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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
e76f4276 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
cb1aaebe 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
e76f4276 57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
6dddd7a7 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
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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.
116 Format: <int>
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.
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
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226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 334 Change the output verbosity while booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
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435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
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440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
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442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
1da177e4 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
a405ed85 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 449 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 450
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451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
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455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
cd4f0ef7 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
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464 carrier_timeout=
465 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
466 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
467 it waits 120 seconds.
468
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469 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
470 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
471 trust validation.
32c4741c 472 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
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474 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
475 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
476 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
477 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
478 others).
479
6dddd7a7 480 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
14ff56bb 481 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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6dddd7a7 483 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 484 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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485 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
486 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
487 a single hierarchy
488 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
489 subsystem
490 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
491 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
492 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 493
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494 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
495 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
496 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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497 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
498 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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499 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
500 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
501 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 502
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503 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
504 Format: <string>
505 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 506 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 507
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508 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
509 Format: { "0" | "1" }
510 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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511 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
512 any implied execute protection).
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513 1 -- check protection requested by application.
514 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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515 Value can be changed at runtime via
516 /selinux/checkreqprot.
517
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518 cio_ignore= [S390]
519 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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520 clk_ignore_unused
521 [CLK]
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522 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
523 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
524 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
525 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
526 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
527 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
528 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
529 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 530 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
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cd4f0ef7 532 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 533 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 534 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 535 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 536 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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537 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
538
592913ec 539 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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540 Format: <string>
541 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
542 with the name specified.
543 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
544 the platform:
545 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
546 [ACPI] acpi_pm
547 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
548 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 549 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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550 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
551 [MIPS] MIPS
552 [PARISC] cr16
553 [S390] tod
554 [SH] SuperH
555 [SPARC64] tick
556 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
557
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558 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
559 [ARM,ARM64]
560 Format: <bool>
561 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
562 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
563 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
564 systems.
565
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566 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
567 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 568 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 569 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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570 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
571 ones should be.
572 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
573 or using the feature without checking anything
574 will still see it. This just prevents it from
575 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
576 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
577 some critical bits.
578
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579 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
580 [ARM,X86,KNL]
581 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
582 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
583 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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584 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
585 altogether. For more information, see
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586 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
587
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588 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
589 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
590 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
591 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
592 a hypervisor.
593 Default: yes
594
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595 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
596 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 597 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 598
1da177e4 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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600 Format:
601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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602
603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
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606 com90xx= [HW,NET]
607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610 condev= [HW,S390] console device
611 conmode=
a9913044 612
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613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 618 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
624
e52347bd 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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626 information. See
627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628 alternative.
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630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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637 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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643 the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
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645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 647
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648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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650 console=brl,ttyS0
651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
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653 console_msg_format=
654 [KNL] Change console messages format
655 default
656 By default we print messages on consoles in
657 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
658 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
659 `printk_time' param).
660 syslog
661 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
662 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
663 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
664 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
665 from /proc/kmsg.
666
f324edc8 667 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 668 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 669 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 670
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671 coredump_filter=
672 [KNL] Change the default value for
673 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
674 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
675
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676 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
677 [ARM,ARM64]
678 Format: <bool>
679 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
680 0: default value, disable debugging
681 1: enable debugging at boot time
682
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683 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
684 disable the cpuidle sub-system
685
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686 cpuidle.governor=
687 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
688
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689 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
690 disable the cpufreq sub-system
691
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692 cpu_init_udelay=N
693 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
694 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
695 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
696 Default: 10000
697
1da177e4 698 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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699 Format:
700 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 701
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702 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
703 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
704 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
705 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
706 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
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707 is selected automatically.
708 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
709 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
710 hasn't been specified.
d67297ad 711 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
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713 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
714 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
715 in the running system. The syntax of range is
716 start-[end] where start and end are both
717 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
d67297ad 718 Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
fb391599 719
adbc742b 720 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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721 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
722 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
723 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
724 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
725 available.
726 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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727 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
728 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
729 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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730 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
731 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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732 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
733 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
734 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
735 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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736 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
737 for second kernel instead.
738 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 739 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 740 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 741
9e5c9fe4 742 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 743 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 744
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745 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
746 Format: <dma>
747
748 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
749 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 750
a9913044 751 dasd= [HW,NET]
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752 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
753
754 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
755 (one device per port)
756 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 757 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 758
6dddd7a7 759 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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760 time. See
761 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 762 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 763
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764 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
765
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766 debug_boot_weak_hash
767 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
768 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
769 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
770 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
771 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
772 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
773
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774 debug_locks_verbose=
775 [KNL] verbose self-tests
776 Format=<0|1>
777 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
778 self-tests.
779 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
780 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
781 only useful to kernel developers.
782
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783 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
784
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785 no_debug_objects
786 [KNL] Disable object debugging
787
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788 debug_guardpage_minorder=
789 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
790 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
791 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
792 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
793 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
794 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
795 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
796 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
797 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
798 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
799 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
800 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
801 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
802 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
803 bypassed) which are not detectable by
804 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
805 tracking down these problems.
806
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807 debug_pagealloc=
808 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
809 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
810 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
811 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
812 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
813 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
814 on: enable the feature
815
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816 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
817
2d27a966 818 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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819 Format: <area>[,<node>]
820 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
821
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822 default_hugepagesz=
823 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
824 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
825 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
826 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
827 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
828 if not specified.
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830 deferred_probe_timeout=
831 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
832 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
833 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
834 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
835 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
836 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
837 retrying.
838
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839 dhash_entries= [KNL]
840 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
a9913044 841
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842 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
843 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
844 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
845 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
846 miss to occur.
847
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848 disable= [IPV6]
849 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
850
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851 hardened_usercopy=
852 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
853 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
854 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
855 from reading or writing beyond known memory
856 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
857 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
858 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
859 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
860 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
861
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862 disable_radix [PPC]
863 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
864
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865 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
866 Format: <int>
867 The number of initial APIC ID for the
868 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
869 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
870 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
871 causing system reset or hang due to sending
872 INIT from AP to BSP.
873
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874 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
875 Format: <bool>
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876 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
877 The feature only exists starting from
878 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
879
6dddd7a7 880 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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881 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
882 to workaround buggy firmware.
883
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884 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
885 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
886
95ffa243 887 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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888 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
889 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 890 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 891
093af8d7 892 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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893 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
894 memory out of your available memory pool based on
895 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
896 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
897
6cececfc 898 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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899 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
900 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
901
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902 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
903
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904 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
905 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
906
907 dma_debug_entries=<number>
908 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
909 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
910 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
911 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
912 architectural default is too low.
913
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914 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
915 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
916 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
917 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
918 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
919 driver later using sysfs.
920
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921 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
922 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
923 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
924
53fd40a9 925 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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926 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
927 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
928 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
929 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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930 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
931 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
932 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
933 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
934 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
935 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
936 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
937 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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938 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
939 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
940 data set with no connector name will be used for
941 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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943 dscc4.setup= [NET]
944
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945 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
946 Format: {"off" | "known"}
947 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
948 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
949 exists).
950 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
951 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
952 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
953
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954 dump_apple_properties [X86]
955 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
956 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
957 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
958
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959 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
960 module.dyndbg[="val"]
961 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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963 for details.
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8c3641e9 965 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
cb1aaebe 966 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
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967 information about the feature.
968
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969 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
970 in some Intel CPUs.
971
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972 module.async_probe [KNL]
973 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
974
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975 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
976 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
977 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
978 which are not unmapped.
979
0cb55ad2 980 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 981
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982 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
983 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
984 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
985
986 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
987 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 988
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989 cdns,<addr>[,options]
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
991 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
992 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
993 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
994 configured.
6fa62fc4 995
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996 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
997 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 998 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 999 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 1000 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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1001 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1002 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1003 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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1004 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1005 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1006 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1007 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1008 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
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0d3c673e 1010 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1011 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1012 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1013 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1014 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1015 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1016 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1017 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1018
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1019 meson,<addr>
1020 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1021 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1022 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1023 supported.
1024
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1025 msm_serial,<addr>
1026 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1027 port at the specified address. The serial port
1028 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1029 yet supported.
1030
1031 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1032 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1033 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1034 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1035 yet supported.
1036
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1037 owl,<addr>
1038 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1039 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1040 specified address. The serial port must already be
1041 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1042
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1043 rda,<addr>
1044 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1045 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1046 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1047 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1048
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1049 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1050
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1051 s3c2410,<addr>
1052 s3c2412,<addr>
1053 s3c2440,<addr>
1054 s3c6400,<addr>
1055 s5pv210,<addr>
1056 exynos4210,<addr>
1057 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1058 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1059 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1060 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1061 Options are not yet supported.
1062
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1063 lantiq,<addr>
1064 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1065 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1066 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1067 yet supported.
1068
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1069 lpuart,<addr>
1070 lpuart32,<addr>
1071 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1072 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1073 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1074 port must already be setup and configured.
1075
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1077 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1078 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1079 address. The serial port must already be setup
1080 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1081
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KR
1082 qcom_geni,<addr>
1083 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1084 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1085 specified address. The serial port must already be
1086 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1087
69c1f396
AB
1088 efifb,[options]
1089 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1090 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1091 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1092 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1093 mapped with the correct attributes.
1094
4ba66a97 1095 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1096 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1097 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1098 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1099 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1100 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1101 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1102 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1103 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1104 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1105
147ea091
DH
1106 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1107 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1108 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1109
a9913044 1110 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1111 takes over.
1112
72548e83
MF
1113 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1114 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1115
147ea091
DH
1116 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1117 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1118 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1119 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1120 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1121 You can find the port for a given device in
1122 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1123 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1da177e4
LT
1124
1125 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1126 very good.
1127
72548e83
MF
1128 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1129 the real console.
1da177e4 1130
2482a92e
KRW
1131 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1132
89175cf7
HC
1133 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1134
d2266bbf
FT
1135 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1136 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1137 UART class.
1138
c700f013
CG
1139 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1140 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1141 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1142 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1143 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1144 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1145 default: on.
1146
9731191f
JW
1147 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1148 ekgdboc=kbd
1149
25985edc 1150 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1151 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1152
1da177e4 1153 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1154 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1155
d2f7cbe7 1156 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1157 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1158 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1159 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1160 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1161 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1162 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1163 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1164 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1165 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1166
8c58bf3e
RW
1167 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1168 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1169 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1170 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1171 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1172
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TI
1173 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1174 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1175 updating original EFI memory map.
1176 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1177 from ss to ss+nn.
1178 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1179 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1180 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1181 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1182
1183 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1184 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1185 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1186 doesn't support it.
1187
475fb4e8
OP
1188 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1189 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1190 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1191 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
cb1aaebe 1192 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
475fb4e8
OP
1193
1194
1da177e4
LT
1195 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1196 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1197
cd4f0ef7 1198 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1199 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1200 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1201
1202 elevator= [IOSCHED]
31dcbbef
OS
1203 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
1204 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt,
1205 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.txt and
1206 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for details.
a9913044 1207
d3bf3795 1208 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1209 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1210 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1211 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
d67297ad 1212 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1da177e4 1213
0cb55ad2
RD
1214 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1215 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1216 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1217 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1218
ca1eda2d 1219 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
0cb55ad2
RD
1220 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1221 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1222 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1223 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1224
1da177e4
LT
1225 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1226 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1227 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1228 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1229 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1230 Default value is 0.
1231 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1232
a08f82d0
HY
1233 erst_disable [ACPI]
1234 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1235 support.
1236
1da177e4
LT
1237 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1238 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1239 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1240
7102ebcd
MZ
1241 evm= [EVM]
1242 Format: { "fix" }
1243 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1244 current integrity status.
1245
de1ba09b
AM
1246 failslab=
1247 fail_page_alloc=
1248 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1249 General fault injection mechanism.
1250 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1251 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1252
1da177e4 1253 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1254 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1255
f13ae30e
AC
1256 force_pal_cache_flush
1257 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1258 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1259 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1260 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1261
6dddd7a7 1262 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1263 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1264 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1265 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1266 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1267 and may cause unknown problems.
1268
d9e54076 1269 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1270 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1271 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1272 boot debugging.
1273
cecbca96 1274 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1275 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1276 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1277 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1278 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1279 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1280
1281 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1282 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1283 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1284 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1285 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1286 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1287
1288 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1289 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1290 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1291 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1292 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1293
369bc18f
SA
1294 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1295 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1296 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1297 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1298 that can be changed at run time by the
1299 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1300
0d7d9a16
NK
1301 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1302 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1303 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1304 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1305 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1306
65a50c65
TB
1307 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1308 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1309 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1310 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1311 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1312
1da177e4
LT
1313 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1314 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1315 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1316 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1317 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1318
1319 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1320
6dddd7a7 1321 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1322 Format: off | on
1323 default: on
1324
2521f2c2
PO
1325 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1326 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1327 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1328 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1329 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1330
47512cfd
TG
1331 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1332 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1333 android emulator
1334
1da177e4 1335 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1336 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1337 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1338 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1339
6cec9b07
AL
1340 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1341 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1342 Format: 0 | 1
1343 Default: 0
1344 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1345 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1346 Format: 0 | 1
1347 Default: 0
1348 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1349 Format: 0 | 1
1350 Default: 0
1351 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1352 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1353 Default: 1024
1354 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1355 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1356 Default: 1024
1357
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1358 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1359 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1360 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1361
55537871
JK
1362 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1363 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1364 backtraces on all cpus.
1365 Format: <integer>
1366
1da177e4
LT
1367 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1368 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1369 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1370 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1371
1372 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1373
1374 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1375 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1376
ea8c071c
HY
1377 hest_disable [ACPI]
1378 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1379 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1380 logic will be disabled.
1381
1da177e4
LT
1382 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1383 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1384 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1385 size on bigger boxes.
1386
54cdfdb4
TG
1387 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1388 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1389 Default: "on"
1390
0cb55ad2
RD
1391 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1392
1393 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1394 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1395 verbose }
1396 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1397 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1398 VIA, nVidia)
1399 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1400
3d035f58
PB
1401 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1402 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1403
b4718e62
AK
1404 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1405 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1406 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1407 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1408 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1409 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1410 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1411
a49d9c0a
OS
1412 hung_task_panic=
1413 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1414 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1415
a49d9c0a
OS
1416 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1417 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1418 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1419 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1420 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1421
6dddd7a7
TB
1422 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1423 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1424 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1425 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1426 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1427
1428 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1429 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1430 guest on lock contention.
1431
7bf69395
FDN
1432 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1433 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1434 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1435 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1436 the real console.
1437
6dddd7a7
TB
1438 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1439 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1440 registered from board initialization code.
1441 Format:
1442 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1443
36d95739 1444 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1445 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1446 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1447 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1448 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1449 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1450 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1451 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1452 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1453 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1454 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1455 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1456 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1457 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1458 controller
1da177e4
LT
1459 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1460 controllers
24775d65 1461 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1462 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1463 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1464 transitions, or never reset
1465 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1466 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1467 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1468 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1469 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1470 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1471 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1472
1473 i810= [HW,DRM]
1474
e70c9d5e
DT
1475 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1476 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1477 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1478 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1479 does not match list of supported models.
1480 i8k.power_status
1481 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1482 (disabled by default)
1483 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1484 capability is set.
1485
4dca20ef 1486 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1487 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1488 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1489 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1490 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1491 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1492 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1493 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1494 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1495 value switches the backlight off.
1496 -1 -- never invert brightness
1497 0 -- machine default
1498 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1499
1da177e4
LT
1500 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1501 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1502
0af80c04
DF
1503 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1504 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1505 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1506 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
d7b461c5 1507 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1da177e4 1508
0f8b7f5d
MR
1509 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1510 Format: <int>
1511 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1512 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1513 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1514 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1515 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1516 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1517 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1518 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1519 was 0x3.
1520
0cb55ad2
RD
1521 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1522 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1523
f039b754 1524 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1525 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1526 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1527 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1528 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1529 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1530 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1531 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1532 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1533
503943e0
MR
1534 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1535 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1536 Default: strict
1537
1538 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1539 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1540 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1541 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1542 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1543 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1544 encoding mode.
1545
1546 Available settings are as follows:
1547 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1548 supported by the FPU
1549 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1550 by the FPU
1551 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1552 by the FPU
1553 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1554 supported by the FPU
1555
1556 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1557 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1558 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1559 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1560 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1561 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1562 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1563 MIPS64 CPUs.
1564
1565 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1566 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1567 except where unsupported by hardware.
1568
79290822
IM
1569 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1570 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1571 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1572 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1573 could change it dynamically, usually by
1574 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1575
d977d56c
KK
1576 ignore_rlimit_data
1577 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1578 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1579 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1580
1da177e4
LT
1581 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1582 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1583
2fe5d6de 1584 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1585 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1586 default: "enforce"
1587
41475a3e 1588 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
07f6a794
MZ
1589 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1590 owned by uid=0.
1591
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1592 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1593 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1594 measurements, instead of host native format.
1595
3323eec9 1596 ima_hash= [IMA]
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1597 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1598 | sha512 | ... }
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1599 default: "sha1"
1600
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1601 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1602 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1603
24fd03c8 1604 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1605 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
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1606 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1607 fail_securely"
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1608
1609 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1610 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1611 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1612 uid=0.
1613
1614 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1615 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1616
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1617 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1618 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1619 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1620
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1621 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1622 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1623 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1624 flag.
1625
24fd03c8 1626 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1627 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1628 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1629 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1630 opened for read by uid=0.
1631
6dddd7a7 1632 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1633 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1634 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1635 Default: "ima-ng"
1636
c2426d2a 1637 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1638 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1639 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1640
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1641 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1642 Format: <min_file_size>
1643 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1644 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1645
1646 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1647 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1648 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1649
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1650 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1651 Format: <bufsize>
1652 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1653
1654 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1655 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1656 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1657
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1658 init= [KNL]
1659 Format: <full_path>
1660 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1661 process.
1662
1663 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1664 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1665 startup.
1666
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1667 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1668 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1669 modules and initcalls.
1670
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1671 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1672
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1673 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1674 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1675 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1676 override in debugfs after boot.
1677
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1678 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1679 Format: <irq>
1680
6dddd7a7 1681 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1682
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1683 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1684 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1685 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1686 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1687
ba395927 1688 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1689 on
1690 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1691 off
1692 Disable intel iommu driver.
1693 igfx_off [Default Off]
1694 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1695 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1696 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1697 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1698 DMA.
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1699 forcedac [x86_64]
1700 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1701 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1702 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1703 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1704 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1705 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1706 strict [Default Off]
1707 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1708 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1709 to batching them for performance.
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1710 sp_off [Default Off]
1711 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1712 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1713 not be supported.
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1714 sm_on [Default Off]
1715 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
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1716 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1717 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
8950dcd8 1718 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
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1719 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1720 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1721 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1722 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1723 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1724 mapping is enabled.
1725 Note that using this option lowers the security
1726 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1727 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1728
1729 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1730 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1731 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1732
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1733 intel_pstate= [X86]
1734 disable
1735 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1736 scaling driver for the supported processors
1737 passive
1738 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1739 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1740 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1741 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1742 feature.
1743 force
1744 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1745 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1746 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1747 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1748 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1749 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1750 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1751 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1752 no_hwp
1753 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1754 if available.
1755 hwp_only
1756 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1757 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1758 support_acpi_ppc
1759 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1760 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1761 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1762 then this feature is turned on by default.
1763 per_cpu_perf_limits
1764 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1765 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1766
d1423d56 1767 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1768 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1769 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1770 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1771 no_x2apic_optout
1772 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1773 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1774
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1775 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1776 strict regions from userspace.
1777 relaxed
1778
1779 iommu= [x86]
1780 off
1781 force
1782 noforce
1783 biomerge
1784 panic
1785 nopanic
1786 merge
1787 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1788 soft
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1789 pt [x86]
1790 nopt [x86]
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1791 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1792 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1793
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1794 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1795 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1796 0 - Lazy mode.
1797 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1798 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1799 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1800 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1801 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1802 1 - Strict mode (default).
1803 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1804 synchronously.
1805
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1806 iommu.passthrough=
1807 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1808 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1809 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1810 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1811 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
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1812
1813 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1814 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1815 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1816
6cececfc 1817 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1818 0x80
1819 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1820 0xed
1821 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1822 udelay
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1823 Simple two microseconds delay
1824 none
1825 No delay
b02aae9c 1826
1da177e4 1827 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1828 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1829
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1830 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1831 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1832
fbf19803 1833 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1834 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1835
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1836 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1837 [ARM, ARM64]
1838 Format: <bool>
1839 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1840 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1841 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1842
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1843 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1844 [ARM, ARM64]
1845 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1846 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1847 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1848 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1849 LPIs.
1850
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1851 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1852 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1853 requires the kernel to be built with
1854 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1855
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1856 irqfixup [HW]
1857 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1858 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1859 firmware running.
1860
1861 irqpoll [HW]
1862 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1863 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1864 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1865 firmware running.
1866
1da177e4 1867 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1868 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1869
d94d1053 1870 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1871 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1872 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1873
1874 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1875 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1876
1877 nohz
1878 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1879
1880 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1881 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1882 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1883 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1884 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1885
1886 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1887 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1888 be configured manually after bootup.
1889
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1890 domain
1891 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1892 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1893 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1894 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1895 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1896 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1897 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1898 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1899
1900 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1901 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1902 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1903 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1904
1905 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1906
1da177e4 1907
1da177e4 1908
a9913044 1909 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1910
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1911 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1912 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1913 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1914 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1915 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1916 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1917
1918 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1919 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1920 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1921 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1922 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1923 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1924
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1925 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1926 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1927 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1928 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1929 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1930 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1931
1da177e4 1932 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1933 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1934
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1935 nokaslr [KNL]
1936 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1937 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1938 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1939
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1940 kasan_multi_shot
1941 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1942 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1943 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1944 invalid access.
1945
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1946 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1947
342332e6 1948 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1949 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1950 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1951 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1952 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1953 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1954 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1955 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1956 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1957 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1958
1959 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1960 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1961 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1962 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1963 zone if it does not.
1964
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1965 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1966 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1967 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1968 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1969 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1970 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1971 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1972
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1973 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1974 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1975 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1976 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1977 optional and is the number seconds in between
1978 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1979 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1980 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1981 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1982 the kernel debugger.
1983
84c08fd6 1984 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1985 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1986 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1987 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1988 keyboard only format: kbd
1989 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1990 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1991 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1992 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1993
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1994 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1995 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1996
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1997 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1998 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1999 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2000
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2001 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2002 Valid arguments: on, off
2003 Default: on
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2004 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2005 the default is off.
04f70336 2006
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2007 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2008 and kernel address spaces.
2009 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2010 0: force disabled
2011 1: force enabled
2012
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2013 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2014 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2015
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2016 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2017 Default is false (don't support).
2018
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2019 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2020 KVM MMU at runtime.
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2021 Default is 0 (off)
2022
fef07aae 2023 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2024 Default is 1 (enabled)
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2025
2026 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2027 for all guests.
16290246 2028 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 2029
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2030 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2031 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2032 system registers
2033
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2034 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2035 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2036 system registers
2037
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2038 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2039 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2040 system registers
2041
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2042 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2043 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2044 LPIs.
2045
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2046 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2047 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2048 Default is 1 (enabled)
2049
2050 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2051 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2052 Default is 0 (disabled)
2053
2054 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2055 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2056 Default is 1 (enabled)
2057
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2058 kvm-intel.nested=
2059 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2060 Default is 0 (disabled)
2061
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2062 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2063 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2064 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2065 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2066
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2067 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2068 CVE-2018-3620.
2069
2070 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2071
2072 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2073 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2074 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2075 never: Disables the mitigation
2076
2077 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2078
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2079 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2080 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2081 Default is 1 (enabled)
2082
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2083 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2084 affected CPUs
2085
2086 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2087 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2088
2089 full
2090 Provides all available mitigations for the
2091 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2092 enables all mitigations in the
2093 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2094
2095 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2096 sysfs interface is still possible after
2097 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2098 when the first VM is started in a
2099 potentially insecure configuration,
2100 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2101
2102 full,force
2103 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2104 flush runtime control. Implies the
2105 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2106 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2107
2108 flush
2109 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2110 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2111 L1D flush.
2112
2113 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2114 sysfs interface is still possible after
2115 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2116 when the first VM is started in a
2117 potentially insecure configuration,
2118 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2119
2120 flush,nosmt
2121
2122 Disables SMT and enables the default
2123 hypervisor mitigation.
2124
2125 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2126 sysfs interface is still possible after
2127 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2128 when the first VM is started in a
2129 potentially insecure configuration,
2130 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2131
2132 flush,nowarn
2133 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2134 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2135 insecure configuration.
2136
2137 off
2138 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2139 emit any warnings.
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2140 It also drops the swap size and available
2141 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2142 bare metal.
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2143
2144 Default is 'flush'.
2145
65fd4cb6 2146 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2147
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2148 l2cr= [PPC]
2149
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2150 l3cr= [PPC]
2151
cd4f0ef7 2152 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2153 disabled it.
1da177e4 2154
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2155 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2156 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2157 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2158
6cececfc 2159 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2160 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2161
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FC
2162 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2163 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2164 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2165 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2166 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
fcb71f6f
FC
2167 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2168 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2169
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MP
2170 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2171 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2172 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2173
78e70c23
DJ
2174 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2175 when set.
2176 Format: <int>
2177
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TH
2178 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2179 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2180 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
33267325
TH
2181 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2182 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2183 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2184 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2185 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2186
2187 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2188 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2189 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2190 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2191 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2192 host link and device attached to it.
2193
2194 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2195 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2196 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2197 The following configurations can be forced.
2198
2199 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2200 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2201
2202 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2203
2204 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2205 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2206 allowed.
2207
2208 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2209
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MP
2210 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2211
05944bdf 2212 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2213 and both resets.
05944bdf 2214
ca6d43b0
DW
2215 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2216 hot-unplug link recovery
2217
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TH
2218 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2219
966fbe19
VP
2220 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2221
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RJ
2222 * disable: Disable this device.
2223
33267325
TH
2224 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2225 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2226
95f72d1e 2227 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2228
1da177e4 2229 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2230 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2231
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RD
2232 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2233 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2234
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RD
2235 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2236 Format: <integer>
2237
2238 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2239 Format: <integer>
2240
2241 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2242 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2243
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2244 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2245 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2246 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2247 number of online CPUs.
2248
2249 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2250 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2251
2252 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2253 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2254
2255 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2256 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2257 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2258
2259 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2260 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2261 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2262 mode during the locktorture test.
2263
2264 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2265 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2266 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2267
2268 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2269 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2270
2271 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2272 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2273 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2274 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2275 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2276 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2277
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PM
2278 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2279 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2280
2281 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2282 Enable additional printk() statements.
2283
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LT
2284 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2285 Format: <irq>
2286
2287 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2288 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2289 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2290 loglevels are defined as follows:
2291
2292 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2293 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2294 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2295 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2296 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2297 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2298 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2299 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2300
c756d08a 2301 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
23b2899f
LR
2302 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2303 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2304 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2305 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2306 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2307 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2308
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RD
2309 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2310 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2311 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2312 kernel boot problems.
2313
1da177e4
LT
2314 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2315 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2316 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2317 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2318 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2319 attached printers to be reset. Using
2320 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2321 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2322 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2323 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2324 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2325 port specification list means that device IDs
2326 from each port should be examined, to see if
2327 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2328 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2329 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2330
2331 lpj=n [KNL]
2332 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2333 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2334 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2335 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2336 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2337 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2338 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2339 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2340 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2341 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2342 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2343 hardware.
2344
2345 ltpc= [NET]
2346 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2347
9b8c7c14
KC
2348 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2349
79f7865d
KC
2350 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2351 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2352 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2353
16290246 2354 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
a9913044
RD
2355 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2356 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2357
3209e70e
WZ
2358 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2359 yeeloong laptop.
2360 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2361
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RD
2362 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2363 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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LT
2364
2365 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2366 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2367 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2368 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2369 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2370 only takes effect during system bootup.
2371 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2372 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2373
d134b00b
KS
2374 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2375 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2376 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2377 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2378 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2379 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2380
cd4f0ef7 2381 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2382
cb1aaebe 2383 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
909dd324 2384
1da177e4 2385 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2386 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2387
1da177e4
LT
2388 mdacon= [MDA]
2389 Format: <first>,<last>
2390 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2391
bc124170
TG
2392 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2393 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2394 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2395
2396 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2397 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2398 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2399
2400 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2401 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2402 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2403 not have direct access.
2404
2405 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2406 options are:
2407
d71eb0ce
JP
2408 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2409 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2410 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2411 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170
TG
2412
2413 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2414 mds=full.
2415
5999bbe7
TG
2416 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2417
1da177e4
LT
2418 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2419 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2420 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2421 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2422 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2423 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2424 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2425
cd4f0ef7 2426 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2427 memory.
2428
6902aa84
PM
2429 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2430 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2431 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2432
6dddd7a7 2433 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2434 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2435 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2436 set according to the
2437 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2438 option.
cb1aaebe 2439 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
86dd995d 2440
6cececfc 2441 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2442 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2443 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2444 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2445 option description.
2446
2447 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2448 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2449 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2450 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2451 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2452 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2453 comma delimited.
2454 Example:
2455 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2456
2457 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2458 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2459 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2460
2461 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2462 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2463 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2464 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2465 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2466 or
2467 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2468 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2469 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2470 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2471
ec776ef6
CH
2472 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2473 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2474 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2475 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2476 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2477
ef61f8a3
JS
2478 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2479 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2480 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2481 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2482 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2483 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2484 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2485 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2486
9f077871
JF
2487 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2488 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2489 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2490 Setting this option will scan the memory
2491 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2492 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2493 from using the memory being corrupted.
2494 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2495 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2496 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2497 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2498
2499 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2500 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2501 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2502 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2503 corruption in more or less memory.
2504
2505 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2506 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2507 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2508 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2509
d90fe2ac 2510 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2511 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2512 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2513 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2514 performed. Each pass selects another test
2515 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2516 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2517 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2518 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2519
c262f3b9
TL
2520 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2521 Valid arguments: on, off
2522 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2523 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2524 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2525 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2526 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2527
cb1aaebe 2528 Refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
c262f3b9
TL
2529 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2530
406e7938
RW
2531 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2532 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2533 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2534 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2535 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2536
1da177e4 2537 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2538 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2539
8f36881b
AS
2540 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2541 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2542 platforms.
2543
e6c4dc6c
WT
2544 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2545 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2546 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2547 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2548
1da177e4
LT
2549 mga= [HW,DRM]
2550
1c207f95
RD
2551 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2552 physical address is ignored.
2553
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MP
2554 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2555 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2556 Default: "0tb"
2557 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2558 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2559 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2560 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2561 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2562 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2563 unconfigured.
2564 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2565 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2566 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2567 VGA shield.
2568 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2569 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2570 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2571 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2572 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2573 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2574
98af8452 2575 mitigations=
a111b7c0
JP
2576 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2577 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
2578 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2579 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
2580
2581 off
2582 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2583 improves system performance, but it may also
2584 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 2585 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2586 kpti=0 [ARM64]
782e69ef 2587 nospectre_v1 [PPC]
0336e04a 2588 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 2589 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 2590 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 2591 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2592 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 2593 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 2594 mds=off [X86]
98af8452
JP
2595
2596 auto (default)
2597 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2598 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2599 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2600 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2601 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 2602 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
98af8452
JP
2603
2604 auto,nosmt
2605 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2606 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2607 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 2608 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 2609 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 2610
6b74ab97
MG
2611 mminit_loglevel=
2612 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2613 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2614 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2615 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2616 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2617 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2618
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RR
2619 module.sig_enforce
2620 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2621 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2622 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2623 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2624
be7de5f9
PB
2625 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2626 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2627
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LT
2628 mousedev.tap_time=
2629 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2630 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2631 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2632 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2633 Format: <msecs>
2634 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2635 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2636 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2637 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2638
a5c6d650
DR
2639 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2640 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2641 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2642 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2643 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2644 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2645 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2646 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
2647 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2648 is not too small.
2649
f70029bb
MH
2650 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2651 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2652 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2653 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2654 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2655
1da177e4
LT
2656 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2657 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2658
a9913044
RD
2659 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2660 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2661
2662 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2663 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2664
4e89a2d8
WS
2665 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2666 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2667 at a time.
2668
5988af23
RH
2669 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2670
2671 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2672
2673 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2674 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2675 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2676 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2677 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2678
9db829f4
BD
2679 mtdset= [ARM]
2680 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2681
2682 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2683
1da177e4 2684 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2685 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2686 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2687
0cb55ad2 2688 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2689 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2690 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2691
2692 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2693 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2694 Default is 1.
2695 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2696 using up MTRRs.
2697
2698 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2699 Format: <integer>
2700 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2701 Default : 1
2702 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2703 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2704
1da177e4
LT
2705 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2706
1da177e4
LT
2707 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2708 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2709 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2710 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2711 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2712 file if at all.
2713
58401572
KPO
2714 nf_conntrack.acct=
2715 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2716 0 to disable accounting
2717 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2718 Default value is 0.
58401572 2719
306a0753 2720 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2721 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2722
2723 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2724 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2725
306a0753
CL
2726 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2727 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2728
5405fc44
TM
2729 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2730 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2731 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2732 requests.
2733
a72b4422
TM
2734 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2735 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2736 channel should listen.
2737
e571cbf1
TM
2738 nfs.cache_getent=
2739 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2740 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2741
2742 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2743 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2744 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2745
58df095b
TM
2746 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2747 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2748 entries.
2749
f43bf0be
TM
2750 nfs.enable_ino64=
2751 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2752 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2753 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2754 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2755 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2756
5405fc44
TM
2757 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2758 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2759 slots the client will assign to the callback
2760 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2761 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2762 a particular server.
2763
ef159e91
TM
2764 nfs.max_session_slots=
2765 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2766 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2767 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2768 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2769 Note that there is little point in setting this
2770 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2771
b064eca2 2772 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2773 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2774 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2775 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2776 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2777 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2778 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2779 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2780 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2781 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2782 back to using the idmapper.
2783 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2784 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2785 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2786 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2787 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2788 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2789
db8ac8ba
WAA
2790 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2791 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2792 information in exchange_id requests.
2793 If zero, no implementation identification information
2794 will be sent.
2795 The default is to send the implementation identification
2796 information.
e52347bd 2797
f6de7a39
TM
2798 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2799 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2800 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2801 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2802 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2803 after the locks are lost.
2804 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2805 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2806 parameter to '1'.
2807 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2808 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2809
bbf58bf3
TM
2810 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2811 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2812 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2813
2814 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2815 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2816 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2817 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2818
e9541ce8
BF
2819 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2820 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2821 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2822 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2823 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2824 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2825
c0c74acb 2826 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2827 when a NMI is triggered.
2828 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2829
6cececfc 2830 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2831 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2832 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2833 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2834 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2835 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
93285c01
ZD
2836 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2837 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2838 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
334bb79c 2839 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2840 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2841 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2842
d22881dc
SW
2843 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2844 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2845
bff38771
AV
2846 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2847 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2848 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2849 waits 4 seconds.
2850
cd4f0ef7 2851 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2852 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2853 is present.
2854
372fddf7
KS
2855 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2856 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2857
0cb55ad2
RD
2858 no_console_suspend
2859 [HW] Never suspend the console
2860 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2861 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2862 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2863 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2864 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2865 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2866 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2867 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2868 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2869 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2870 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2871 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2872
c1aee215
CL
2873 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2874 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2875 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2876
a9913044
RD
2877 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2878
686140a1
VG
2879 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2880 (CPU alternatives feature).
2881
1da177e4
LT
2882 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2883 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2884
5091faa4
MG
2885 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2886
1da177e4
LT
2887 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2888 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2889
2890 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2891
0cb55ad2
RD
2892 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2893
163ecdff
SN
2894 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2895
6902aa84
PM
2896 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2897
b2e0a54a 2898 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2899
1da177e4
LT
2900 noexec [IA-64]
2901
6cececfc 2902 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2903 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2904 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2905 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2906
de78a9c4 2907 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
2908 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2909 even if it is supported by processor.
2910
0fb1c25a 2911 nosmep [X86,PPC]
52b6179a 2912 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2913 even if it is supported by processor.
2914
f5a1b191
JS
2915 noexec32 [X86-64]
2916 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2917 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2918 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2919 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2920 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2921
fab43ef4 2922 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2923
cd4f0ef7 2924 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2925 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2926 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2927
0ddab1d2
TK
2928 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2929
52c48c51
SS
2930 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2931 Equivalent to smt=1.
2932
05736e4a 2933 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2934 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2935 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 2936
26cb1f36
DC
2937 nospectre_v1 [PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 (bounds
2938 check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible
2939 in the system.
05736e4a 2940
e5ce5e72
JL
2941 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2942 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2943 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2944 option.
da285121 2945
24f7fc83
KRW
2946 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2947 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2948
0c752a93
SS
2949 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2950 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2951 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2952
b6f42a4a
FY
2953 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2954 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2955 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2956 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2957 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2958 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2959
2960 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2961 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2962 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2963 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2964 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2965 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2966 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2967
01a24d2b
PZ
2968 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2969 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2970 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2971
1f29fae2
SH
2972 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2973 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2974 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2975
1da177e4
LT
2976 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2977 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2978 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2979 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2980 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2981 real-time systems.
2982
a6e15a39
KC
2983 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2984
79bf2bb3
TG
2985 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2986 Valid arguments: on, off
2987 Default: on
2988
d94d1053 2989 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2990 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2991 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2992 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2993 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2994 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2995 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2996 just as if they had also been called out in the
2997 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2998
eeee7853
PM
2999 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3000
cd4f0ef7 3001 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3002 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3003
6cececfc 3004 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3005 broken timer IRQ sources.
3006
1da177e4
LT
3007 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3008
3009 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3010 initial RAM disk.
3011
03ea8155
WH
3012 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3013 remapping.
d1423d56 3014 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3015
1da177e4
LT
3016 nointroute [IA-64]
3017
d12a72b8
AL
3018 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3019
16290246 3020 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3021
9cf4c4fc
JK
3022 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3023
fd10cde9
GN
3024 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3025 fault handling.
3026
80e9a4f2
AM
3027 no-vmw-sched-clock
3028 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3029 clock and use the default one.
3030
6dddd7a7 3031 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
3032 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3033 behaviour
3034
cd4f0ef7 3035 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3036
cd4f0ef7 3037 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3038
1da177e4 3039 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3040 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3041
312f1f01
H
3042 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3043
13696e0a 3044 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3045
83d7384f
AS
3046 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3047 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3048
bda62633
DZ
3049 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3050 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3051 irq.
3052
02608bef
DY
3053 nomodule Disable module load
3054
016ddd9b
JK
3055 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3056 pagetables) support.
3057
0790c9aa
AL
3058 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3059
0cb55ad2
RD
3060 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3061 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3062
cd4f0ef7 3063 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3064 with UP alternatives
3065
7a5091d5
PA
3066 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3067 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3068 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3069 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3070
a9913044
RD
3071 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3072 space.
3073
1da177e4
LT
3074 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3075 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3076 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3077
3078 nosbagart [IA-64]
3079
cd4f0ef7 3080 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3081
61ec7567
LB
3082 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3083 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3084
97842216
DJ
3085 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3086
1da177e4
LT
3087 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3088
195daf66 3089 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3090 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3091
1da177e4 3092 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3093
2b2fd87a
WH
3094 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3095
f78cff48
FY
3096 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3097 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3098 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3099 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3100 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3101 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3102 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3103 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3104 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3105 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3106 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3107 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3108 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3109
6dddd7a7 3110 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3111 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3112 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3113 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3114 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3115 parameter's value.
3116 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3117 Default: 255
3118
16290246 3119 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3120 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3121 SAL PALO.
3122
2b633e3f
YL
3123 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3124 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3125 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3126 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3127 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3128 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3129 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3130 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3131
0cb55ad2
RD
3132 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3133
1a687c2e
MG
3134 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3135 Allowed values are enable and disable
3136
f0c0b2b8 3137 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3138 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
3139 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3140 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3141
7c4be253
RD
3142 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3143 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3144 info.
3145
3ef0e1f8
AS
3146 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3147 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3148 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3149 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3150 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3151 interrupts *may* be lost!
3152
15ac7afe
TL
3153 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3154 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3155 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3156 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3157
1da177e4
LT
3158 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3159 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3160
7e4e0bd5
RR
3161 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3162 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3163 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3164 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3165 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3166 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3167 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3168 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3169 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3170 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3171
44a4dcf7
RD
3172 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3173 process, but there is a small probability of
3174 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3175 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3176 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3177
e900a918
DW
3178 page_alloc.shuffle=
3179 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3180 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3181 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3182 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3183 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3184 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3185 can be read from sysfs at:
3186 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3187
48c96a36
JK
3188 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3189 Storage of the information about who allocated
3190 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3191 we can turn it on.
3192 on: enable the feature
3193
8823b1db 3194 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3195 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3196 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3197 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3198 on: turn on poisoning
3199
44a4dcf7 3200 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3201 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3202 timeout = 0: wait forever
3203 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3204 Format: <timeout>
3205
d999bd93
FT
3206 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3207 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3208 bit 0: print all tasks info
3209 bit 1: print system memory info
3210 bit 2: print timer info
3211 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3212 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3213 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
d999bd93 3214
9e3961a0
PB
3215 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3216 on a WARN().
3217
f06e5153
MH
3218 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3219 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3220 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3221 succeeds in any situation.
3222 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3223 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3224 kernel more unstable.
3225
1da177e4
LT
3226 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3227 connected to, default is 0.
3228 Format: <parport#>
3229 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3230 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
3231 Format: <mode>
3232
3233 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3234 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3235 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3236 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3237 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3238 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3239 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3240 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3241 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3242 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3243 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3244 are specified on the command line, starting
3245 with parport0.
3246
3247 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3248 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3249 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3250 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3251 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3252 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3253 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3254
dd287796
AM
3255 pause_on_oops=
3256 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3257 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3258 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3259
1da177e4
LT
3260 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3261
3262 pcd. [PARIDE]
3263 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 3264 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3265
07d8d7e5
LG
3266 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3267
3268 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3269 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3270 specified in one of the following formats:
3271
45db3370 3272 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3273 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3274
3275 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3276 bus/device/function address which may change
3277 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3278 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3279 by other kernel parameters. If the
3280 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3281 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3282 to a device through multiple device/function
3283 addresses can be specified after the base
3284 address (this is more robust against
3285 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3286 selects devices using IDs from the
3287 configuration space which may match multiple
3288 devices in the system.
3289
11eb0e0e 3290 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3291 changes anything
c0115606 3292 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3293 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3294 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3295 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3296 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3297 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3298 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3299 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3300 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3301 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3302 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3303 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3304 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3305 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3306 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3307 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3308 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3309 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3310 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3311 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3312 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3313 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3314 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3315 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3316 Configuration
12983077
AH
3317 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3318 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3319 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3320 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3321 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3322 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3323 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3324 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3325 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3326 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3327 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3328 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3329 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3330 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3331 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3332 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3333 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3334 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3335 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3336 on several machines and they hang the machine
3337 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3338 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3339 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3340 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3341 motherboard.
c0115606 3342 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3343 Use with caution as certain devices share
3344 address decoders between ROMs and other
3345 resources.
c0115606 3346 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3347 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3348 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3349 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3350 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3351 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3352 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3353 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3354 this way.
c0115606 3355 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3356 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3357 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3358 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3359 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3360 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3361 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3362 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3363 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3364 numbers ourselves, overriding
3365 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3366 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3367 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3368 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3369 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3370 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3371 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3372 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3373 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3374 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3375 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3376 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3377 please report a bug.
3378 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3379 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3380 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3381 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3382 so this option is a temporary workaround
3383 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3384 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3385 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3386 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3387 This might help on some broken boards which
3388 machine check when some devices' config space
3389 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3390 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3391 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3392 This sorting is done to get a device
3393 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3394 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3395 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3396 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3397 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3398 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3399 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3400 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3401 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3402 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3403 or bus can support) for best performance.
3404 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3405 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3406 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3407 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3408 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3409 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3410 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3411 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3412 The default value is 256 bytes.
3413 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3414 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3415 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3416 resource_alignment=
3417 Format:
07d8d7e5 3418 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3419 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3420 aligned memory resources. How to
3421 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3422 If <order of align> is not specified,
3423 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3424 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3425 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3426 To specify the alignment for several
3427 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3428 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3429 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3430 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3431 end-to-end CRC checking).
3432 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3433 the default.
3434 off: Turn ECRC off
3435 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3436 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3437 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3438 Default size is 256 bytes.
3439 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3440 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3441 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3442 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3443 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3444 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3445 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3446 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3447 accommodate resources required by all child
3448 devices.
3449 off: Turn realloc off
3450 on: Turn realloc on
3451 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3452 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3453 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3454 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3455 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3456 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3457 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3458 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3459 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3460 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3461 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3462 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3463 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3464 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3465 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3466 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3467 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3468 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3469 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3470 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3471 this removes isolation between devices and
3472 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 3473 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 3474 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
6b4b78fe 3475
e5665a45
CE
3476 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3477 Management.
3478 off Disable ASPM.
3479 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3480 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3481
4c0fd764
BH
3482 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3483 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3484 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3485 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3486 also tries to use these services.
3487 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3488 hotplug).
79dd9182 3489
9d26d3a8
MW
3490 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3491 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3492 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3493
c7f48656 3494 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3495 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3496 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3497
1da177e4
LT
3498 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3499
39ac5ba5
TB
3500 pd_ignore_unused
3501 [PM]
3502 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3503 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3504 for debug and development, but should not be
3505 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3506
1da177e4 3507 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3508 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3509
3510 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3511 boot time.
3512 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3513 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3514
f58dc01b 3515 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3516 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3517 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3518 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3519 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3520 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3521
1da177e4 3522 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3523 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3524
3525 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3526 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3527
3528 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
cb1aaebe 3529 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3530
3531 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3532 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3533 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3534
16290246 3535 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3536 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3537 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3538
96242116
BH
3539 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3540 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3541 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3542 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3543 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3544 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3545
1da177e4
LT
3546 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3547 { off }
3548
3549 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3550 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3551
3552 pnp_reserve_irq=
3553 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3554
3555 pnp_reserve_dma=
3556 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3557
3558 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3559 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3560
3561 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3562 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3563 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3564 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3565
4af94f39
RD
3566 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3567 Default is 21.
3568 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3569 may be specified.
3570 Format: <port>,<port>....
3571
c3cbd075
BS
3572 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3573 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3574 platform machine description specific power_save
3575 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3576 execution priority.
3577
3eb5d588
AB
3578 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3579 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3580 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3581 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3582 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3583
07fd1761
CB
3584 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3585 Format: {"off"}
3586 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3587
45807a1d
IM
3588 print-fatal-signals=
3589 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3590
3591 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3592 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3593 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3594 coredump - etc.
3595
3596 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3597 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3598
45807a1d
IM
3599 default: off.
3600
c22ab332
MG
3601 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3602 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3603 panics
3604 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3605 default: disabled
3606
750afe7b
BP
3607 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3608 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3609 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3610 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3611 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3612 Default: ratelimit
3613
e84845c4
RD
3614 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3615 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3616
0cb55ad2
RD
3617 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3618 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3619 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3620
3621 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3622 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3623 instead using the legacy FADT method
3624
1da177e4 3625 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3626 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3627 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3628 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3629 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3630 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3631 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3632 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3633 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3634 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3635
1da177e4
LT
3636 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3637 before loading.
31c00fc1 3638 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3639
e0c27447
JW
3640 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3641 tracking.
3642 Format: <bool>
3643
a9913044
RD
3644 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3645 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3646 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3647 per second.
a9913044
RD
3648 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3649 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3650 (0 = never).
3651 psmouse.resolution=
3652 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3653 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3654 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3655 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3656
dee28e72
MG
3657 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3658
1da177e4 3659 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3660 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3661
01c9b17b
DH
3662 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3663 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3664 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3665 system calls and interrupts.
3666
3667 on - unconditionally enable
3668 off - unconditionally disable
3669 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3670 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3671
3672 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3673
3674 nopti [X86_64]
3675 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3676
dc8c8587
KS
3677 pty.legacy_count=
3678 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3679 default number.
3680
7d2c502f 3681 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3682
1da177e4
LT
3683 r128= [HW,DRM]
3684
3685 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3686 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3687
1da177e4 3688 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3689 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3690
9b254366
KC
3691 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3692 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3693 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3694 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3695 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3696
011d8261
BP
3697 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3698
3699 cec_disable [X86]
3700 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3701 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3702
4102adab 3703 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
da8739f2
PM
3704 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3705 except that the string "all" can be used to
3706 specify every CPU on the system.
2d13e6ca 3707
3fbfbf7a
PM
3708 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3709 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
3710 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3711 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3712 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3713 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3714 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3715 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3716 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3717 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 3718
4102adab 3719 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3720 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3721 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3722 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3723 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3724 This improves the real-time response for the
3725 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3726 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3727 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3728 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3729
4102adab 3730 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3731 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3732 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3733
a3dc2948
PM
3734 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3735 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3736 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3737 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3738
0f41c0dd
PM
3739 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3740 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3741 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3742
37745d28
PM
3743 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3744 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3745 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3746
3747 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3748 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3749 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3750 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3751 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3752
7fa27001
PM
3753 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3754 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3755 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3756 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3757 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3758
4102adab 3759 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3760 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3761 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3762 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3763 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3764 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3765 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3766
4102adab 3767 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3768 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3769 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3770 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3771 and maximum value is HZ.
3772
4102adab 3773 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3774 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3775 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3776 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3777
1a4762b9
PM
3778 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3779 Set required age in jiffies for a
3780 given grace period before RCU starts
3781 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3782 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3783 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3784 a value based on the most recent settings
3785 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3786 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3787 This calculated value may be viewed in
3788 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
3789 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3790 overwritten.
3791
21871d7e 3792 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3793 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3794 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3795 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3796 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3797 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3798 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3799 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3800 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3801 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3802
fbce7497
PM
3803 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3804 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3805 defaults to the square root of the number of
3806 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3807 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3808 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3809
4102adab 3810 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3811 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3812 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3813
4102adab 3814 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3815 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3816 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3817
4102adab 3818 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3819 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3820 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3821
4102adab 3822 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3823 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3824 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3825 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3826 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3827
e3c50dfb
PM
3828 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3829 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3830 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3831 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3832 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3833 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3834
2ccaff10
PM
3835 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3836 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3837 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3838 why a new grace period has not yet started.
3839
881ed593
PM
3840 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3841 Measure performance of asynchronous
3842 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3843
3844 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3845 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3846 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3847 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3848 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3849 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3850
bdea9e34
PM
3851 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3852 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3853 grace-period primitives.
3854
df37e66b
PM
3855 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3856 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3857 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3858 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3859 interference.
3860
bdea9e34
PM
3861 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3862 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3863 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3864 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3865 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3866 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3867 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3868 a single reader.
3869
3870 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3871 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3872 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3873 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3874
820687a7
PM
3875 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3876 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3877
bdea9e34
PM
3878 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3879 Shut the system down after performance tests
3880 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3881 testing.
3882
bdea9e34
PM
3883 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3884 Enable additional printk() statements.
3885
820687a7
PM
3886 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3887 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3888 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3889 no holdoff.
3890
4102adab 3891 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3892 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3893 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3894
4102adab 3895 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3896 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3897 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3898
4102adab 3899 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3900 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3901 in seconds.
3902
ed8f6fb2
PM
3903 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3904 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3905 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3906
3907 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3908 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3909 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3910
3911 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3912 Number of seconds to wait between successive
3913 forward-progress tests.
3914
3915 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3916 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3917 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3918 testing.
3919
21b05de4
PM
3920 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3921 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3922 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3923
4102adab 3924 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3925 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3926
3927 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3928 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3929 update-side primitives, if available.
3930
3931 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3932 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3933 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3934 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3935 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3936 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3937 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3938
4102adab 3939 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3940 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3941
4102adab 3942 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3943 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3944 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3945 test, hence the "fake".
3946
4102adab 3947 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3948 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3949 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3950 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3951 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3952 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3953
4102adab
PM
3954 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3955 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3956
3957 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3958 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3959
4102adab 3960 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
3961 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
3962 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 3963
4102adab 3964 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3965 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3966 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3967 during the rcutorture test.
3968
4102adab 3969 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3970 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3971 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3972
4102adab 3973 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3974 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3975 warnings, zero to disable.
3976
4102adab 3977 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3978 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3979
2b1516e5
PM
3980 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3981 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3982
4102adab 3983 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3984 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3985
4102adab 3986 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3987 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3988 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3989 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3990 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3991
4102adab 3992 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3993 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3994 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3995 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3996
4102adab 3997 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3998 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3999
4102adab 4000 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4001 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4002
4102adab 4003 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4004 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4005 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4006
4102adab 4007 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4008 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4009
4102adab 4010 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4011 Enable additional printk() statements.
4012
5a9be7c6
PM
4013 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4014 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4015
4016 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4017 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4018
4102adab
PM
4019 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4020 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4021 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4022 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4023 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4024 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4025 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4026
5a9be7c6
PM
4027 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4028 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4029 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4030 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4031 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4032 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4033 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4034 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4035 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4036
3e42ec1a
PM
4037 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4038 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4039 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4040 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4041 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4042
52db30ab
PM
4043 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4044 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4045 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4046 to zero.
4047
74860fee
PK
4048 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4049 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4050
ffdfc409
OJ
4051 rdinit= [KNL]
4052 Format: <full_path>
4053 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4054 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4055
1d9807fc
TL
4056 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4057 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4058 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4059 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4060 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4061 rdt=cmt,!mba
4062
1b3a5d02
RH
4063 reboot= [KNL]
4064 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4065 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4066 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4067 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4068 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4069 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4070 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4071 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4072 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4073 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4074 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4075 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4076
46b6d94e
PJ
4077 relax_domain_level=
4078 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 4079 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 4080
ffd2e8df
BH
4081 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4082 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4083 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4084 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4085 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 4086
cd4f0ef7 4087 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
4088 Format: nn[KMG]
4089 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4090 address space.
4091
9ea77bdb
PA
4092 reservelow= [X86]
4093 Format: nn[K]
4094 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4095 the bottom of the address space.
4096
7e96287d
VG
4097 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4098 during initialization.
4099
a9913044
RD
4100 resume= [SWSUSP]
4101 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4102 Format:
4103 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4104
ecbd0da1
RW
4105 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4106 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4107 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4108 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4109 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
4110
f126f733
BS
4111 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4112 read the resume files
4113
6f8d7022
BS
4114 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4115 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4116 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4117
f996fc96
BS
4118 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4119 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4120 present during boot.
4121 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4122 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4123 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4124 (that will set all pages holding image data
4125 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4126
0a7b35cb
MN
4127 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4128
0efbb786
AC
4129 rfkill.default_state=
4130 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4131 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4132 1 Unblocked.
4133
4134 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4135 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4136 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4137 blocked and the previous configuration.
4138 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4139 blocked and everything unblocked.
4140
1da177e4
LT
4141 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4142 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4143
e16fd002
GA
4144 ring3mwait=disable
4145 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4146 CPUs.
4147
1da177e4
LT
4148 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4149
d2aa1aca
KC
4150 rodata= [KNL]
4151 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4152 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4153
605df8af
HS
4154 rockchip.usb_uart
4155 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4156 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4157 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4158 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4159
1da177e4 4160 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4161 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4162
4163 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4164 mount the root filesystem
4165
4166 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4167
4168 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4169
cc1ed754
PO
4170 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4171 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4172 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4173
5c71d618
RT
4174 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4175 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4176 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4177 managed by CMA.
4178
1da177e4
LT
4179 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4180
4181 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4182
c60d1ae4
GS
4183 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4184 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4185 strict
4186 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4187 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4188 which is faster.
4189
1da177e4
LT
4190 sa1100ir [NET]
4191 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4192
1da177e4 4193 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4194
f6630114
MT
4195 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4196
cb251765
MG
4197 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4198 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4199 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4200 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4201
5307c955
MG
4202 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4203 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4204 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4205 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4206 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4207 1 -- enable.
4208 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4209 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4210
89a9684e
KC
4211 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4212 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4213 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
4214
4215 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4216 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4217 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4218 0 -- disable.
4219 1 -- enable.
4220 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4221 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4222 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4223
c1c124e9
JJ
4224 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4225 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4226 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4227 0 -- disable.
4228 1 -- enable.
4229 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4230
cd4f0ef7 4231 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4232
1da177e4
LT
4233 shapers= [NET]
4234 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4235
1da177e4
LT
4236 simeth= [IA-64]
4237 simscsi=
a9913044 4238
1da177e4
LT
4239 slram= [HW,MTD]
4240
423c929c
JK
4241 slab_nomerge [MM]
4242 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4243 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4244 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4245 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4246 layout control by attackers can usually be
4247 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4248 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4249 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4250 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4251 own.
ad56b738 4252 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4253
3df1cccd
DR
4254 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4255 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4256 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4257 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4258 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4259
f0630fff
CL
4260 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4261 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4262 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4263 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4264 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4265 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4266 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4267
1663f26d
TH
4268 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4269 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4270 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4271 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4272 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4273 directories and files being created under
4274 /sys/kernel/slub.
4275
c1aee215 4276 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4277 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4278 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4279 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4280 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4281
4282 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4283 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4284 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4285 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4286 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4287 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4288 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4289 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4290
4291 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4292 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4293 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4294 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4295
4296 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4297 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4298 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4299
1da177e4
LT
4300 smart2= [HW]
4301 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4302
d0d4f69b
BH
4303 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4304 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4305 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4306 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4307 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4308 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4309 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4310 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4311 1: Fast pin select (default)
4312 2: ATC IRMode
4313
52c48c51
SS
4314 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4315 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4316 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4317 actual hardware limit.
4318 Format: <integer>
4319 Default: -1 (no limit)
4320
9c44bc03
IM
4321 softlockup_panic=
4322 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4323 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4324
3ce62385
BP
4325 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4326 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4327 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4328 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4329 functionality.
4330
ed235875
AT
4331 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4332 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4333 backtraces on all cpus.
4334 Format: <integer>
4335
1da177e4 4336 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 4337 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 4338
da285121
DW
4339 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4340 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4341 The default operation protects the kernel from
4342 user space attacks.
da285121 4343
fa1202ef
TG
4344 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4345 spectre_v2_user=on
4346 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4347 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4348 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4349 vulnerable
4350
4351 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4352 mitigation method at run time according to the
4353 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4354 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4355 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4356
fa1202ef
TG
4357 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4358 against user space to user space task attacks.
4359
4360 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4361 the user space protections.
4362
da285121
DW
4363 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4364
4365 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4366 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4367 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4368
4369 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4370 spectre_v2=auto.
4371
fa1202ef
TG
4372 spectre_v2_user=
4373 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4374 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4375 user space tasks
4376
4377 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4378 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4379
4380 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4381 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4382
7cc765a6
TG
4383 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4384 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4385 per thread. The mitigation control state
4386 is inherited on fork.
4387
55a97402
TG
4388 prctl,ibpb
4389 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4390 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4391 always when switching between different user
4392 space processes.
4393
6b3e64c2
TG
4394 seccomp
4395 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4396 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4397 they explicitly opt out.
4398
55a97402
TG
4399 seccomp,ibpb
4400 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4401 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4402 always when switching between different
4403 user space processes.
4404
fa1202ef
TG
4405 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4406 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
4407
4408 Default mitigation:
4409 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
4410
4411 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4412 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4413
24f7fc83
KRW
4414 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4415 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4416 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4417
4418 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4419 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4420 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4421 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4422 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4423 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4424 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4425 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4426
4427 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4428 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4429 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4430 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4431
4432 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4433 Bypass optimization is used.
4434
6b4c1360
ME
4435 On x86 the options are:
4436
f21b53b2
KC
4437 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4438 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4439 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4440 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4441 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4442 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4443 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4444 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4445 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4446 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4447 for a process by default. The state of the control
4448 is inherited on fork.
4449 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4450 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4451
f21b53b2
KC
4452 Default mitigations:
4453 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4454
6b4c1360
ME
4455 On powerpc the options are:
4456
4457 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4458 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4459 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4460 exit.
4461 off - No action.
4462
4463 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4464 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4465
1da177e4
LT
4466 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4467 spia_fio_base=
4468 spia_pedr=
4469 spia_peddr=
4470
c350c008
PM
4471 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4472 Specifies how frequently to check for
4473 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4474 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4475 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4476 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4477 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4478 are ignored.
4479
22607d66
PM
4480 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4481 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4482 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4483 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4484 grace period will be considered for automatic
4485 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4486 expediting.
4487
a43ae4df
MZ
4488 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4489 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4490
4491 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4492 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4493 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4494 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4495
4496 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4497 for both kernel and userspace
4498 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4499 for both kernel and userspace
4500 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4501 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4502 to allow userspace to register its
4503 interest in being mitigated too.
4504
1be7107f
HD
4505 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4506 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4507 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4508 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4509 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4510 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4511
f38f1d2a
SR
4512 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4513 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4514
762e1207
SR
4515 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4516 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4517 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4518 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4519 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4520 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4521 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4522
1da177e4
LT
4523 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4524 Format: <num>
4525 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4526 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4527 as the initial boot-console.
4528 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4529
4530 sti_font= [HW]
4531 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4532
4533 stifb= [HW]
4534 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4535
cbf11071
TM
4536 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4537 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4538 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4539 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4540 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4541 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4542 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4543 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4544 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4545 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4546 maximum port values.
4547
ff3ac5c3
TM
4548 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4549 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4550 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4551 process in parallel from a single connection.
4552 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4553
42a7fc4a
GB
4554 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4555 [NFS]
4556 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4557 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4558 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4559 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4560 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4561 NFS server is running.
4562
4563 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4564 automatically using heuristics
4565 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4566 percpu one pool for each CPU
4567 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4568 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4569
cbf11071
TM
4570 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4571 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4572 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4573 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4574 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4575 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4576 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4577 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4578
1d4a9c17
BN
4579 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4580 [SUSPEND]
4581 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4582 mode before resuming the system (see
4583 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4584 is set. Default value is 5.
4585
07555ac1 4586 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4587 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4588 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4589 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4590
91fec0f5 4591 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4592 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4593 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4594 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4595 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4596 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4597
1da177e4
LT
4598 switches= [HW,M68k]
4599
e52eec13
AK
4600 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4601 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4602 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4603 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4604 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4605 in older udev will not work anymore.
4606 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4607 the kernel configuration.
4608
5d6f647f
IM
4609 sysrq_always_enabled
4610 [KNL]
4611 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4612 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4613 Useful for debugging.
4614
747029a5
FF
4615 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4616 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4617 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4618 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4619 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4620 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4621
1da177e4
LT
4622 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4623
acc82342 4624 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4625 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4626 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4627 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4628 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4629 The system is woken from this state using a
4630 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4631
1da177e4
LT
4632 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4633 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4634
f8707ec9
LB
4635 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4636 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4637 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4638
c52a7419
LB
4639 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4640 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4641 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4642
f5487145
LB
4643 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4644 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4645 critical and hot trip points.
4646
72b33ef8
LB
4647 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4648 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4649
a70cdc52
LB
4650 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4651 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4652 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4653 value
a70cdc52 4654
730ff34d
LB
4655 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4656 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4657 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4658 0: no polling (default)
4659
8d32a307
TG
4660 threadirqs [KNL]
4661 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4662 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4663
2ca62b04
KRW
4664 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4665 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4666
4667 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4668 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4669 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4670
4671 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4672 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4673 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4674 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4675
4676 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4677 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4678 to the hypervisor.
4679
4680 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4681 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4682 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4683 kernel based on different criteria.
4684
2b1a61f0
HC
4685 topology= [S390]
4686 Format: {off | on}
4687 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4688 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4689 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4690 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4691 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4692
2d73bae1
NA
4693 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4694 Format: {off}
4695 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4696 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4697 LPAR.
4698
1da177e4
LT
4699 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4700
225a9be2
RA
4701 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4702 Format: integer pcr id
4703 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4704 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4705 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4706 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4707 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4708 are saved.
4709
9d612bef 4710 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4711 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4712
020e5f85
LZ
4713 trace_event=[event-list]
4714 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4715 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4716 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4717 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4718
7bcfaf54
SR
4719 trace_options=[option-list]
4720 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4721 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4722 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4723 to echo the option name into
4724
4725 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4726
4727 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4728 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4729
4730 trace_options=stacktrace
4731
5fb94e9c 4732 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4733 section.
4734
0daa2302
SRRH
4735 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4736 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4737 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4738 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4739 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4740 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4741
4742 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4743 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4744 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4745 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4746
4747 ** CAUTION **
4748
4749 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4750 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4751 the system to live lock.
4752
de7edd31
SRRH
4753 traceoff_on_warning
4754 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4755 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4756 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4757 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4758
4759 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4760 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4761 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4762
4763 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4764 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4765
fcf4d821
JK
4766 transparent_hugepage=
4767 [KNL]
4768 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4769 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4770 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4771 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4772 for more details.
fcf4d821 4773
d3b8f889 4774 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4775 Format: <string>
4776 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889 4777 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4778 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4779 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4780 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4781 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4782 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4783 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4784 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4785 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4786 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4787 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
4788 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4789 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4790 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4791 acceptable).
395628ef 4792
a9913044
RD
4793 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4794 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4795 Format:
4796 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4797 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4798
b6935f8c 4799 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4800 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4801 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4802 help "seeing" what's going on.
4803
f86dcc5a
ED
4804 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4805 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4806
5f8364b7
AS
4807 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4808 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4809 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4810 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4811 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4812 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4813 reported either.
4814
e3a61b0a 4815 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4816 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4817
c4fc2342
CDH
4818 usbcore.authorized_default=
4819 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4820 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
4821 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4822 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 4823
b5e795f8
AS
4824 usbcore.autosuspend=
4825 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4826 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4827 is the time required before an idle device will be
4828 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4829 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4830
fd7c519d
JK
4831 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4832 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4833
0290cc9f
AS
4834 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4835 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4836 (default = 65536).
4837
fd7c519d
JK
4838 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4839 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4840
4841 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4842 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
bd0e6c96
ZT
4843 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
4844 (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 4845
3f5eb8d5
AS
4846 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4847 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4848 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4849
fd7c519d
JK
4850 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4851 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4852 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4853
4854 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4855 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4856 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4857 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4858
40d58148
ON
4859 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4860
027bd6ca
KHF
4861 usbcore.quirks=
4862 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4863 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4864 commas. Each entry has the form
4865 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4866 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4867 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4868 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4869 the following meanings:
4870 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4871 descriptors must not be fetched using
4872 a 255-byte read);
4873 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4874 correctly so reset it instead);
4875 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4876 Set-Interface requests);
4877 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4878 handle its Configuration or Interface
4879 strings);
4880 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4881 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4882 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4883 more interface descriptions than the
4884 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4885 talking to these interfaces);
4886 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4887 during initialization, after we read
4888 the device descriptor);
4889 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4890 high speed and super speed interrupt
4891 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4892 require the interval in microframes (1
4893 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4894 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4895 (bInterval-1).
4896 Devices with this quirk report their
4897 bInterval as the result of this
4898 calculation instead of the exponent
4899 variable used in the calculation);
4900 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4901 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4902 requests);
4903 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4904 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4905 remote wakeup capability);
4906 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4907 Power Management);
4908 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4909 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4910 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4911 calculation);
4912 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4913 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4914 prevent spurious wakeup);
4915 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4916 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
4917 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4918 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
4919 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4920
1da177e4
LT
4921 usbhid.mousepoll=
4922 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4923
933bfe4d
TJ
4924 usbhid.jspoll=
4925 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4926
2ddc8e2d
FA
4927 usbhid.kbpoll=
4928 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4929
d4f373e5
AS
4930 usb-storage.delay_use=
4931 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4932 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4933
4934 usb-storage.quirks=
4935 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4936 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4937 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4938 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4939 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4940 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4941 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4942 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4943 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4944 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4945 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4946 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4947 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4948 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4949 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4950 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4951 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4952 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4953 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4954 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4955 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4956 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4957 reported device capacity by one
4958 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4959 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4960 device);
13630746
HG
4961 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4962 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4963 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4964 unlock ejectable media);
4965 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4966 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4967 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4968 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4969 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4970 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4971 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4972 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4973 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4974 bogus residue values);
4975 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4976 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4977 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4978 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4979 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4980 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4981 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4982 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4983 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4984 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4985
ac1667db
SB
4986 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4987 Format: <int>
4988 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4989 1 - undefined instruction events
4990 2 - system calls
4991 4 - invalid data aborts
4992 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4993 16 - SIGBUS faults
4994 Example: user_debug=31
4995
14315592
IC
4996 userpte=
4997 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4998
4999 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5000 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5001 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5002
6cececfc 5003 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
5004 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5005
5006 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
5007 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5008
b0b49f26
AL
5009 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5010 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5011 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5012
5013 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5014 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5015 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5016
5017 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5018 alias for vdso32=0.
5019
5020 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5021 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 5022
d080d397
YI
5023 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5024 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5025
1da177e4 5026 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
ab42b818 5027 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
1da177e4 5028
3afe6dab
AL
5029 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5030 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5031 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5032 level and then send out the event to user space through
5033 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5034 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5035 brightness level.
2843768b 5036 default: 1
3afe6dab 5037
81a054ce
PM
5038 virtio_mmio.device=
5039 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5040
5041 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5042 where:
5043 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5044 like K, M and G)
5045 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5046 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5047 request_irq())
5048 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5049 example:
5050 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5051
5052 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5053
cd4f0ef7 5054 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
cb1aaebe 5055 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
a9913044 5056 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
5057 Use vga=ask for menu.
5058 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5059 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5060
f682a97a
AD
5061 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5062 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5063 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5064 All options are enabled by default, and this
5065 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5066 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5067 debugging features.
5068
5069 Available options are:
5070 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5071 - Disable all of the above options
5072
a9913044 5073 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
5074 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5075 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5076 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5077 mapped kernel RAM.
5078
3f429842
HC
5079 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5080 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5081 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5082
585c3047
PO
5083 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5084 Format: <command>
1da177e4 5085
585c3047
PO
5086 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5087 Format: <command>
5088
5089 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5090 Format: <command>
a9913044 5091
3ae36655
AL
5092 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5093 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5094 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5095 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5096 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5097 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5098 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5099
2e57ae05
AL
5100 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5101 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 5102
2e57ae05 5103 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
5104 This is a little bit faster than trapping
5105 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
5106 better than they would in emulation mode.
5107 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
5108
5109 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5110 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5111 might break your system.
5112
3855ae1c
CL
5113 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5114 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5115 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5116
9ea9a886
CL
5117 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5118 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5119 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5120 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5121
0cb55ad2
RD
5122 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5123 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5124 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5125 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5126 ranging from 0-255.
5127
5128 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5129 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5130 Change the default green palette of the console.
5131 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5132 ranging from 0-255.
5133
5134 vt.default_red= [VT]
5135 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5136 Change the default red palette of the console.
5137 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5138 ranging from 0-255.
5139
5140 vt.default_utf8=
5141 [VT]
5142 Format=<0|1>
5143 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5144 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5145 newly opened terminals.
5146
f6c06b68
MG
5147 vt.global_cursor_default=
5148 [VT]
5149 Format=<-1|0|1>
5150 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5151 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5152 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5153 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5154 cursors, 1 will display them.
5155
3855ae1c
CL
5156 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5157 Default: 2 = green.
5158
5159 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5160 Default: 3 = cyan.
5161
4724ba57
RD
5162 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5163 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
5164 or other driver-specific files in the
5165 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 5166
11295055
LO
5167 watchdog_thresh=
5168 [KNL]
5169 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5170 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5171 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5172 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5173 seconds.
5174
82607adc
TH
5175 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5176 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5177 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5178 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5179 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5180 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5181 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5182 corresponding sysfs file.
5183
d55262c4
TH
5184 workqueue.disable_numa
5185 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5186 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5187 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5188 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5189 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5190 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5191 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5192
cee22a15
VK
5193 workqueue.power_efficient
5194 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5195 they show better performance thanks to cache
5196 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5197 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5198
5199 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5200 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5201 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5202 power usage at the cost of small performance
5203 overhead.
5204
5205 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5206 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5207
f303fccb
TH
5208 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5209 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5210 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5211 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5212 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5213 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5214 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5215 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5216 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5217 impacted.
5218
0cb55ad2
RD
5219 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5220 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5221 supporting x2apic.
5222
712b6aa8
KS
5223 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5224 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
5225 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5226 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5227 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5228
c70727a5
JG
5229 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5230 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5231 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5232 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5233 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5234 domains.
5235
c1c5413a
SS
5236 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5237 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5238 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5239 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5240 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5241 nics -- unplug network devices
5242 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
5243 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5244 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5245 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5246 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5247
15a3eac0
KRW
5248 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5249 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5250 optimizations.
5251
8d693b91
KRW
5252 xen_nopv [X86]
5253 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5254 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5255
197ecb38
MMG
5256 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5257 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5258 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5259 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5260 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5261
2ec16bc0
RT
5262 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5263 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5264 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5265 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5266 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5267 more timer interrupts.
5268
1da177e4 5269 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
5270 Format:
5271 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a
LT
5272
5273 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5274 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5275 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5276 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.