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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
151f4e2b 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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c3d6de69 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
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25 { vendor | video | native | none }
26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
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27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
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29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
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33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
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39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43 This option is useful for developers to identify the
44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
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47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 49 Format: <int>
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50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
e76f4276 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
cb1aaebe 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
e76f4276 59 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 60
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61 Enable processor driver info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
64 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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65 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
66 object while interpreting AML:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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68 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
69 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
70
71 Some values produce so much output that the system is
72 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
73 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 74
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75 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
76 { strict | lax | no }
77 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
78 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
79 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
80 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
81 can interfere with legacy drivers.
82 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
83 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
84 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
85 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
86 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
87 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
88 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
89 no further checks are performed.
90
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91 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
92 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
93 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
94 size limitation.
95
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96 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
97 ACPI will balance active IRQs
98 default in APIC mode
99
100 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
101 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
102 default in PIC mode
103
104 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
105 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
106
107 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
108 use by PCI
109 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
110
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112 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
113 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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114 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
115 the GPE dispatcher.
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116 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
117 GPE floodings.
a7583e72 118 Format: <byte>
9c4aa1ee 119
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120 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
121 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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122 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
123 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
124 auto-serialization feature.
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125 This feature is enabled by default.
126 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 127
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128 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
129 kernels.
130
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131 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
132 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
133 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
134 installed automatically and they will appear under
135 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
136 This option turns off this feature.
137 Note that specifying this option does not affect
138 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
139 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
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141 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
142 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
143 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
144
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145 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
146 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
147 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
148 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 149
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150 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
151 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
152
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153 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
154 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
155 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
156 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
157 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
158
0cb55ad2 159 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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160 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
161 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 162 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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163 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
164 strings
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165 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
166 strings
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167 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
168
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169 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
170 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
171 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
172 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
173 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
174 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
175 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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176 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
177 care about the state of the feature group strings which
178 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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179 Examples:
180 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
181 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
182 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
183
184 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
185 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
186 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
187 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
188 multiple times through kernel command line is also
189 meaningless.
190 Examples:
191 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
192 FALSE.
193
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194 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
195 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
196 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
197 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
198 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
199 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
200 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
201 there are quirks related to this string. This command
202 is useful when one want to control the state of the
203 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
204 the OSPM features.
205 Examples:
206 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
207 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
208 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
209 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
210 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
211 equivalent to
212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
213 and
214 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
215 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
216
6cececfc 217 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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218 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
219 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
220 and always returns good values.
221
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222 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
223 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
224
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225 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
226 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
227 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
228
229 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
230 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 231 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
151f4e2b 232 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
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233 s3_bios and s3_mode.
234 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
235 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
236 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
237 used during resume from hibernation.
238 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
239 control method, with respect to putting devices into
240 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
241 of _PTS is used by default).
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242 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
243 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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244 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
245 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
246 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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247 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
248 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
249 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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250
251 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
252 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
253 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
254
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255 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
256 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
257
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258 agp= [AGP]
259 { off | try_unsupported }
260 off: disable AGP support
261 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
262 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
263
bcfde334 264 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 265 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 266
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267 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
268 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
269 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
270 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
271
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272 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
273 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
274 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
275 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
276 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
277 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
278 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
279
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280 32: only for 32-bit processes
281 64: only for 64-bit processes
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282 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
283 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
284
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285 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
286 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
287 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
288 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
289 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
290 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
291
89e0b9a3 292 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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293 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
294 Possible values are:
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295 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
296 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
297 flushed before they will be reused, which
298 is a lot of faster
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299 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
300 the system
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301 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
302 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
303 allowed anymore to lift isolation
304 requirements as needed. This option
305 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 306
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307 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
308 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
309 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
310 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
311 IOMMU initialization.
312
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313 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
314 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
315 remapping modes:
316 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
317 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
318 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
319 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
320 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
321
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322 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
323 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
324 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 325 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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326
327 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
328 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
329 connected to one of 16 gameports
330 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
331
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332 apc= [HW,SPARC]
333 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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334 Format: noidle
335 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
336 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
337 APC and your system crashes randomly.
338
64e05d11 339 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 340 Change the output verbosity while booting
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341 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
342 Change the amount of debugging information output
343 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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344 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
345 driver name.
346 Format: apic=driver_name
347 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 348
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349 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
350 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
351 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
352 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
353 backup of CPU 0
354 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
355 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
356 shot down by NMI
357
b0f83b28 358 autoconf= [IPV6]
19093313 359 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
b0f83b28 360
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361 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
362 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
363 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
364 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
365 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
366 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
367 apic=verbose is specified.
368 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
369
1da177e4 370 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 371 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 372
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373 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
374 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
375
376 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
377
378 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
379
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380 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
381 EzKey and similar keyboards
382
383 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
384
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385 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
386 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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387
388 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
389 keyboards
390
391 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
392 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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393
394 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
395 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 396
a106fb0c 397 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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398 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
399 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
400 enabled until the next reboot
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401 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
402 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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403 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
404 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
405 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
406 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 407 Default: unset
f3411cb2 408
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409 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
410 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
411 Default: 64
412
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413 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
414 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
415 Format: { "0" | "1" }
416 0 - Disable the BAU.
417 1 - Enable the BAU.
418 unset - Disable the BAU.
419
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420 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
421 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 422
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423 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
424 Format: <io>,<mode>
425 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
426
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427 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
428 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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429 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
430 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
431
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432 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
433 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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434 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
435 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
436
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437 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
438 embedded devices based on command line input.
898bd37a 439 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
080506ad 440
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441 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
442 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
443 no delay (0).
444 Format: integer
445
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446 bootconfig [KNL]
447 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
448 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
449
450 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
451
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452 bert_disable [ACPI]
453 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
454
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455 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86]
456 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
457
1da177e4 458 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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459 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
460 kernel args too.
32e2eae2 461 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
395cf969 462 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 463
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464 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
465 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
466 at a time.
467
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468 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
469
cd4f0ef7 470 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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471 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
472 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
473 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
474 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
475 This option provides an override for these situations.
476
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477 carrier_timeout=
478 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
479 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
480 it waits 120 seconds.
481
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482 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
483 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
484 trust validation.
32c4741c 485 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 486
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487 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
488 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
489 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
490 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
491 others).
492
6dddd7a7 493 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
8b4a503d 494 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
1da177e4 495
6dddd7a7 496 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 497 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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498 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
499 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
500 a single hierarchy
501 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
502 subsystem
503 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
504 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
505 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 506
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507 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
508 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
509 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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510 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
511 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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512 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
513 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
514 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 515
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516 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
517 Format: <string>
518 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 519 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 520
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521 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
522 Format: { "0" | "1" }
523 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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524 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
525 any implied execute protection).
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526 1 -- check protection requested by application.
527 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
a9913044 528 Value can be changed at runtime via
d41415eb 529 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
e9c38f9f 530 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
a9913044 531
661ca0da 532 cio_ignore= [S390]
8b4a503d 533 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
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534 clk_ignore_unused
535 [CLK]
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536 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
537 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
538 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
539 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
540 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
541 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
542 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
543 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 544 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 545
cd4f0ef7 546 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 547 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 548 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 549 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 550 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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551 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
552
592913ec 553 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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554 Format: <string>
555 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
556 with the name specified.
557 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
558 the platform:
559 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
560 [ACPI] acpi_pm
561 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
562 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 563 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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564 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
565 [MIPS] MIPS
566 [PARISC] cr16
567 [S390] tod
568 [SH] SuperH
569 [SPARC64] tick
570 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
571
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572 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
573 [ARM,ARM64]
574 Format: <bool>
575 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
576 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
577 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
578 systems.
579
0a4bb5e5 580 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
ac72e788 581 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 582 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 583 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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584 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
585 ones should be.
586 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
587 or using the feature without checking anything
588 will still see it. This just prevents it from
589 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
590 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
591 some critical bits.
592
5ea3b1b2 593 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
c372e741 594 [KNL,CMA]
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595 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
596 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
597 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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598 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
599 altogether. For more information, see
0b1abd1f 600 kernel/dma/contiguous.c
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602 cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
603 [ARM64,KNL]
604 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
605 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
606 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
607 specificed, the default value is 0.
608 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
609 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
610 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
611 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
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613 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
614 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
615 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
616 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
617 a hypervisor.
618 Default: yes
619
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621 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 622 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 623
1da177e4 624 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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625 Format:
626 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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627
628 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
629 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
630
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631 com90xx= [HW,NET]
632 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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633 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
634
635 condev= [HW,S390] console device
636 conmode=
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638 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
639
640 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
641
642 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 643 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 644 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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645 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
646 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
647 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
648 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
649
e52347bd 650 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
f1a1c2dc 651 information. See
d9d6ef25 652 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
f1a1c2dc 653 alternative.
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655 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
656 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 657 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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658 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
659 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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660 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
661 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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662 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
663 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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664 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
665 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
666 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
667 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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668 the h/w is not re-initialized.
669
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670 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
671 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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673 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
674 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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675 console=brl,ttyS0
676 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
677
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678 console_msg_format=
679 [KNL] Change console messages format
680 default
681 By default we print messages on consoles in
682 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
683 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
684 `printk_time' param).
685 syslog
686 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
687 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
688 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
689 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
690 from /proc/kmsg.
691
f324edc8 692 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 693 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 694 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 695
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696 coredump_filter=
697 [KNL] Change the default value for
698 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
cd4ca341 699 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
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701 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
702 [ARM,ARM64]
703 Format: <bool>
704 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
705 0: default value, disable debugging
706 1: enable debugging at boot time
707
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708 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
709 disable the cpuidle sub-system
710
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711 cpuidle.governor=
712 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
713
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714 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
715 disable the cpufreq sub-system
716
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717 cpufreq.default_governor=
718 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
719 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
720 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
721
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722 cpu_init_udelay=N
723 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
724 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
725 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
726 Default: 10000
727
1da177e4 728 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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729 Format:
730 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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732 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
733 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
734 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
735 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
736 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
b9ac3849 737 is selected automatically.
be3a5b0e 738 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
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739 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
740 hasn't been specified.
330d4810 741 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
dc009d92 742
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743 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
744 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
745 in the running system. The syntax of range is
746 start-[end] where start and end are both
747 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
330d4810 748 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
fb391599 749
adbc742b 750 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
be3a5b0e 751 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
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752 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
753 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
754 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
755 available.
756 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
adbc742b 757 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
be3a5b0e 758 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
adbc742b 759 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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760 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
761 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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762 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
763 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
764 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
765 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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766 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
767 for second kernel instead.
768 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 769 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 770 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 771
9e5c9fe4 772 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 773 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 774
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775 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
776 Format: <dma>
777
778 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
779 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 780
a9913044 781 dasd= [HW,NET]
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782 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
783
784 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
785 (one device per port)
786 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 787 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 788
6dddd7a7 789 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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790 time. See
791 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 792 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 793
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794 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
795
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796 debug_boot_weak_hash
797 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
798 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
799 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
800 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
801 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
802 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
803
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804 debug_locks_verbose=
805 [KNL] verbose self-tests
806 Format=<0|1>
807 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
808 self-tests.
809 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
810 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
811 only useful to kernel developers.
812
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813 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
814
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815 no_debug_objects
816 [KNL] Disable object debugging
817
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818 debug_guardpage_minorder=
819 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
820 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
821 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
822 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
823 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
824 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
825 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
826 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
827 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
828 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
829 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
830 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
831 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
832 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
833 bypassed) which are not detectable by
834 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
835 tracking down these problems.
836
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838 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
839 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
840 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
841 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
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842 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
843 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
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844 on: enable the feature
845
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846 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
847 and debugfs internal clients.
848 Format: { on, no-mount, off }
849 on: All functions are enabled.
850 no-mount:
851 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
852 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
853 its content. There is nothing to mount.
854 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
855 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
856 or directories within debugfs.
857 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
858 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
859 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
860
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861 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
862
2d27a966 863 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 864 Format: <area>[,<node>]
9a69fb9c 865 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
1da177e4 866
0cb55ad2 867 default_hugepagesz=
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868 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
869 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
870 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
871 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
872 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
873 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
874 sizes are architecture dependent. See also
875 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
876 Format: size[KMG]
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878 deferred_probe_timeout=
879 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
880 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
881 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
882 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
883 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
884 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
885 retrying.
886
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887 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
888 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
889 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
890 level 1 and decompression (default)
891 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
892 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
893 only (compression on level 1)
894 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
895 only (decompression)
896 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
897 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
898
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899 dhash_entries= [KNL]
900 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
a9913044 901
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902 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
903 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
904 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
905 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
906 miss to occur.
907
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908 stress_slb [PPC]
909 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
910 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
911 on kernel addresses.
912
b0f83b28 913 disable= [IPV6]
19093313 914 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
b0f83b28 915
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916 hardened_usercopy=
917 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
918 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
919 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
920 from reading or writing beyond known memory
921 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
922 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
923 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
924 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
925 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
926
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927 disable_radix [PPC]
928 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
929
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930 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
931 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
932 invalidate.
933
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934 disable_tlbie [PPC]
935 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
936 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
937
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938 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
939 Format: <int>
940 The number of initial APIC ID for the
941 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
942 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
943 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
944 causing system reset or hang due to sending
945 INIT from AP to BSP.
946
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947 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
948 Format: <bool>
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949 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
950 The feature only exists starting from
951 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
952
6dddd7a7 953 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
255bf90f 954 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
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955 to workaround buggy firmware.
956
b0f83b28 957 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
19093313 958 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
b0f83b28 959
95ffa243 960 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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961 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
962 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 963 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 964
093af8d7 965 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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966 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
967 memory out of your available memory pool based on
968 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
969 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
970
6cececfc 971 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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972 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
973 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
974
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975 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
976
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977 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
978 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
979
980 dma_debug_entries=<number>
981 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
982 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
983 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
984 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
985 architectural default is too low.
986
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987 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
988 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
989 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
990 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
991 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
992 driver later using sysfs.
993
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994 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
995 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
996 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
997
53fd40a9 998 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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999 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1000 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1001 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1002 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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1003 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1004 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1005 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1006 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1007 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
cd4ca341 1008 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
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1010 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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1011 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1012 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1013 data set with no connector name will be used for
1014 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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1016 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1017
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1018 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
1019 Format: {"off" | "known"}
1020 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1021 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1022 exists).
1023 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1024 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1025 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1026
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1027 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1028 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1029 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1030 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1031
29e36c9f 1032 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
307e3ee9 1033 <module>.dyndbg[="val"]
29e36c9f 1034 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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1036 for details.
29e36c9f 1037
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1038 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1039 in some Intel CPUs.
1040
307e3ee9 1041 <module>.async_probe [KNL]
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1042 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1043
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1044 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1045 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1046 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1047 which are not unmapped.
1048
0cb55ad2 1049 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 1050
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1051 When used with no options, the early console is
1052 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1053 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1054 the platform.
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1056 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1057 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1058 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1059 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1060 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1061 configured.
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1063 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1064 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 1065 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 1066 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 1067 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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1068 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1069 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1070 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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NC
1071 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1072 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1073 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1074 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1075 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 1076
0d3c673e 1077 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1078 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
0d3c673e
RH
1079 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1080 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1081 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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TT
1082 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1083 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1084 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1085
736d5538
AF
1086 meson,<addr>
1087 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1088 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1089 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1090 supported.
1091
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SB
1092 msm_serial,<addr>
1093 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1094 port at the specified address. The serial port
1095 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1096 yet supported.
1097
1098 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1099 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1100 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1101 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1102 yet supported.
1103
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AF
1104 owl,<addr>
1105 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1106 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1107 specified address. The serial port must already be
1108 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1109
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1110 rda,<addr>
1111 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1112 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1113 specified address. The serial port must already be
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AF
1114 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1115
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1116 sbi
1117 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1118 console.
1119
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1120 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1121
b94ba032
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1122 s3c2410,<addr>
1123 s3c2412,<addr>
1124 s3c2440,<addr>
1125 s3c6400,<addr>
1126 s5pv210,<addr>
1127 exynos4210,<addr>
1128 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1129 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1130 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1131 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1132 Options are not yet supported.
1133
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1134 lantiq,<addr>
1135 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1136 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1137 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1138 yet supported.
1139
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SA
1140 lpuart,<addr>
1141 lpuart32,<addr>
1142 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1143 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1144 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1145 port must already be setup and configured.
1146
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JN
1147 ec_imx21,<addr>
1148 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1149 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1150 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1151 must already be setup and configured.
1152
f7c864e7 1153 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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WD
1154 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1155 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1156 address. The serial port must already be setup
1157 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1158
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1159 qcom_geni,<addr>
1160 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1161 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1162 specified address. The serial port must already be
1163 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1164
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AB
1165 efifb,[options]
1166 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1167 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1168 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1169 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1170 mapped with the correct attributes.
1171
09864c1c 1172 linflex,<addr>
9905f32a 1173 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
09864c1c
SM
1174 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1175 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1176 already be setup and configured.
1177
4ba66a97 1178 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1179 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1180 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1181 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1182 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1183 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1184 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1185 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1186 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1187 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1188
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DH
1189 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1190 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1191 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1192
a9913044 1193 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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1194 takes over.
1195
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1196 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1197 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1198
147ea091
DH
1199 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1200 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1201 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1202 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1203 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1204 You can find the port for a given device in
1205 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1206 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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LT
1207
1208 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1209 very good.
1210
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1211 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1212 the real console.
1da177e4 1213
2482a92e
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1214 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1215
89175cf7
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1216 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1217
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1218 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1219 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1220 UART class.
1221
c700f013
CG
1222 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1223 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1224 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1225 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1226 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1227 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1228 default: on.
1229
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1230 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1231 ekgdboc=kbd
1232
25985edc 1233 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
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1234 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1235
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DA
1236 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1237 but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1238 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1239 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1240
1da177e4 1241 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1242 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1243
d2f7cbe7 1244 efi= [EFI]
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HS
1245 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1246 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
fb1201ae 1247 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
c03f739f
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1248 debug: enable misc debug output.
1249 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1250 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
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1251 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1252 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1253 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1254 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
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DW
1255 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1256 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1257 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1258 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1259 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1260 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
c03f739f 1261 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
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1262 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1263 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
d2f7cbe7 1264
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1265 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1266 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1267 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1268 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1269 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1270
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TI
1271 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1272 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1273 updating original EFI memory map.
1274 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1275 from ss to ss+nn.
199c8471 1276
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TI
1277 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1278 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1279 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1280 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1281
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DW
1282 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1283 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1284 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1285
0f96a99d 1286 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
199c8471 1287 related features. For example, you can do debugging of
0f96a99d 1288 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
199c8471
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1289 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1290 "soft reserved".
0f96a99d 1291
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1292 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1293 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1294 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1295 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
cb1aaebe 1296 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
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1297
1298
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LT
1299 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1300 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1301
cd4f0ef7 1302 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1303 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1304 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4 1305
d3bf3795 1306 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1307 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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1308 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1309 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
330d4810 1310 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1da177e4 1311
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RD
1312 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1313 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1314 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1315 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1316
ca1eda2d 1317 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1318 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1319 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1320 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1321 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1322
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LT
1323 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1324 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1325 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1326 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1327 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1328 Default value is 0.
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SS
1329 Value can be changed at runtime via
1330 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1da177e4 1331
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HY
1332 erst_disable [ACPI]
1333 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1334 support.
1335
1da177e4
LT
1336 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1337 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1338 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1339
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MZ
1340 evm= [EVM]
1341 Format: { "fix" }
1342 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1343 current integrity status.
1344
de1ba09b 1345 failslab=
2c739ced 1346 fail_usercopy=
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AM
1347 fail_page_alloc=
1348 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1349 General fault injection mechanism.
1350 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1351 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1352
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1353 fb_tunnels= [NET]
1354 Format: { initns | none }
1355 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1356 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1357
1da177e4 1358 floppy= [HW]
e7751617 1359 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1da177e4 1360
f13ae30e
AC
1361 force_pal_cache_flush
1362 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1363 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1364 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1365 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1366
6dddd7a7 1367 forcepae [X86-32]
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CB
1368 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1369 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1370 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1371 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1372 and may cause unknown problems.
1373
d9e54076 1374 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1375 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1376 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1377 boot debugging.
1378
cecbca96 1379 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1380 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1381 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1382 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1383 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1384 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1385
1386 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1387 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1388 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1389 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1390 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1391 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1392
1393 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1394 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1395 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1396 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1397 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1398
369bc18f
SA
1399 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1400 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1401 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1402 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1403 that can be changed at run time by the
1404 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1405
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NK
1406 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1407 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1408 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1409 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1410 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1411
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TB
1412 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1413 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1414 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1415 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1416 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1417
8375e74f
SK
1418 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1419 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1420 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1421 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1422 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1423 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1424 clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1425 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1426 suppliers).
1427 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1428 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1429 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1430 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1431 up (sync_state() calls).
1432 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1433 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1434 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1435
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LT
1436 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1437 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1438 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1439 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1440 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1441
1442 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1443
be3a5b0e 1444 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1445 Format: off | on
1446 default: on
1447
2521f2c2
PO
1448 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1449 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1450 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1451 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1452 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1453
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TG
1454 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1455 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1456 android emulator
1457
1da177e4 1458 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1459 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1460 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1461 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1462
6cec9b07
AL
1463 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1464 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1465 Format: 0 | 1
1466 Default: 0
1467 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1468 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1469 Format: 0 | 1
1470 Default: 0
1471 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1472 Format: 0 | 1
1473 Default: 0
1474 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1475 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1476 Default: 1024
1477 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1478 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1479 Default: 1024
1480
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BJZ
1481 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1482 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1483 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1484
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JK
1485 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1486 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1487 backtraces on all cpus.
f117955a 1488 Format: 0 | 1
55537871 1489
1da177e4
LT
1490 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1491 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1492 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1493 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1494
1495 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1496
1497 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1498 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1499
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HY
1500 hest_disable [ACPI]
1501 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1502 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1503 logic will be disabled.
1504
1da177e4
LT
1505 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1506 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1507 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1508 size on bigger boxes.
1509
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TG
1510 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1511 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1512 Default: "on"
1513
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RD
1514 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1515
1516 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1517 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1518 verbose }
1519 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1520 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1521 VIA, nVidia)
1522 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1523
3d035f58
PB
1524 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1525 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1526
cf11e85f
RG
1527 hugetlb_cma= [HW] The size of a cma area used for allocation
1528 of gigantic hugepages.
1529 Format: nn[KMGTPE]
1530
1531 Reserve a cma area of given size and allocate gigantic
1532 hugepages using the cma allocator. If enabled, the
1533 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1534
282f4214
MK
1535 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1536 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1537 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1538 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1539 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1540 the default huge page size. See also
1541 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1542 Format: <integer>
1543
1544 hugepagesz=
1545 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in
1546 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1547 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair
1548 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1549 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1550 architecture dependent. See also
1551 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1552 Format: size[KMG]
6902aa84 1553
a49d9c0a
OS
1554 hung_task_panic=
1555 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
f117955a 1556 Format: 0 | 1
cef7125d 1557
b467f3ef 1558 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
a49d9c0a
OS
1559 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1560 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1561 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1562 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1563
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TB
1564 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1565 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1566 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1567 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1568 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1569
1570 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1571 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1572 guest on lock contention.
1573
7bf69395
FDN
1574 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1575 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1576 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1577 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1578 the real console.
1579
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TB
1580 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1581 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1582 registered from board initialization code.
1583 Format:
1584 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1585
36d95739 1586 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1587 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1588 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1589 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1590 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1591 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1592 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1593 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1594 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1595 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1596 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1597 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1598 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1599 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1600 controller
1da177e4
LT
1601 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1602 controllers
24775d65 1603 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1604 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1605 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1606 transitions, or never reset
1607 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1608 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1609 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1610 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1611 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1612 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1613 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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LT
1614
1615 i810= [HW,DRM]
1616
e70c9d5e
DT
1617 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1618 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1619 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1620 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1621 does not match list of supported models.
1622 i8k.power_status
1623 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1624 (disabled by default)
1625 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1626 capability is set.
1627
4dca20ef 1628 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1629 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1630 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1631 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1632 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1633 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1634 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1635 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1636 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1637 value switches the backlight off.
1638 -1 -- never invert brightness
1639 0 -- machine default
1640 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1641
1da177e4
LT
1642 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1643 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1644
0af80c04
DF
1645 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1646 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1647 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1648 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
d7b461c5 1649 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1da177e4 1650
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MR
1651 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1652 Format: <int>
1653 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1654 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1655 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1656 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1657 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1658 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1659 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1660 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1661 was 0x3.
1662
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1663 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1664 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1665
f039b754 1666 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1667 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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RD
1668 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1669 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1670 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1671 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1672 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1673 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1674 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1675
503943e0
MR
1676 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1677 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1678 Default: strict
1679
1680 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1681 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1682 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1683 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1684 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1685 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1686 encoding mode.
1687
1688 Available settings are as follows:
1689 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1690 supported by the FPU
1691 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1692 by the FPU
1693 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1694 by the FPU
1695 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1696 supported by the FPU
1697
1698 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1699 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1700 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1701 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1702 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1703 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1704 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1705 MIPS64 CPUs.
1706
1707 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1708 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1709 except where unsupported by hardware.
1710
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1711 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1712 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1713 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1714 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1715 could change it dynamically, usually by
1716 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1717
d977d56c
KK
1718 ignore_rlimit_data
1719 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1720 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1721 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1722
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1723 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1724 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1725
2fe5d6de 1726 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1727 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1728 default: "enforce"
1729
41475a3e 1730 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
07f6a794
MZ
1731 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1732 owned by uid=0.
1733
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MZ
1734 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1735 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1736 measurements, instead of host native format.
1737
3323eec9 1738 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1739 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1740 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1741 default: "sha1"
1742
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1743 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1744 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1745
24fd03c8 1746 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1747 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
9e67028e
MZ
1748 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1749 fail_securely"
33ce9549
MZ
1750
1751 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1752 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1753 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1754 uid=0.
1755
1756 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1757 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1758
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MZ
1759 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1760 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1761 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1762
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MZ
1763 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1764 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1765 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1766 flag.
1767
24fd03c8 1768 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1769 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1770 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1771 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1772 opened for read by uid=0.
1773
6dddd7a7 1774 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1775 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1776 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1777 Default: "ima-ng"
1778
c2426d2a 1779 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1780 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
c2426d2a
RS
1781 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1782
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DK
1783 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1784 Format: <min_file_size>
1785 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1786 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1787
1788 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1789 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1790 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1791
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DK
1792 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1793 Format: <bufsize>
1794 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1795
1796 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1797 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1798 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1799
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1800 init= [KNL]
1801 Format: <full_path>
1802 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1803 process.
1804
1805 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1806 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1807 startup.
1808
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PB
1809 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1810 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1811 modules and initcalls.
1812
1da177e4
LT
1813 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1814
694cfd87
RM
1815 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1816 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1817 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1818 setting.
1819 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1820 Default is 0, 0
1821
6471384a
AP
1822 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1823 zeroes.
1824 Format: 0 | 1
1825 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1826
1827 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1828 Format: 0 | 1
1829 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1830
be3a5b0e 1831 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
acd547b2
DH
1832 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1833 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1834 override in debugfs after boot.
1835
1da177e4
LT
1836 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1837 Format: <irq>
1838
be3a5b0e 1839 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1840
d726d8d7
MZ
1841 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1842 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1843 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1844 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1845
ba395927 1846 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1847 on
1848 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1849 off
1850 Disable intel iommu driver.
1851 igfx_off [Default Off]
1852 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1853 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1854 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1855 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1856 DMA.
be3a5b0e 1857 forcedac [X86-64]
7d3b03ce 1858 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1859 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1860 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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RD
1861 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1862 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1863 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1864 strict [Default Off]
1865 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1866 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1867 to batching them for performance.
6dd9a7c7
YS
1868 sp_off [Default Off]
1869 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1870 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1871 not be supported.
8950dcd8
LB
1872 sm_on [Default Off]
1873 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
765b6a98
LB
1874 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1875 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
8950dcd8 1876 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
bfd20f1c
SL
1877 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1878 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1879 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1880 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1881 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1882 mapping is enabled.
1883 Note that using this option lowers the security
1884 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1885 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2e92c7ad
MI
1886
1887 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1888 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1889 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1890
6dddd7a7
TB
1891 intel_pstate= [X86]
1892 disable
1893 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1894 scaling driver for the supported processors
1895 passive
1896 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1897 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1898 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1899 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1900 feature.
1901 force
1902 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1903 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1904 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1905 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1906 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1907 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1908 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1909 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1910 no_hwp
1911 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1912 if available.
1913 hwp_only
1914 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1915 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1916 support_acpi_ppc
1917 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1918 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1919 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1920 then this feature is turned on by default.
1921 per_cpu_perf_limits
1922 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1923 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1924
d1423d56 1925 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
d1423d56
CW
1926 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1927 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1928 nosid disable Source ID checking
41750d31
SS
1929 no_x2apic_optout
1930 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1931 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1932
0cb55ad2
RD
1933 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1934 strict regions from userspace.
1935 relaxed
1936
be3a5b0e 1937 iommu= [X86]
0cb55ad2
RD
1938 off
1939 force
1940 noforce
1941 biomerge
1942 panic
1943 nopanic
1944 merge
1945 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1946 soft
be3a5b0e
RD
1947 pt [X86]
1948 nopt [X86]
4e287840
TLSC
1949 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1950 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1951
68a6efe8
ZL
1952 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1953 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1954 0 - Lazy mode.
1955 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1956 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1957 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1958 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1959 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1960 1 - Strict mode (default).
1961 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1962 synchronously.
1963
fccb4e3b 1964 iommu.passthrough=
c8fb436b 1965 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
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WD
1966 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1967 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1968 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1969 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
0cb55ad2 1970
7c42376e 1971 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
0cb55ad2
RD
1972 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1973 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1974
6cececfc 1975 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
6e7c4025
IM
1976 0x80
1977 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1978 0xed
1979 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1980 udelay
6e7c4025
IM
1981 Simple two microseconds delay
1982 none
1983 No delay
b02aae9c 1984
1da177e4 1985 ip= [IP_PNP]
3eb30c51 1986 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4 1987
5ac893b8
WL
1988 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1989 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1990
fbf19803 1991 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1992 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1993
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MZ
1994 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1995 [ARM, ARM64]
1996 Format: <bool>
1997 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1998 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1999 exposed by the device tree is too small.
2000
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MZ
2001 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2002 [ARM, ARM64]
2003 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2004 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2005 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2006 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2007 LPIs.
2008
bc3c03cc
JT
2009 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2010 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2011 requires the kernel to be built with
2012 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2013
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AC
2014 irqfixup [HW]
2015 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2016 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2017 firmware running.
2018
2019 irqpoll [HW]
2020 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2021 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2022 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2023 firmware running.
2024
1da177e4 2025 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 2026 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 2027
d94d1053 2028 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
b0d40d2b
FW
2029 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2030 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2031
2032 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2033 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2034
2035 nohz
2036 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
083c6eea
FW
2037
2038 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2039 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2040 workqueue's affinity configured via the
2041 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2042 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2043
2044 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2045 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2046 be configured manually after bootup.
2047
b0d40d2b
FW
2048 domain
2049 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2050 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2051 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2052 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2053 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2054 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2055 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2056 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2057
2058 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2059 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2060 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2061 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2062
11ea68f5
ML
2063 managed_irq
2064
2065 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2066 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2067 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2068 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2069 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2070
2071 This isolation is best effort and only effective
2072 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2073 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2074 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2075 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2076 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2077 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2078
2079 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2080 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2081 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2082 only delivered when tasks running on those
2083 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2084 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2085 queues.
1da177e4 2086
11ea68f5 2087 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1da177e4 2088
a9913044 2089 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 2090
be3a5b0e 2091 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
7d8bfa26
JR
2092 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2093 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2094 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2095 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2096 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2097
be3a5b0e 2098 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
7d8bfa26
JR
2099 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2100 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2101 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2102 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2103 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2104
be3a5b0e 2105 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
ca3bf5d4
SS
2106 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2107 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2108 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2109 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2110 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2111
1da177e4 2112 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 2113 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 2114
65fe935d
KC
2115 nokaslr [KNL]
2116 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2117 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2118 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 2119
b0845ce5
MR
2120 kasan_multi_shot
2121 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2122 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2123 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2124 invalid access.
2125
0cb55ad2
RD
2126 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
2127
342332e6 2128 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
a5c6d650
DR
2129 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2130 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2131 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2132 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2133 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2134 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2135 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2136 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2137 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2138
2139 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2140 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2141 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2142 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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2143 zone if it does not.
2144
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2145 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2146 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2147 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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2148 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2149 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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2150 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2151 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 2152
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2153 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2154 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2155 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2156 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2157 optional and is the number seconds in between
2158 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2159 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2160 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2161 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2162 the kernel debugger.
2163
84c08fd6 2164 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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2165 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2166 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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2167 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2168 keyboard only format: kbd
2169 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2170 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2171 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2172 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 2173
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2174 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW]
2175 If the boot console provides the ability to read
2176 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2177 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2178 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2179 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2180 specifies the normal console to transition to.
2181
2182 The name of the early console should be specified
2183 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2184 the early console might be different than the tty
2185 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2186 blank and the first boot console that implements
2187 read() will be picked.
2188
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2189 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2190 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2191
497de97e 2192 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
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2193 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2194 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2195
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2196 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2197 Valid arguments: on, off
2198 Default: on
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2199 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2200 the default is off.
04f70336 2201
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2202 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2203 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2204 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2205 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2206 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2207 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2208 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2209
2210 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2211
2212 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2213 Boot Parameter" section.
2214
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2215 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2216 and kernel address spaces.
2217 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2218 0: force disabled
2219 1: force enabled
2220
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2221 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2222 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2223
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2224 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2225 Default is false (don't support).
2226
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2227 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2228 KVM MMU at runtime.
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2229 Default is 0 (off)
2230
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PB
2231 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2232 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2233 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2234 force : Always deploy workaround.
2235 off : Never deploy workaround.
2236 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2237 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2238
2239 Default is 'auto'.
2240
2241 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2242 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2243
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2244 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2245 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2246 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2247 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2248 minute. The default is 60.
2249
fef07aae 2250 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2251 Default is 1 (enabled)
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2252
2253 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2254 for all guests.
16290246 2255 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 2256
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2257 kvm-arm.mode=
2258 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2259
2260 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2261 state is kept private from the host.
2262 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2263
2264 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support and
2265 the value of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE.
2266
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2267 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2268 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2269 system registers
2270
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2271 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2272 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2273 system registers
2274
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2275 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2276 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2277 system registers
2278
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2279 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2280 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2281 LPIs.
2282
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2283 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2284 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2285 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2286 allocation.
2287 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2288 Format: <integer>
2289 Default: 5
2290
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2291 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2292 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2293 Default is 1 (enabled)
2294
2295 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2296 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2297 Default is 0 (disabled)
2298
2299 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2300 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2301 Default is 1 (enabled)
2302
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2303 kvm-intel.nested=
2304 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2305 Default is 0 (disabled)
2306
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2307 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2308 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2309 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2310 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2311
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2312 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2313 CVE-2018-3620.
2314
2315 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2316
2317 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2318 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2319 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2320 never: Disables the mitigation
2321
2322 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2323
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AP
2324 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2325 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2326 Default is 1 (enabled)
2327
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2328 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2329 affected CPUs
2330
2331 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2332 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2333
2334 full
2335 Provides all available mitigations for the
2336 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2337 enables all mitigations in the
2338 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2339
2340 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2341 sysfs interface is still possible after
2342 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2343 when the first VM is started in a
2344 potentially insecure configuration,
2345 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2346
2347 full,force
2348 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2349 flush runtime control. Implies the
2350 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2351 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2352
2353 flush
2354 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2355 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2356 L1D flush.
2357
2358 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2359 sysfs interface is still possible after
2360 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2361 when the first VM is started in a
2362 potentially insecure configuration,
2363 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2364
2365 flush,nosmt
2366
2367 Disables SMT and enables the default
2368 hypervisor mitigation.
2369
2370 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2371 sysfs interface is still possible after
2372 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2373 when the first VM is started in a
2374 potentially insecure configuration,
2375 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2376
2377 flush,nowarn
2378 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2379 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2380 insecure configuration.
2381
2382 off
2383 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2384 emit any warnings.
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2385 It also drops the swap size and available
2386 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2387 bare metal.
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2388
2389 Default is 'flush'.
2390
65fd4cb6 2391 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2392
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2393 l2cr= [PPC]
2394
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RB
2395 l3cr= [PPC]
2396
cd4f0ef7 2397 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2398 disabled it.
1da177e4 2399
622381e6 2400 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
279f1461
SS
2401 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2402 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
622381e6 2403 Format: notscdeadline
279f1461 2404
6cececfc 2405 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2406 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2407
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2408 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2409 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2410 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2411 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2412 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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FC
2413 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2414 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2415
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MP
2416 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2417 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2418 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2419
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DJ
2420 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2421 when set.
2422 Format: <int>
2423
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TH
2424 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2425 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2426 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
33267325
TH
2427 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2428 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2429 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2430 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2431 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2432
2433 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2434 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2435 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2436 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2437 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2438 host link and device attached to it.
2439
2440 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2441 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2442 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2443 The following configurations can be forced.
2444
2445 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2446 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2447
2448 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2449
2450 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2451 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2452 allowed.
2453
2454 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2455
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MP
2456 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2457
05944bdf 2458 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2459 and both resets.
05944bdf 2460
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DW
2461 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2462 hot-unplug link recovery
2463
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TH
2464 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2465
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VP
2466 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2467
b8bd6dc3
RJ
2468 * disable: Disable this device.
2469
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TH
2470 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2471 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2472
95f72d1e 2473 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2474
6b99e6e6 2475 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
1da177e4 2476
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RD
2477 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2478 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2479
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RD
2480 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2481 Format: <integer>
2482
2483 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2484 Format: <integer>
2485
2486 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2487 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2488
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MG
2489 lockdown= [SECURITY]
2490 { integrity | confidentiality }
2491 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2492 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2493 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2494 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2495 to extract confidential information from the kernel
2496 are also disabled.
2497
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2498 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2499 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2500 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2501 number of online CPUs.
2502
2503 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2504 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2505
2506 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2507 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2508
2509 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2510 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2511 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2512
2513 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2514 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2515 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2516 mode during the locktorture test.
2517
2518 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2519 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2520 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2521
2522 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2523 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2524
2525 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2526 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2527 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2528 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2529 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2530 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2531
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2532 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2533 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2534
2535 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2536 Enable additional printk() statements.
2537
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LT
2538 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2539 Format: <irq>
2540
2541 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2542 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2543 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2544 loglevels are defined as follows:
2545
2546 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2547 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2548 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2549 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2550 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2551 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2552 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2553 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2554
c756d08a 2555 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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LR
2556 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2557 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2558 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2559 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2560 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2561 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2562
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2563 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2564 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2565 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2566 kernel boot problems.
2567
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LT
2568 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2569 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2570 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2571 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2572 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2573 attached printers to be reset. Using
2574 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2575 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2576 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2577 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2578 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2579 port specification list means that device IDs
2580 from each port should be examined, to see if
2581 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2582 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2583 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2584
2585 lpj=n [KNL]
2586 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2587 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2588 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2589 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2590 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2591 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2592 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2593 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2594 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2595 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2596 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2597 hardware.
2598
2599 ltpc= [NET]
2600 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2601
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KC
2602 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2603
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KC
2604 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2605 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2606 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2607
16290246 2608 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
a9913044 2609 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
df43acac 2610 Example: machvec=hpzx1
1da177e4 2611
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RD
2612 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2613 different yeeloong laptops.
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2614 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2615
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RD
2616 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2617 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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LT
2618
2619 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2620 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2621 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2622 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2623 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2624 only takes effect during system bootup.
2625 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2626 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2627
d134b00b
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2628 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2629 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2630 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2631 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2632 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2633 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2634
cd4f0ef7 2635 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2636
cb1aaebe 2637 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
909dd324 2638
1da177e4 2639 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2640 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2641
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LT
2642 mdacon= [MDA]
2643 Format: <first>,<last>
2644 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2645
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TG
2646 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2647 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2648 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2649
2650 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2651 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2652 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2653
2654 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2655 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2656 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2657 not have direct access.
2658
2659 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2660 options are:
2661
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JP
2662 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2663 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2664 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2665 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170 2666
64870ed1
WL
2667 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2668 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2669 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2670 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2671 too.
2672
bc124170
TG
2673 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2674 mds=full.
2675
5999bbe7
TG
2676 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2677
1da177e4 2678 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
f3cd4c86
BH
2679 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2680
2681 1 for test;
2682 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2683 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2684 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2685
fbb97d87
WC
2686 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2687 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2688 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2689 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2690
f3cd4c86
BH
2691 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2692 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2693 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2694
cd4f0ef7 2695 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2696 memory.
2697
6902aa84
PM
2698 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2699 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2700 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2701
6dddd7a7 2702 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2703 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2704 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2705 set according to the
2706 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2707 option.
cb1aaebe 2708 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
86dd995d 2709
6cececfc 2710 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2711 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2712 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2713 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2714 option description.
2715
2716 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
4c8e3de4 2717 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
277cba1d 2718 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2719 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2720 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2721 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2722 comma delimited.
2723 Example:
2724 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2725
2726 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2727 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2728 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2729
2730 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2731 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2732 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2733 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2734 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2735 or
2736 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2737 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2738 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2739 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2740
ec776ef6
CH
2741 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2742 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2743 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2744 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2745 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2746
ef61f8a3
JS
2747 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2748 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2749 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2750 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2751 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2752 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2753 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2754 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2755
9f077871
JF
2756 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2757 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2758 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2759 Setting this option will scan the memory
2760 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2761 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2762 from using the memory being corrupted.
2763 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2764 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2765 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2766 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2767
2768 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2769 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2770 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2771 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2772 corruption in more or less memory.
2773
2774 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2775 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2776 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2777 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2778
d90fe2ac 2779 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2780 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2781 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2782 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2783 performed. Each pass selects another test
2784 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2785 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2786 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2787 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2788
c262f3b9
TL
2789 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2790 Valid arguments: on, off
2791 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2792 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2793 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2794 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2795 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2796
2f5947df 2797 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
c262f3b9
TL
2798 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2799
406e7938
RW
2800 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2801 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2802 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2803 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2804 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2805
1da177e4 2806 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
32e2eae2 2807 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2808
8f36881b
AS
2809 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2810 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2811 platforms.
2812
e6c4dc6c
WT
2813 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2814 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2815 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2816 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2817
1da177e4
LT
2818 mga= [HW,DRM]
2819
1c207f95
RD
2820 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2821 physical address is ignored.
2822
39f45d7b
MP
2823 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2824 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2825 Default: "0tb"
2826 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2827 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2828 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2829 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2830 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2831 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2832 unconfigured.
2833 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2834 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2835 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2836 VGA shield.
2837 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2838 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2839 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2840 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2841 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
6b2484e1 2842 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
39f45d7b 2843
98af8452 2844 mitigations=
a111b7c0
JP
2845 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2846 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
2847 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2848 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
2849
2850 off
2851 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2852 improves system performance, but it may also
2853 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 2854 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2855 kpti=0 [ARM64]
a2059825 2856 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
0336e04a 2857 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 2858 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 2859 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 2860 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2861 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 2862 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 2863 mds=off [X86]
a7a248c5 2864 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
b8e8c830 2865 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
f7964378 2866 no_entry_flush [PPC]
9a32a7e7 2867 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
b8e8c830
PB
2868
2869 Exceptions:
2870 This does not have any effect on
2871 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2872 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
98af8452
JP
2873
2874 auto (default)
2875 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2876 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2877 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2878 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2879 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 2880 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
98af8452
JP
2881
2882 auto,nosmt
2883 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2884 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2885 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 2886 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 2887 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
a7a248c5 2888 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 2889
6b74ab97
MG
2890 mminit_loglevel=
2891 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2892 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2893 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2894 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2895 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2896 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2897
106a4ee2
RR
2898 module.sig_enforce
2899 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2900 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2901 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2902 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2903
be7de5f9
PB
2904 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2905 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2906
1da177e4
LT
2907 mousedev.tap_time=
2908 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2909 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2910 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2911 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2912 Format: <msecs>
2913 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2914 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2915 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2916 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2917
a5c6d650
DR
2918 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2919 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2920 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2921 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2922 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2923 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2924 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2925 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
2926 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2927 is not too small.
2928
f70029bb
MH
2929 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2930 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2931 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2932 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2933 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2934
1da177e4
LT
2935 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2936 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2937
a9913044
RD
2938 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2939 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2940
2941 mtdparts= [MTD]
fb251124 2942 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
1da177e4 2943
4e89a2d8
WS
2944 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2945 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2946 at a time.
2947
5988af23
RH
2948 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2949
2950 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2951
2952 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2953 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2954 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2955 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2956 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2957
9db829f4
BD
2958 mtdset= [ARM]
2959 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2960
0f12999e 2961 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
9db829f4 2962
1da177e4 2963 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2964 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2965 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2966
0cb55ad2 2967 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2968 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2969 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2970
2971 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2972 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2973 Default is 1.
2974 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2975 using up MTRRs.
2976
2977 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2978 Format: <integer>
2979 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2980 Default : 1
2981 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2982 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2983
1da177e4
LT
2984 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2985
1da177e4
LT
2986 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2987 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2988 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2989 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2990 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2991 file if at all.
2992
58401572
KPO
2993 nf_conntrack.acct=
2994 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2995 0 to disable accounting
2996 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2997 Default value is 0.
58401572 2998
306a0753 2999 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
3eb30c51 3000 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3001
3002 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3eb30c51 3003 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4 3004
306a0753 3005 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3eb30c51 3006 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
306a0753 3007
5405fc44
TM
3008 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3009 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3010 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3011 requests.
3012
a72b4422
TM
3013 nfs.callback_tcpport=
3014 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3015 channel should listen.
3016
e571cbf1
TM
3017 nfs.cache_getent=
3018 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3019 to update the NFS client cache entries.
3020
3021 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3022 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3023 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3024
58df095b
TM
3025 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3026 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3027 entries.
3028
f43bf0be
TM
3029 nfs.enable_ino64=
3030 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3031 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3032 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3033 of returning the full 64-bit number.
3034 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3035
5405fc44
TM
3036 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3037 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3038 slots the client will assign to the callback
3039 channel. This determines the maximum number of
3040 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3041 a particular server.
3042
ef159e91
TM
3043 nfs.max_session_slots=
3044 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3045 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3046 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3047 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3048 Note that there is little point in setting this
3049 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3050
b064eca2 3051 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
3052 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3053 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3054 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3055 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3056 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3057 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3058 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3059 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3060 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3061 back to using the idmapper.
3062 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
3063 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3064 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3065 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3066 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
3067 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 3068
db8ac8ba
WAA
3069 nfs.send_implementation_id =
3070 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3071 information in exchange_id requests.
3072 If zero, no implementation identification information
3073 will be sent.
3074 The default is to send the implementation identification
3075 information.
e52347bd 3076
f6de7a39
TM
3077 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3078 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3079 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3080 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3081 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3082 after the locks are lost.
3083 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3084 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3085 parameter to '1'.
3086 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3087 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 3088
bbf58bf3
TM
3089 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3090 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3091 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3092
3093 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3094 whatever value is the default set by the layout
3095 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3096 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3097
e9541ce8
BF
3098 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3099 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3100 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3101 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3102 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
3103 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 3104
160c7ba3
PM
3105 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3106 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3107 NMI stack-backtrace request.
3108
c0c74acb 3109 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
3110 when a NMI is triggered.
3111 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3112
6cececfc 3113 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 3114 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 3115 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
3116 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3117 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 3118 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
93285c01
ZD
3119 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3120 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3121 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
334bb79c 3122 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
3123 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3124 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 3125
d22881dc
SW
3126 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3127 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3128
bff38771
AV
3129 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3130 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3131 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3132 waits 4 seconds.
3133
cd4f0ef7 3134 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
3135 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3136 is present.
3137
372fddf7
KS
3138 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3139 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3140
b745cfba 3141 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
dd649bd0 3142
0cb55ad2
RD
3143 no_console_suspend
3144 [HW] Never suspend the console
3145 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3146 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
3147 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3148 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3149 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
3150 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3151 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
3152 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3153 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3154 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3155 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3156 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 3157
c6c40533
KS
3158 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
3159 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3160 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3161 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
3162 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3163 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
3164 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3165 data will be no longer available. This parameter
3166 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3167 is set.
3168
c1aee215
CL
3169 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3170 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
3171 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 3172
a9913044
RD
3173 noalign [KNL,ARM]
3174
686140a1
VG
3175 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3176 (CPU alternatives feature).
3177
1da177e4
LT
3178 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3179 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3180
5091faa4
MG
3181 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3182
1da177e4
LT
3183 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3184 on "Classic" PPC cores.
3185
3186 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 3187
0cb55ad2
RD
3188 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3189
163ecdff
SN
3190 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3191
6902aa84
PM
3192 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3193
b2e0a54a 3194 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 3195
f7964378
NP
3196 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3197
1da177e4
LT
3198 noexec [IA-64]
3199
6cececfc 3200 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 3201 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 3202 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
3203 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3204
de78a9c4 3205 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
3206 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3207 even if it is supported by processor.
3208
0fb1c25a 3209 nosmep [X86,PPC]
52b6179a 3210 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
3211 even if it is supported by processor.
3212
f5a1b191
JS
3213 noexec32 [X86-64]
3214 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3215 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3216 read doesn't imply executable mappings
3217 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3218 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 3219
fab43ef4 3220 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 3221
cd4f0ef7 3222 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
3223 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3224 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 3225
5b280ed4 3226 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
0ddab1d2 3227
52c48c51
SS
3228 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3229 Equivalent to smt=1.
3230
be3a5b0e 3231 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
3232 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3233 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 3234
a2059825
JP
3235 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3236 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3237 possible in the system.
05736e4a 3238
e5ce5e72
JL
3239 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3240 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3241 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3242 option.
da285121 3243
24f7fc83
KRW
3244 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3245 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3246
9a32a7e7
NP
3247 no_uaccess_flush
3248 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3249
0c752a93
SS
3250 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3251 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3252 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3253
b6f42a4a
FY
3254 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3255 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3256 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3257 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3258 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3259 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3260
3261 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3262 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3263 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3264 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3265 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3266 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3267 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3268
01a24d2b
PZ
3269 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3270 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3271 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 3272
1f29fae2
SH
3273 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3274 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3275 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3276
1da177e4
LT
3277 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3278 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3279 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3280 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3281 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3282 real-time systems.
3283
a6e15a39
KC
3284 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3285
79bf2bb3
TG
3286 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3287 Valid arguments: on, off
3288 Default: on
3289
d94d1053 3290 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 3291 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 3292 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 3293 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 3294 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
3295 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3296 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3297 just as if they had also been called out in the
3298 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 3299
eeee7853
PM
3300 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3301
cd4f0ef7 3302 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3303 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3304
6cececfc 3305 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3306 broken timer IRQ sources.
3307
1da177e4
LT
3308 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3309
3310 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3311 initial RAM disk.
3312
03ea8155
WH
3313 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3314 remapping.
d1423d56 3315 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3316
1da177e4
LT
3317 nointroute [IA-64]
3318
d12a72b8
AL
3319 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3320
16290246 3321 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3322
9cf4c4fc
JK
3323 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3324
fd10cde9
GN
3325 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3326 fault handling.
3327
80e9a4f2
AM
3328 no-vmw-sched-clock
3329 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3330 clock and use the default one.
3331
e73a8f38 3332 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
e0685fa2
SP
3333 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3334 influence scheduler behaviour
d910f5c1 3335
cd4f0ef7 3336 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3337
cd4f0ef7 3338 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3339
1da177e4 3340 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3341 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3342
312f1f01
H
3343 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3344
13696e0a 3345 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3346
83d7384f
AS
3347 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3348 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3349
bda62633
DZ
3350 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3351 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3352 irq.
3353
02608bef
DY
3354 nomodule Disable module load
3355
016ddd9b
JK
3356 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3357 pagetables) support.
3358
0790c9aa
AL
3359 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3360
0cb55ad2
RD
3361 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3362 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3363
cd4f0ef7 3364 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3365 with UP alternatives
3366
7a5091d5
PA
3367 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3368 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3369 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3370 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3371
a9913044
RD
3372 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3373 space.
3374
1da177e4
LT
3375 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3376 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3377 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3378
3379 nosbagart [IA-64]
3380
cd4f0ef7 3381 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3382
38853a30
JS
3383 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3384
61ec7567
LB
3385 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3386 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3387
97842216
DJ
3388 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3389
1da177e4
LT
3390 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3391
195daf66 3392 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3393 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3394
1da177e4 3395 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3396
2b2fd87a
WH
3397 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3398
f78cff48
FY
3399 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3400 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3401 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3402 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3403 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3404 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3405 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3406 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3407 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3408 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3409 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3410 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3411 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3412
6dddd7a7 3413 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3414 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3415 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3416 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3417 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3418 parameter's value.
3419 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3420 Default: 255
3421
16290246 3422 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3423 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3424 SAL PALO.
3425
2b633e3f
YL
3426 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3427 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3428 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3429 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3430 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3431 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3432 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3433 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3434
0cb55ad2
RD
3435 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3436
1a687c2e
MG
3437 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3438 Allowed values are enable and disable
3439
f0c0b2b8 3440 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3441 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8 3442 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
57043247 3443 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
f0c0b2b8 3444
7c4be253 3445 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
a74e2a22 3446 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
7c4be253
RD
3447 info.
3448
3ef0e1f8
AS
3449 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3450 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3451 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3452 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3453 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3454 interrupts *may* be lost!
3455
15ac7afe
TL
3456 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3457 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3458 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3459 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3460
1da177e4
LT
3461 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3462 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3463
7e4e0bd5
RR
3464 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3465 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3466 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3467 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3468 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3469 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3470 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3471 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3472 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3473 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3474
44a4dcf7
RD
3475 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3476 process, but there is a small probability of
3477 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3478 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3479 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3480
e900a918
DW
3481 page_alloc.shuffle=
3482 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3483 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3484 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3485 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3486 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3487 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3488 can be read from sysfs at:
3489 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3490
48c96a36
JK
3491 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3492 Storage of the information about who allocated
3493 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3494 we can turn it on.
3495 on: enable the feature
3496
8823b1db 3497 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3498 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3499 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3500 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3501 on: turn on poisoning
3502
44a4dcf7 3503 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3504 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3505 timeout = 0: wait forever
3506 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3507 Format: <timeout>
3508
d999bd93
FT
3509 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3510 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3511 bit 0: print all tasks info
3512 bit 1: print system memory info
3513 bit 2: print timer info
3514 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3515 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3516 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
d999bd93 3517
db38d5c1
RA
3518 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3519 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3520 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3521 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3522 called with any of the flags in this set.
3523 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3524 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3525 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3526 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3527 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3528 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3529 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3530
9e3961a0
PB
3531 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3532 on a WARN().
3533
f06e5153
MH
3534 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3535 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3536 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3537 succeeds in any situation.
3538 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3539 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3540 kernel more unstable.
3541
1da177e4
LT
3542 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3543 connected to, default is 0.
3544 Format: <parport#>
3545 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3546 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
3547 Format: <mode>
3548
3549 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3550 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3551 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3552 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3553 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3554 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3555 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3556 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3557 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3558 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3559 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3560 are specified on the command line, starting
3561 with parport0.
3562
3563 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3564 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3565 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3566 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3567 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3568 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3569 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3570
dd287796
AM
3571 pause_on_oops=
3572 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3573 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3574 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3575
1da177e4
LT
3576 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3577
3578 pcd. [PARIDE]
3579 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
e7751617 3580 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3581
07d8d7e5
LG
3582 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3583
3584 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3585 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3586 specified in one of the following formats:
3587
45db3370 3588 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3589 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3590
3591 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3592 bus/device/function address which may change
3593 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3594 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3595 by other kernel parameters. If the
3596 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3597 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3598 to a device through multiple device/function
3599 addresses can be specified after the base
3600 address (this is more robust against
3601 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3602 selects devices using IDs from the
3603 configuration space which may match multiple
3604 devices in the system.
3605
11eb0e0e 3606 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3607 changes anything
c0115606 3608 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3609 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3610 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3611 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3612 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3613 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3614 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3615 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3616 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3617 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3618 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3619 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3620 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3621 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3622 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3623 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3624 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3625 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3626 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3627 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3628 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3629 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3630 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3631 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3632 Configuration
12983077
AH
3633 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3634 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3635 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3636 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3637 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3638 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3639 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3640 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3641 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3642 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3643 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3644 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3645 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3646 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3647 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3648 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3649 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3650 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3651 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3652 on several machines and they hang the machine
3653 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3654 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3655 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3656 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3657 motherboard.
c0115606 3658 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3659 Use with caution as certain devices share
3660 address decoders between ROMs and other
3661 resources.
c0115606 3662 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3663 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3664 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3665 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3666 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3667 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3668 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3669 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3670 this way.
c0115606 3671 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3672 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3673 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3674 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3675 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3676 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3677 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3678 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3679 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3680 numbers ourselves, overriding
3681 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3682 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3683 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3684 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3685 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3686 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3687 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3688 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3689 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3690 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3691 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3692 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3693 please report a bug.
3694 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3695 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3696 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3697 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3698 so this option is a temporary workaround
3699 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3700 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3701 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3702 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3703 This might help on some broken boards which
3704 machine check when some devices' config space
3705 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3706 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3707 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3708 This sorting is done to get a device
3709 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3710 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3711 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3712 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3713 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3714 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3715 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3716 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3717 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3718 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3719 or bus can support) for best performance.
3720 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3721 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3722 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3723 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3724 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3725 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3726 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3727 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3728 The default value is 256 bytes.
3729 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3730 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3731 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3732 resource_alignment=
3733 Format:
07d8d7e5 3734 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3735 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3736 aligned memory resources. How to
3737 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3738 If <order of align> is not specified,
3739 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3b1b1ce3 3740 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
32a9a682 3741 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3742 To specify the alignment for several
3743 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3744 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3b1b1ce3
AK
3745 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3746 for 4096-byte alignment.
43c16408
AP
3747 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3748 end-to-end CRC checking).
3749 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3750 the default.
3751 off: Turn ECRC off
3752 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3753 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3754 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3755 Default size is 256 bytes.
d7b8a217
NJ
3756 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3757 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3758 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3759 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3760 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3761 Default size is 2 megabytes.
8c8803c5 3762 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
d7b8a217
NJ
3763 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3764 MMIO_PREF window.
8c8803c5 3765 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3766 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3767 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3768 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3769 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3770 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3771 accommodate resources required by all child
3772 devices.
3773 off: Turn realloc off
3774 on: Turn realloc on
3775 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3776 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3777 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3778 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3779 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3780 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3781 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3782 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3783 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3784 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3785 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3786 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3787 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3788 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3789 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3790 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3791 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3792 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3793 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3794 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3795 this removes isolation between devices and
3796 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 3797 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 3798 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
de267a7c
PM
3799 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
3800 one PCI domain per PCI function
6b4b78fe 3801
e5665a45
CE
3802 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3803 Management.
3804 off Disable ASPM.
3805 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3806 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3807
4c0fd764
BH
3808 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3809 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3810 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3811 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3812 also tries to use these services.
35a0b237
OJ
3813 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
3814 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4c0fd764
BH
3815 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3816 hotplug).
79dd9182 3817
9d26d3a8
MW
3818 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3819 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3820 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3821
c7f48656 3822 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3823 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3824 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3825
1da177e4
LT
3826 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3827
39ac5ba5
TB
3828 pd_ignore_unused
3829 [PM]
3830 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3831 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3832 for debug and development, but should not be
3833 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3834
1da177e4 3835 pd. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3836 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3837
3838 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3839 boot time.
3840 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3841 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3842
f58dc01b 3843 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3844 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3845 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3846 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3847 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3848 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3849
1da177e4 3850 pf. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3851 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3852
3853 pg. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3854 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3855
3856 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
cb1aaebe 3857 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3858
3859 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3860 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3861 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3862
16290246 3863 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3864 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3865 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3866
db96a759
CY
3867 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
3868 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
3869
96242116
BH
3870 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3871 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3872 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3873 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3874 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3875 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3876
1da177e4
LT
3877 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3878 { off }
3879
3880 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3881 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3882
3883 pnp_reserve_irq=
3884 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3885
3886 pnp_reserve_dma=
3887 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3888
3889 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3890 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3891
3892 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3893 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3894 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3895 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3896
4af94f39
RD
3897 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3898 Default is 21.
3899 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3900 may be specified.
3901 Format: <port>,<port>....
3902
c3cbd075
BS
3903 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3904 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3905 platform machine description specific power_save
3906 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3907 execution priority.
3908
3eb5d588
AB
3909 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3910 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3911 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3912 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3913 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3914
07fd1761
CB
3915 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3916 Format: {"off"}
3917 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3918
45807a1d
IM
3919 print-fatal-signals=
3920 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3921
3922 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3923 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3924 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3925 coredump - etc.
3926
3927 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3928 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3929
45807a1d
IM
3930 default: off.
3931
c22ab332
MG
3932 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3933 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3934 panics
3935 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3936 default: disabled
3937
750afe7b
BP
3938 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3939 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3940 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3941 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3942 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3943 Default: ratelimit
3944
e84845c4
RD
3945 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3946 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3947
0cb55ad2
RD
3948 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3949 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3950 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3951
3952 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3953 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3954 instead using the legacy FADT method
3955
1da177e4 3956 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3957 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3958 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3959 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3960 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3961 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3962 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3963 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3964 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3965 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3966
6b99e6e6 3967 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
1da177e4 3968
ecdc5d84
VG
3969 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
3970 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
3971 that).
3972 Format: <bool>
3973
e0c27447
JW
3974 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3975 tracking.
3976 Format: <bool>
3977
a9913044
RD
3978 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3979 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3980 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3981 per second.
a9913044
RD
3982 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3983 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3984 (0 = never).
3985 psmouse.resolution=
3986 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3987 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3988 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3989 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3990
dee28e72
MG
3991 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3992
1da177e4 3993 pt. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3994 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3995
be3a5b0e 3996 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
01c9b17b
DH
3997 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3998 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3999 system calls and interrupts.
4000
4001 on - unconditionally enable
4002 off - unconditionally disable
4003 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4004 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4005
4006 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4007
be3a5b0e 4008 nopti [X86-64]
01c9b17b 4009 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 4010
dc8c8587
KS
4011 pty.legacy_count=
4012 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4013 default number.
4014
7d2c502f 4015 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 4016
1da177e4
LT
4017 r128= [HW,DRM]
4018
4019 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 4020 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 4021
1da177e4 4022 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
e7751617 4023 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 4024
6b99e6e6
RD
4025 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address
4026
9b254366
KC
4027 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4028 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4029 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4030 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4031 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4032
011d8261
BP
4033 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
4034
4035 cec_disable [X86]
4036 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4037 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4038
4102adab 4039 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
da8739f2
PM
4040 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
4041 except that the string "all" can be used to
4042 specify every CPU on the system.
2d13e6ca 4043
3fbfbf7a
PM
4044 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4045 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
4046 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4047 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4048 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4049 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4050 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4051 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4052 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
4053 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 4054
4102adab 4055 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
4056 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4057 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4058 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4059 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4060 This improves the real-time response for the
4061 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4062 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4063 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4064 periodically wake up to do the polling.
4065
4102adab 4066 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
4067 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4068 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 4069
a3dc2948
PM
4070 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
4071 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4072 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
4073 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4074
0f41c0dd
PM
4075 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
4076 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 4077 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 4078
37745d28
PM
4079 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
4080 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 4081 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
4082
4083 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
4084 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4085 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4086 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 4087 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 4088
48d07c04
SAS
4089 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
4090 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4091 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
4092 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4093 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4094
8b9a0ecc
SW
4095 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4096 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4097 to zero.
4098
7fa27001
PM
4099 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4100 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4101 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
4102 possibly be useful for architectures having high
4103 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 4104
4102adab 4105 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
4106 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4107 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
4108 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4109 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4110 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4111 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 4112
53c72b59
URS
4113 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4114 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4115 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4116 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4117 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4118 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4119 condition.
4120
4102adab 4121 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
4122 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4123 first attempt to force quiescent states.
4124 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4125 and maximum value is HZ.
4126
4102adab 4127 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
4128 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4129 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
4130 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4131
1a4762b9
PM
4132 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4133 Set required age in jiffies for a
4134 given grace period before RCU starts
4135 soliciting quiescent-state help from
4136 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4137 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4138 a value based on the most recent settings
4139 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4140 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4141 This calculated value may be viewed in
4142 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
4143 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4144 overwritten.
4145
21871d7e 4146 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
4147 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4148 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4149 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4150 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4151 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4152 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4153 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
4154 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4155 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 4156
f7c612b0
PM
4157 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4158 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4159 each group, which defaults to the square root
4160 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
4161 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4162 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4163 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
fbce7497 4164
4102adab 4165 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
4166 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4167 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 4168
4102adab 4169 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
4170 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4171 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 4172
b2b00ddf
PM
4173 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4174 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4175 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4176 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4177 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4178 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4179 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4180 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4181
4102adab 4182 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
4183 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4184 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 4185
4102adab 4186 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
4187 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4188 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4189 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
4190 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 4191
e3c50dfb
PM
4192 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4193 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4194 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4195 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4196 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4197 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4198
3d29aaf1
PM
4199 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4200 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4201 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4202 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
4203 Larger delays increase the probability of
4204 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4205 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4206 rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4207
2ccaff10
PM
4208 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4209 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4210 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4211 why a new grace period has not yet started.
4212
4e88ec4a 4213 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
881ed593
PM
4214 Measure performance of asynchronous
4215 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4216
4e88ec4a 4217 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
881ed593
PM
4218 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4219 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
4220 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4221 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4222 previously posted callbacks to drain.
4223
4e88ec4a 4224 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4225 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4226 grace-period primitives.
4227
4e88ec4a 4228 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
df37e66b
PM
4229 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4230 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4231 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4232 interference.
4233
4e88ec4a 4234 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
e6e78b00
JFG
4235 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4236
4e88ec4a 4237 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
e6e78b00
JFG
4238 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4239
4e88ec4a 4240 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
e6e78b00
JFG
4241 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4242
4e88ec4a
PM
4243 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4244 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
e6e78b00
JFG
4245 of allocations and frees.
4246
4e88ec4a 4247 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4248 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4249 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4250 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4251 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4252 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4253 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4254 a single reader.
4255
4e88ec4a 4256 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
bdea9e34 4257 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
4e88ec4a 4258 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
bdea9e34
PM
4259 N, where N is the number of CPUs
4260
4e88ec4a 4261 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
820687a7
PM
4262 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4263
4e88ec4a 4264 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4265 Shut the system down after performance tests
4266 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
4267 testing.
4268
4e88ec4a 4269 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4270 Enable additional printk() statements.
4271
4e88ec4a 4272 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
820687a7
PM
4273 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4274 in microseconds. The default of zero says
4275 no holdoff.
4276
4102adab 4277 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4278 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4279 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 4280
4102adab 4281 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4282 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4283 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 4284
4102adab 4285 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4286 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4287 in seconds.
4288
ed8f6fb2
PM
4289 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4290 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4291 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4292
4293 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4294 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4295 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4296
4297 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4298 Number of seconds to wait between successive
4299 forward-progress tests.
4300
4301 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4302 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4303 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4304 testing.
4305
21b05de4
PM
4306 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4307 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4308 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 4309
4102adab 4310 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 4311 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
4312
4313 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4314 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4315 update-side primitives, if available.
4316
4317 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4318 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4319 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4320 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4321 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4322 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4323 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 4324
d6855142
PM
4325 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4326 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4327 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU
4328 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4329
4330 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4331 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4332 This can of course result in splats, and is
4333 intended to test the ability of things like
4334 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4335 such leaks.
4336
4102adab 4337 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4338 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4339
4102adab 4340 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4341 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4342 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4343 test, hence the "fake".
4344
4102adab 4345 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
4346 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4347 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4348 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4349 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4350 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 4351
4102adab
PM
4352 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4353 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4354
4355 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4356 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4357
4102adab 4358 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
4359 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4360 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 4361
4a5f133c
PM
4362 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4363 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4364 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4365 task-exit processing.
4366
4367 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4368 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4369 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4370 is spawned.
4371
4372 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4373 The delay, in seconds, between successive
4374 read-then-exit testing episodes.
4375
4102adab 4376 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4377 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4378 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4379 during the rcutorture test.
4380
4102adab 4381 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4382 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4383 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4384
4102adab 4385 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4386 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4387 warnings, zero to disable.
4388
19a8ff95
PM
4389 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4390 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
4391 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4392 to any other stall-related activity.
4393
4102adab 4394 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4395 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4396
2b1516e5
PM
4397 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4398 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4399
55b2dcf5
PM
4400 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4401 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4402 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4403 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
4404 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4405 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4406
4102adab 4407 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4408 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4409
4102adab 4410 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4411 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4412 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4413 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4414 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4415
4102adab 4416 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4417 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4418 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4419 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4420
4102adab 4421 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4422 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4423
4102adab 4424 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4425 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4426
4102adab 4427 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4428 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4429 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4430
4102adab 4431 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4432 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4433
4102adab 4434 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4435 Enable additional printk() statements.
4436
cdc694b2
PM
4437 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4438 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4439 stall warning.
4440
5a9be7c6
PM
4441 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4442 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4443
58c53360
PM
4444 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4445 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4446 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4447 during early boot, that is, during the time
4448 before the init task is spawned.
4449
5a9be7c6
PM
4450 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4451 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4452
4102adab
PM
4453 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4454 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4455 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4456 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4457 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4458 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4459 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4460
5a9be7c6
PM
4461 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4462 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4463 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4464 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4465 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4466 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4467 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4468 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4469 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4470
3e42ec1a
PM
4471 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4472 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4473 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4474 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4475 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4476
b0afa0f0
PM
4477 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4478 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4479 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4480 of a given grace period. Setting a large
4481 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4482 but lengthens grace periods.
4483
52db30ab
PM
4484 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4485 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4486 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4487 to zero.
4488
74860fee
PK
4489 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4490 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4491
ffdfc409
OJ
4492 rdinit= [KNL]
4493 Format: <full_path>
4494 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4495 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4496
c49a0a80
TL
4497 rdrand= [X86]
4498 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4499 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4500 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4501 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4502 path).
4503
1d9807fc
TL
4504 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4505 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4506 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4507 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4508 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4509 rdt=cmt,!mba
4510
1b3a5d02
RH
4511 reboot= [KNL]
4512 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4513 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4514 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4515 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4516 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4517 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4518 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4519 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4520 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4521 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4522 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4523 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4524
1fbeb3a8 4525 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4526 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4527 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4528 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4529 interference.
4530
1fbeb3a8 4531 refscale.loops= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4532 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4533 primitive under test. Increasing this number
4534 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4535 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4536 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4537 x86 laptops.
4538
1fbeb3a8 4539 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4540 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
4541 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4542 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4543
1fbeb3a8 4544 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4545 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4546 the console log.
4547
1fbeb3a8 4548 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4549 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4550 measured in microseconds.
4551
1fbeb3a8
PM
4552 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4553 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4554
4555 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4556 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4557 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4e88ec4a
PM
4558 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4559 it running) when refscale is built as a module.
847dd70a 4560
1fbeb3a8 4561 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4562 Enable additional printk() statements.
4563
46b6d94e
PJ
4564 relax_domain_level=
4565 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
da82c92f 4566 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
46b6d94e 4567
ffd2e8df
BH
4568 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4569 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4570 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4571 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4572 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 4573
cd4f0ef7 4574 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
4575 Format: nn[KMG]
4576 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4577 address space.
4578
9ea77bdb
PA
4579 reservelow= [X86]
4580 Format: nn[K]
4581 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4582 the bottom of the address space.
4583
7e96287d
VG
4584 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4585 during initialization.
4586
a9913044
RD
4587 resume= [SWSUSP]
4588 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4589 Format:
4590 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4591
ecbd0da1
RW
4592 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4593 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4594 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4595 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
151f4e2b 4596 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
ecbd0da1 4597
f126f733
BS
4598 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4599 read the resume files
4600
6f8d7022
BS
4601 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4602 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4603 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4604
f996fc96
BS
4605 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4606 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4607 present during boot.
4608 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4609 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4610 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4611 (that will set all pages holding image data
4612 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4613
0a7b35cb
MN
4614 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4615
0efbb786
AC
4616 rfkill.default_state=
4617 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4618 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4619 1 Unblocked.
4620
4621 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4622 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4623 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4624 blocked and the previous configuration.
4625 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4626 blocked and everything unblocked.
4627
1da177e4
LT
4628 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4629 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4630
e16fd002
GA
4631 ring3mwait=disable
4632 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4633 CPUs.
4634
1da177e4
LT
4635 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4636
d2aa1aca
KC
4637 rodata= [KNL]
4638 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4639 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4640
605df8af
HS
4641 rockchip.usb_uart
4642 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4643 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4644 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4645 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4646
1da177e4 4647 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4648 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4649
4650 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4651 mount the root filesystem
4652
4653 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4654
4655 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4656
cc1ed754
PO
4657 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4658 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4659 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4660
5c71d618
RT
4661 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4662 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4663 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4664 managed by CMA.
4665
1da177e4
LT
4666 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4667
4668 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4669
c60d1ae4
GS
4670 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4671 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4672 strict
4673 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4674 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4675 which is faster.
4676
1da177e4
LT
4677 sa1100ir [NET]
4678 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4679
1da177e4 4680 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4681
f6630114
MT
4682 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4683
cb251765
MG
4684 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4685 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4686 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4687 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4688
05289b90
TG
4689 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
4690 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
4691 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
4692 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
4693 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
4694 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
4695 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
4696 value.
4697 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
4698 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
4699 1 64 ms
4700 2 128 ms
4701 and so on.
4702 Format: integer between 0 and 10
4703 Default is 0.
4704
e9d338a0
PM
4705 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
4706 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
4707 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
4708 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
4709 tests.
4710
4711 scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
4712 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
4713 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
4714 default) disables this feature. Please note
4715 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
4716 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
4717 softlockup complaints, and so on.
4718
4719 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
4720 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
4721 smp_call_function() family of functions.
4722 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
4723 equal to the number of CPUs.
4724
4725 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4726 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
4727 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
4728
4729 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4730 Number seconds to wait between successive
4731 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
4732 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
4733
4734 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4735 The number of seconds following the start of the
4736 test after which to shut down the system. The
4737 default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
4738 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
4739
4740 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4741 The number of seconds between outputting the
4742 current test statistics to the console. A value
4743 of zero disables statistics output.
4744
4745 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
4746 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
4747 to the set of CPUs under test.
4748
4749 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
4750 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
4751 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
4752 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
4753 functions.
4754
4755 scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
4756 Enable additional printk() statements.
4757
4758 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
4759 The probability weighting to use for the
4760 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
4761 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
4762 default if all other weights are -1. However,
4763 if at least one weight has some other value, a
4764 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
4765
4766 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
4767 The probability weighting to use for the
4768 smp_call_function_single() function with a
4769 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
4770
4771 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
4772 The probability weighting to use for the
4773 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
4774 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
4775 Note well that setting a high probability for
4776 this weighting can place serious IPI load
4777 on the system.
4778
4779 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
4780 The probability weighting to use for the
4781 smp_call_function_many() function with a
4782 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
4783 and weight_many.
4784
4785 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
4786 The probability weighting to use for the
4787 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
4788 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
4789 weight_many.
4790
4791 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
4792 The probability weighting to use for the
4793 smp_call_function_all() function with a
4794 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
4795 and weight_many.
4796
5307c955
MG
4797 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4798 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4799 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4800 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4801 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4802 1 -- enable.
4803 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4804 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4805
89a9684e
KC
4806 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4807 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4808 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
4809
4810 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4811 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4812 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4813 0 -- disable.
4814 1 -- enable.
d41415eb 4815 Default value is 1.
1da177e4 4816
c1c124e9
JJ
4817 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4818 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4819 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4820 0 -- disable.
4821 1 -- enable.
4822 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4823
cd4f0ef7 4824 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4825
1da177e4
LT
4826 shapers= [NET]
4827 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4828
1da177e4
LT
4829 simeth= [IA-64]
4830 simscsi=
a9913044 4831
1da177e4
LT
4832 slram= [HW,MTD]
4833
423c929c
JK
4834 slab_nomerge [MM]
4835 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4836 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4837 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4838 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4839 layout control by attackers can usually be
4840 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4841 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4842 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4843 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4844 own.
ad56b738 4845 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4846
3df1cccd
DR
4847 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4848 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4849 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4850 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4851 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4852
e17f1dfb 4853 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4854 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4855 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4856 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4857 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4858 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4859 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4860
1663f26d
TH
4861 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4862 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4863 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4864 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4865 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4866 directories and files being created under
4867 /sys/kernel/slub.
4868
c1aee215 4869 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4870 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4871 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4872 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4873 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4874
4875 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4876 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4877 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4878 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4879 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4880 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4881 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4882 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4883
4884 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4885 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4886 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4887 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4888
4889 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4890 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4891 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4892
1da177e4
LT
4893 smart2= [HW]
4894 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4895
d0d4f69b
BH
4896 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4897 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4898 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4899 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4900 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4901 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4902 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4903 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4904 1: Fast pin select (default)
4905 2: ATC IRMode
4906
52c48c51
SS
4907 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4908 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4909 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4910 actual hardware limit.
4911 Format: <integer>
4912 Default: -1 (no limit)
4913
9c44bc03
IM
4914 softlockup_panic=
4915 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
f117955a 4916 Format: 0 | 1
9c44bc03 4917
f117955a 4918 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
0a07bef6
GP
4919 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
4920 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
4921 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
4922 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
3ce62385 4923
ed235875
AT
4924 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4925 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4926 backtraces on all cpus.
f117955a 4927 Format: 0 | 1
ed235875 4928
1da177e4 4929 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
9e1cbede 4930 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
1da177e4 4931
da285121
DW
4932 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4933 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4934 The default operation protects the kernel from
4935 user space attacks.
da285121 4936
fa1202ef
TG
4937 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4938 spectre_v2_user=on
4939 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4940 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4941 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4942 vulnerable
4943
4944 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4945 mitigation method at run time according to the
4946 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4947 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4948 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4949
fa1202ef
TG
4950 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4951 against user space to user space task attacks.
4952
4953 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4954 the user space protections.
4955
da285121
DW
4956 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4957
4958 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4959 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4960 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4961
4962 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4963 spectre_v2=auto.
4964
fa1202ef
TG
4965 spectre_v2_user=
4966 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4967 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4968 user space tasks
4969
4970 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4971 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4972
4973 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4974 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4975
7cc765a6
TG
4976 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4977 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4978 per thread. The mitigation control state
4979 is inherited on fork.
4980
55a97402
TG
4981 prctl,ibpb
4982 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4983 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4984 always when switching between different user
4985 space processes.
4986
6b3e64c2
TG
4987 seccomp
4988 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4989 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4990 they explicitly opt out.
4991
55a97402
TG
4992 seccomp,ibpb
4993 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4994 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4995 always when switching between different
4996 user space processes.
4997
fa1202ef
TG
4998 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4999 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
5000
5001 Default mitigation:
5002 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
5003
5004 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5005 spectre_v2_user=auto.
5006
24f7fc83
KRW
5007 spec_store_bypass_disable=
5008 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5009 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5010
5011 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5012 a common industry wide performance optimization known
5013 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5014 to the same memory location may not be observed by
5015 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5016 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5017 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5018 end of a particular speculation execution window.
5019
5020 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5021 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5022 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5023 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5024
5025 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5026 Bypass optimization is used.
5027
6b4c1360
ME
5028 On x86 the options are:
5029
f21b53b2
KC
5030 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5031 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5032 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5033 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5034 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5035 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5036 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5037 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5038 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5039 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5040 for a process by default. The state of the control
5041 is inherited on fork.
5042 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5043 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 5044
f21b53b2
KC
5045 Default mitigations:
5046 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5047
6b4c1360
ME
5048 On powerpc the options are:
5049
5050 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5051 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5052 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5053 exit.
5054 off - No action.
5055
5056 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5057 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5058
1da177e4
LT
5059 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
5060 spia_fio_base=
5061 spia_pedr=
5062 spia_peddr=
5063
6650cdd9
PZI
5064 split_lock_detect=
5065 [X86] Enable split lock detection
5066
5067 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5068 instructions that access data across cache line
5069 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception.
5070
5071 off - not enabled
5072
5073 warn - the kernel will emit rate limited warnings
5074 about applications triggering the #AC
5075 exception. This mode is the default on CPUs
5076 that supports split lock detection.
5077
5078 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5079 that trigger the #AC exception.
5080
5081 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5082 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5083 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5084 mode.
5085
7e5b3c26
MG
5086 srbds= [X86,INTEL]
5087 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5088 (SRBDS) mitigation.
5089
5090 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5091 exploit which can leak bits from the random
5092 number generator.
5093
5094 By default, this issue is mitigated by
5095 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
5096 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5097 much slower. Among other effects, this will
5098 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5099
5100 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5101 the following option:
5102
5103 off: Disable mitigation and remove
5104 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5105
c350c008
PM
5106 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5107 Specifies how frequently to check for
5108 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5109 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5110 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5111 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5112 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
5113 are ignored.
5114
22607d66
PM
5115 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5116 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5117 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5118 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5119 grace period will be considered for automatic
5120 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
5121 expediting.
5122
a43ae4df
MZ
5123 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
5124 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5125
5126 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5127 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5128 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5129 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5130
5131 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5132 for both kernel and userspace
5133 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5134 for both kernel and userspace
5135 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
5136 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5137 to allow userspace to register its
5138 interest in being mitigated too.
5139
1be7107f
HD
5140 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
5141 override the default stack gap protection. The value
5142 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5143 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5144 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5145 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5146
f38f1d2a
SR
5147 stacktrace [FTRACE]
5148 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5149
762e1207
SR
5150 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5151 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5152 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
5153 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5154 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5155 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5156 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5157
1da177e4
LT
5158 sti= [PARISC,HW]
5159 Format: <num>
5160 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5161 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5162 as the initial boot-console.
5163 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5164
5165 sti_font= [HW]
5166 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5167
5168 stifb= [HW]
5169 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5170
cbf11071
TM
5171 sunrpc.min_resvport=
5172 sunrpc.max_resvport=
5173 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5174 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5175 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5176 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5177 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5178 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5179 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5180 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5181 maximum port values.
5182
ff3ac5c3
TM
5183 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5184 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5185 Limit the number of requests that the server will
5186 process in parallel from a single connection.
5187 The default value is 0 (no limit).
5188
42a7fc4a
GB
5189 sunrpc.pool_mode=
5190 [NFS]
5191 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5192 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
5193 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5194 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5195 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5196 NFS server is running.
5197
5198 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
5199 automatically using heuristics
5200 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
5201 percpu one pool for each CPU
5202 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5203 to global on non-NUMA machines)
5204
cbf11071
TM
5205 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5206 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5207 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5208 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5209 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5210 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5211 improve throughput, but will also increase the
5212 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5213
1d4a9c17
BN
5214 suspend.pm_test_delay=
5215 [SUSPEND]
5216 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5217 mode before resuming the system (see
5218 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5219 is set. Default value is 5.
5220
6a9c930b
RP
5221 svm= [PPC]
5222 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5223 This parameter controls use of the Protected
5224 Execution Facility on pSeries.
5225
07555ac1 5226 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
5227 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5228 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
da82c92f 5229 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
a42c390c 5230
91fec0f5 5231 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 5232 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
5233 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5234 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5235 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 5236 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 5237
1da177e4
LT
5238 switches= [HW,M68k]
5239
3db978d4
VB
5240 sysctl.*= [KNL]
5241 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5242 process, as if the value was written to the respective
5243 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5244 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5245 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5246 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5247 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5248
e52eec13
AK
5249 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5250 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5251 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5252 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5253 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5254 in older udev will not work anymore.
5255 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5256 the kernel configuration.
5257
5d6f647f
IM
5258 sysrq_always_enabled
5259 [KNL]
5260 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5261 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5262 Useful for debugging.
5263
747029a5
FF
5264 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5265 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5266 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5267 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
1cec2cac 5268 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
747029a5
FF
5269 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5270
1da177e4
LT
5271 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
5272
acc82342 5273 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 5274 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
5275 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5276 as the system sleep state during system startup with
5277 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5278 The system is woken from this state using a
5279 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 5280
1da177e4
LT
5281 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5282 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5283
f8707ec9
LB
5284 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
5285 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5286 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5287
c52a7419
LB
5288 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
5289 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 5290 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 5291
f5487145
LB
5292 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
5293 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5294 critical and hot trip points.
5295
72b33ef8
LB
5296 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
5297 1: disable ACPI thermal control
5298
a70cdc52
LB
5299 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
5300 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
5301 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5302 value
a70cdc52 5303
730ff34d
LB
5304 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
5305 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5306 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5307 0: no polling (default)
5308
8d32a307
TG
5309 threadirqs [KNL]
5310 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 5311 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 5312
2b1a61f0
HC
5313 topology= [S390]
5314 Format: {off | on}
5315 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
5316 topology information if the hardware supports this.
5317 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 5318 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 5319 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 5320
2d73bae1
NA
5321 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5322 Format: {off}
5323 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5324 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5325 LPAR.
5326
8171d3e0
PM
5327 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5328 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5329 until after init has spawned.
5330
2102ad29
PM
5331 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5332 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5333 even if there were no errors. This can be a
5334 very costly operation when many torture tests
5335 are running concurrently, especially on systems
5336 with rotating-rust storage.
5337
1da177e4
LT
5338 tp720= [HW,PS2]
5339
225a9be2
RA
5340 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5341 Format: integer pcr id
5342 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5343 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5344 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5345 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5346 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5347 are saved.
5348
9d612bef 5349 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 5350 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 5351
020e5f85
LZ
5352 trace_event=[event-list]
5353 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
5354 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5355 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 5356 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 5357
7bcfaf54
SR
5358 trace_options=[option-list]
5359 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5360 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5361 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5362 to echo the option name into
5363
5364 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5365
5366 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5367 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5368
5369 trace_options=stacktrace
5370
5fb94e9c 5371 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
5372 section.
5373
0daa2302
SRRH
5374 tp_printk[FTRACE]
5375 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5376 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5377 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5378 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5379 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5380
5381 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5382 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5383 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5384 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5385
5386 ** CAUTION **
5387
5388 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5389 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5390 the system to live lock.
5391
de7edd31
SRRH
5392 traceoff_on_warning
5393 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5394 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5395 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5396 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5397
5398 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5399 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5400 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5401
5402 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5403 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5404
fcf4d821
JK
5405 transparent_hugepage=
5406 [KNL]
5407 Format: [always|madvise|never]
5408 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5409 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
5410 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5411 for more details.
fcf4d821 5412
d3b8f889 5413 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
5414 Format: <string>
5415 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889 5416 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5417 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
5418 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5419 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
5420 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5421 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5422 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5423 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
5424 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5425 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5426 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
5427 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5428 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5429 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5430 acceptable).
395628ef 5431
bd35c77e
KP
5432 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5433 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5434 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5435 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5436 Format: <unsigned int>
5437
95c5824f
PG
5438 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5439 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5440 support TSX control.
5441
5442 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5443
5444 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5445 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5446 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5447 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5448 so there may be unknown security risks associated
5449 with leaving it enabled.
5450
5451 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5452 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5453 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5454 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5455 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5456 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5457 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5458
7531a359
PG
5459 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5460 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5461
95c5824f
PG
5462 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5463
5464 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5465 for more details.
5466
a7a248c5
PG
5467 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5468 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5469
5470 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5471 certain CPUs that support Transactional
5472 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5473 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5474 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5475 conditions.
5476
5477 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5478 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5479 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5480 access.
5481
5482 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
5483 options are:
5484
5485 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5486 if TSX is enabled.
5487
5488 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5489 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5490 is not disabled because CPU is not
5491 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5492 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5493
64870ed1
WL
5494 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5495 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5496 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5497 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5498
a7a248c5
PG
5499 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5500 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
5501 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5502 required and doesn't provide any additional
5503 mitigation.
5504
5505 For details see:
5506 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5507
a9913044
RD
5508 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
5509 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5510 Format:
5511 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 5512 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 5513
b6935f8c 5514 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 5515 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
5516 console driver takes over, this boot options might
5517 help "seeing" what's going on.
5518
f86dcc5a
ED
5519 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5520 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5521
5f8364b7
AS
5522 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5523 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5524 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5525 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5526 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5527 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5528 reported either.
5529
e3a61b0a 5530 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 5531 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 5532
c4fc2342
CDH
5533 usbcore.authorized_default=
5534 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
5535 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
5536 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5537 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 5538
b5e795f8
AS
5539 usbcore.autosuspend=
5540 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5541 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
5542 is the time required before an idle device will be
5543 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 5544 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 5545
fd7c519d
JK
5546 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5547 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5548
0290cc9f
AS
5549 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5550 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5551 (default = 65536).
5552
fd7c519d
JK
5553 usbcore.blinkenlights=
5554 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5555
5556 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5557 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3155f4f4 5558 scheme (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 5559
3f5eb8d5
AS
5560 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5561 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5562 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5563
fd7c519d
JK
5564 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5565 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5566 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5567
5568 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5569 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 5570 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
5571 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5572
40d58148
ON
5573 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5574
027bd6ca
KHF
5575 usbcore.quirks=
5576 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5577 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5578 commas. Each entry has the form
5579 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5580 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5581 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5582 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5583 the following meanings:
5584 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5585 descriptors must not be fetched using
5586 a 255-byte read);
5587 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5588 correctly so reset it instead);
5589 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5590 Set-Interface requests);
5591 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5592 handle its Configuration or Interface
5593 strings);
5594 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5595 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5596 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5597 more interface descriptions than the
5598 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5599 talking to these interfaces);
5600 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5601 during initialization, after we read
5602 the device descriptor);
5603 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5604 high speed and super speed interrupt
5605 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5606 require the interval in microframes (1
5607 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5608 calculated as interval = 2 ^
5609 (bInterval-1).
5610 Devices with this quirk report their
5611 bInterval as the result of this
5612 calculation instead of the exponent
5613 variable used in the calculation);
5614 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5615 handle device_qualifier descriptor
5616 requests);
5617 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5618 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5619 remote wakeup capability);
5620 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5621 Power Management);
5622 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5623 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
5624 frames instead of the USB 2.0
5625 calculation);
5626 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5627 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
5628 prevent spurious wakeup);
5629 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5630 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
5631 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5632 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
5633 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5634
1da177e4
LT
5635 usbhid.mousepoll=
5636 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 5637
933bfe4d
TJ
5638 usbhid.jspoll=
5639 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5640
2ddc8e2d
FA
5641 usbhid.kbpoll=
5642 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5643
d4f373e5
AS
5644 usb-storage.delay_use=
5645 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 5646 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
5647
5648 usb-storage.quirks=
5649 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5650 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
5651 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
5652 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5653 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5654 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5655 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46 5656 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
65cc8bf9 5657 of sense data, not on uas);
a0bb1081 5658 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
65cc8bf9 5659 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
d4f373e5
AS
5660 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5661 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d 5662 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
65cc8bf9 5663 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5116901d
KR
5664 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5665 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
5666 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5667 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
5668 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5669 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
5670 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5671 reported device capacity by one
5672 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
5673 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5674 device);
13630746
HG
5675 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5676 command, uas only);
8010622c 5677 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
d4f373e5 5678 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
65cc8bf9 5679 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
d4f373e5 5680 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
65cc8bf9
ON
5681 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5682 not on uas);
21c13a4f 5683 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
65cc8bf9 5684 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
c838ea46 5685 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
65cc8bf9 5686 reported by the device, not on uas);
eaa05dfc 5687 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
65cc8bf9 5688 by default, not on uas);
d4f373e5 5689 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
65cc8bf9 5690 bogus residue values, not on uas);
d4f373e5
AS
5691 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5692 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
5693 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5694 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 5695 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
5696 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5697 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8 5698 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
65cc8bf9
ON
5699 even if the device claims no cache,
5700 not on uas)
d4f373e5
AS
5701 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5702
ac1667db
SB
5703 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5704 Format: <int>
5705 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5706 1 - undefined instruction events
5707 2 - system calls
5708 4 - invalid data aborts
5709 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5710 16 - SIGBUS faults
5711 Example: user_debug=31
5712
14315592
IC
5713 userpte=
5714 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5715
5716 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5717 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5718 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5719
6cececfc 5720 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
5721 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5722
5723 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
5724 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5725
b0b49f26
AL
5726 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5727 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5728 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5729
5730 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5731 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5732 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5733
5734 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5735 alias for vdso32=0.
5736
5737 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5738 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 5739
d080d397
YI
5740 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5741 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5742
1da177e4 5743 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
ab42b818 5744 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
1da177e4 5745
3afe6dab
AL
5746 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5747 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5748 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5749 level and then send out the event to user space through
5750 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5751 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5752 brightness level.
2843768b 5753 default: 1
3afe6dab 5754
81a054ce
PM
5755 virtio_mmio.device=
5756 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5757
5758 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5759 where:
5760 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5761 like K, M and G)
5762 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5763 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5764 request_irq())
5765 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5766 example:
5767 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5768
5769 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5770
cd4f0ef7 5771 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
cb1aaebe 5772 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
4f4cfa6c 5773 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
1da177e4
LT
5774 Use vga=ask for menu.
5775 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5776 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5777
f682a97a
AD
5778 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5779 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5780 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5781 All options are enabled by default, and this
5782 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5783 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5784 debugging features.
5785
5786 Available options are:
5787 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5788 - Disable all of the above options
5789
a9913044 5790 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
5791 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5792 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5793 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5794 mapped kernel RAM.
5795
3f429842
HC
5796 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5797 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5798 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5799
585c3047
PO
5800 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5801 Format: <command>
1da177e4 5802
585c3047
PO
5803 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5804 Format: <command>
5805
5806 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5807 Format: <command>
a9913044 5808
3ae36655
AL
5809 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5810 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5811 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5812 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5813 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5814 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5815 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5816
2e57ae05 5817 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
bd49e16e
AL
5818 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5819 page is readable.
3ae36655 5820
bd49e16e
AL
5821 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5822 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5823 page is not readable.
3ae36655
AL
5824
5825 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5826 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5827 might break your system.
5828
3855ae1c
CL
5829 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5830 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5831 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5832
9ea9a886
CL
5833 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5834 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5835 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5836 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5837
0cb55ad2
RD
5838 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5839 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5840 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5841 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5842 ranging from 0-255.
5843
5844 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5845 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5846 Change the default green palette of the console.
5847 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5848 ranging from 0-255.
5849
5850 vt.default_red= [VT]
5851 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5852 Change the default red palette of the console.
5853 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5854 ranging from 0-255.
5855
5856 vt.default_utf8=
5857 [VT]
5858 Format=<0|1>
5859 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5860 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5861 newly opened terminals.
5862
f6c06b68
MG
5863 vt.global_cursor_default=
5864 [VT]
5865 Format=<-1|0|1>
5866 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5867 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5868 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5869 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5870 cursors, 1 will display them.
5871
3855ae1c
CL
5872 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5873 Default: 2 = green.
5874
5875 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5876 Default: 3 = cyan.
5877
4724ba57 5878 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
cc2a2d19 5879 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
4724ba57
RD
5880 or other driver-specific files in the
5881 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 5882
11295055
LO
5883 watchdog_thresh=
5884 [KNL]
5885 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5886 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5887 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5888 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5889 seconds.
5890
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5891 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5892 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5893 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5894 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5895 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5896 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5897 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5898 corresponding sysfs file.
5899
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5900 workqueue.disable_numa
5901 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5902 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5903 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5904 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5905 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5906 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5907 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5908
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5909 workqueue.power_efficient
5910 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5911 they show better performance thanks to cache
5912 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5913 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5914
5915 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5916 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5917 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5918 power usage at the cost of small performance
5919 overhead.
5920
5921 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5922 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5923
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5924 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5925 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5926 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5927 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5928 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5929 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5930 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5931 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5932 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5933 impacted.
5934
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5935 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5936 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5937 supporting x2apic.
5938
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5939 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5940 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
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5941 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5942 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5943 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5944
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5945 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5946 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5947 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5948 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5949 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5950 domains.
5951
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5952 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5953 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5954 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5955 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5956 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5957 nics -- unplug network devices
5958 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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5959 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5960 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5961 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5962 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5963
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5964 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
5965 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5966 panic() code such as dumping handler.
5967
15a3eac0 5968 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
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5969 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
5970 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
5971 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
15a3eac0 5972
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5973 xen_nopv [X86]
5974 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5975 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
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5976 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5977 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8d693b91 5978
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5979 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5980 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5981 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5982 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5983 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5984
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5985 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5986 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5987 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5988 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5989 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5990 more timer interrupts.
5991
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5992 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
5993 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
5994 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
5995
5996 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
5997 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
5998 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
5999
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6000 xen.fifo_events= [XEN]
6001 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6002 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6003 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6004 fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6005 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6006
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6007 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6008 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6009 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6010 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6011
9a3c05e6 6012 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM]
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6013 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6014 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6015 contention.
6016
1da177e4 6017 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
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6018 Format:
6019 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a 6020
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6021 xive= [PPC]
6022 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6023 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6024 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6025
6026 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6027 controller on both pseries and powernv
6028 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6029
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6030 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
6031 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6032 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6033 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
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6034
6035 xmon [PPC]
6036 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6037 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6038 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6039 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6040 debugger is called from setup_arch().
6041 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6042 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6043 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6044 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6045 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6046 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6047 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6048 can be written using xmon commands.
6049 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6050 memory, and other data can't be written using
6051 xmon commands.
6052 off xmon is disabled.