3585 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3586 ranging from 0-255.
3587
3588 vt.default_utf8=
3589 [VT]
3590 Format=<0|1>
3591 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
3592 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
3593 newly opened terminals.
3594
f6c06b68
MG
3595 vt.global_cursor_default=
3596 [VT]
3597 Format=<-1|0|1>
3598 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
3599 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
3600 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
3601 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
3602 cursors, 1 will display them.
3603
3855ae1c
CL
3604 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
3605 Default: 2 = green.
3606
3607 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
3608 Default: 3 = cyan.
3609
4724ba57
RD
3610 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
3611 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
3612 or other driver-specific files in the
3613 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 3614
d55262c4
TH
3615 workqueue.disable_numa
3616 By default, all work items queued to unbound
3617 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
3618 issued on, which results in better behavior in
3619 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
3620 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
3621 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
3622 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
3623
cee22a15
VK
3624 workqueue.power_efficient
3625 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
3626 they show better performance thanks to cache
3627 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
3628 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
3629
3630 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
3631 were observed to contribute significantly to power
3632 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
3633 power usage at the cost of small performance
3634 overhead.
3635
3636 The default value of this parameter is determined by
3637 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
3638
0cb55ad2
RD
3639 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
3640 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
3641 supporting x2apic.
3642
712b6aa8
KS
3643 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
3644 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
3645 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
3646 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 3647 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 3648
c1c5413a
SS
3649 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
3650 Unplug Xen emulated devices
3651 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
3652 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
3653 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
3654 nics -- unplug network devices
3655 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
3656 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
3657 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
3658 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 3659 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 3660
15a3eac0
KRW
3661 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
3662 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
3663 optimizations.
3664
1da177e4 3665 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
3666 Format:
3667 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
1da177e4 3668
a9913044 3669______________________________________________________________________
1da177e4
LT
3670
3671TODO:
3672
1da177e4 3673 Add more DRM drivers.