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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
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109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
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119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
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124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 126
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127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
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130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 139
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140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 144
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145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
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148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
0cb55ad2 154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
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160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
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162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
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164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
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189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
6cececfc 212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
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217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
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220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
c3b0795c 226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
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237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
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247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
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250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
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256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
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259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
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264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
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272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
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274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
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277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
89e0b9a3 284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
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287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
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291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
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293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 298
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299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
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305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
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314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
395cf969 317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
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318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
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324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
ca1eda2d 331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 336
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337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
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346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
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349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
1da177e4 358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 360
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361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
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368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
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373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 384
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385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
a106fb0c 395 Default: unset
f3411cb2 396
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397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
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401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
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408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 410
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411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
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415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
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420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
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425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
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429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
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434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
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436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
1da177e4 439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
1da177e4 442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
395cf969 443 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 444
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445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
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449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
cd4f0ef7 451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
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458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
32c4741c 461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 462
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463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
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469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 471
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472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 482
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483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
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488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 492
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493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
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498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
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503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
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507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
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cd4f0ef7 517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 518 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
592913ec 524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
534 [AVR32] avr32
9863c90f 535 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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536 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
537 [MIPS] MIPS
538 [PARISC] cr16
539 [S390] tod
540 [SH] SuperH
541 [SPARC64] tick
542 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
543
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544 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
545 [ARM,ARM64]
546 Format: <bool>
547 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
548 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
549 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
550 systems.
551
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552 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
553 [ARM64]
554 Format: <bool>
555 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
556 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
557 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
558 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
559 enabled based on the device tree.
560
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561 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
562 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 563 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 564 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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565 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
566 ones should be.
567 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
568 or using the feature without checking anything
569 will still see it. This just prevents it from
570 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
571 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
572 some critical bits.
573
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574 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
575 [ARM,X86,KNL]
576 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
577 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
578 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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579 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
580 altogether. For more information, see
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581 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
582
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583 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
584 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
585 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
586 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
587 a hypervisor.
588 Default: yes
589
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590 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
591 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 592 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 593
6cececfc 594 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 595 in an oops report.
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596 Range: 0 - 8192
597 Default: 64
598
1da177e4 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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600 Format:
601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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602
603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
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606 com90xx= [HW,NET]
607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610 condev= [HW,S390] console device
611 conmode=
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613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 618 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
624
e52347bd 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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626 information. See
627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628 alternative.
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630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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637 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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643 the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
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645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 647
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648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
650 console=brl,ttyS0
651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
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653 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
654 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
655 disables the blank timer.
656
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657 coredump_filter=
658 [KNL] Change the default value for
659 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
660 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
661
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662 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
663 disable the cpuidle sub-system
664
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665 cpu_init_udelay=N
666 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
668 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669 Default: 10000
670
1da177e4 671 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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672 Format:
673 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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675 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680 is selected automatically. Check
681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
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683 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685 in the running system. The syntax of range is
686 start-[end] where start and end are both
687 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 688 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 689
adbc742b 690 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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691 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695 available.
696 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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697 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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700 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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702 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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706 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707 for second kernel instead.
708 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 709 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 710 or memory reserved is below 4G.
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712 cryptomgr.notests
713 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
714
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715 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
716 Format: <dma>
717
718 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
719 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 720
a9913044 721 dasd= [HW,NET]
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722 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
723
724 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
725 (one device per port)
726 Format: <port#>,<type>
727 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
728
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729 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
730 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
29e36c9f 731 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
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733 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
734
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735 debug_locks_verbose=
736 [KNL] verbose self-tests
737 Format=<0|1>
738 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
739 self-tests.
740 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
741 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
742 only useful to kernel developers.
743
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744 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
745
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746 no_debug_objects
747 [KNL] Disable object debugging
748
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749 debug_guardpage_minorder=
750 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
751 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
752 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
753 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
754 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
755 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
756 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
757 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
758 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
759 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
760 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
761 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
762 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
763 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
764 bypassed) which are not detectable by
765 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
766 tracking down these problems.
767
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768 debug_pagealloc=
769 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
770 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
771 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
772 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
773 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
774 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
775 on: enable the feature
776
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777 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
778
2d27a966 779 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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780 Format: <area>[,<node>]
781 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
782
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784 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
785 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
786 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
787 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
788 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
789 if not specified.
55ff9780 790
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791 dhash_entries= [KNL]
792 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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794 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
795 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
796 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
797 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
798 miss to occur.
799
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800 disable= [IPV6]
801 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
802
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803 disable_radix [PPC]
804 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
805
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806 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
807 Format: <int>
808 The number of initial APIC ID for the
809 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
810 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
811 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
812 causing system reset or hang due to sending
813 INIT from AP to BSP.
814
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815 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
816 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
817 to workaround buggy firmware.
818
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819 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
820 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
821
95ffa243 822 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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823 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
824 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 825 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 826
093af8d7 827 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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828 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
829 memory out of your available memory pool based on
830 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
831 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
832
6cececfc 833 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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834 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
835 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
836
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837 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
838
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839 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
840 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
841
842 dma_debug_entries=<number>
843 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
844 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
845 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
846 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
847 architectural default is too low.
848
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849 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
850 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
851 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
852 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
853 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
854 driver later using sysfs.
855
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856 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
857 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
858 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
859 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
860 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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861 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
862 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
863 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
864 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
865 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
866 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
867 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
868 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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869 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
870 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
871 data set with no connector name will be used for
872 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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874 dscc4.setup= [NET]
875
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876 dump_apple_properties [X86]
877 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
878 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
879 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
880
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881 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
882 module.dyndbg[="val"]
883 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
884 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
885
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886 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
887 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
888 information about the feature.
889
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890 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
891 in some Intel CPUs.
892
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893 module.async_probe [KNL]
894 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
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 When used with no options, the early console is
904 determined by the stdout-path property in device
905 tree's chosen node.
906
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907 cdns,<addr>[,options]
908 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
909 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
910 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
911 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
912 configured.
6fa62fc4 913
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914 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
915 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 916 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 917 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 918 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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919 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
920 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 921 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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922 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
923 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
924 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
925 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 926 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 927
0d3c673e 928 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 929 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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930 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
931 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
932 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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933 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
934 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
935 the device registers.
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937 meson,<addr>
938 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
939 port at the specified address. The serial port must
940 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
941 supported.
942
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943 msm_serial,<addr>
944 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
945 port at the specified address. The serial port
946 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
947 yet supported.
948
949 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
950 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
951 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
952 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
953 yet supported.
954
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955 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
956
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957 s3c2410,<addr>
958 s3c2412,<addr>
959 s3c2440,<addr>
960 s3c6400,<addr>
961 s5pv210,<addr>
962 exynos4210,<addr>
963 Use early console provided by serial driver available
964 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
965 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
966 serial port must already be setup and configured.
967 Options are not yet supported.
968
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969 lpuart,<addr>
970 lpuart32,<addr>
971 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
972 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
973 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
974 port must already be setup and configured.
975
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976 armada3700_uart,<addr>
977 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
978 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
979 address. The serial port must already be setup
980 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
981
7913ad1a 982 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
1da177e4 983 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 984 earlyprintk=efi
2482a92e 985 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 986 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 987 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 988 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 989 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 990 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1da177e4 991
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992 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
993 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
994 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
995
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997 takes over.
998
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999 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1000 be used at a time.
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1002 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1003 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1004 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1005 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1006 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1007 You can find the port for a given device in
1008 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1009 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1010
1011 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1012 very good.
1013
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1014 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1015 the real console.
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1017 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1018
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1019 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1020 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1021 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1022 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1023 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1024 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1025 default: on.
1026
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1027 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1028 ekgdboc=kbd
1029
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1031 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1032
1da177e4 1033 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1034 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1035
d2f7cbe7 1036 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1037 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1038 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1039 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1040 default.
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1041 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1042 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1043 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1044 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1045 debug: enable misc debug output
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1047 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1048 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1049 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1050 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1051 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1052
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1053 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1054 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1055 updating original EFI memory map.
1056 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1057 from ss to ss+nn.
1058 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1059 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1060 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1061 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1062
1063 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1064 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1065 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1066 doesn't support it.
1067
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1068 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1069 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1070 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1071 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1072 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1073
1074
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1075 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1076 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1077
cd4f0ef7 1078 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1079 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1080 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
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1081
1082 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1083 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1084 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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1085 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1086
d3bf3795 1087 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1088 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
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1089 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1090 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1091 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1092
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1093 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1094 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1095 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1096 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1097
ca1eda2d 1098 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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1099 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1100 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1101 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1102 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1103
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LT
1104 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1105 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1106 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1107 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1108 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1109 Default value is 0.
1110 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1111
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HY
1112 erst_disable [ACPI]
1113 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1114 support.
1115
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LT
1116 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1117 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1118 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1119
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1120 evm= [EVM]
1121 Format: { "fix" }
1122 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1123 current integrity status.
1124
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AM
1125 failslab=
1126 fail_page_alloc=
1127 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1128 General fault injection mechanism.
1129 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1130 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1131
1da177e4 1132 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1133 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1134
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AC
1135 force_pal_cache_flush
1136 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1137 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1138 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1139 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1140
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CB
1141 forcepae [X86-32]
1142 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1143 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1144 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1145 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1146 and may cause unknown problems.
1147
d9e54076 1148 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1149 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
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PZ
1150 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1151 boot debugging.
1152
cecbca96 1153 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1154 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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FW
1155 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1156 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1157 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1158 oops.
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SR
1159
1160 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1161 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1162 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1163 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1164 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1165 tracing directory.
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SR
1166
1167 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1168 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1169 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1170 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1171 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1172
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SA
1173 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1174 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1175 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1176 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1177 that can be changed at run time by the
1178 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1179
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1180 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1181 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1182 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1183 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1184 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1185
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LT
1186 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1187 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1188 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1189 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1190 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1191
1192 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1193
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YL
1194 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1195 Format: off | on
1196 default: on
1197
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PO
1198 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1199 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1200 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1201 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1202 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1203
1da177e4 1204 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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DB
1205 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1206 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1207 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1208
6cec9b07
AL
1209 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1210 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1211 Format: 0 | 1
1212 Default: 0
1213 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1214 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1215 Format: 0 | 1
1216 Default: 0
1217 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1218 Format: 0 | 1
1219 Default: 0
1220 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1221 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1222 Default: 1024
1223 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1224 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1225 Default: 1024
1226
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BJZ
1227 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1228 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1229 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1230
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JK
1231 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1232 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1233 backtraces on all cpus.
1234 Format: <integer>
1235
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LT
1236 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1237 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1238 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1239 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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LT
1240
1241 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1242
1243 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1244 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1245
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HY
1246 hest_disable [ACPI]
1247 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1248 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1249 logic will be disabled.
1250
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LT
1251 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1252 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1253 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1254 size on bigger boxes.
1255
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TG
1256 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1257 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1258 Default: "on"
1259
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LT
1260 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1261 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1262
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RD
1263 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1264
1265 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1266 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1267 verbose }
1268 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1269 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1270 VIA, nVidia)
1271 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1272
3d035f58
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1273 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1274 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1275
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1276 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1277 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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JT
1278 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1279 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1280 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1281 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1282 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1283
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HB
1284 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1285 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
431429ff
HB
1286 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1287 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1288 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1289
fdabf525
JH
1290 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1291 hardware thread id mappings.
1292 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1293
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FDN
1294 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1295 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1296 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1297 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1298 the real console.
1299
3a853fb9 1300 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1301 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1302 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1303 Format:
1304 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1305
36d95739 1306 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1307 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1308 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1309 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1310 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1311 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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ML
1312 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1313 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1314 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1315 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1316 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1317 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1318 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1319 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1320 controller
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LT
1321 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1322 controllers
24775d65 1323 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
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MPS
1324 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1325 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1326 transitions, or never reset
1327 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1328 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1329 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1330 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1331 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1332 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1333 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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LT
1334
1335 i810= [HW,DRM]
1336
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DT
1337 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1338 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1339 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1340 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1341 does not match list of supported models.
1342 i8k.power_status
1343 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1344 (disabled by default)
1345 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1346 capability is set.
1347
4dca20ef 1348 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1349 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1350 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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CE
1351 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1352 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1353 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1354 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1355 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1356 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1357 value switches the backlight off.
1358 -1 -- never invert brightness
1359 0 -- machine default
1360 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1361
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LT
1362 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1363 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1364
0af80c04
DF
1365 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1366 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1367 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1368 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1369 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1370
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MR
1371 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1372 Format: <int>
1373 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1374 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1375 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1376 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1377 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1378 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1379 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1380 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1381 was 0x3.
1382
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RD
1383 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1384 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1385
f039b754 1386 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1387 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1388 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1389 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1390 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1391 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1392 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1393 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1394 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1395
503943e0
MR
1396 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1397 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1398 Default: strict
1399
1400 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1401 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1402 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1403 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1404 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1405 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1406 encoding mode.
1407
1408 Available settings are as follows:
1409 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1410 supported by the FPU
1411 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1412 by the FPU
1413 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1414 by the FPU
1415 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1416 supported by the FPU
1417
1418 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1419 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1420 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1421 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1422 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1423 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1424 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1425 MIPS64 CPUs.
1426
1427 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1428 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1429 except where unsupported by hardware.
1430
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IM
1431 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1432 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1433 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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YZ
1434 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1435 could change it dynamically, usually by
1436 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1437
d977d56c
KK
1438 ignore_rlimit_data
1439 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1440 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1441 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1442
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LT
1443 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1444 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1445
2fe5d6de 1446 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1447 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1448 default: "enforce"
1449
07f6a794
MZ
1450 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1451 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1452 owned by uid=0.
1453
d68a6fe9
MZ
1454 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1455 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1456 measurements, instead of host native format.
1457
3323eec9 1458 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1459 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1460 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1461 default: "sha1"
1462
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1463 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1464 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1465
24fd03c8
MZ
1466 ima_policy= [IMA]
1467 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1468 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1469 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1470 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1471 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1472 Format: "tcb"
1473
1474 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1475 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1476 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1477 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1478 opened for read by uid=0.
1479
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RS
1480 ima_template= [IMA]
1481 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1482 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1483 Default: "ima-ng"
1484
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RS
1485 ima_template_fmt=
1486 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1487 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1488
3bcced39
DK
1489 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1490 Format: <min_file_size>
1491 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1492 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1493
1494 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1495 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1496 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1497
6edf7a89
DK
1498 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1499 Format: <bufsize>
1500 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1501
1502 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1503 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1504 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1505
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LT
1506 init= [KNL]
1507 Format: <full_path>
1508 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1509 process.
1510
1511 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1512 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1513 startup.
1514
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PB
1515 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1516 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1517 modules and initcalls.
1518
1da177e4
LT
1519 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1520
acd547b2
DH
1521 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1522 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1523 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1524 override in debugfs after boot.
1525
1da177e4
LT
1526 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1527 Format: <irq>
1528
6bb2ff84
FY
1529 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1530
d726d8d7
MZ
1531 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1532 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1533 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1534 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1535
ba395927 1536 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1537 on
1538 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1539 off
1540 Disable intel iommu driver.
1541 igfx_off [Default Off]
1542 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1543 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1544 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1545 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1546 DMA.
7d3b03ce
KA
1547 forcedac [x86_64]
1548 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1549 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1550 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
16290246
RD
1551 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1552 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1553 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1554 strict [Default Off]
1555 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1556 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1557 to batching them for performance.
6dd9a7c7
YS
1558 sp_off [Default Off]
1559 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1560 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1561 not be supported.
c83b2f20
DW
1562 ecs_off [Default Off]
1563 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1564 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1565 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1566 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1567 on hardware which claims to support them.
2e92c7ad
MI
1568
1569 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1570 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1571 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1572
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DB
1573 intel_pstate= [X86]
1574 disable
1575 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1576 scaling driver for the supported processors
001c76f0
RW
1577 passive
1578 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1579 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1580 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1581 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1582 feature.
aa4ea34d
EZ
1583 force
1584 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1585 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1586 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1587 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1588 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1589 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1590 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1591 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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DB
1592 no_hwp
1593 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1594 if available.
d64c3b0b
KCA
1595 hwp_only
1596 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1597 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1598 support_acpi_ppc
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1599 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1600 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1601 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1602 then this feature is turned on by default.
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1603 per_cpu_perf_limits
1604 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1605 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1606
d1423d56 1607 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1608 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1609 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1610 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1611 no_x2apic_optout
1612 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1613 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1614
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1615 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1616 strict regions from userspace.
1617 relaxed
1618
1619 iommu= [x86]
1620 off
1621 force
1622 noforce
1623 biomerge
1624 panic
1625 nopanic
1626 merge
1627 nomerge
1628 forcesac
1629 soft
bcb71abe 1630 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1631 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1632 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1633
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1634
1635 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1636 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1637 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1638
6cececfc 1639 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1640 0x80
1641 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1642 0xed
1643 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1644 udelay
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1645 Simple two microseconds delay
1646 none
1647 No delay
b02aae9c 1648
1da177e4 1649 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1650 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1651
fbf19803 1652 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1653 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1654
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1655 irqfixup [HW]
1656 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1657 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1658 firmware running.
1659
1660 irqpoll [HW]
1661 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1662 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1663 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1664 firmware running.
1665
1da177e4 1666 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1667 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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1668
1669 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
2d13e6ca 1670 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
b225d44e 1671
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1672 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1673 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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1674 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1675 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
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1676 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1677 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1678
1679 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1680 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1681 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1682 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1683
a9913044 1684 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1685
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1686 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1687 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1688 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1689 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1690 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1691 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1692
1693 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1694 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1695 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1696 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1697 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1698 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1699
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1700 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1701 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1702 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1703 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1704 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1705 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1706
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1707 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1708 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1709
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1710 nokaslr [KNL]
1711 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1712 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1713 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1714
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1715 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1716
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1717 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1718 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1719 This parameter
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1720 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1721 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1722 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1723 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1724 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1725 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1726 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1727 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1728 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1729 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1730 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1731 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1732 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1733 zone if it does not.
1734
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1735 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1736 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1737 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1738 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1739 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1740 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1741 time.
ed7ed365 1742
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1743 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1744 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1745 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1746 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1747 optional and is the number seconds in between
1748 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1749 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1750 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1751 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1752 the kernel debugger.
1753
84c08fd6 1754 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1755 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1756 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1757 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1758 keyboard only format: kbd
1759 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1760 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1761 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1762 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1763
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1764 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1765 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1766
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1767 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1768 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1769 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1770
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1771 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1772 Valid arguments: on, off
1773 Default: on
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1774 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1775 the default is off.
04f70336 1776
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1777 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1778 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1779 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1780 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1781 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1782 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1783
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1784 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1785 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1786
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1787 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1788 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1789 Default is 0 (off)
1790
fef07aae 1791 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1792 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1793
1794 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1795 for all guests.
16290246 1796 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1797
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1798 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1799 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1800 Default is 1 (enabled)
1801
1802 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1803 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1804 Default is 0 (disabled)
1805
1806 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1807 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1808 Default is 1 (enabled)
1809
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1810 kvm-intel.nested=
1811 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1812 Default is 0 (disabled)
1813
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1814 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1815 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1816 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1817 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1818
1819 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1820 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1821 Default is 1 (enabled)
1822
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1823 l2cr= [PPC]
1824
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1825 l3cr= [PPC]
1826
cd4f0ef7 1827 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1828 disabled it.
1da177e4 1829
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1830 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1831 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1832 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1833
6cececfc 1834 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1835 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1836
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1837 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1838 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1839 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1840 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1841 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1842 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1843 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1844
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1845 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1846 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1847 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1848
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1849 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1850 when set.
1851 Format: <int>
1852
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1853 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1854 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1855 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1856 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1857 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1858 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1859 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1860 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1861
1862 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1863 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1864 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1865 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1866 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1867 host link and device attached to it.
1868
1869 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1870 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1871 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1872 The following configurations can be forced.
1873
1874 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1875 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1876
1877 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1878
1879 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1880 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1881 allowed.
1882
1883 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1884
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1885 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1886
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1887 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1888 and both resets.
1889
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1890 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1891 hot-unplug link recovery
1892
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1893 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1894
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1895 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1896
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1897 * disable: Disable this device.
1898
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1899 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1900 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1901
95f72d1e 1902 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1903
1da177e4 1904 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1905 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1906
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1907 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1908 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1909
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1910 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1911 Format: <integer>
1912
1913 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1914 Format: <integer>
1915
1916 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1917 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1918
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1919 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1920 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1921 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1922 number of online CPUs.
1923
1924 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1925 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1926
1927 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1928 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1929
1930 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1931 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1932 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1933
1934 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1935 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1936 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1937 mode during the locktorture test.
1938
1939 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1940 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1941 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1942
1943 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1944 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1945
1946 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1947 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1948 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1949 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1950 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1951 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1952
1953 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1954 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1955
1956 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1957 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1958
1959 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1960 Enable additional printk() statements.
1961
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1962 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1963 Format: <irq>
1964
1965 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1966 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1967 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1968 loglevels are defined as follows:
1969
1970 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1971 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1972 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1973 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1974 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1975 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1976 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1977 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1978
c756d08a 1979 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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1980 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1981 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1982 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1983 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1984 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1985 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 1986
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1987 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1988 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1989 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1990 kernel boot problems.
1991
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1992 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1993 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1994 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1995 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1996 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1997 attached printers to be reset. Using
1998 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1999 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2000 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2001 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2002 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2003 port specification list means that device IDs
2004 from each port should be examined, to see if
2005 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2006 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2007 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2008
2009 lpj=n [KNL]
2010 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2011 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2012 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2013 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2014 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2015 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2016 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2017 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2018 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2019 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2020 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2021 hardware.
2022
2023 ltpc= [NET]
2024 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2025
16290246 2026 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2027 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2028 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2029
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2030 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2031 yeeloong laptop.
2032 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2033
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2034 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2035 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2036
2037 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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2038 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2039 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2040 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2041 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2042 only takes effect during system bootup.
2043 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2044 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2045
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2046 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2047 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2048 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2049 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2050 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2051 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2052
cd4f0ef7 2053 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2054
71cced6e 2055 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2056
1da177e4 2057 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2058 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2059
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2060 mdacon= [MDA]
2061 Format: <first>,<last>
2062 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2063
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2064 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2065 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2066 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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2067 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2068 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2069 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2070 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2071
cd4f0ef7 2072 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2073 memory.
2074
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2075 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2076 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2077 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2078
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2079 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2080 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2081 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2082 set according to the
2083 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2084 option.
2085 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2086
6cececfc 2087 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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2088 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2089 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2090 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2091 option description.
2092
2093 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2094 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2095 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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2096
2097 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2098 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2099 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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2100
2101 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2102 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2103 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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2104 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2105 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2106 or
2107 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1da177e4 2108
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2109 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2110 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2111 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2112 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2113 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2114
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2115 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2116 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2117 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2118 Setting this option will scan the memory
2119 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2120 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2121 from using the memory being corrupted.
2122 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2123 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2124 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2125 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2126
2127 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2128 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2129 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2130 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2131 corruption in more or less memory.
2132
2133 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2134 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2135 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2136 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2137
e4b0db72 2138 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2139 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2140 default : 0 <disable>
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2141 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2142 performed. Each pass selects another test
2143 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2144 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2145 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2146 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2147
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RW
2148 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2149 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2150 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2151 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2152 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2153
1da177e4
LT
2154 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2155 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2156
8f36881b
AS
2157 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2158 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2159 platforms.
2160
e6c4dc6c
WT
2161 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2162 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2163 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2164 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2165
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LT
2166 mga= [HW,DRM]
2167
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RD
2168 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2169 physical address is ignored.
2170
39f45d7b
MP
2171 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2172 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2173 Default: "0tb"
2174 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2175 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2176 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2177 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2178 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2179 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2180 unconfigured.
2181 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2182 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2183 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2184 VGA shield.
2185 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2186 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2187 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2188 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2189 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2190 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2191
6b74ab97
MG
2192 mminit_loglevel=
2193 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2194 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2195 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2196 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2197 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2198 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2199
106a4ee2
RR
2200 module.sig_enforce
2201 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2202 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2203 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2204 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2205
be7de5f9
PB
2206 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2207 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2208
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LT
2209 mousedev.tap_time=
2210 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2211 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2212 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2213 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2214 Format: <msecs>
2215 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2216 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2217 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2218 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2219
6cececfc 2220 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2221 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2222 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2223 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2224 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2225 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2226 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2227 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2228 is not too small.
2229
39fa104d 2230 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
c5320926
TC
2231 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2232
1da177e4
LT
2233 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2234 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2235
a9913044
RD
2236 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2237 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2238
2239 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2240 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2241
4e89a2d8
WS
2242 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2243 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2244 at a time.
2245
5988af23
RH
2246 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2247
2248 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2249
2250 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2251 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2252 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2253 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2254 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2255
9db829f4
BD
2256 mtdset= [ARM]
2257 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2258
2259 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2260
1da177e4 2261 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2262 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2263 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2264
0cb55ad2 2265 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2266 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2267 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2268
2269 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2270 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2271 Default is 1.
2272 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2273 using up MTRRs.
2274
2275 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2276 Format: <integer>
2277 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2278 Default : 1
2279 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2280 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2281
1da177e4
LT
2282 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2283
1da177e4
LT
2284 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2285 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2286 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2287 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2288 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2289 file if at all.
2290
58401572
KPO
2291 nf_conntrack.acct=
2292 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2293 0 to disable accounting
2294 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2295 Default value is 0.
58401572 2296
306a0753 2297 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2298 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2299
2300 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2301 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2302
306a0753
CL
2303 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2304 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2305
5405fc44
TM
2306 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2307 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2308 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2309 requests.
2310
a72b4422
TM
2311 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2312 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2313 channel should listen.
2314
e571cbf1
TM
2315 nfs.cache_getent=
2316 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2317 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2318
2319 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2320 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2321 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2322
58df095b
TM
2323 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2324 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2325 entries.
2326
f43bf0be
TM
2327 nfs.enable_ino64=
2328 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2329 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2330 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2331 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2332 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2333
5405fc44
TM
2334 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2335 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2336 slots the client will assign to the callback
2337 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2338 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2339 a particular server.
2340
ef159e91
TM
2341 nfs.max_session_slots=
2342 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2343 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2344 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2345 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2346 Note that there is little point in setting this
2347 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2348
b064eca2 2349 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2350 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2351 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2352 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2353 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2354 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2355 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2356 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2357 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2358 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2359 back to using the idmapper.
2360 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2361 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2362 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2363 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2364 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2365 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2366
db8ac8ba
WAA
2367 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2368 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2369 information in exchange_id requests.
2370 If zero, no implementation identification information
2371 will be sent.
2372 The default is to send the implementation identification
2373 information.
e52347bd 2374
f6de7a39
TM
2375 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2376 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2377 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2378 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2379 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2380 after the locks are lost.
2381 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2382 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2383 parameter to '1'.
2384 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2385 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2386
bbf58bf3
TM
2387 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2388 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2389 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2390
2391 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2392 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2393 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2394 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2395
e9541ce8
BF
2396 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2397 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2398 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2399 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2400 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2401 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2402
18d98f6c
SB
2403 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2404 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2405 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2406 osd-targets. Please see:
2407 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2408
1e1030dc 2409 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2410 when a NMI is triggered.
2411 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2412
6cececfc 2413 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2414 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2415 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2416 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2417 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2418 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2419 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2420 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2421 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2422 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2423 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2424
bff38771
AV
2425 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2426 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2427 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2428 waits 4 seconds.
2429
cd4f0ef7 2430 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2431 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2432 is present.
2433
0cb55ad2
RD
2434 no_console_suspend
2435 [HW] Never suspend the console
2436 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2437 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2438 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2439 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2440 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2441 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2442 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2443 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2444 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2445 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2446 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2447 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2448
c1aee215
CL
2449 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2450 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2451 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2452
a9913044
RD
2453 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2454
1da177e4
LT
2455 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2456 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2457
5091faa4
MG
2458 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2459
1da177e4
LT
2460 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2461 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2462
2463 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2464
0cb55ad2
RD
2465 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2466
163ecdff
SN
2467 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2468
6902aa84
PM
2469 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2470
b2e0a54a 2471 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2472
1da177e4
LT
2473 noexec [IA-64]
2474
6cececfc 2475 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2476 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2477 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2478 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2479
52b6179a
PA
2480 nosmap [X86]
2481 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2482 even if it is supported by processor.
2483
de5397ad 2484 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2485 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2486 even if it is supported by processor.
2487
f5a1b191
JS
2488 noexec32 [X86-64]
2489 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2490 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2491 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2492 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2493 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2494
fab43ef4 2495 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2496
cd4f0ef7 2497 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2498 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2499 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2500
0ddab1d2
TK
2501 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2502
52c48c51
SS
2503 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2504 Equivalent to smt=1.
2505
0c752a93
SS
2506 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2507 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2508 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2509
b6f42a4a
FY
2510 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2511 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2512 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2513 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2514 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2515 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2516
2517 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2518 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2519 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2520 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2521 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2522 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2523 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2524
01a24d2b
PZ
2525 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2526 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2527 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2528
1f29fae2
SH
2529 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2530 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2531 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2532
1da177e4
LT
2533 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2534 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2535 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2536 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2537 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2538 real-time systems.
2539
a6e15a39
KC
2540 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2541
79bf2bb3
TG
2542 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2543 Valid arguments: on, off
2544 Default: on
2545
c5bfece2 2546 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2d13e6ca 2547 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2548 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2549 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2550 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2551 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2552 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2553 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2554
eeee7853
PM
2555 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2556
cd4f0ef7 2557 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2558 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2559
6cececfc 2560 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2561 broken timer IRQ sources.
2562
1da177e4
LT
2563 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2564
2565 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2566 initial RAM disk.
2567
03ea8155
WH
2568 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2569 remapping.
d1423d56 2570 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2571
1da177e4
LT
2572 nointroute [IA-64]
2573
d12a72b8
AL
2574 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2575
16290246 2576 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2577
9cf4c4fc
JK
2578 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2579
fd10cde9
GN
2580 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2581 fault handling.
2582
80e9a4f2
AM
2583 no-vmw-sched-clock
2584 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2585 clock and use the default one.
2586
d910f5c1
GC
2587 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2588 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2589 behaviour
2590
cd4f0ef7 2591 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2592
cd4f0ef7 2593 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2594
1da177e4 2595 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2596 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2597
312f1f01
H
2598 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2599
13696e0a 2600 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2601
83d7384f
AS
2602 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2603 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2604
bda62633
DZ
2605 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2606 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2607 irq.
2608
02608bef
DY
2609 nomodule Disable module load
2610
016ddd9b
JK
2611 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2612 pagetables) support.
2613
0cb55ad2
RD
2614 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2615 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2616
bbff2168 2617 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2618
cd4f0ef7 2619 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2620 with UP alternatives
2621
7a5091d5
PA
2622 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2623 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2624 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2625 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2626
a9913044
RD
2627 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2628 space.
2629
1da177e4
LT
2630 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2631 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2632 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2633
2634 nosbagart [IA-64]
2635
cd4f0ef7 2636 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2637
61ec7567
LB
2638 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2639 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2640
97842216
DJ
2641 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2642
1da177e4
LT
2643 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2644
cd4f0ef7 2645 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2646
195daf66
UO
2647 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2648 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2649
1da177e4 2650 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2651
2b2fd87a
WH
2652 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2653
f78cff48
FY
2654 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2655 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2656 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2657 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2658 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2659 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2660 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2661 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2662 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2663 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2664 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2665 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2666 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2667
16290246 2668 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2669 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2670 SAL PALO.
2671
2b633e3f
YL
2672 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2673 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2674 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2675 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2676 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2677 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2678 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2679 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2680
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RD
2681 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2682
1a687c2e
MG
2683 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2684 Allowed values are enable and disable
2685
f0c0b2b8
KH
2686 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2687 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2688 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2689 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2690
7c4be253
RD
2691 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2692 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2693 info.
2694
3ef0e1f8
AS
2695 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2696 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2697 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2698 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2699 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2700 interrupts *may* be lost!
2701
15ac7afe
TL
2702 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2703 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2704 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2705 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2706
1da177e4
LT
2707 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2708 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2709
7e4e0bd5
RR
2710 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2711 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2712 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2713 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2714 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2715 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2716 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2717 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2718 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2719 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2720
44a4dcf7
RD
2721 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2722 process, but there is a small probability of
2723 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2724 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2725 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2726
bcfde334
RD
2727 OSS [HW,OSS]
2728 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2729
48c96a36
JK
2730 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2731 Storage of the information about who allocated
2732 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2733 we can turn it on.
2734 on: enable the feature
2735
8823b1db
LA
2736 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2737 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2738 off: turn off poisoning
2739 on: turn on poisoning
2740
44a4dcf7 2741 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2742 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2743 timeout = 0: wait forever
2744 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2745 Format: <timeout>
2746
9e3961a0
PB
2747 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2748 on a WARN().
2749
f06e5153
MH
2750 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2751 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2752 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2753 succeeds in any situation.
2754 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2755 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2756 kernel more unstable.
2757
1da177e4
LT
2758 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2759 connected to, default is 0.
2760 Format: <parport#>
2761 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2762 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
2763 Format: <mode>
2764
2765 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2766 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2767 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2768 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2769 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2770 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2771 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2772 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2773 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2774 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2775 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2776 are specified on the command line, starting
2777 with parport0.
2778
2779 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2780 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2781 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2782 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2783 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2784 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2785 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2786
dd287796
AM
2787 pause_on_oops=
2788 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2789 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2790 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2791
1da177e4
LT
2792 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2793
2794 pcd. [PARIDE]
2795 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2796 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2797
a9913044 2798 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2799 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2800 changes anything
c0115606 2801 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2802 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2803 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2804 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2805 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2806 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2807 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2808 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2809 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2810 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2811 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2812 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2813 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2814 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2815 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2816 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2817 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2818 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2819 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2820 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2821 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2822 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2823 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2824 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2825 Configuration
12983077
AH
2826 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2827 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2828 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2829 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2830 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2831 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2832 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2833 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2834 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2835 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2836 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2837 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2838 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2839 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2840 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2841 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2842 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2843 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2844 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2845 on several machines and they hang the machine
2846 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2847 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2848 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2849 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2850 motherboard.
c0115606 2851 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2852 Use with caution as certain devices share
2853 address decoders between ROMs and other
2854 resources.
c0115606 2855 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2856 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2857 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2858 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2859 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2860 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
2861 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2862 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2863 this way.
c0115606 2864 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
2865 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2866 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2867 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2868 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
2869 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2870 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2871 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2872 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
2873 numbers ourselves, overriding
2874 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2875 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
2876 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2877 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2878 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2879 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2880 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2881 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2882 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
2883 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2884 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2885 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2886 please report a bug.
2887 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2888 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
2889 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2890 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2891 so this option is a temporary workaround
2892 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2893 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2894 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
2895 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2896 This might help on some broken boards which
2897 machine check when some devices' config space
2898 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2899 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
2900 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2901 This sorting is done to get a device
2902 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2903 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2904 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2905 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2906 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2907 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2908 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2909 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2910 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2911 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2912 or bus can support) for best performance.
2913 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2914 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2915 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2916 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2917 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2918 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2919 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2920 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2921 The default value is 256 bytes.
2922 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2923 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2924 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
2925 resource_alignment=
2926 Format:
2927 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
2928 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2929 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
2930 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2931 aligned memory resources.
2932 If <order of align> is not specified,
2933 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2934 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2935 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
2936 To specify the alignment for several
2937 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2938 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2939 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
2940 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2941 end-to-end CRC checking).
2942 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2943 the default.
2944 off: Turn ECRC off
2945 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
2946 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2947 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2948 Default size is 256 bytes.
2949 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2950 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2951 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
2952 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2953 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2954 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
2955 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2956 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2957 accommodate resources required by all child
2958 devices.
2959 off: Turn realloc off
2960 on: Turn realloc on
2961 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 2962 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
2963 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2964 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2965 port.
6b4b78fe 2966
e5665a45
CE
2967 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2968 Management.
2969 off Disable ASPM.
2970 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2971 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2972
7570a333
MT
2973 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2974 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2975 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2976
79dd9182 2977 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
2978 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2979 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2980 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2981 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2982 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
2983 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2984 ports driver.
2985
9d26d3a8
MW
2986 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
2987 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
2988 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
2989
c7f48656 2990 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 2991 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 2992 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 2993
1da177e4
LT
2994 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2995
39ac5ba5
TB
2996 pd_ignore_unused
2997 [PM]
2998 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2999 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3000 for debug and development, but should not be
3001 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3002
1da177e4 3003 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3004 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3005
3006 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3007 boot time.
3008 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3009 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3010
f58dc01b 3011 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3012 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3013 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3014 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3015 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3016 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3017
1da177e4 3018 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3019 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3020
3021 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3022 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3023
3024 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3025 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3026
3027 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3028 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3029 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3030
16290246 3031 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3032 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3033 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3034
96242116
BH
3035 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3036 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3037 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3038 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3039 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3040 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3041
1da177e4
LT
3042 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3043 { off }
3044
3045 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3046 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3047
3048 pnp_reserve_irq=
3049 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3050
3051 pnp_reserve_dma=
3052 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3053
3054 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3055 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3056
3057 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3058 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3059 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3060 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3061
4af94f39
RD
3062 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3063 Default is 21.
3064 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3065 may be specified.
3066 Format: <port>,<port>....
3067
c3cbd075
BS
3068 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3069 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3070 platform machine description specific power_save
3071 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3072 execution priority.
3073
3eb5d588
AB
3074 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3075 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3076 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3077 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3078 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3079
45807a1d
IM
3080 print-fatal-signals=
3081 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3082
3083 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3084 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3085 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3086 coredump - etc.
3087
3088 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3089 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3090
45807a1d
IM
3091 default: off.
3092
c22ab332
MG
3093 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3094 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3095 panics
3096 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3097 default: disabled
3098
750afe7b
BP
3099 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3100 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3101 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3102 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3103 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3104 Default: ratelimit
3105
e84845c4
RD
3106 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3107 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3108
0cb55ad2
RD
3109 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3110 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3111 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3112
3113 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3114 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3115 instead using the legacy FADT method
3116
1da177e4 3117 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
a9913044
RD
3118 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3119 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3120 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3121 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
3122 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3123 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3124 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 3125
1da177e4
LT
3126 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3127 before loading.
31c00fc1 3128 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3129
a9913044
RD
3130 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3131 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3132 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3133 per second.
a9913044
RD
3134 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3135 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3136 (0 = never).
3137 psmouse.resolution=
3138 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3139 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3140 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3141 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3142
dee28e72
MG
3143 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3144
1da177e4 3145 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3146 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3147
dc8c8587
KS
3148 pty.legacy_count=
3149 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3150 default number.
3151
7d2c502f 3152 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3153
1da177e4
LT
3154 r128= [HW,DRM]
3155
3156 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3157 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3158
1da177e4 3159 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3160 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3161
4102adab 3162 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
2d13e6ca
NC
3163 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3164
3fbfbf7a
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3165 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3166 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3167 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
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3168 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3169 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3170 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3171 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
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3172 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3173 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3174 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3175
4102adab 3176 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
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3177 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3178 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3179 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3180 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3181 This improves the real-time response for the
3182 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3183 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3184 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3185 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3186
4102adab 3187 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
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3188 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3189 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3190
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3191 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3192 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3193 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3194 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3195
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3196 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3197 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3198 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3199 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3200
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3201 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3202 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3203 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
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3204 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3205 is set.
3206
3207 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3208 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3209 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3210 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3211 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3212 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
37745d28 3213
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3214 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3215 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3216 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3217 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3218 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3219
4102adab 3220 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
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3221 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3222 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3223 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3224 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3225 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3226 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3227
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3228 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3229 Set required age in jiffies for a
3230 given grace period before RCU starts
3231 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3232 rcu_note_context_switch().
3233
4102adab 3234 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
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3235 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3236 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3237 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3238 and maximum value is HZ.
3239
4102adab 3240 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
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3241 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3242 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3243 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3244
21871d7e 3245 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
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3246 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3247 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3248 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3249 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3250 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3251 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3252 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3253 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3254 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3255
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3256 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3257 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3258 defaults to the square root of the number of
3259 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3260 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3261 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3262
4102adab 3263 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
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3264 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3265 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3266
4102adab 3267 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
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3268 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3269 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3270
4102adab 3271 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
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3272 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3273 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3274
4102adab 3275 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
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3276 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3277 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3278 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3279 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3280
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3281 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3282 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3283 grace-period primitives.
3284
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3285 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3286 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3287 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3288 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3289 interference.
3290
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3291 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3292 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3293 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3294 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3295 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3296 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3297 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3298 a single reader.
3299
3300 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3301 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3302 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3303 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3304
3305 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3306 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3307
3308 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3309 Shut the system down after performance tests
3310 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3311 testing.
3312
3313 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3314 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3315
3316 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3317 Enable additional printk() statements.
3318
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3319 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3320 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3321 callback-flood tests.
3322
3323 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3324 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3325 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3326 test.
3327
3328 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3329 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3330 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3331 disable callback-flood testing.
3332
3333 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3334 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3335 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3336
4102adab 3337 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
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3338 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3339 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3340
4102adab 3341 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
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3342 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3343 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3344
4102adab 3345 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
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3346 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3347 in seconds.
3348
3349 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3350 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3351 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3352
4102adab 3353 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3354 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
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3355
3356 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
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3357 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3358 update-side primitives, if available.
3359
3360 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3361 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3362 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3363 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3364 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3365 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3366 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3367
4102adab 3368 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
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3369 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3370
4102adab 3371 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
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3372 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3373 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3374 test, hence the "fake".
3375
4102adab 3376 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
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3377 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3378 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3379 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3380 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3381 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3382
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3383 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3384 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3385
3386 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
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3387 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3388
4102adab 3389 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
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3390 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3391 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3392
4102adab 3393 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
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3394 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3395 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3396 during the rcutorture test.
3397
4102adab 3398 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
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3399 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3400 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3401
4102adab 3402 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
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3403 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3404 warnings, zero to disable.
3405
4102adab 3406 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
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3407 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3408
4102adab 3409 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
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3410 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3411
4102adab 3412 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
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3413 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3414 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3415 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3416 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3417
4102adab 3418 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
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3419 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3420 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3421 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3422
4102adab 3423 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
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3424 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3425
4102adab 3426 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
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3427 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3428
4102adab 3429 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
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3430 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3431 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3432
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3433 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3434 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3435
4102adab 3436 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
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3437 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3438
4102adab 3439 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
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3440 Enable additional printk() statements.
3441
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3442 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3443 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3444
3445 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3446 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3447
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3448 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3449 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3450 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3451 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3452 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3453 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3454 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3455
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3456 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3457 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3458 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3459 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
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3460 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3461 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3462 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3463 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3464 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3465
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3466 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3467 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3468 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
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3469 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3470 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3471
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3472 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3473 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3474 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3475 to zero.
3476
74860fee
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3477 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3478 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3479
3480 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3481 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3482
3483 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3484 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3485
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3486 rdinit= [KNL]
3487 Format: <full_path>
3488 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3489 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3490
1b3a5d02
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3491 reboot= [KNL]
3492 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3493 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3494 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3495 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3496 [[,]f[orce]
3497 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3498 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3499 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3500 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3501 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3502
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3503 relax_domain_level=
3504 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3505 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3506
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3507 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3508
cd4f0ef7 3509 reservetop= [X86-32]
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3510 Format: nn[KMG]
3511 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3512 address space.
3513
9ea77bdb
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3514 reservelow= [X86]
3515 Format: nn[K]
3516 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3517 the bottom of the address space.
3518
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3519 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3520 during initialization.
3521
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3522 resume= [SWSUSP]
3523 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3524 Format:
3525 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3526
ecbd0da1
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3527 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3528 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3529 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3530 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3531 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3532
f126f733
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3533 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3534 read the resume files
3535
6f8d7022
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3536 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3537 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3538 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3539
f996fc96
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3540 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3541 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3542 present during boot.
3543 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3544 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
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3545 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3546 (that will set all pages holding image data
3547 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3548
0a7b35cb
MN
3549 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3550
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AC
3551 rfkill.default_state=
3552 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3553 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3554 1 Unblocked.
3555
3556 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3557 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3558 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3559 blocked and the previous configuration.
3560 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3561 blocked and everything unblocked.
3562
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3563 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3564 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3565
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3566 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3567
d2aa1aca
KC
3568 rodata= [KNL]
3569 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3570 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3571
605df8af
HS
3572 rockchip.usb_uart
3573 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3574 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3575 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3576 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3577
1da177e4 3578 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3579 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3580
3581 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3582 mount the root filesystem
3583
3584 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3585
3586 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3587
cc1ed754
PO
3588 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3589 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3590 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3591
5c71d618
RT
3592 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3593 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3594 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3595 managed by CMA.
3596
1da177e4
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3597 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3598
3599 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3600
c60d1ae4
GS
3601 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3602 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3603 strict
3604 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3605 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3606 which is faster.
3607
1da177e4
LT
3608 sa1100ir [NET]
3609 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3610
1da177e4 3611 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3612
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3613 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3614
cb251765
MG
3615 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3616 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3617 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3618 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3619
5307c955
MG
3620 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3621 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3622 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3623 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3624 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3625 1 -- enable.
3626 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3627 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3628
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RD
3629 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3630 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3631 security module asking for security registration will be
3632 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3633 as if no module has been chosen.
3634
3635 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3636 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3637 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3638 0 -- disable.
3639 1 -- enable.
3640 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3641 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3642 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3643
c1c124e9
JJ
3644 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3645 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3646 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3647 0 -- disable.
3648 1 -- enable.
3649 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3650
cd4f0ef7 3651 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3652
1da177e4
LT
3653 shapers= [NET]
3654 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3655
1da177e4
LT
3656 simeth= [IA-64]
3657 simscsi=
a9913044 3658
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LT
3659 slram= [HW,MTD]
3660
423c929c
JK
3661 slab_nomerge [MM]
3662 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3663 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3664 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3665 merging on their own.
3666 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3667
3df1cccd
DR
3668 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3669 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3670 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3671 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3672 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3673
f0630fff
CL
3674 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3675 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3676 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3677 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3678 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3679 last alloc / free. For more information see
3680 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3681
3682 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3683 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3684 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3685 fragmentation. For more information see
3686 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3687
3688 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3689 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3690 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3691 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3692 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3693 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3694 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3695 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3696
3697 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3698 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3699 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3700 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3701
3702 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3703 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3704 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3705
1da177e4
LT
3706 smart2= [HW]
3707 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3708
d0d4f69b
BH
3709 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3710 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3711 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3712 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3713 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3714 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3715 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3716 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3717 1: Fast pin select (default)
3718 2: ATC IRMode
3719
52c48c51
SS
3720 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3721 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3722 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3723 actual hardware limit.
3724 Format: <integer>
3725 Default: -1 (no limit)
3726
9c44bc03
IM
3727 softlockup_panic=
3728 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3729 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3730
ed235875
AT
3731 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3732 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3733 backtraces on all cpus.
3734 Format: <integer>
3735
1da177e4 3736 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3737 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3738
1da177e4
LT
3739 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3740 spia_fio_base=
3741 spia_pedr=
3742 spia_peddr=
3743
f38f1d2a
SR
3744 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3745 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3746
762e1207
SR
3747 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3748 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3749 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3750 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3751 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3752 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3753 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3754
1da177e4
LT
3755 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3756 Format: <num>
3757 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3758 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3759 as the initial boot-console.
3760 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3761
3762 sti_font= [HW]
3763 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3764
3765 stifb= [HW]
3766 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3767
cbf11071
TM
3768 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3769 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3770 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3771 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3772 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3773 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3774 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3775 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3776 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3777 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3778 maximum port values.
3779
ff3ac5c3
TM
3780 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3781 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3782 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3783 process in parallel from a single connection.
3784 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3785
42a7fc4a
GB
3786 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3787 [NFS]
3788 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3789 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3790 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3791 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3792 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3793 NFS server is running.
3794
3795 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3796 automatically using heuristics
3797 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3798 percpu one pool for each CPU
3799 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3800 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3801
cbf11071
TM
3802 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3803 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3804 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3805 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3806 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3807 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3808 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3809 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3810
1d4a9c17
BN
3811 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3812 [SUSPEND]
3813 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3814 mode before resuming the system (see
3815 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3816 is set. Default value is 5.
3817
07555ac1 3818 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3819 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3820 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 3821 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 3822
91fec0f5 3823 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 3824 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
3825 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3826 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3827 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 3828 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 3829
1da177e4
LT
3830 switches= [HW,M68k]
3831
e52eec13
AK
3832 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3833 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3834 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3835 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3836 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3837 in older udev will not work anymore.
3838 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3839 the kernel configuration.
3840
5d6f647f
IM
3841 sysrq_always_enabled
3842 [KNL]
3843 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3844 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3845 Useful for debugging.
3846
747029a5
FF
3847 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3848 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3849 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3850 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3851 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3852 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3853
1da177e4
LT
3854 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3855
acc82342 3856 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 3857 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
3858 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3859 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3860 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3861 The system is woken from this state using a
3862 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 3863
1da177e4
LT
3864 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3865 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3866
f8707ec9
LB
3867 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3868 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3869 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3870
c52a7419
LB
3871 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3872 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 3873 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 3874
f5487145
LB
3875 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3876 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3877 critical and hot trip points.
3878
72b33ef8
LB
3879 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3880 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3881
a70cdc52
LB
3882 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3883 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
3884 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3885 value
a70cdc52 3886
730ff34d
LB
3887 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3888 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3889 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3890 0: no polling (default)
3891
8d32a307
TG
3892 threadirqs [KNL]
3893 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 3894 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 3895
2ca62b04
KRW
3896 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3897 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3898
3899 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3900 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3901 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3902
3903 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3904 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
3905 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3906 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
3907
3908 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3909 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3910 to the hypervisor.
3911
3912 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3913 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3914 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3915 kernel based on different criteria.
3916
2b1a61f0
HC
3917 topology= [S390]
3918 Format: {off | on}
3919 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
3920 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3921 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 3922 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 3923 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 3924
2d73bae1
NA
3925 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3926 Format: {off}
3927 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3928 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3929 LPAR.
3930
1da177e4
LT
3931 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3932
225a9be2
RA
3933 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3934 Format: integer pcr id
3935 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3936 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3937 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3938 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3939 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3940 are saved.
3941
9d612bef 3942 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 3943 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 3944
020e5f85
LZ
3945 trace_event=[event-list]
3946 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
3947 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
3948 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
3949 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 3950
7bcfaf54
SR
3951 trace_options=[option-list]
3952 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3953 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3954 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3955 to echo the option name into
3956
3957 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3958
3959 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3960 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3961
3962 trace_options=stacktrace
3963
3964 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3965 section.
3966
0daa2302
SRRH
3967 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3968 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3969 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3970 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3971 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3972 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3973
3974 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3975 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3976 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3977 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3978
3979 ** CAUTION **
3980
3981 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3982 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3983 the system to live lock.
3984
de7edd31
SRRH
3985 traceoff_on_warning
3986 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3987 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3988 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3989 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3990
3991 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3992 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3993 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3994
3995 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3996 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3997
fcf4d821
JK
3998 transparent_hugepage=
3999 [KNL]
4000 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4001 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4002 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4003 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4004
d3b8f889 4005 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4006 Format: <string>
4007 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4008 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4009 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4010 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4011 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4012 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4013 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4014 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4015 can add overhead.
395628ef 4016
a9913044
RD
4017 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4018 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4019 Format:
4020 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
4021 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4022
b6935f8c 4023 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4024 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4025 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4026 help "seeing" what's going on.
4027
f86dcc5a
ED
4028 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4029 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4030
5f8364b7
AS
4031 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4032 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4033 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4034 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4035 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4036 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4037 reported either.
4038
e3a61b0a 4039 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4040 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4041
c4fc2342
CDH
4042 usbcore.authorized_default=
4043 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4044 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4045 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4046
b5e795f8
AS
4047 usbcore.autosuspend=
4048 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4049 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4050 is the time required before an idle device will be
4051 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4052 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4053
fd7c519d
JK
4054 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4055 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4056
0290cc9f
AS
4057 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4058 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4059 (default = 65536).
4060
fd7c519d
JK
4061 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4062 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4063
4064 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4065 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4066 scheme (default 0 = off).
4067
3f5eb8d5
AS
4068 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4069 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4070 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4071
fd7c519d
JK
4072 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4073 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4074 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4075
4076 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4077 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4078 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4079 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4080
40d58148
ON
4081 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4082
1da177e4
LT
4083 usbhid.mousepoll=
4084 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4085
d4f373e5
AS
4086 usb-storage.delay_use=
4087 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4088 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4089
4090 usb-storage.quirks=
4091 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4092 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4093 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4094 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4095 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4096 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4097 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4098 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4099 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4100 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4101 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4102 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4103 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4104 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4105 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4106 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4107 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4108 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4109 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4110 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4111 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4112 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4113 reported device capacity by one
4114 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4115 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4116 device);
13630746
HG
4117 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4118 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4119 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4120 unlock ejectable media);
4121 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4122 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4123 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4124 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4125 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4126 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4127 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4128 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4129 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4130 bogus residue values);
4131 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4132 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4133 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4134 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4135 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4136 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4137 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4138 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4139 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4140 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4141
ac1667db
SB
4142 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4143 Format: <int>
4144 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4145 1 - undefined instruction events
4146 2 - system calls
4147 4 - invalid data aborts
4148 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4149 16 - SIGBUS faults
4150 Example: user_debug=31
4151
14315592
IC
4152 userpte=
4153 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4154
4155 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4156 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4157 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4158
6cececfc 4159 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4160 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4161
4162 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4163 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4164
b0b49f26
AL
4165 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4166 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4167 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4168
4169 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4170 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4171 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4172
4173 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4174 alias for vdso32=0.
4175
4176 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4177 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4178
d080d397
YI
4179 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4180 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4181
1da177e4
LT
4182 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4183 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4184
3afe6dab
AL
4185 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4186 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4187 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4188 level and then send out the event to user space through
4189 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4190 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4191 brightness level.
2843768b 4192 default: 1
3afe6dab 4193
81a054ce
PM
4194 virtio_mmio.device=
4195 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4196
4197 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4198 where:
4199 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4200 like K, M and G)
4201 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4202 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4203 request_irq())
4204 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4205 example:
4206 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4207
4208 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4209
cd4f0ef7 4210 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4211 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4212 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4213 Use vga=ask for menu.
4214 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4215 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4216
a9913044 4217 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4218 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4219 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4220 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4221 mapped kernel RAM.
4222
585c3047
PO
4223 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4224 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4225
585c3047
PO
4226 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4227 Format: <command>
4228
4229 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4230 Format: <command>
a9913044 4231
3ae36655
AL
4232 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4233 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4234 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4235 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4236 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4237 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4238 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4239
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4240 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4241 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4242
2e57ae05 4243 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
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4244 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4245 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4246 better than they would in emulation mode.
4247 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4248
4249 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4250 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4251 might break your system.
4252
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4253 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4254 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4255 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4256
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4257 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4258 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4259 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4260 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4261
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4262 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4263 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4264 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4265 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4266 ranging from 0-255.
4267
4268 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4269 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4270 Change the default green palette of the console.
4271 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4272 ranging from 0-255.
4273
4274 vt.default_red= [VT]
4275 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4276 Change the default red palette of the console.
4277 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4278 ranging from 0-255.
4279
4280 vt.default_utf8=
4281 [VT]
4282 Format=<0|1>
4283 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4284 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4285 newly opened terminals.
4286
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4287 vt.global_cursor_default=
4288 [VT]
4289 Format=<-1|0|1>
4290 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4291 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4292 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4293 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4294 cursors, 1 will display them.
4295
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4296 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4297 Default: 2 = green.
4298
4299 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4300 Default: 3 = cyan.
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4302 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4303 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4304 or other driver-specific files in the
4305 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
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4307 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4308 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4309 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4310 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4311 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4312 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4313 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4314 corresponding sysfs file.
4315
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4316 workqueue.disable_numa
4317 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4318 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4319 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4320 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4321 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4322 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4323 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4324
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4325 workqueue.power_efficient
4326 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4327 they show better performance thanks to cache
4328 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4329 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4330
4331 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4332 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4333 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4334 power usage at the cost of small performance
4335 overhead.
4336
4337 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4338 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4339
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4340 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4341 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4342 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4343 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4344 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4345 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4346 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4347 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4348 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4349 impacted.
4350
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4351 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4352 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4353 supporting x2apic.
4354
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4355 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4356 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
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4357 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4358 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4359 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
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4361 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4362 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4363 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4364 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4365 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4366 domains.
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4368 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4369 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4370 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4371 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4372 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4373 nics -- unplug network devices
4374 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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4375 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4376 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4377 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4378 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
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4380 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4381 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4382 optimizations.
4383
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4384 xen_nopv [X86]
4385 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4386 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4387
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4389 Format:
4390 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]