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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
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151f4e2b 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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c3d6de69 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
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25 { vendor | video | native | none }
26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
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27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
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29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
c3d6de69 32
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33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
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39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43 This option is useful for developers to identify the
44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
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47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 49 Format: <int>
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50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
866d6cdf 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
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54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
e76f4276 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
cb1aaebe 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
e76f4276 59 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 60
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61 Enable processor driver info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
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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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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
d3121e64 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
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143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 147
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148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
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151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
0cb55ad2 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
162 strings
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163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
164 strings
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165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
166
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167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
175 care about the state of the feature group strings which
176 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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177 Examples:
178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186 multiple times through kernel command line is also
187 meaningless.
188 Examples:
189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190 FALSE.
191
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192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199 there are quirks related to this string. This command
200 is useful when one want to control the state of the
201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202 the OSPM features.
203 Examples:
204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209 equivalent to
210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211 and
212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
6cececfc 215 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218 and always returns good values.
219
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220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
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223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
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228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230 sci_force_enable, nobl }
151f4e2b 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
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232 s3_bios and s3_mode.
233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
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235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242 s4_hwsig option is enabled.
4af94f39 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
74d95555 244 used (or even warned about) during resume.
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245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246 control method, with respect to putting devices into
247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248 of _PTS is used by default).
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249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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257
258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
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262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
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265 agp= [AGP]
266 { off | try_unsupported }
267 off: disable AGP support
268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
bcfde334 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 273
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274 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
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279 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
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287 32: only for 32-bit processes
288 64: only for 64-bit processes
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289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
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292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
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299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
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307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308 information.
309
89e0b9a3 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312 Possible values are:
1d479f16 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
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314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315 the system
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316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318 allowed anymore to lift isolation
319 requirements as needed. This option
320 does not override iommu=pt
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321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323 option with care.
afa9fdc2 324
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325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329 IOMMU initialization.
330
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331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333 remapping modes:
334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
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340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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344
345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347 connected to one of 16 gameports
348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
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350 apc= [HW,SPARC]
351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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352 Format: noidle
353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355 APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
64e05d11 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 358 Change the output verbosity while booting
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359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360 Change the amount of debugging information output
361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363 driver name.
364 Format: apic=driver_name
365 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 366
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367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371 backup of CPU 0
372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374 shot down by NMI
375
b0f83b28 376 autoconf= [IPV6]
19093313 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
b0f83b28 378
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379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385 apic=verbose is specified.
386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
1da177e4 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 390
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391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
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394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395 Identification support
396
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397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398 support
399
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400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401 support
402
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403 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
404
405 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
406
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407 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
408 EzKey and similar keyboards
409
410 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
411
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412 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
413 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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414
415 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
416 keyboards
417
418 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
419 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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420
421 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
422 Use software keyboard repeat
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a106fb0c 424 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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425 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
426 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
427 enabled until the next reboot
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428 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
429 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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430 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
431 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
432 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
433 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 434 Default: unset
f3411cb2 435
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436 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
437 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
438 Default: 64
439
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440 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
441 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
442 Format: { "0" | "1" }
443 0 - Disable the BAU.
444 1 - Enable the BAU.
445 unset - Disable the BAU.
446
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447 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
448 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 449
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450 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
451 Format: <io>,<mode>
452 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
453
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454 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
455 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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456 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
457 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
458
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459 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
460 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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461 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
462 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
463
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464 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
465 embedded devices based on command line input.
898bd37a 466 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
080506ad 467
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468 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
469 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
470 no delay (0).
471 Format: integer
472
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473 bootconfig [KNL]
474 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
475 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
476
477 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
478
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479 bert_disable [ACPI]
480 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
481
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482 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86]
483 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
484
1da177e4 485 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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486 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
487 kernel args too.
32e2eae2 488 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
395cf969 489 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 490
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491 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
492 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
493 at a time.
494
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495 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
496
cd4f0ef7 497 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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498 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
499 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
500 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
501 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
502 This option provides an override for these situations.
503
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504 carrier_timeout=
505 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
506 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
507 it waits 120 seconds.
508
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509 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
510 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
511 trust validation.
32c4741c 512 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 513
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514 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
515 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
516 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
517 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
518 others).
519
6dddd7a7 520 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
8b4a503d 521 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
1da177e4 522
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523 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
524 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
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525 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
526 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
527 a single hierarchy
528 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
529 subsystem
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530 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
531 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
532 created
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533 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
534 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
535 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
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536 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
537 stall information accounting feature
8bab8dde 538
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539 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
540 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
541 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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542 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
543 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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544 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
545 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
546 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 547
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548 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
549 Format: <string>
550 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 551 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 552
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553 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
554 Format: { "0" | "1" }
555 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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556 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
557 any implied execute protection).
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558 1 -- check protection requested by application.
559 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
a9913044 560 Value can be changed at runtime via
d41415eb 561 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
e9c38f9f 562 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
a9913044 563
661ca0da 564 cio_ignore= [S390]
8b4a503d 565 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
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566 clk_ignore_unused
567 [CLK]
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568 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
569 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
570 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
571 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
572 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
573 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
574 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
575 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 576 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 577
cd4f0ef7 578 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 579 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 580 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 581 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 582 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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583 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
584
592913ec 585 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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586 Format: <string>
587 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
588 with the name specified.
589 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
590 the platform:
591 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
592 [ACPI] acpi_pm
593 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
594 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 595 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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596 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
597 [MIPS] MIPS
598 [PARISC] cr16
599 [S390] tod
600 [SH] SuperH
601 [SPARC64] tick
602 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
603
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604 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
605 [ARM,ARM64]
606 Format: <bool>
607 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
608 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
609 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
610 systems.
611
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612 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
613 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
614 external delays before the clock will be marked
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615 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is,
616 three attempts to read the clock under test.
db3a34e1 617
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618 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
619 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
620 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
621 are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
622 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
623 zero says not to check any. Values larger than
624 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
625 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
626 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
627
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628 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
629 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
630 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
631 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
632 10 seconds when built into the kernel.
633
0a4bb5e5 634 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
ac72e788 635 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 636 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 637 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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638 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
639 ones should be.
640 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
641 or using the feature without checking anything
642 will still see it. This just prevents it from
643 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
644 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
645 some critical bits.
646
5ea3b1b2 647 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
c372e741 648 [KNL,CMA]
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649 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
650 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
651 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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652 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
653 altogether. For more information, see
0b1abd1f 654 kernel/dma/contiguous.c
c64be2bb 655
b7176c26 656 cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
bc47190d 657 [ARM64,KNL,CMA]
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658 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
659 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
660 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
661 specificed, the default value is 0.
662 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
663 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
664 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
665 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
c64be2bb 666
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667 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
668 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
669 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
670 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
671 a hypervisor.
672 Default: yes
673
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674 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
675 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 676 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 677
1da177e4 678 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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679 Format:
680 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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681
682 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
683 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
684
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685 com90xx= [HW,NET]
686 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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687 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
688
689 condev= [HW,S390] console device
690 conmode=
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692 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
693
694 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
695
696 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 697 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 698 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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699 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
700 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
701 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
702 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
703
e52347bd 704 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
f1a1c2dc 705 information. See
d9d6ef25 706 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
f1a1c2dc 707 alternative.
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709 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
710 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 711 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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712 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
713 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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714 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
715 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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716 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
717 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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718 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
719 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
720 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
721 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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722 the h/w is not re-initialized.
723
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724 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
725 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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727 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
728 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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729 console=brl,ttyS0
730 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
731
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732 console_msg_format=
733 [KNL] Change console messages format
734 default
735 By default we print messages on consoles in
736 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
737 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
738 `printk_time' param).
739 syslog
740 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
741 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
742 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
743 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
744 from /proc/kmsg.
745
f324edc8 746 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 747 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 748 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 749
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750 coredump_filter=
751 [KNL] Change the default value for
752 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
cd4ca341 753 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
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755 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
756 [ARM,ARM64]
757 Format: <bool>
758 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
759 0: default value, disable debugging
760 1: enable debugging at boot time
761
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762 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
763 disable the cpuidle sub-system
764
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765 cpuidle.governor=
766 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
767
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768 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
769 disable the cpufreq sub-system
770
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771 cpufreq.default_governor=
772 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
773 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
774 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
775
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776 cpu_init_udelay=N
777 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
778 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
779 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
780 Default: 10000
781
1da177e4 782 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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783 Format:
784 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 785
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786 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
787 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
788 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
789 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
790 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
b9ac3849 791 is selected automatically.
be3a5b0e 792 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
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793 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
794 hasn't been specified.
330d4810 795 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
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797 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
798 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
799 in the running system. The syntax of range is
800 start-[end] where start and end are both
801 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
330d4810 802 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
fb391599 803
adbc742b 804 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
be3a5b0e 805 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
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806 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
807 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
808 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
809 available.
810 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
adbc742b 811 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
be3a5b0e 812 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
adbc742b 813 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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814 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
815 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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816 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
817 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
818 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
819 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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820 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
821 for second kernel instead.
822 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 823 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 824 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 825
9e5c9fe4 826 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 827 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 828
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829 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
830 Format: <dma>
831
832 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
833 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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835 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
836 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
837 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
838 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
839 to resolve the hang situation.
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840 0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
841 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
842 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
843 but more data)
8d0968cc 844
a9913044 845 dasd= [HW,NET]
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846 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
847
848 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
849 (one device per port)
850 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 851 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
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852
853 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
854
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855 debug_boot_weak_hash
856 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
857 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
858 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
859 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
860 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
861 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
862
cae2ed9a 863 debug_locks_verbose=
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864 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests
865 Format: <int>
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866 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
867 self-tests.
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868 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
869 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
870 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
871 useful to lockdep developers.
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873 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
874
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875 no_debug_objects
876 [KNL] Disable object debugging
877
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878 debug_guardpage_minorder=
879 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
880 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
881 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
882 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
883 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
884 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
885 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
886 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
887 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
888 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
889 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
890 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
891 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
892 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
893 bypassed) which are not detectable by
894 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
895 tracking down these problems.
896
031bc574 897 debug_pagealloc=
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898 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
899 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
900 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
901 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
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902 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
903 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
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904 on: enable the feature
905
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906 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
907 and debugfs internal clients.
908 Format: { on, no-mount, off }
909 on: All functions are enabled.
910 no-mount:
911 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
912 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
913 its content. There is nothing to mount.
914 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
915 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
916 or directories within debugfs.
917 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
918 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
919 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
920
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921 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
922
2d27a966 923 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 924 Format: <area>[,<node>]
9a69fb9c 925 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
1da177e4 926
0cb55ad2 927 default_hugepagesz=
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928 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
929 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
930 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
931 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
932 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
933 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
934 sizes are architecture dependent. See also
935 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
936 Format: size[KMG]
55ff9780 937
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938 deferred_probe_timeout=
939 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
940 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
941 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
942 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
943 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
944 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
945 retrying.
946
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947 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
948 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
949 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
950 hardware.
951
952 dell_smm_hwmon.force=
953 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
954 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
955 blacklisted features.
956
957 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
958 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
959 (disabled by default).
960
961 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
962 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
963 capability is set.
964
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965 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
966 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
967 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
968 level 1 and decompression (default)
969 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
970 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
971 only (compression on level 1)
972 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
973 only (decompression)
974 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
975 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
976
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977 dhash_entries= [KNL]
978 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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980 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
981 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
982 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
983 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
984 miss to occur.
985
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986 stress_slb [PPC]
987 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
988 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
989 on kernel addresses.
990
b0f83b28 991 disable= [IPV6]
19093313 992 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
b0f83b28 993
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994 hardened_usercopy=
995 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
996 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
997 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
998 from reading or writing beyond known memory
999 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1000 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1001 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1002 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1003 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1004
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1005 disable_radix [PPC]
1006 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1007
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1008 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
1009 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
1010 invalidate.
1011
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1012 disable_tlbie [PPC]
1013 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1014 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1015
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1016 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1017 Format: <int>
1018 The number of initial APIC ID for the
1019 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1020 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1021 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1022 causing system reset or hang due to sending
1023 INIT from AP to BSP.
1024
6dddd7a7 1025 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
255bf90f 1026 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
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1027 to workaround buggy firmware.
1028
b0f83b28 1029 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
19093313 1030 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
b0f83b28 1031
95ffa243 1032 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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1033 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1034 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 1035 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 1036
093af8d7 1037 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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1038 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1039 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1040 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1041 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1042
6cececfc 1043 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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1044 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1045 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1046
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1047 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1048
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1049 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1050 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1051
1052 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1053 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1054 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1055 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1056 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1057 architectural default is too low.
1058
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1059 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1060 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1061 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1062 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1063 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1064 driver later using sysfs.
1065
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1066 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
1067 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1068 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1069
53fd40a9 1070 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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1071 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1072 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1073 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1074 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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1075 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1076 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1077 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1078 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1079 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
cd4ca341 1080 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
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1081 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1082 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
96206e29
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1083 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1084 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1085 data set with no connector name will be used for
1086 any connectors not explicitly specified.
da0df92b 1087
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1088 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1089
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1090 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
1091 Format: {"off" | "known"}
1092 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1093 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1094 exists).
1095 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1096 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1097 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1098
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1099 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1100 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1101 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1102 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1103
29e36c9f 1104 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
307e3ee9 1105 <module>.dyndbg[="val"]
29e36c9f 1106 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
787e3075
SM
1107 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1108 for details.
29e36c9f 1109
06976945
DH
1110 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1111 in some Intel CPUs.
1112
307e3ee9 1113 <module>.async_probe [KNL]
f2411da7
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1114 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1115
56aeeba8
MS
1116 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1117 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1118 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1119 which are not unmapped.
1120
0cb55ad2 1121 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 1122
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1123 When used with no options, the early console is
1124 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1125 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1126 the platform.
5664f764 1127
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ST
1128 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1129 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1130 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1131 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1132 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1133 configured.
6fa62fc4 1134
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RD
1135 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1136 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 1137 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 1138 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 1139 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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RD
1140 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1141 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1142 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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NC
1143 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1144 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1145 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1146 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1147 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 1148
0d3c673e 1149 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1150 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
0d3c673e
RH
1151 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1152 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1153 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1154 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1155 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1156 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1157
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1158 liteuart,<addr>
1159 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1160 specified address. The serial port must already be
1161 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1162
736d5538
AF
1163 meson,<addr>
1164 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1165 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1166 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1167 supported.
1168
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SB
1169 msm_serial,<addr>
1170 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1171 port at the specified address. The serial port
1172 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1173 yet supported.
1174
1175 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1176 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1177 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1178 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1179 yet supported.
1180
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AF
1181 owl,<addr>
1182 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1183 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1184 specified address. The serial port must already be
1185 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1186
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MS
1187 rda,<addr>
1188 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1189 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1190 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1191 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1192
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1193 sbi
1194 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1195 console.
1196
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1197 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1198
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1199 s3c2410,<addr>
1200 s3c2412,<addr>
1201 s3c2440,<addr>
1202 s3c6400,<addr>
1203 s5pv210,<addr>
1204 exynos4210,<addr>
1205 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1206 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1207 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1208 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1209 Options are not yet supported.
1210
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1211 lantiq,<addr>
1212 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1213 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1214 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1215 yet supported.
1216
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SA
1217 lpuart,<addr>
1218 lpuart32,<addr>
1219 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1220 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1221 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1222 port must already be setup and configured.
1223
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1224 ec_imx21,<addr>
1225 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1226 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1227 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1228 must already be setup and configured.
1229
f7c864e7 1230 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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WD
1231 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1232 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1233 address. The serial port must already be setup
1234 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1235
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1236 qcom_geni,<addr>
1237 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1238 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1239 specified address. The serial port must already be
1240 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1241
69c1f396
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1242 efifb,[options]
1243 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1244 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1245 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1246 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1247 mapped with the correct attributes.
1248
09864c1c 1249 linflex,<addr>
9905f32a 1250 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
09864c1c
SM
1251 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1252 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1253 already be setup and configured.
1254
4ba66a97 1255 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1256 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1257 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1258 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1259 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1260 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1261 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1262 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1263 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1264 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1265
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DH
1266 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1267 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1268 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1269
a9913044 1270 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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LT
1271 takes over.
1272
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1273 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1274 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1275
147ea091
DH
1276 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1277 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1278 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1279 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1280 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1281 You can find the port for a given device in
1282 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1283 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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LT
1284
1285 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1286 very good.
1287
72548e83
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1288 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1289 the real console.
1da177e4 1290
42bc9716 1291 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
2482a92e 1292
89175cf7
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1293 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1294
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FT
1295 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1296 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1297 UART class.
1298
c700f013
CG
1299 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1300 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1301 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1302 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1303 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1304 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1305 default: on.
1306
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1307 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1308 ekgdboc=kbd
1309
25985edc 1310 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
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1311 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1312
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DA
1313 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1314 but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1315 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1316 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1317
1da177e4 1318 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1319 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1320
d2f7cbe7 1321 efi= [EFI]
c03f739f
HS
1322 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1323 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
fb1201ae 1324 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
c03f739f
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1325 debug: enable misc debug output.
1326 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1327 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
5a17dae4
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1328 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1329 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1330 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1331 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
b617c526
DW
1332 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1333 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1334 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1335 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1336 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1337 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
c03f739f 1338 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
4444f854
MG
1339 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1340 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
d2f7cbe7 1341
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1342 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1343 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1344 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1345 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1346 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1347
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TI
1348 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1349 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1350 updating original EFI memory map.
1351 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1352 from ss to ss+nn.
199c8471 1353
0f96a99d
TI
1354 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1355 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1356 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1357 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1358
199c8471
DW
1359 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1360 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1361 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1362
0f96a99d 1363 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
199c8471 1364 related features. For example, you can do debugging of
0f96a99d 1365 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
199c8471
DW
1366 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1367 "soft reserved".
0f96a99d 1368
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OP
1369 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1370 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1371 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1372 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
cb1aaebe 1373 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
475fb4e8
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1374
1375
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LT
1376 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1377 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1378
cd4f0ef7 1379 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1380 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1381 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4 1382
d3bf3795 1383 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1384 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1385 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1386 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
330d4810 1387 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1da177e4 1388
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RD
1389 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1390 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1391 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1392 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1393
ca1eda2d 1394 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1395 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1396 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1397 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1398 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1399
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LT
1400 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1401 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1402 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1403 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1404 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1405 Default value is 0.
d41415eb
SS
1406 Value can be changed at runtime via
1407 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1da177e4 1408
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HY
1409 erst_disable [ACPI]
1410 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1411 support.
1412
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LT
1413 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1414 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1415 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1416
7102ebcd
MZ
1417 evm= [EVM]
1418 Format: { "fix" }
1419 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1420 current integrity status.
1421
de1ba09b 1422 failslab=
2c739ced 1423 fail_usercopy=
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AM
1424 fail_page_alloc=
1425 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1426 General fault injection mechanism.
1427 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1428 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1429
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1430 fb_tunnels= [NET]
1431 Format: { initns | none }
1432 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1433 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1434
1da177e4 1435 floppy= [HW]
e7751617 1436 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1da177e4 1437
f13ae30e
AC
1438 force_pal_cache_flush
1439 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1440 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1441 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1442 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1443
6dddd7a7 1444 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1445 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1446 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1447 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1448 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1449 and may cause unknown problems.
1450
d9e54076 1451 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1452 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1453 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1454 boot debugging.
1455
cecbca96 1456 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1457 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1458 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1459 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1460 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1461 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1462
1463 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1464 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
25942e5e 1465 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
2af15d6a
SR
1466 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1467 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1468 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1469
1470 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1471 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1472 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1473 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1474 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1475
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SA
1476 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1477 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1478 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
25942e5e 1479 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
369bc18f
SA
1480 that can be changed at run time by the
1481 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1482
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NK
1483 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1484 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
25942e5e 1485 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of
0d7d9a16
NK
1486 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1487 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1488
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TB
1489 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1490 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1491 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1492 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1493 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1494
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1495 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1496 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1497 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1498 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1499 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1500 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1501 clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1502 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1503 suppliers).
1504 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1505 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1506 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1507 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1508 up (sync_state() calls).
1509 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1510 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1511 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1512
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SK
1513 fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1514 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1515 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1516 Format: <bool>
1517
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1518 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1519 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1520 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1521 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1522 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1523
1524 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1525
be3a5b0e 1526 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1527 Format: off | on
1528 default: on
1529
2521f2c2
PO
1530 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1531 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1532 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1533 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1534 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1535
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TG
1536 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1537 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1538 android emulator
1539
3eb52226
AD
1540 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1541 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1542 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
6984a320
AD
1543 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1544 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
3eb52226 1545
1da177e4 1546 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1547 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1548 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1549 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1550
6cec9b07
AL
1551 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1552 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1553 Format: 0 | 1
1554 Default: 0
1555 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1556 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1557 Format: 0 | 1
1558 Default: 0
1559 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1560 Format: 0 | 1
1561 Default: 0
1562 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1563 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1564 Default: 1024
1565 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1566 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1567 Default: 1024
1568
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JK
1569 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1570 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1571 backtraces on all cpus.
f117955a 1572 Format: 0 | 1
55537871 1573
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LT
1574 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1575 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1576 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1577 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
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1578
1579 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1580
1581 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1582 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1583
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1584 hest_disable [ACPI]
1585 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1586 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1587 logic will be disabled.
1588
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1589 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1590 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1591 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1592 size on bigger boxes.
1593
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1594 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1595 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1596 Default: "on"
1597
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1598 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1599
1600 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1601 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1602 verbose }
1603 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1604 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1605 VIA, nVidia)
1606 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1607
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1608 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1609 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1610
bc47190d 1611 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
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1612 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1613 of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1614 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1615 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
cf11e85f 1616
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1617 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1618 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
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1619 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1620
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1621 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1622 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1623 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1624 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1625 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
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1626 the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1627 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1628 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1629 Format: <integer> or (node format)
1630 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
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1631
1632 hugepagesz=
1633 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in
1634 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1635 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair
1636 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1637 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1638 architecture dependent. See also
1639 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1640 Format: size[KMG]
6902aa84 1641
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1642 hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1643 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
1644 enabled.
1645 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1646 memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
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1647 Format: { on | off (default) }
1648
1649 on: enable the feature
1650 off: disable the feature
1651
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1652 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1653 the default is on.
1654
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1655 This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1656 If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
1657 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1658
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1659 hung_task_panic=
1660 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
f117955a 1661 Format: 0 | 1
cef7125d 1662
b467f3ef 1663 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
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1664 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1665 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1666 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1667 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1668
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1669 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1670 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1671 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1672 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1673 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
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1674
1675 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1676 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1677 guest on lock contention.
1678
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1679 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1680 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1681 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1682 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1683 the real console.
1684
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1685 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1686 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1687 registered from board initialization code.
1688 Format:
1689 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1690
36d95739 1691 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
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1692 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1693 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1694 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1695 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1696 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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1697 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1698 keyboard and cannot control its state
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1699 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1700 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1701 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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1702 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1703 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1704 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1705 controller
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1706 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1707 controllers
24775d65 1708 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
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1709 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1710 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1711 transitions, or never reset
1712 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1713 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1714 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1715 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1716 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1717 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1718 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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1719 i8042.probe_defer
1720 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
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1721
1722 i810= [HW,DRM]
1723
4dca20ef 1724 i915.invert_brightness=
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1725 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1726 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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1727 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1728 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1729 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1730 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1731 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1732 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1733 value switches the backlight off.
1734 -1 -- never invert brightness
1735 0 -- machine default
1736 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1737
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1738 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1739 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1740
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1741 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1742 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
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1743 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1744 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
d7b461c5 1745 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1da177e4 1746
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1747 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1748 Format: <int>
1749 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1750 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1751 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1752 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1753 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1754 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1755 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1756 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1757 was 0x3.
1758
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1759 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1760 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1761
f039b754 1762 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1763 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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1764 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1765 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1766 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1767 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1768 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1769 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1770 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1771
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DJ
1772 idxd.sva= [HW]
1773 Format: <bool>
1774 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1775 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1776 true (1).
1777
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1778 idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1779 Format: <bool>
1780 Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1781 for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1782
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MR
1783 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1784 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1785 Default: strict
1786
1787 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1788 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1789 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1790 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1791 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1792 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1793 encoding mode.
1794
1795 Available settings are as follows:
1796 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1797 supported by the FPU
1798 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1799 by the FPU
1800 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1801 by the FPU
1802 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1803 supported by the FPU
1804
1805 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1806 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1807 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1808 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1809 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1810 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1811 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1812 MIPS64 CPUs.
1813
1814 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1815 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1816 except where unsupported by hardware.
1817
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1818 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1819 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1820 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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1821 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1822 could change it dynamically, usually by
1823 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1824
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KK
1825 ignore_rlimit_data
1826 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1827 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1828 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1829
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1830 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1831 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1832
2fe5d6de 1833 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1834 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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1835 default: "enforce"
1836
41475a3e 1837 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1838 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1839 owned by uid=0.
1840
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1841 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1842 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1843 measurements, instead of host native format.
1844
3323eec9 1845 ima_hash= [IMA]
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1846 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1847 | sha512 | ... }
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1848 default: "sha1"
1849
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1850 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1851 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1852
24fd03c8 1853 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1854 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
9e67028e 1855 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
03cee168 1856 fail_securely | critical_data"
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1857
1858 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1859 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1860 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1861 uid=0.
1862
1863 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1864 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1865
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1866 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1867 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1868 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1869
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1870 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1871 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1872 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1873 flag.
1874
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1875 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1876 critical data.
1877
24fd03c8 1878 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1879 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1880 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1881 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1882 opened for read by uid=0.
1883
6dddd7a7 1884 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1885 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1886 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1887 Default: "ima-ng"
1888
c2426d2a 1889 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1890 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1891 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1892
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1893 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1894 Format: <min_file_size>
1895 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1896 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1897
1898 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1899 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1900 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1901
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1902 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1903 Format: <bufsize>
1904 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1905
1906 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1907 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1908 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1909
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1910 init= [KNL]
1911 Format: <full_path>
1912 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1913 process.
1914
1915 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1916 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1917 startup.
1918
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1919 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1920 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1921 modules and initcalls.
1922
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1923 initramfs_async= [KNL]
1924 Format: <bool>
1925 Default: 1
1926 This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1927 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1928 with devices being probed and
1929 initialized. This should normally just work,
1930 but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1931 historical behaviour of the initramfs
1932 unpacking being completed before device_ and
1933 late_ initcalls.
1934
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1935 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1936
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1937 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1938 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1939 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1940 setting.
1941 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1942 Default is 0, 0
1943
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1944 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1945 zeroes.
1946 Format: 0 | 1
1947 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1948
1949 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1950 Format: 0 | 1
1951 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1952
be3a5b0e 1953 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
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1954 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1955 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1956 override in debugfs after boot.
1957
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1958 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1959 Format: <irq>
1960
be3a5b0e 1961 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1962
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1963 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1964 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1965 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1966 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1967
ba395927 1968 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1969 on
1970 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1971 off
1972 Disable intel iommu driver.
1973 igfx_off [Default Off]
1974 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1975 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1976 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1977 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1978 DMA.
5e0d2a6f 1979 strict [Default Off]
1d479f16 1980 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
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1981 sp_off [Default Off]
1982 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1983 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1984 not be supported.
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1985 sm_on
1986 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
1987 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
1988 translation.
1989 sm_off
1990 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
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1991 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1992 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1993 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1994 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1995 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1996 mapping is enabled.
1997 Note that using this option lowers the security
1998 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1999 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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2000
2001 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2002 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 2003 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 2004
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2005 intel_pstate= [X86]
2006 disable
2007 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2008 scaling driver for the supported processors
2009 passive
2010 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2011 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2012 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
2013 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2014 feature.
2015 force
2016 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2017 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2018 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2019 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2020 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2021 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2022 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2023 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2024 no_hwp
2025 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2026 if available.
2027 hwp_only
2028 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2029 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2030 support_acpi_ppc
2031 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2032 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2033 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2034 then this feature is turned on by default.
2035 per_cpu_perf_limits
2036 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2037 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 2038
d1423d56 2039 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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CW
2040 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2041 off disable Interrupt Remapping
2042 nosid disable Source ID checking
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2043 no_x2apic_optout
2044 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 2045 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 2046
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2047 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2048 strict regions from userspace.
2049 relaxed
2050
be3a5b0e 2051 iommu= [X86]
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2052 off
2053 force
2054 noforce
2055 biomerge
2056 panic
2057 nopanic
2058 merge
2059 nomerge
0cb55ad2 2060 soft
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2061 pt [X86]
2062 nopt [X86]
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2063 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
2064 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
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2066 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2067 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2068 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2069 falling back to the full range if needed.
2070 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2071 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2072 greater than 32-bit addressing.
2073
531353e6 2074 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
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2075 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2076 0 - Lazy mode.
2077 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2078 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2079 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2080 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2081 the relevant IOMMU driver.
712d8f20 2082 1 - Strict mode.
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2083 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2084 synchronously.
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2085 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2086 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2087 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
68a6efe8 2088
fccb4e3b 2089 iommu.passthrough=
c8fb436b 2090 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
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2091 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2092 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2093 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 2094 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
0cb55ad2 2095
7c42376e 2096 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
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2097 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2098 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2099
6cececfc 2100 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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2101 0x80
2102 Standard port 0x80 based delay
2103 0xed
2104 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 2105 udelay
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2106 Simple two microseconds delay
2107 none
2108 No delay
b02aae9c 2109
1da177e4 2110 ip= [IP_PNP]
3eb30c51 2111 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4 2112
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2113 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2114 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2115
fbf19803 2116 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 2117 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 2118
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2119 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2120 [ARM, ARM64]
2121 Format: <bool>
2122 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2123 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2124 exposed by the device tree is too small.
2125
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2126 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2127 [ARM, ARM64]
2128 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2129 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2130 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2131 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2132 LPIs.
2133
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2134 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2135 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2136 requires the kernel to be built with
2137 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2138
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2139 irqfixup [HW]
2140 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2141 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2142 firmware running.
2143
2144 irqpoll [HW]
2145 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2146 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2147 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2148 firmware running.
2149
1da177e4 2150 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 2151 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 2152
d94d1053 2153 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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2154 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2155 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2156
2157 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2158 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2159
2160 nohz
2161 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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2162
2163 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2164 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2165 workqueue's affinity configured via the
2166 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2167 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2168
2169 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2170 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2171 be configured manually after bootup.
2172
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2173 domain
2174 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2175 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2176 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2177 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2178 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2179 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2180 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2181 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2182
2183 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2184 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2185 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2186 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2187
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2188 managed_irq
2189
2190 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2191 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2192 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2193 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2194 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2195
2196 This isolation is best effort and only effective
2197 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2198 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2199 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2200 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2201 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2202 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2203
2204 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2205 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2206 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2207 only delivered when tasks running on those
2208 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2209 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2210 queues.
1da177e4 2211
11ea68f5 2212 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1da177e4 2213
a9913044 2214 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 2215
be3a5b0e 2216 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
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2217 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2218 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2219 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2220 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2221 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2222
be3a5b0e 2223 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
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2224 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2225 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2226 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2227 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2228 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2229
be3a5b0e 2230 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
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2231 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2232 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2233 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2234 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2235 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2236
1da177e4 2237 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 2238 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 2239
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2240 nokaslr [KNL]
2241 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2242 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2243 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 2244
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MR
2245 kasan_multi_shot
2246 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2247 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2248 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2249 invalid access.
2250
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2251 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
2252
342332e6 2253 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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2254 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2255 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2256 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2257 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2258 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2259 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2260 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2261 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2262 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2263
2264 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2265 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2266 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2267 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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MG
2268 zone if it does not.
2269
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DR
2270 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2271 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2272 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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2273 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2274 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
a5c6d650
DR
2275 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2276 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
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2278 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2279 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2280 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2281 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2282 optional and is the number seconds in between
2283 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2284 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2285 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2286 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2287 the kernel debugger.
2288
84c08fd6 2289 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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JW
2290 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2291 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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2292 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2293 keyboard only format: kbd
2294 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2295 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2296 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2297 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 2298
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DA
2299 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW]
2300 If the boot console provides the ability to read
2301 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2302 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2303 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2304 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2305 specifies the normal console to transition to.
2306
2307 The name of the early console should be specified
2308 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2309 the early console might be different than the tty
2310 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2311 blank and the first boot console that implements
2312 read() will be picked.
2313
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2314 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2315 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2316
497de97e 2317 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
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FF
2318 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2319 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2320
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CM
2321 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2322 Valid arguments: on, off
2323 Default: on
47aeeddc
MI
2324 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2325 the default is off.
04f70336 2326
970988e1
MH
2327 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2328 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2329 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2330 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2331 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2332 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2333 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2334
2335 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2336
2337 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2338 Boot Parameter" section.
2339
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JL
2340 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2341 and kernel address spaces.
2342 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2343 0: force disabled
2344 1: force enabled
2345
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AP
2346 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2347 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2348
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LA
2349 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2350 Default is false (don't support).
2351
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XG
2352 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2353 KVM MMU at runtime.
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AP
2354 Default is 0 (off)
2355
b8e8c830
PB
2356 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2357 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2358 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2359 force : Always deploy workaround.
2360 off : Never deploy workaround.
2361 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2362 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2363
2364 Default is 'auto'.
2365
2366 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2367 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2368
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JS
2369 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2370 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2371 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2372 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
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JS
2373 period (see below). The default is 60.
2374
2375 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2376 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2377 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2378 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2379 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2380 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
1aa9b957 2381
fef07aae 2382 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2383 Default is 1 (enabled)
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AP
2384
2385 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2386 for all guests.
16290246 2387 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
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DB
2389 kvm-arm.mode=
2390 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2391
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MZ
2392 none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2393
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MZ
2394 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2395 protected guests.
2396
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DB
2397 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2398 state is kept private from the host.
2399 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2400
53e8ce13
AE
2401 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2402 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2403 for the host.
d8b369c4 2404
e23f62f7
MZ
2405 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2406 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2407 system registers
2408
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MZ
2409 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2410 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2411 system registers
2412
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MZ
2413 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2414 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2415 system registers
2416
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MZ
2417 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2418 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2419 LPIs.
2420
aed26eeb
SR
2421 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2422 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2423 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2424 allocation.
2425 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2426 Format: <integer>
2427 Default: 5
2428
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AP
2429 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2430 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2431 Default is 1 (enabled)
2432
2433 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
0ff29701
SC
2434 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2435 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2436 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2437 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2438 never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2439 Default is 1 (enabled)
fef07aae
AP
2440
2441 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2442 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2443 Default is 1 (enabled)
2444
e1a72ae2
SL
2445 kvm-intel.nested=
2446 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2447 Default is 0 (disabled)
2448
fef07aae
AP
2449 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2450 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2451 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2452 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2453
a399477e
KRW
2454 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2455 CVE-2018-3620.
2456
2457 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2458
2459 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2460 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2461 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2462 never: Disables the mitigation
2463
2464 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2465
fef07aae
AP
2466 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2467 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2468 Default is 1 (enabled)
2469
b7fe54f6
BS
2470 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL]
2471 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2472
2473 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2474 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2475 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2476
2477 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2478 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2479 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2480 not have direct access.
2481
2482 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2483 options are:
2484
2485 on - enable the interface for the mitigation
2486
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JK
2487 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2488 affected CPUs
2489
2490 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2491 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2492
2493 full
2494 Provides all available mitigations for the
2495 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2496 enables all mitigations in the
2497 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2498
2499 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2500 sysfs interface is still possible after
2501 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2502 when the first VM is started in a
2503 potentially insecure configuration,
2504 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2505
2506 full,force
2507 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2508 flush runtime control. Implies the
2509 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2510 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2511
2512 flush
2513 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2514 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2515 L1D flush.
2516
2517 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2518 sysfs interface is still possible after
2519 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2520 when the first VM is started in a
2521 potentially insecure configuration,
2522 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2523
2524 flush,nosmt
2525
2526 Disables SMT and enables the default
2527 hypervisor mitigation.
2528
2529 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2530 sysfs interface is still possible after
2531 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2532 when the first VM is started in a
2533 potentially insecure configuration,
2534 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2535
2536 flush,nowarn
2537 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2538 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2539 insecure configuration.
2540
2541 off
2542 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2543 emit any warnings.
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2544 It also drops the swap size and available
2545 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2546 bare metal.
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JK
2547
2548 Default is 'flush'.
2549
65fd4cb6 2550 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2551
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LT
2552 l2cr= [PPC]
2553
a78bfbfc
RB
2554 l3cr= [PPC]
2555
cd4f0ef7 2556 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2557 disabled it.
1da177e4 2558
622381e6 2559 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
279f1461
SS
2560 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2561 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
622381e6 2562 Format: notscdeadline
279f1461 2563
6cececfc 2564 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2565 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2566
fcb71f6f
FC
2567 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2568 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2569 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2570 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2571 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
fcb71f6f
FC
2572 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2573 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2574
20308871
MP
2575 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2576 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2577 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2578
78e70c23
DJ
2579 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2580 when set.
2581 Format: <int>
2582
25942e5e 2583 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma-
33267325 2584 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2585 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
33267325
TH
2586 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2587 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2588 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2589 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2590 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2591
2592 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2593 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2594 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2595 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2596 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2597 host link and device attached to it.
2598
2599 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2600 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2601 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2602 The following configurations can be forced.
2603
2604 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2605 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2606
2607 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2608
2609 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2610 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2611 allowed.
2612
2613 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2614
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MP
2615 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2616
05944bdf 2617 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2618 and both resets.
05944bdf 2619
ca6d43b0
DW
2620 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2621 hot-unplug link recovery
2622
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TH
2623 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2624
966fbe19
VP
2625 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2626
b8bd6dc3
RJ
2627 * disable: Disable this device.
2628
33267325
TH
2629 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2630 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2631
95f72d1e 2632 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2633
6b99e6e6 2634 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
1da177e4 2635
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RD
2636 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2637 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2638
a6b25b67
RD
2639 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2640 Format: <integer>
2641
2642 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2643 Format: <integer>
2644
2645 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2646 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2647
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MG
2648 lockdown= [SECURITY]
2649 { integrity | confidentiality }
2650 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2651 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2652 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2653 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2654 to extract confidential information from the kernel
2655 are also disabled.
2656
ec4518aa
PM
2657 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2658 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2659 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2660 number of online CPUs.
2661
2662 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2663 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2664
2665 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2666 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2667
2668 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2669 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2670 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2671
2672 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2673 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2674 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2675 mode during the locktorture test.
2676
2677 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2678 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2679 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2680
2681 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2682 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2683
2684 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2685 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2686 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2687 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2688 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2689 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2690
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PM
2691 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2692 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2693
2694 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2695 Enable additional printk() statements.
2696
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LT
2697 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2698 Format: <irq>
2699
2700 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2701 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2702 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2703 loglevels are defined as follows:
2704
2705 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2706 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2707 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2708 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2709 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2710 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2711 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2712 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2713
c756d08a 2714 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
23b2899f
LR
2715 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2716 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2717 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2718 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2719 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2720 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2721
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2722 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2723 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2724 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2725 kernel boot problems.
2726
1da177e4
LT
2727 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2728 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2729 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2730 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2731 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2732 attached printers to be reset. Using
2733 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2734 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2735 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2736 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2737 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2738 port specification list means that device IDs
2739 from each port should be examined, to see if
2740 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2741 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2742 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2743
2744 lpj=n [KNL]
2745 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2746 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2747 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2748 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2749 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2750 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2751 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2752 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2753 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2754 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2755 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2756 hardware.
2757
2758 ltpc= [NET]
2759 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2760
9b8c7c14
KC
2761 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2762
79f7865d
KC
2763 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2764 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2765 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2766
16290246 2767 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
a9913044 2768 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
df43acac 2769 Example: machvec=hpzx1
1da177e4 2770
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RD
2771 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2772 different yeeloong laptops.
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WZ
2773 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2774
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RD
2775 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2776 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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LT
2777
2778 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2779 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2780 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2781 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2782 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2783 only takes effect during system bootup.
2784 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2785 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2786
d134b00b
KS
2787 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2788 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2789 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2790 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2791 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2792 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2793
cd4f0ef7 2794 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2795
cb1aaebe 2796 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
909dd324 2797
1da177e4 2798 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2799 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2800
1da177e4
LT
2801 mdacon= [MDA]
2802 Format: <first>,<last>
2803 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2804
bc124170
TG
2805 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2806 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2807 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2808
2809 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2810 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2811 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2812
2813 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2814 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2815 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2816 not have direct access.
2817
2818 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2819 options are:
2820
d71eb0ce
JP
2821 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2822 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2823 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2824 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170 2825
64870ed1
WL
2826 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2827 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2828 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2829 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2830 too.
2831
bc124170
TG
2832 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2833 mds=full.
2834
5999bbe7
TG
2835 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2836
1da177e4 2837 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
f3cd4c86
BH
2838 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2839
2840 1 for test;
2841 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2842 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2843 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2844
fbb97d87
WC
2845 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2846 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2847 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2848 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2849
f3cd4c86
BH
2850 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2851 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2852 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2853
cd4f0ef7 2854 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2855 memory.
2856
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PM
2857 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2858 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2859 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2860
6dddd7a7 2861 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2862 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2863 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2864 set according to the
2865 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2866 option.
cb1aaebe 2867 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
86dd995d 2868
6cececfc 2869 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2870 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2871 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2872 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2873 option description.
2874
2875 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
4c8e3de4 2876 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
277cba1d 2877 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2878 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2879 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2880 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2881 comma delimited.
2882 Example:
2883 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2884
2885 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2886 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2887 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2888
2889 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2890 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2891 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2892 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2893 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2894 or
2895 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2896 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2897 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2898 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2899
ec776ef6
CH
2900 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2901 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2902 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2903 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2904 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2905
ef61f8a3
JS
2906 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2907 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2908 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2909 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2910 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2911 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2912 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2913 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2914
9f077871
JF
2915 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2916 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2917 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2918 Setting this option will scan the memory
2919 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2920 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2921 from using the memory being corrupted.
2922 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2923 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2924 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2925 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2926
2927 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2928 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2929 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2930 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2931 corruption in more or less memory.
2932
2933 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2934 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2935 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2936 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2937
e3a9d9fc
OS
2938 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
2939 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
2940 Format: {on | off (default)}
2941 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
2942 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
2943 from the hotadded memory which will allow to
2944 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
2945 additional memory to do so.
2946 This feature is disabled by default because it
2947 has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
2948 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
2949 memory blocks).
2950 The state of the flag can be read in
2951 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
2952 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
2953 the feature is not effective.
2954
4bab4964
MS
2955 This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
2956 both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
2957 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
2958
376e3fde 2959 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
c64df707 2960 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2961 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2962 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2963 performed. Each pass selects another test
2964 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2965 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2966 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2967 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2968
c262f3b9
TL
2969 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2970 Valid arguments: on, off
2971 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2972 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2973 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2974 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2975 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2976
2f5947df 2977 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
c262f3b9
TL
2978 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2979
406e7938
RW
2980 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2981 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2982 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2983 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2984 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2985
1da177e4 2986 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
32e2eae2 2987 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2988
8f36881b
AS
2989 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2990 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2991 platforms.
2992
e6c4dc6c
WT
2993 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2994 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2995 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2996 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2997
1da177e4
LT
2998 mga= [HW,DRM]
2999
1c207f95
RD
3000 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
3001 physical address is ignored.
3002
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MP
3003 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
3004 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3005 Default: "0tb"
3006 MINI2440 configuration specification:
3007 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3008 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3009 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3010 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3011 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3012 unconfigured.
3013 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3014 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3015 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3016 VGA shield.
3017 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3018 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3019 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3020 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3021 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
6b2484e1 3022 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
39f45d7b 3023
98af8452 3024 mitigations=
a111b7c0
JP
3025 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3026 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
3027 arch-independent options, each of which is an
3028 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
3029
3030 off
3031 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
3032 improves system performance, but it may also
3033 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 3034 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 3035 kpti=0 [ARM64]
a2059825 3036 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
0336e04a 3037 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 3038 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 3039 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 3040 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 3041 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 3042 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 3043 mds=off [X86]
a7a248c5 3044 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
b8e8c830 3045 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
f7964378 3046 no_entry_flush [PPC]
9a32a7e7 3047 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
b8e8c830
PB
3048
3049 Exceptions:
3050 This does not have any effect on
3051 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3052 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
98af8452
JP
3053
3054 auto (default)
3055 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3056 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
3057 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3058 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3059 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 3060 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
98af8452
JP
3061
3062 auto,nosmt
3063 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3064 if needed. This is for users who always want to
3065 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 3066 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 3067 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
a7a248c5 3068 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 3069
6b74ab97
MG
3070 mminit_loglevel=
3071 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3072 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3073 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3074 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3075 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3076 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3077
106a4ee2
RR
3078 module.sig_enforce
3079 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3080 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 3081 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
3082 is always true, so this option does nothing.
3083
be7de5f9
PB
3084 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3085 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
3086
1da177e4
LT
3087 mousedev.tap_time=
3088 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3089 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3090 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3091 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3092 Format: <msecs>
3093 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3094 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3095 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3096 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3097
a5c6d650
DR
3098 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3099 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3100 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3101 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3102 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3103 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3104 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
3105 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
3106 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3107 is not too small.
3108
f70029bb
MH
3109 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3110 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3111 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3112 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3113 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 3114
1da177e4
LT
3115 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
3116 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3117
a9913044
RD
3118 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
3119 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
3120
3121 mtdparts= [MTD]
fb251124 3122 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
1da177e4 3123
4e89a2d8
WS
3124 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3125 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3126 at a time.
3127
5988af23
RH
3128 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3129
3130 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3131
3132 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3133 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3134 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3135 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3136 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3137
9db829f4
BD
3138 mtdset= [ARM]
3139 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3140
0f12999e 3141 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
9db829f4 3142
1da177e4 3143 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
3144 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3145 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 3146
0cb55ad2 3147 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 3148 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
3149 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3150
3151 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3152 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3153 Default is 1.
3154 Large value could prevent small alignment from
3155 using up MTRRs.
3156
3157 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3158 Format: <integer>
3159 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3160 Default : 1
3161 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3162 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3163
1da177e4
LT
3164 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3165
1da177e4
LT
3166 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
3167 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3168 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3169 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
3170 This usage is only documented in each driver source
3171 file if at all.
3172
58401572
KPO
3173 nf_conntrack.acct=
3174 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3175 0 to disable accounting
3176 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 3177 Default value is 0.
58401572 3178
306a0753 3179 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
3eb30c51 3180 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3181
3182 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3eb30c51 3183 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4 3184
306a0753 3185 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3eb30c51 3186 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
306a0753 3187
5405fc44
TM
3188 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3189 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3190 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3191 requests.
3192
a72b4422
TM
3193 nfs.callback_tcpport=
3194 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3195 channel should listen.
3196
e571cbf1
TM
3197 nfs.cache_getent=
3198 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3199 to update the NFS client cache entries.
3200
3201 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3202 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3203 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3204
58df095b
TM
3205 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3206 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3207 entries.
3208
f43bf0be
TM
3209 nfs.enable_ino64=
3210 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3211 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3212 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3213 of returning the full 64-bit number.
3214 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3215
5405fc44
TM
3216 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3217 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3218 slots the client will assign to the callback
3219 channel. This determines the maximum number of
3220 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3221 a particular server.
3222
ef159e91
TM
3223 nfs.max_session_slots=
3224 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3225 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3226 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3227 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3228 Note that there is little point in setting this
3229 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3230
b064eca2 3231 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
3232 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3233 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3234 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3235 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3236 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3237 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3238 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3239 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3240 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3241 back to using the idmapper.
3242 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
3243 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3244 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3245 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3246 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
3247 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 3248
db8ac8ba
WAA
3249 nfs.send_implementation_id =
3250 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3251 information in exchange_id requests.
3252 If zero, no implementation identification information
3253 will be sent.
3254 The default is to send the implementation identification
3255 information.
e52347bd 3256
f6de7a39
TM
3257 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3258 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3259 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3260 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3261 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3262 after the locks are lost.
3263 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3264 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3265 parameter to '1'.
3266 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3267 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 3268
bbf58bf3
TM
3269 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3270 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3271 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3272
3273 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3274 whatever value is the default set by the layout
3275 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3276 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3277
6d91929a
BF
3278 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3279 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3280 server-to-server copies for which this server is
3281 the destination of the copy.
3282
3283 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3284 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3285 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3286 the source server. It caches the mount in case
3287 it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3288 used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3289 this parameter.
3290
e9541ce8
BF
3291 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3292 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3293 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3294 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3295 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
3296 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 3297
6d91929a 3298
160c7ba3
PM
3299 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3300 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3301 NMI stack-backtrace request.
3302
c0c74acb 3303 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
3304 when a NMI is triggered.
3305 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3306
6cececfc 3307 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 3308 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 3309 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
3310 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3311 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 3312 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
93285c01
ZD
3313 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3314 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3315 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
334bb79c 3316 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
3317 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3318 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 3319
d22881dc
SW
3320 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3321 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3322
bff38771
AV
3323 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3324 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3325 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3326 waits 4 seconds.
3327
cd4f0ef7 3328 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
3329 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3330 is present.
3331
372fddf7
KS
3332 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3333 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3334
b745cfba 3335 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
dd649bd0 3336
0cb55ad2
RD
3337 no_console_suspend
3338 [HW] Never suspend the console
3339 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3340 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
3341 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3342 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3343 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
3344 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3345 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
3346 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3347 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3348 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3349 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3350 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 3351
c6c40533
KS
3352 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
3353 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3354 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3355 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
3356 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3357 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
3358 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3359 data will be no longer available. This parameter
3360 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3361 is set.
3362
c1aee215
CL
3363 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3364 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
3365 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 3366
a9913044
RD
3367 noalign [KNL,ARM]
3368
686140a1
VG
3369 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3370 (CPU alternatives feature).
3371
1da177e4
LT
3372 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3373 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3374
5091faa4
MG
3375 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3376
1da177e4
LT
3377 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3378 on "Classic" PPC cores.
3379
3380 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 3381
0cb55ad2
RD
3382 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3383
e4042ad4 3384 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
163ecdff 3385
6902aa84
PM
3386 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3387
b2e0a54a 3388 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 3389
f7964378
NP
3390 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3391
1da177e4
LT
3392 noexec [IA-64]
3393
6cececfc 3394 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 3395 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 3396 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
3397 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3398
de78a9c4 3399 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
3400 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3401 even if it is supported by processor.
3402
67548622 3403 nosmep [X86,PPC64s]
52b6179a 3404 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
3405 even if it is supported by processor.
3406
f5a1b191
JS
3407 noexec32 [X86-64]
3408 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3409 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3410 read doesn't imply executable mappings
3411 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3412 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 3413
fab43ef4 3414 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 3415
cd4f0ef7 3416 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
3417 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3418 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 3419
5b280ed4 3420 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
0ddab1d2 3421
8abddd96
NP
3422 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3423
52c48c51
SS
3424 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3425 Equivalent to smt=1.
3426
be3a5b0e 3427 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
3428 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3429 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 3430
a2059825
JP
3431 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3432 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3433 possible in the system.
05736e4a 3434
e5ce5e72
JL
3435 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3436 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3437 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3438 option.
da285121 3439
24f7fc83
KRW
3440 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3441 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3442
9a32a7e7
NP
3443 no_uaccess_flush
3444 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3445
0c752a93
SS
3446 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3447 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3448 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3449
b6f42a4a
FY
3450 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3451 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3452 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3453 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3454 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3455 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3456
3457 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3458 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3459 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3460 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3461 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3462 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3463 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3464
3cae85f5
FF
3465 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3466 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3467 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3468 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3469 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3470 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3471 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3472 useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 3473
1f29fae2
SH
3474 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3475 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3476 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3477
1da177e4
LT
3478 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3479 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3480 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3481 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3482 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3483 real-time systems.
3484
5ead723a
TT
3485 no_hash_pointers
3486 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3487 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3488 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3489 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature
3490 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3491 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3492 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3493 compared. However, if this command-line option is
3494 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3495 value printed. Pointers printed via %pK may still be
3496 hashed. This option should only be specified when
3497 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production
3498 kernels.
3499
a6e15a39
KC
3500 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3501
79bf2bb3
TG
3502 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3503 Valid arguments: on, off
3504 Default: on
3505
d94d1053 3506 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 3507 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 3508 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 3509 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 3510 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
3511 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3512 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3513 just as if they had also been called out in the
3514 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 3515
eeee7853
PM
3516 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3517
cd4f0ef7 3518 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3519 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3520
6cececfc 3521 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3522 broken timer IRQ sources.
3523
1da177e4
LT
3524 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3525
3526 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3527 initial RAM disk.
3528
03ea8155
WH
3529 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3530 remapping.
d1423d56 3531 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3532
1da177e4
LT
3533 nointroute [IA-64]
3534
d12a72b8
AL
3535 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3536
16290246 3537 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3538
9cf4c4fc
JK
3539 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3540
fd10cde9
GN
3541 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3542 fault handling.
3543
80e9a4f2
AM
3544 no-vmw-sched-clock
3545 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3546 clock and use the default one.
3547
e73a8f38 3548 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
e0685fa2
SP
3549 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3550 influence scheduler behaviour
d910f5c1 3551
cd4f0ef7 3552 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3553
cd4f0ef7 3554 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3555
1da177e4 3556 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3557 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3558
312f1f01
H
3559 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3560
13696e0a 3561 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3562
83d7384f
AS
3563 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3564 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3565
bda62633
DZ
3566 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3567 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3568 irq.
3569
b22a15a5
JMC
3570 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3571 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3572 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3573 set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3574
3575 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3576
02608bef
DY
3577 nomodule Disable module load
3578
016ddd9b
JK
3579 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3580 pagetables) support.
3581
0790c9aa
AL
3582 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3583
0cb55ad2
RD
3584 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3585 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3586
cd4f0ef7 3587 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3588 with UP alternatives
3589
7a5091d5
PA
3590 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3591 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3592 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3593 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3594
a9913044
RD
3595 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3596 space.
3597
1da177e4
LT
3598 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3599 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3600 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3601
3602 nosbagart [IA-64]
3603
cd4f0ef7 3604 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3605
38853a30
JS
3606 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3607
61ec7567
LB
3608 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3609 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3610
97842216
DJ
3611 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3612
1da177e4
LT
3613 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3614
195daf66 3615 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3616 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3617
1da177e4 3618 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3619
2b2fd87a
WH
3620 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3621
f78cff48
FY
3622 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3623 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3624 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3625 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3626 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3627 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3628 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3629 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3630 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3631 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3632 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3633 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3634 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3635
6dddd7a7 3636 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3637 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3638 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3639 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3640 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3641 parameter's value.
3642 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3643 Default: 255
3644
16290246 3645 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3646 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3647 SAL PALO.
3648
2b633e3f
YL
3649 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3650 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3651 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3652 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3653 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3654 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3655 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3656 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3657
0cb55ad2
RD
3658 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3659
544ef682
BS
3660 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3661 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3662
00b072c0
BS
3663 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3664 NUMA balancing.
1a687c2e
MG
3665 Allowed values are enable and disable
3666
f0c0b2b8 3667 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3668 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8 3669 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
57043247 3670 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
f0c0b2b8 3671
7c4be253 3672 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
a74e2a22 3673 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
7c4be253
RD
3674 info.
3675
3ef0e1f8
AS
3676 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3677 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3678 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3679 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3680 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3681 interrupts *may* be lost!
3682
15ac7afe
TL
3683 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3684 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3685 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3686 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3687
44a4dcf7
RD
3688 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3689 process, but there is a small probability of
3690 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3691 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3692 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3693
e900a918
DW
3694 page_alloc.shuffle=
3695 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3696 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3697 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3698 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3699 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3700 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3701 can be read from sysfs at:
3702 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3703
48c96a36
JK
3704 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3705 Storage of the information about who allocated
3706 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3707 we can turn it on.
3708 on: enable the feature
3709
8823b1db 3710 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3711 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3712 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3713 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3714 on: turn on poisoning
3715
f58780a8
GS
3716 page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3717 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3718 Format: <integer>
3719 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3720 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3721
44a4dcf7 3722 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3723 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3724 timeout = 0: wait forever
3725 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3726 Format: <timeout>
3727
d999bd93
FT
3728 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3729 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3730 bit 0: print all tasks info
3731 bit 1: print system memory info
3732 bit 2: print timer info
3733 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3734 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3735 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
d999bd93 3736
db38d5c1
RA
3737 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3738 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3739 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3740 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3741 called with any of the flags in this set.
3742 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3743 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3744 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3745 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3746 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3747 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3748 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3749
9e3961a0
PB
3750 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3751 on a WARN().
3752
f06e5153
MH
3753 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3754 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3755 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3756 succeeds in any situation.
3757 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3758 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3759 kernel more unstable.
3760
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LT
3761 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3762 connected to, default is 0.
3763 Format: <parport#>
3764 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3765 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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3766 Format: <mode>
3767
3768 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3769 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3770 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3771 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3772 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3773 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3774 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3775 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3776 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3777 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3778 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3779 are specified on the command line, starting
3780 with parport0.
3781
3782 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3783 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3784 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3785 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3786 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3787 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3788 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3789
426e2c6a
MR
3790 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA]
3791 Format: <int>
3792 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3793 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3794 has been found at either range. Disabled by default.
3795
3796 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA]
3797 Format: <int>
3798 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3799 changes. Disabled by default.
3800
3801 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA]
3802 Format: <int>
3803 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3804 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3805 Disabled by default.
3806
3807 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA]
3808 Format: <int>
3809 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3810 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3811 Disabled by default.
3812
3813 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3814 Format: <int>
3815 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3816 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first
3817 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3818 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often
3819 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3820 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3821 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3822 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across
3823 all channels.
3824
3825 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA]
3826 Format: <int>
3827 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3828 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3829 respectively. Disabled by default.
3830
3831 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA]
3832 Format: <int>
3833 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3834 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3835 respectively. Disabled by default.
3836
3837 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3838 Format: <int>
3839 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual
3840 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3841 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3842 All modes allowed by default.
3843
3844 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA]
3845 Format: <int>
3846 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3847 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default.
3848
7d33004d
MR
3849 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3850 Format: <int>
3851 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on
3852 platform configuration and the use of other driver
3853 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3854 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3855 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3856 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for
3857 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3858 By default all supported ports are probed.
3859
426e2c6a
MR
3860 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA]
3861 Format: <int>
3862 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default
3863 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3864
3865 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA]
3866 Format: <int>
3867 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use
3868 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3869 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3870 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3871 0 otherwise.
3872
6ddcec95
MR
3873 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3874 Format: <int>
3875 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow
3876 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for
3877 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only
3878 allowed by default.
3879
dd287796
AM
3880 pause_on_oops=
3881 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3882 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3883 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3884
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LT
3885 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3886
3887 pcd. [PARIDE]
3888 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
e7751617 3889 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3890
07d8d7e5
LG
3891 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3892
3893 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3894 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3895 specified in one of the following formats:
3896
45db3370 3897 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3898 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3899
3900 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3901 bus/device/function address which may change
3902 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3903 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3904 by other kernel parameters. If the
3905 domain is left unspecified, it is
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LG
3906 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3907 to a device through multiple device/function
3908 addresses can be specified after the base
3909 address (this is more robust against
3910 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3911 selects devices using IDs from the
3912 configuration space which may match multiple
3913 devices in the system.
3914
11eb0e0e 3915 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3916 changes anything
c0115606 3917 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3918 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
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RD
3919 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3920 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3921 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3922 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3923 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3924 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3925 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3926 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3927 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3928 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3929 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3930 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3931 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3932 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3933 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3934 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3935 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3936 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3937 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3938 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3939 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3940 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3941 Configuration
12983077
AH
3942 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3943 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3944 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3945 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3946 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3947 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3948 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3949 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3950 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3951 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3952 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3953 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3954 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3955 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3956 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3957 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3958 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3959 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
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RD
3960 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3961 on several machines and they hang the machine
3962 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3963 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3964 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3965 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3966 motherboard.
c0115606 3967 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3968 Use with caution as certain devices share
3969 address decoders between ROMs and other
3970 resources.
c0115606 3971 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3972 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3973 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3974 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3975 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3976 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
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RD
3977 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3978 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3979 this way.
c0115606 3980 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
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RD
3981 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3982 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3983 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3984 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
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RD
3985 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3986 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3987 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3988 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
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RD
3989 numbers ourselves, overriding
3990 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3991 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
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3992 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3993 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3994 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3995 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3996 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3997 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3998 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3999 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4000 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4001 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
4002 please report a bug.
4003 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 4004 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
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RD
4005 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4006 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4007 so this option is a temporary workaround
4008 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
4009 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4010 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
4011 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4012 This might help on some broken boards which
4013 machine check when some devices' config space
4014 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4015 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
4016 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4017 This sorting is done to get a device
4018 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4019 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
4020 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4021 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4022 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4023 supported by all devices below the root complex.
4024 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4025 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4026 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4027 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4028 or bus can support) for best performance.
4029 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4030 every device is guaranteed to support. This
4031 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4032 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4033 reduced performance. This also guarantees
4034 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
4035 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4036 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4037 The default value is 256 bytes.
4038 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4039 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4040 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
4041 resource_alignment=
4042 Format:
07d8d7e5 4043 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 4044 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
4045 aligned memory resources. How to
4046 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
4047 If <order of align> is not specified,
4048 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3b1b1ce3 4049 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
32a9a682 4050 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
4051 To specify the alignment for several
4052 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4053 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3b1b1ce3
AK
4054 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4055 for 4096-byte alignment.
43c16408
AP
4056 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4057 end-to-end CRC checking).
4058 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4059 the default.
4060 off: Turn ECRC off
4061 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
4062 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4063 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4064 Default size is 256 bytes.
d7b8a217
NJ
4065 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4066 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4067 Default size is 2 megabytes.
4068 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4069 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4070 Default size is 2 megabytes.
8c8803c5 4071 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
d7b8a217
NJ
4072 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4073 MMIO_PREF window.
8c8803c5 4074 Default size is 2 megabytes.
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KB
4075 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4076 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4077 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
4078 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4079 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4080 accommodate resources required by all child
4081 devices.
4082 off: Turn realloc off
4083 on: Turn realloc on
4084 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 4085 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
4086 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4087 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
4088 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
4089 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4090 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
4091 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4092 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4093 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4094 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4095 conflict with unreported devices), so this
4096 taints the kernel.
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LG
4097 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4098 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4099 specified above) separated by semicolons.
4100 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4101 redirect capabilities forced off which will
4102 allow P2P traffic between devices through
4103 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4104 this removes isolation between devices and
4105 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 4106 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 4107 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
de267a7c
PM
4108 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4109 one PCI domain per PCI function
6b4b78fe 4110
e5665a45
CE
4111 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4112 Management.
4113 off Disable ASPM.
4114 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4115 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4116
4c0fd764
BH
4117 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4118 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4119 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4120 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
4121 also tries to use these services.
35a0b237
OJ
4122 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
4123 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4c0fd764
BH
4124 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4125 hotplug).
79dd9182 4126
9d26d3a8
MW
4127 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4128 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4129 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4130
c7f48656 4131 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 4132 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 4133 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 4134
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LT
4135 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4136
39ac5ba5
TB
4137 pd_ignore_unused
4138 [PM]
4139 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4140 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4141 for debug and development, but should not be
4142 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4143
1da177e4 4144 pd. [PARIDE]
e7751617 4145 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
4146
4147 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4148 boot time.
4149 Format: { 0 | 1 }
4150 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4151
f58dc01b 4152 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
4153 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4154 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
4155 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4156 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
4157 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 4158
1da177e4 4159 pf. [PARIDE]
e7751617 4160 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
4161
4162 pg. [PARIDE]
e7751617 4163 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
4164
4165 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
cb1aaebe 4166 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
1da177e4
LT
4167
4168 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4169 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 4170 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 4171
16290246 4172 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
4173 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4174 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4175
0a4b4327
NP
4176 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU.
4177 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4178 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4179 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4180 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4181 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4182 remains 0.
4183
db96a759
CY
4184 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
4185 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4186
96242116
BH
4187 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
4188 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4189 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
4190 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
4191 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4192 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 4193
1da177e4
LT
4194 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
4195 { off }
4196
4197 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
4198 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4199
4200 pnp_reserve_irq=
4201 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4202
4203 pnp_reserve_dma=
4204 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4205
4206 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 4207 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
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LT
4208
4209 pnp_reserve_mem=
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RD
4210 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4211 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
4212 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4213
4af94f39
RD
4214 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4215 Default is 21.
4216 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4217 may be specified.
4218 Format: <port>,<port>....
4219
c3cbd075
BS
4220 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4221 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4222 platform machine description specific power_save
4223 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4224 execution priority.
4225
3eb5d588
AB
4226 ppc_strict_facility_enable
4227 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4228 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4229 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4230 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4231
07fd1761
CB
4232 ppc_tm= [PPC]
4233 Format: {"off"}
4234 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4235
6ef869e0
MH
4236 preempt= [KNL]
4237 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4238 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4239 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4240 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4241 can be preempted anytime.
4242
45807a1d
IM
4243 print-fatal-signals=
4244 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
4245
4246 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4247 related application anomalies: too many signals,
4248 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4249 coredump - etc.
4250
4251 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4252 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4253
45807a1d
IM
4254 default: off.
4255
c22ab332
MG
4256 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4257 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4258 panics
4259 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4260 default: disabled
4261
10102a89
DS
4262 printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4263 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4264 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4265 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4266 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4267 in order to provide more debug information.
4268 Format: <bool>
4269 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4270
750afe7b
BP
4271 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4272 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4273 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4274 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4275 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4276 Default: ratelimit
4277
e84845c4
RD
4278 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4279 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4280
0cb55ad2
RD
4281 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
4282 Limit processor to maximum C-state
4283 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4284
4285 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
4286 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4287 instead using the legacy FADT method
4288
1da177e4 4289 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
4290 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4291 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4292 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 4293 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
4294 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4295 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 4296 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
4297 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4298 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 4299
6b99e6e6 4300 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
1da177e4 4301
ecdc5d84
VG
4302 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4303 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4304 that).
4305 Format: <bool>
4306
e0c27447
JW
4307 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4308 tracking.
4309 Format: <bool>
4310
a9913044
RD
4311 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4312 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
4313 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4314 per second.
a9913044
RD
4315 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
4316 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
4317 (0 = never).
4318 psmouse.resolution=
4319 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4320 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 4321 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
4322 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4323
dee28e72
MG
4324 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4325
1da177e4 4326 pt. [PARIDE]
e7751617 4327 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 4328
be3a5b0e 4329 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
01c9b17b
DH
4330 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
4331 removes hardening, but improves performance of
4332 system calls and interrupts.
4333
4334 on - unconditionally enable
4335 off - unconditionally disable
4336 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4337 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4338
4339 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4340
be3a5b0e 4341 nopti [X86-64]
01c9b17b 4342 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 4343
dc8c8587
KS
4344 pty.legacy_count=
4345 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4346 default number.
4347
7d2c502f 4348 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 4349
1da177e4
LT
4350 r128= [HW,DRM]
4351
4352 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 4353 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 4354
1da177e4 4355 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
e7751617 4356 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 4357
6b99e6e6
RD
4358 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address
4359
9b254366
KC
4360 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4361 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4362 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4363 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4364 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4365
39218ff4
KC
4366 randomize_kstack_offset=
4367 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4368 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4369 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4370 that depend on stack address determinism or
4371 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4372 available on architectures that have defined
4373 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4374 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4375 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4376
011d8261
BP
4377 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
4378
4379 cec_disable [X86]
4380 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4381 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4382
d2cf0854
FW
4383 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4384 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4385 as described above.
4386
4387 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4388 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4389 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4390 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4391 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4392 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4393 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4394 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4395 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4396 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4397 and real-time workloads. It can also improve
4398 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4399
4400 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4401 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4402
4403 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4404 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4405 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4406 toggled at runtime via cpusets.
3fbfbf7a 4407
4102adab 4408 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
4409 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4410 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4411 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4412 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4413 This improves the real-time response for the
4414 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4415 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4416 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4417 periodically wake up to do the polling.
4418
4102adab 4419 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
4420 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4421 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 4422
a3dc2948
PM
4423 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
4424 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4425 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
4426 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4427
0f41c0dd
PM
4428 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
4429 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 4430 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 4431
37745d28
PM
4432 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
4433 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 4434 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
4435
4436 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
4437 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4438 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4439 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 4440 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 4441
48d07c04
SAS
4442 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
4443 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4444 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
4445 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4446 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4447
8b9a0ecc
SW
4448 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4449 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4450 to zero.
4451
7fa27001
PM
4452 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4453 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4454 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
4455 possibly be useful for architectures having high
4456 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 4457
4102adab 4458 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
4459 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4460 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
4461 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4462 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4463 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4464 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 4465
53c72b59
URS
4466 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4467 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4468 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4469 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4470 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4471 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4472 condition.
4473
d0bfa8b3
ZQ
4474 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4475 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4476 in response to low-memory conditions. The range
4477 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4478
4102adab 4479 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
4480 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4481 first attempt to force quiescent states.
4482 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4483 and maximum value is HZ.
4484
4102adab 4485 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
4486 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4487 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
4488 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4489
1a4762b9
PM
4490 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4491 Set required age in jiffies for a
4492 given grace period before RCU starts
4493 soliciting quiescent-state help from
4494 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4495 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4496 a value based on the most recent settings
4497 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4498 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4499 This calculated value may be viewed in
4500 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
4501 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4502 overwritten.
4503
21871d7e 4504 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
4505 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4506 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4507 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4508 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4509 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4510 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4511 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
4512 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4513 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 4514
f7c612b0
PM
4515 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4516 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4517 each group, which defaults to the square root
4518 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
4519 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4520 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4521 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
fbce7497 4522
4102adab 4523 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
4524 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4525 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 4526
4102adab 4527 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
4528 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4529 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 4530
b2b00ddf
PM
4531 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4532 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4533 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4534 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4535 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4536 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4537 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4538 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4539
e3c50dfb
PM
4540 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4541 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4542 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4543 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4544 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4545 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4546
3d29aaf1
PM
4547 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4548 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4549 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4550 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
4551 Larger delays increase the probability of
4552 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4553 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4554 rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4555
2ccaff10
PM
4556 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4557 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4558 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4559 why a new grace period has not yet started.
4560
4e88ec4a 4561 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
881ed593
PM
4562 Measure performance of asynchronous
4563 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4564
4e88ec4a 4565 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
881ed593
PM
4566 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4567 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
4568 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4569 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4570 previously posted callbacks to drain.
4571
4e88ec4a 4572 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4573 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4574 grace-period primitives.
4575
4e88ec4a 4576 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
df37e66b
PM
4577 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4578 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4579 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4580 interference.
4581
4e88ec4a 4582 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
e6e78b00
JFG
4583 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4584
686fe1bf
URS
4585 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4586 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4587 If this parameter has the same value as
4588 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4589 and double-argument variants are tested.
4590
4591 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4592 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4593 If this parameter has the same value as
4594 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4595 and double-argument variants are tested.
4596
4e88ec4a 4597 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
e6e78b00
JFG
4598 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4599
4e88ec4a 4600 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
e6e78b00
JFG
4601 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4602
4e88ec4a
PM
4603 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4604 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
e6e78b00
JFG
4605 of allocations and frees.
4606
4e88ec4a 4607 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4608 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4609 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4610 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4611 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4612 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4613 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4614 a single reader.
4615
4e88ec4a 4616 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
bdea9e34 4617 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
4e88ec4a 4618 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
bdea9e34
PM
4619 N, where N is the number of CPUs
4620
4e88ec4a 4621 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
820687a7
PM
4622 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4623
4e88ec4a 4624 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4625 Shut the system down after performance tests
4626 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
4627 testing.
4628
4e88ec4a 4629 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4630 Enable additional printk() statements.
4631
4e88ec4a 4632 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
820687a7
PM
4633 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4634 in microseconds. The default of zero says
4635 no holdoff.
4636
4102adab 4637 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4638 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4639 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 4640
4102adab 4641 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4642 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4643 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 4644
4102adab 4645 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4646 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4647 in seconds.
4648
ed8f6fb2 4649 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
82e31003
PM
4650 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4651 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
ed8f6fb2 4652 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
82e31003
PM
4653 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4654 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4655 of CPUs to be used.
ed8f6fb2
PM
4656
4657 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4658 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4659 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4660
4661 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4662 Number of seconds to wait between successive
4663 forward-progress tests.
4664
4665 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4666 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4667 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4668 testing.
4669
21b05de4
PM
4670 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4671 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4672 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 4673
4102adab 4674 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 4675 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
4676
4677 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4678 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4679 update-side primitives, if available.
4680
4681 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4682 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4683 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4684 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4685 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4686 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4687 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 4688
d6855142
PM
4689 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4690 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4691 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU
4692 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4693
4694 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4695 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4696 This can of course result in splats, and is
4697 intended to test the ability of things like
4698 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4699 such leaks.
4700
4102adab 4701 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4702 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4703
4102adab 4704 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4705 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4706 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4707 test, hence the "fake".
4708
2c4319bd
PM
4709 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4710 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4711 Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4712
4713 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4714 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4715 callback-offload toggling attempts.
4716
4102adab 4717 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
4718 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4719 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4720 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4721 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4722 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 4723
4102adab
PM
4724 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4725 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4726
4727 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4728 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4729
4102adab 4730 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
4731 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4732 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 4733
4a5f133c
PM
4734 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4735 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4736 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4737 task-exit processing.
4738
4739 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4740 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4741 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4742 is spawned.
4743
4744 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4745 The delay, in seconds, between successive
4746 read-then-exit testing episodes.
4747
4102adab 4748 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4749 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4750 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4751 during the rcutorture test.
4752
4102adab 4753 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4754 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4755 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4756
4102adab 4757 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4758 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4759 warnings, zero to disable.
4760
19a8ff95
PM
4761 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4762 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
4763 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4764 to any other stall-related activity.
4765
4102adab 4766 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4767 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4768
2b1516e5
PM
4769 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4770 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4771
55b2dcf5
PM
4772 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4773 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4774 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4775 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
4776 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4777 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4778
4102adab 4779 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4780 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4781
4102adab 4782 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4783 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4784 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4785 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4786 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4787
4102adab 4788 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4789 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4790 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4791 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4792
4102adab 4793 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4794 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4795
4102adab 4796 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4797 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4798
4102adab 4799 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4800 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4801 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4802
4102adab 4803 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4804 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4805
4102adab 4806 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4807 Enable additional printk() statements.
4808
cdc694b2
PM
4809 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4810 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4811 stall warning.
4812
5a9be7c6
PM
4813 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4814 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4815
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PM
4816 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4817 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4818 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4819 during early boot, that is, during the time
4820 before the init task is spawned.
4821
5a9be7c6
PM
4822 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4823 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4824
4102adab
PM
4825 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4826 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4827 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4828 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4829 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4830 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4831 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4832
5a9be7c6
PM
4833 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4834 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4835 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4836 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4837 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4838 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4839 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4840 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4841 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4842
3e42ec1a
PM
4843 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4844 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4845 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4846 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4847 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4848
36221e10
JC
4849 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4850 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4851 it to the value one, that is, converting any
4852 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4853 period to instead use normal non-expedited
4854 grace-period processing.
4855
fd796e41
PM
4856 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
4857 Set the maximum number of callbacks present
4858 at the beginning of a grace period that allows
4859 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
4860 a single callback queue. This switching only
4861 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
4862 set to the default value of -1.
4863
ab97152f
PM
4864 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
4865 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
4866 lock-contention events per jiffy required to
4867 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
4868 callback queuing. This switching only occurs
4869 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
4870 the default value of -1.
4871
8610b656
PM
4872 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
4873 Set the number of callback queues to use for the
4874 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default
4875 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
4876 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended
4877 for use in testing.
4878
b0afa0f0
PM
4879 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4880 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4881 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4882 of a given grace period. Setting a large
4883 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4884 but lengthens grace periods.
4885
52db30ab
PM
4886 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4887 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4888 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4889 to zero.
4890
74860fee
PK
4891 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4892 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4893
ffdfc409
OJ
4894 rdinit= [KNL]
4895 Format: <full_path>
4896 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4897 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4898
c49a0a80
TL
4899 rdrand= [X86]
4900 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4901 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4902 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4903 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4904 path).
4905
1d9807fc
TL
4906 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4907 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4908 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4909 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4910 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4911 rdt=cmt,!mba
4912
1b3a5d02
RH
4913 reboot= [KNL]
4914 Format (x86 or x86_64):
12febc18 4915 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
1b3a5d02
RH
4916 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4917 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4918 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4919 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4920 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4921 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4922 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4923 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4924 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4925 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4926
1fbeb3a8 4927 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4928 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4929 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4930 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4931 interference.
4932
1fbeb3a8 4933 refscale.loops= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4934 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4935 primitive under test. Increasing this number
4936 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4937 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4938 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4939 x86 laptops.
4940
1fbeb3a8 4941 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4942 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
4943 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4944 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4945
1fbeb3a8 4946 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4947 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4948 the console log.
4949
1fbeb3a8 4950 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4951 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4952 measured in microseconds.
4953
1fbeb3a8
PM
4954 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4955 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4956
4957 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4958 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4959 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4e88ec4a
PM
4960 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4961 it running) when refscale is built as a module.
847dd70a 4962
1fbeb3a8 4963 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4964 Enable additional printk() statements.
4965
e76506f0
PM
4966 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4967 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero
4968 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise,
4969 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4970 specified.
4971
46b6d94e
PJ
4972 relax_domain_level=
4973 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
da82c92f 4974 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
46b6d94e 4975
ffd2e8df
BH
4976 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4977 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4978 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4979 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4980 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 4981
cd4f0ef7 4982 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
4983 Format: nn[KMG]
4984 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4985 address space.
4986
7e96287d
VG
4987 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4988 during initialization.
4989
a9913044
RD
4990 resume= [SWSUSP]
4991 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4992 Format:
4993 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4994
ecbd0da1
RW
4995 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4996 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4997 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4998 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
151f4e2b 4999 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
ecbd0da1 5000
f126f733
BS
5001 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5002 read the resume files
5003
6f8d7022
BS
5004 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5005 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5006 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5007
f996fc96
BS
5008 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
5009 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
5010 present during boot.
5011 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 5012 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
5013 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
5014 (that will set all pages holding image data
5015 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 5016
0a7b35cb
MN
5017 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5018
0efbb786
AC
5019 rfkill.default_state=
5020 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5021 etc. communication is blocked by default.
5022 1 Unblocked.
5023
5024 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5025 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5026 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5027 blocked and the previous configuration.
5028 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5029 blocked and everything unblocked.
5030
1da177e4
LT
5031 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5032 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5033
e16fd002
GA
5034 ring3mwait=disable
5035 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5036 CPUs.
5037
1da177e4
LT
5038 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5039
d2aa1aca
KC
5040 rodata= [KNL]
5041 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5042 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5043
605df8af
HS
5044 rockchip.usb_uart
5045 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5046 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5047 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5048 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5049
1da177e4 5050 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 5051 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
5052
5053 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5054 mount the root filesystem
5055
5056 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5057
5058 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
5059
cc1ed754
PO
5060 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5061 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5062 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5063
5c71d618
RT
5064 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5065 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5066 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5067 managed by CMA.
5068
1da177e4
LT
5069 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5070
5071 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
5072
c60d1ae4
GS
5073 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
5074 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5075 strict
5076 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5077 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5078 which is faster.
5079
6aefbf1c
NS
5080 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390]
5081 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5082 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5083 factor of the size of main memory.
5084 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5085 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5086 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5087 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5088 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5089 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5090 cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5091
1da177e4
LT
5092 sa1100ir [NET]
5093 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5094
9406415f 5095 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
f6630114 5096
cb251765
MG
5097 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5098 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5099 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5100 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 5101
05289b90
TG
5102 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5103 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5104 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5105 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5106 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5107 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5108 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5109 value.
5110 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5111 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
5112 1 64 ms
5113 2 128 ms
5114 and so on.
5115 Format: integer between 0 and 10
5116 Default is 0.
5117
e9d338a0
PM
5118 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5119 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5120 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5121 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5122 tests.
5123
5124 scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5125 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5126 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
5127 default) disables this feature. Please note
5128 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5129 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5130 softlockup complaints, and so on.
5131
5132 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5133 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5134 smp_call_function() family of functions.
5135 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5136 equal to the number of CPUs.
5137
5138 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5139 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5140 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5141
5142 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5143 Number seconds to wait between successive
5144 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
5145 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5146
5147 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5148 The number of seconds following the start of the
5149 test after which to shut down the system. The
5150 default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5151 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5152
5153 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5154 The number of seconds between outputting the
5155 current test statistics to the console. A value
5156 of zero disables statistics output.
5157
5158 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5159 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5160 to the set of CPUs under test.
5161
5162 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5163 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5164 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5165 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5166 functions.
5167
5168 scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5169 Enable additional printk() statements.
5170
5171 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5172 The probability weighting to use for the
5173 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5174 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
5175 default if all other weights are -1. However,
5176 if at least one weight has some other value, a
5177 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5178
5179 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5180 The probability weighting to use for the
5181 smp_call_function_single() function with a
5182 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
5183
5184 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5185 The probability weighting to use for the
5186 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5187 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
5188 Note well that setting a high probability for
5189 this weighting can place serious IPI load
5190 on the system.
5191
5192 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5193 The probability weighting to use for the
5194 smp_call_function_many() function with a
5195 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
5196 and weight_many.
5197
5198 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5199 The probability weighting to use for the
5200 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5201 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
5202 weight_many.
5203
5204 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5205 The probability weighting to use for the
5206 smp_call_function_all() function with a
5207 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
5208 and weight_many.
5209
5307c955
MG
5210 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5211 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5212 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5213 Format: { "0" | "1" }
5214 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5215 1 -- enable.
5216 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5217 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5218
89a9684e
KC
5219 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5220 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5221 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
5222
5223 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
5224 Format: { "0" | "1" }
5225 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5226 0 -- disable.
5227 1 -- enable.
d41415eb 5228 Default value is 1.
1da177e4 5229
c1c124e9
JJ
5230 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5231 Format: { "0" | "1" }
5232 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5233 0 -- disable.
5234 1 -- enable.
5235 Default value is set via kernel config option.
5236
cd4f0ef7 5237 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 5238
1da177e4
LT
5239 shapers= [NET]
5240 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 5241
1da177e4
LT
5242 simeth= [IA-64]
5243 simscsi=
a9913044 5244
1da177e4
LT
5245 slram= [HW,MTD]
5246
82edd9d5
RA
5247 slab_merge [MM]
5248 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5249 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5250
423c929c
JK
5251 slab_nomerge [MM]
5252 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5253 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
5254 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5255 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5256 layout control by attackers can usually be
5257 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5258 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5259 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5260 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5261 own.
ad56b738 5262 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 5263
3df1cccd
DR
5264 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
5265 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5266 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5267 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
5268 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5269
e17f1dfb 5270 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
5271 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5272 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5273 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5274 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5275 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 5276 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
5277
5278 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
5279 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5280 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5281 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 5282 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
5283
5284 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
5285 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5286 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5287 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5288 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5289 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5290 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 5291 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
5292
5293 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 5294 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 5295 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 5296 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 5297
82edd9d5
RA
5298 slub_merge [MM, SLUB]
5299 Same with slab_merge.
5300
c1aee215 5301 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
5302 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5303 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 5304
1da177e4
LT
5305 smart2= [HW]
5306 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5307
d0d4f69b
BH
5308 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5309 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
5310 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
5311 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
5312 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
5313 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
5314 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5315 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5316 1: Fast pin select (default)
5317 2: ATC IRMode
5318
52c48c51
SS
5319 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5320 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5321 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5322 actual hardware limit.
5323 Format: <integer>
5324 Default: -1 (no limit)
5325
9c44bc03
IM
5326 softlockup_panic=
5327 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
f117955a 5328 Format: 0 | 1
9c44bc03 5329
f117955a 5330 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
0a07bef6
GP
5331 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5332 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5333 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5334 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
3ce62385 5335
ed235875
AT
5336 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5337 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5338 backtraces on all cpus.
f117955a 5339 Format: 0 | 1
ed235875 5340
1da177e4 5341 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
9e1cbede 5342 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
1da177e4 5343
da285121
DW
5344 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5345 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
5346 The default operation protects the kernel from
5347 user space attacks.
da285121 5348
fa1202ef
TG
5349 on - unconditionally enable, implies
5350 spectre_v2_user=on
5351 off - unconditionally disable, implies
5352 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
5353 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5354 vulnerable
5355
5356 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5357 mitigation method at run time according to the
5358 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5359 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5360 compiler with which the kernel was built.
5361
fa1202ef
TG
5362 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5363 against user space to user space task attacks.
5364
5365 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5366 the user space protections.
5367
da285121
DW
5368 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5369
5370 retpoline - replace indirect branches
5371 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
5372 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
5373
5374 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5375 spectre_v2=auto.
5376
fa1202ef
TG
5377 spectre_v2_user=
5378 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5379 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5380 user space tasks
5381
5382 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5383 enforced by spectre_v2=on
5384
5385 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5386 enforced by spectre_v2=off
5387
7cc765a6
TG
5388 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5389 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5390 per thread. The mitigation control state
5391 is inherited on fork.
5392
55a97402
TG
5393 prctl,ibpb
5394 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5395 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5396 always when switching between different user
5397 space processes.
5398
6b3e64c2
TG
5399 seccomp
5400 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5401 threads will enable the mitigation unless
5402 they explicitly opt out.
5403
55a97402
TG
5404 seccomp,ibpb
5405 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5406 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5407 always when switching between different
5408 user space processes.
5409
fa1202ef
TG
5410 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5411 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2 5412
2f46993d 5413 Default mitigation: "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
5414
5415 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5416 spectre_v2_user=auto.
5417
24f7fc83
KRW
5418 spec_store_bypass_disable=
5419 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5420 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5421
5422 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5423 a common industry wide performance optimization known
5424 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5425 to the same memory location may not be observed by
5426 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5427 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5428 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5429 end of a particular speculation execution window.
5430
5431 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5432 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5433 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5434 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5435
5436 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5437 Bypass optimization is used.
5438
6b4c1360
ME
5439 On x86 the options are:
5440
f21b53b2
KC
5441 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5442 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5443 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5444 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5445 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5446 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5447 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5448 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5449 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5450 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5451 for a process by default. The state of the control
5452 is inherited on fork.
5453 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5454 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 5455
f21b53b2 5456 Default mitigations:
2f46993d 5457 X86: "prctl"
f21b53b2 5458
6b4c1360
ME
5459 On powerpc the options are:
5460
5461 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5462 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5463 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5464 exit.
5465 off - No action.
5466
5467 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5468 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5469
1da177e4
LT
5470 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
5471 spia_fio_base=
5472 spia_pedr=
5473 spia_peddr=
5474
6650cdd9 5475 split_lock_detect=
ebca1770 5476 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6650cdd9
PZI
5477
5478 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5479 instructions that access data across cache line
ebca1770
FY
5480 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5481 for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5482 bus lock detection.
6650cdd9
PZI
5483
5484 off - not enabled
5485
ebca1770 5486 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6650cdd9 5487 about applications triggering the #AC
ebca1770
FY
5488 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5489 the default on CPUs that support split lock
5490 detection or bus lock detection. Default
5491 behavior is by #AC if both features are
5492 enabled in hardware.
6650cdd9
PZI
5493
5494 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
ebca1770
FY
5495 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5496 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5497 both features are enabled in hardware.
6650cdd9 5498
9d839c28
FY
5499 ratelimit:N -
5500 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5501 per second for bus lock detection.
5502 0 < N <= 1000.
5503
5504 N/A for split lock detection.
5505
5506
6650cdd9
PZI
5507 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5508 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5509 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5510 mode.
5511
ebca1770
FY
5512 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5513 CPL > 0.
5514
7e5b3c26
MG
5515 srbds= [X86,INTEL]
5516 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5517 (SRBDS) mitigation.
5518
5519 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5520 exploit which can leak bits from the random
5521 number generator.
5522
5523 By default, this issue is mitigated by
5524 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
5525 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5526 much slower. Among other effects, this will
5527 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5528
5529 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5530 the following option:
5531
5532 off: Disable mitigation and remove
5533 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5534
c350c008
PM
5535 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5536 Specifies how frequently to check for
5537 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5538 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5539 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5540 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5541 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
5542 are ignored.
5543
22607d66
PM
5544 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5545 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5546 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5547 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5548 grace period will be considered for automatic
5549 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
5550 expediting.
5551
a43ae4df
MZ
5552 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
5553 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5554
5555 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5556 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5557 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5558 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5559
5560 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5561 for both kernel and userspace
5562 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5563 for both kernel and userspace
5564 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
5565 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5566 to allow userspace to register its
5567 interest in being mitigated too.
5568
1be7107f
HD
5569 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
5570 override the default stack gap protection. The value
5571 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5572 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5573 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5574 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5575
e1fdc403
VJ
5576 stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5577 Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5578 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5579 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5580 to false.
5581
f38f1d2a
SR
5582 stacktrace [FTRACE]
5583 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5584
762e1207
SR
5585 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5586 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
25942e5e 5587 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
762e1207
SR
5588 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5589 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5590 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5591 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5592
1da177e4
LT
5593 sti= [PARISC,HW]
5594 Format: <num>
5595 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5596 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5597 as the initial boot-console.
5598 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5599
5600 sti_font= [HW]
5601 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5602
5603 stifb= [HW]
5604 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5605
3aac3ebe
TG
5606 strict_sas_size=
5607 [X86]
5608 Format: <bool>
5609 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5610 against the required signal frame size which
5611 depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5612 be used to filter out binaries which have
5613 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5614
cbf11071
TM
5615 sunrpc.min_resvport=
5616 sunrpc.max_resvport=
5617 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5618 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5619 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5620 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5621 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5622 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5623 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5624 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5625 maximum port values.
5626
ff3ac5c3
TM
5627 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5628 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5629 Limit the number of requests that the server will
5630 process in parallel from a single connection.
5631 The default value is 0 (no limit).
5632
42a7fc4a
GB
5633 sunrpc.pool_mode=
5634 [NFS]
5635 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5636 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
5637 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5638 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5639 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5640 NFS server is running.
5641
5642 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
5643 automatically using heuristics
5644 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
5645 percpu one pool for each CPU
5646 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5647 to global on non-NUMA machines)
5648
cbf11071
TM
5649 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5650 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5651 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5652 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5653 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5654 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5655 improve throughput, but will also increase the
5656 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5657
1d4a9c17
BN
5658 suspend.pm_test_delay=
5659 [SUSPEND]
5660 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5661 mode before resuming the system (see
5662 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5663 is set. Default value is 5.
5664
6a9c930b
RP
5665 svm= [PPC]
5666 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5667 This parameter controls use of the Protected
5668 Execution Facility on pSeries.
5669
07555ac1 5670 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
5671 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5672 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
da82c92f 5673 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
a42c390c 5674
91fec0f5 5675 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 5676 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
5677 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5678 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5679 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 5680 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 5681
1da177e4
LT
5682 switches= [HW,M68k]
5683
3db978d4
VB
5684 sysctl.*= [KNL]
5685 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5686 process, as if the value was written to the respective
5687 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5688 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5689 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5690 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5691 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5692
e52eec13
AK
5693 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5694 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5695 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5696 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5697 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5698 in older udev will not work anymore.
5699 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5700 the kernel configuration.
5701
5d6f647f
IM
5702 sysrq_always_enabled
5703 [KNL]
5704 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5705 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5706 Useful for debugging.
5707
747029a5
FF
5708 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5709 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5710 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5711 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
1cec2cac 5712 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
747029a5
FF
5713 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5714
1da177e4
LT
5715 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
5716
acc82342 5717 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 5718 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
5719 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5720 as the system sleep state during system startup with
5721 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5722 The system is woken from this state using a
5723 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 5724
1da177e4
LT
5725 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5726 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5727
f8707ec9
LB
5728 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
5729 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5730 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5731
c52a7419
LB
5732 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
5733 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 5734 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 5735
f5487145
LB
5736 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
5737 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5738 critical and hot trip points.
5739
72b33ef8
LB
5740 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
5741 1: disable ACPI thermal control
5742
a70cdc52
LB
5743 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
5744 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
5745 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5746 value
a70cdc52 5747
730ff34d
LB
5748 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
5749 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5750 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5751 0: no polling (default)
5752
8d32a307
TG
5753 threadirqs [KNL]
5754 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 5755 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 5756
2b1a61f0
HC
5757 topology= [S390]
5758 Format: {off | on}
5759 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
5760 topology information if the hardware supports this.
5761 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 5762 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 5763 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 5764
2d73bae1
NA
5765 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5766 Format: {off}
5767 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5768 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5769 LPAR.
5770
8171d3e0
PM
5771 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5772 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5773 until after init has spawned.
5774
2102ad29
PM
5775 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5776 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5777 even if there were no errors. This can be a
5778 very costly operation when many torture tests
5779 are running concurrently, especially on systems
5780 with rotating-rust storage.
5781
8a67a20b
PM
5782 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5783 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5784 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero
5785 disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5786
5787 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5788 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5789
1da177e4
LT
5790 tp720= [HW,PS2]
5791
225a9be2
RA
5792 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5793 Format: integer pcr id
5794 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5795 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5796 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5797 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5798 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5799 are saved.
5800
9d612bef 5801 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 5802 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 5803
020e5f85
LZ
5804 trace_event=[event-list]
5805 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea 5806 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
25942e5e 5807 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 5808 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 5809
7bcfaf54
SR
5810 trace_options=[option-list]
5811 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5812 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5813 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5814 to echo the option name into
5815
5816 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5817
5818 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5819 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5820
5821 trace_options=stacktrace
5822
5fb94e9c 5823 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
5824 section.
5825
0daa2302
SRRH
5826 tp_printk[FTRACE]
5827 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5828 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5829 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5830 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5831 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5832
5833 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5834 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5835 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5836 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5837
f3860136
SRV
5838 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
5839 to stop the printing of events to console at
5840 late_initcall_sync.
5841
0daa2302
SRRH
5842 ** CAUTION **
5843
5844 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5845 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5846 the system to live lock.
5847
f3860136
SRV
5848 tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE]
5849 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
5850 on the console. It may be useful to only include the
5851 printing of events during boot up, as user space may
5852 make the system inoperable.
5853
5854 This command line option will stop the printing of events
5855 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
5856
de7edd31
SRRH
5857 traceoff_on_warning
5858 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5859 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5860 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5861 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5862
5863 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5864 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5865 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5866
5867 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5868 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5869
fcf4d821
JK
5870 transparent_hugepage=
5871 [KNL]
5872 Format: [always|madvise|never]
5873 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5874 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
5875 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5876 for more details.
fcf4d821 5877
5d0682be
SG
5878 trusted.source= [KEYS]
5879 Format: <string>
5880 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
5881 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
5882 sources:
5883 - "tpm"
5884 - "tee"
5885 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
5886 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
5887 first trust source as a backend which is initialized
5888 successfully during iteration.
5889
d3b8f889 5890 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
5891 Format: <string>
5892 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889 5893 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5894 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
5895 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5896 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
5897 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5898 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5899 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5900 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
5901 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5902 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5903 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
5904 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5905 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5906 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5907 acceptable).
395628ef 5908
bd35c77e
KP
5909 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5910 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5911 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5912 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5913 Format: <unsigned int>
5914
95c5824f
PG
5915 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5916 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5917 support TSX control.
5918
5919 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5920
5921 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5922 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5923 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5924 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5925 so there may be unknown security risks associated
5926 with leaving it enabled.
5927
5928 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5929 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5930 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5931 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5932 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5933 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5934 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5935
7531a359
PG
5936 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5937 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5938
95c5824f
PG
5939 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5940
5941 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5942 for more details.
5943
a7a248c5
PG
5944 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5945 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5946
5947 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5948 certain CPUs that support Transactional
5949 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5950 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5951 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5952 conditions.
5953
5954 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5955 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5956 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5957 access.
5958
5959 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
5960 options are:
5961
5962 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5963 if TSX is enabled.
5964
5965 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5966 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5967 is not disabled because CPU is not
5968 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5969 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5970
64870ed1
WL
5971 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5972 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5973 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5974 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5975
a7a248c5
PG
5976 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5977 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
5978 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5979 required and doesn't provide any additional
5980 mitigation.
5981
5982 For details see:
5983 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5984
a9913044
RD
5985 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
5986 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5987 Format:
5988 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 5989 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 5990
b6935f8c 5991 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 5992 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
5993 console driver takes over, this boot options might
5994 help "seeing" what's going on.
5995
f86dcc5a
ED
5996 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5997 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5998
5f8364b7
AS
5999 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6000 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6001 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6002 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6003 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6004 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6005 reported either.
6006
e3a61b0a 6007 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 6008 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 6009
c4fc2342
CDH
6010 usbcore.authorized_default=
6011 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
6012 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
6013 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6014 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 6015
b5e795f8
AS
6016 usbcore.autosuspend=
6017 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6018 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
6019 is the time required before an idle device will be
6020 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 6021 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 6022
fd7c519d
JK
6023 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6024 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6025
0290cc9f
AS
6026 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6027 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6028 (default = 65536).
6029
fd7c519d
JK
6030 usbcore.blinkenlights=
6031 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6032
6033 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6034 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3155f4f4 6035 scheme (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 6036
3f5eb8d5
AS
6037 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6038 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6039 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6040
fd7c519d
JK
6041 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6042 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6043 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6044
6045 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6046 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 6047 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
6048 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6049
40d58148
ON
6050 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6051
027bd6ca
KHF
6052 usbcore.quirks=
6053 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6054 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6055 commas. Each entry has the form
6056 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6057 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6058 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6059 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6060 the following meanings:
6061 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6062 descriptors must not be fetched using
6063 a 255-byte read);
6064 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6065 correctly so reset it instead);
6066 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6067 Set-Interface requests);
6068 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6069 handle its Configuration or Interface
6070 strings);
6071 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6072 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6073 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6074 more interface descriptions than the
6075 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6076 talking to these interfaces);
6077 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6078 during initialization, after we read
6079 the device descriptor);
6080 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6081 high speed and super speed interrupt
6082 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6083 require the interval in microframes (1
6084 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6085 calculated as interval = 2 ^
6086 (bInterval-1).
6087 Devices with this quirk report their
6088 bInterval as the result of this
6089 calculation instead of the exponent
6090 variable used in the calculation);
6091 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6092 handle device_qualifier descriptor
6093 requests);
6094 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6095 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6096 remote wakeup capability);
6097 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6098 Power Management);
6099 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6100 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
6101 frames instead of the USB 2.0
6102 calculation);
6103 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6104 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
6105 prevent spurious wakeup);
6106 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6107 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
6108 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6109 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
6110 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6111
1da177e4
LT
6112 usbhid.mousepoll=
6113 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 6114
933bfe4d
TJ
6115 usbhid.jspoll=
6116 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6117
2ddc8e2d
FA
6118 usbhid.kbpoll=
6119 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6120
d4f373e5
AS
6121 usb-storage.delay_use=
6122 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 6123 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
6124
6125 usb-storage.quirks=
6126 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6127 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
6128 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
6129 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6130 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6131 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6132 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46 6133 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
65cc8bf9 6134 of sense data, not on uas);
a0bb1081 6135 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
65cc8bf9 6136 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
d4f373e5
AS
6137 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6138 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d 6139 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
65cc8bf9 6140 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5116901d
KR
6141 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6142 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
6143 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6144 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
6145 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6146 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
6147 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6148 reported device capacity by one
6149 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
6150 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6151 device);
13630746
HG
6152 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6153 command, uas only);
8010622c 6154 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
d4f373e5 6155 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
65cc8bf9 6156 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
d4f373e5 6157 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
65cc8bf9
ON
6158 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6159 not on uas);
21c13a4f 6160 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
65cc8bf9 6161 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
c838ea46 6162 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
65cc8bf9 6163 reported by the device, not on uas);
eaa05dfc 6164 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
65cc8bf9 6165 by default, not on uas);
d4f373e5 6166 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
65cc8bf9 6167 bogus residue values, not on uas);
d4f373e5
AS
6168 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6169 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
6170 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6171 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 6172 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
6173 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6174 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8 6175 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
65cc8bf9
ON
6176 even if the device claims no cache,
6177 not on uas)
d4f373e5
AS
6178 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6179
ac1667db
SB
6180 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
6181 Format: <int>
6182 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6183 1 - undefined instruction events
6184 2 - system calls
6185 4 - invalid data aborts
6186 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6187 16 - SIGBUS faults
6188 Example: user_debug=31
6189
14315592
IC
6190 userpte=
6191 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6192
6193 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6194 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6195 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6196
6cececfc 6197 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
6198 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
6199
6200 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
6201 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6202
b0b49f26
AL
6203 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6204 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6205 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6206
6207 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6208 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6209 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6210
6211 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6212 alias for vdso32=0.
6213
6214 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6215 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 6216
d080d397
YI
6217 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
6218 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6219
1da177e4 6220 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
ab42b818 6221 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
1da177e4 6222
3afe6dab
AL
6223 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
6224 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6225 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6226 level and then send out the event to user space through
6227 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
6228 will only send out the event without touching backlight
6229 brightness level.
2843768b 6230 default: 1
3afe6dab 6231
81a054ce
PM
6232 virtio_mmio.device=
6233 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6234
6235 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6236 where:
6237 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
6238 like K, M and G)
6239 <baseaddr> := physical base address
6240 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
6241 request_irq())
6242 <id> := (optional) platform device id
6243 example:
6244 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6245
6246 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6247
cd4f0ef7 6248 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
cb1aaebe 6249 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
4f4cfa6c 6250 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
1da177e4
LT
6251 Use vga=ask for menu.
6252 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6253 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6254
f682a97a
AD
6255 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6256 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6257 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6258 All options are enabled by default, and this
6259 interface is meant to allow for selectively
6260 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6261 debugging features.
6262
6263 Available options are:
6264 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
6265 - Disable all of the above options
6266
a9913044 6267 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
6268 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6269 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6270 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6271 mapped kernel RAM.
6272
3f429842
HC
6273 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
6274 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6275 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6276
585c3047
PO
6277 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6278 Format: <command>
1da177e4 6279
585c3047
PO
6280 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6281 Format: <command>
6282
6283 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6284 Format: <command>
a9913044 6285
3ae36655
AL
6286 vsyscall= [X86-64]
6287 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6288 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6289 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
6290 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
6291 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6292 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6293
2e57ae05 6294 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
bd49e16e
AL
6295 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
6296 page is readable.
3ae36655 6297
bd49e16e
AL
6298 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6299 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
6300 page is not readable.
3ae36655
AL
6301
6302 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
6303 them quite hard to use for exploits but
6304 might break your system.
6305
3855ae1c
CL
6306 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
6307 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6308 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6309
9ea9a886
CL
6310 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
6311 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6312 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6313 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6314
0cb55ad2
RD
6315 vt.default_blu= [VT]
6316 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6317 Change the default blue palette of the console.
6318 This is a 16-member array composed of values
6319 ranging from 0-255.
6320
6321 vt.default_grn= [VT]
6322 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6323 Change the default green palette of the console.
6324 This is a 16-member array composed of values
6325 ranging from 0-255.
6326
6327 vt.default_red= [VT]
6328 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6329 Change the default red palette of the console.
6330 This is a 16-member array composed of values
6331 ranging from 0-255.
6332
6333 vt.default_utf8=
6334 [VT]
6335 Format=<0|1>
6336 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6337 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6338 newly opened terminals.
6339
f6c06b68
MG
6340 vt.global_cursor_default=
6341 [VT]
6342 Format=<-1|0|1>
6343 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6344 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6345 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6346 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6347 cursors, 1 will display them.
6348
3855ae1c
CL
6349 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6350 Default: 2 = green.
6351
6352 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6353 Default: 3 = cyan.
6354
4724ba57 6355 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
cc2a2d19 6356 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
4724ba57
RD
6357 or other driver-specific files in the
6358 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 6359
11295055
LO
6360 watchdog_thresh=
6361 [KNL]
6362 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6363 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6364 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6365 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6366 seconds.
6367
82607adc
TH
6368 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6369 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6370 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6371 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
6372 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6373 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
6374 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6375 corresponding sysfs file.
6376
d55262c4
TH
6377 workqueue.disable_numa
6378 By default, all work items queued to unbound
6379 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6380 issued on, which results in better behavior in
6381 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6382 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
6383 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6384 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6385
cee22a15
VK
6386 workqueue.power_efficient
6387 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6388 they show better performance thanks to cache
6389 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6390 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6391
6392 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6393 were observed to contribute significantly to power
6394 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6395 power usage at the cost of small performance
6396 overhead.
6397
6398 The default value of this parameter is determined by
6399 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6400
f303fccb
TH
6401 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6402 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6403 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6404 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
6405 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6406 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
6407 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6408 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6409 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6410 impacted.
6411
0cb55ad2
RD
6412 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6413 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6414 supporting x2apic.
6415
c70727a5
JG
6416 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6417 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6418 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6419 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6420 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6421 domains.
6422
c1c5413a
SS
6423 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
6424 Unplug Xen emulated devices
6425 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6426 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6427 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6428 nics -- unplug network devices
6429 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
6430 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6431 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6432 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 6433 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 6434
c6875f3a
BO
6435 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
6436 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6437 panic() code such as dumping handler.
6438
15a3eac0 6439 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
9a3c05e6
ZD
6440 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6441 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6442 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
15a3eac0 6443
8d693b91
KRW
6444 xen_nopv [X86]
6445 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6446 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
b39b0497
ZD
6447 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6448 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8d693b91 6449
b36b0fe9
DW
6450 xen_no_vector_callback
6451 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6452 event channel interrupts.
6453
197ecb38
MMG
6454 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
6455 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6456 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6457 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6458 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6459
2ec16bc0
RT
6460 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
6461 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6462 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6463 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6464 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6465 more timer interrupts.
6466
40fdea02
JG
6467 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6468 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6469 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6470 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6471 started with less memory configured than allowed at
6472 max. Default is 180.
6473
e99502f7
JG
6474 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
6475 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6476 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6477
6478 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
6479 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6480 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6481
1a89c1dc
JG
6482 xen.fifo_events= [XEN]
6483 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6484 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6485 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6486 fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6487 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6488
30978346
ZD
6489 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6490 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6491 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6492 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6493
9a3c05e6 6494 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM]
05eee619
ZD
6495 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6496 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6497 contention.
6498
1da177e4 6499 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
6500 Format:
6501 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a 6502
ba45cff6
MN
6503 xive= [PPC]
6504 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6505 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6506 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6507
6508 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6509 controller on both pseries and powernv
6510 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6511
c21ee04f
CLG
6512 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC]
6513 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6514 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6515 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6516 loads instead, as on POWER9.
6517
c0addc9a
LT
6518 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
6519 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6520 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6521 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6278f55b
GR
6522
6523 xmon [PPC]
6524 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6525 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6526 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6527 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6528 debugger is called from setup_arch().
6529 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6530 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6531 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6532 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6533 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6534 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6535 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6536 can be written using xmon commands.
6537 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6538 memory, and other data can't be written using
6539 xmon commands.
6540 off xmon is disabled.