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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
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151f4e2b 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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c3d6de69 24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
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25 { vendor | video | native | none }
26 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
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27 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
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29 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
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33 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
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39 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43 This option is useful for developers to identify the
44 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
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47 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 49 Format: <int>
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50 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
866d6cdf 53 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
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54 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
e76f4276 57 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
cb1aaebe 58 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
e76f4276 59 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 60
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61 Enable processor driver info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
d3121e64 116 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
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139 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
140 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
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143 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 147
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148 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
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151 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
0cb55ad2 157 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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158 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
159 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 160 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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161 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
162 strings
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163 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
164 strings
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165 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
166
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167 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
170 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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174 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
175 care about the state of the feature group strings which
176 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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177 Examples:
178 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
185 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186 multiple times through kernel command line is also
187 meaningless.
188 Examples:
189 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190 FALSE.
191
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192 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
195 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
198 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199 there are quirks related to this string. This command
200 is useful when one want to control the state of the
201 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202 the OSPM features.
203 Examples:
204 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209 equivalent to
210 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211 and
212 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
6cececfc 215 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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216 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218 and always returns good values.
219
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220 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
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223 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
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228 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230 sci_force_enable, nobl }
151f4e2b 231 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
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232 s3_bios and s3_mode.
233 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
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235 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242 s4_hwsig option is enabled.
4af94f39 243 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
74d95555 244 used (or even warned about) during resume.
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245 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246 control method, with respect to putting devices into
247 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248 of _PTS is used by default).
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249 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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251 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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254 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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257
258 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
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262 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
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265 agp= [AGP]
266 { off | try_unsupported }
267 off: disable AGP support
268 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
bcfde334 271 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 272 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 273
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274 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
275 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
277 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
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279 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
280 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
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287 32: only for 32-bit processes
288 64: only for 64-bit processes
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289 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
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292 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
293 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
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299 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
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307 See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308 information.
309
89e0b9a3 310 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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311 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312 Possible values are:
1d479f16 313 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
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314 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315 the system
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316 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318 allowed anymore to lift isolation
319 requirements as needed. This option
320 does not override iommu=pt
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321 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323 option with care.
afa9fdc2 324
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325 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
326 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329 IOMMU initialization.
330
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331 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
332 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333 remapping modes:
334 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
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340 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 343 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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344
345 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347 connected to one of 16 gameports
348 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
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350 apc= [HW,SPARC]
351 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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352 Format: noidle
353 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355 APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
64e05d11 357 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 358 Change the output verbosity while booting
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359 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360 Change the amount of debugging information output
361 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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362 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363 driver name.
364 Format: apic=driver_name
365 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 366
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367 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371 backup of CPU 0
372 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374 shot down by NMI
375
b0f83b28 376 autoconf= [IPV6]
19093313 377 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
b0f83b28 378
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379 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385 apic=verbose is specified.
386 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
1da177e4 388 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 389 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 390
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391 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
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394 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395 Identification support
396
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397 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398 support
399
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400 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401 support
402
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403 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
404
405 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
406
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407 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
408 EzKey and similar keyboards
409
410 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
411
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412 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
413 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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414
415 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
416 keyboards
417
418 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
419 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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420
421 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
422 Use software keyboard repeat
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a106fb0c 424 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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425 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
426 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
427 enabled until the next reboot
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428 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
429 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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430 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
431 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
432 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
433 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 434 Default: unset
f3411cb2 435
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436 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
437 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
438 Default: 64
439
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440 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
441 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
442 Format: { "0" | "1" }
443 0 - Disable the BAU.
444 1 - Enable the BAU.
445 unset - Disable the BAU.
446
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447 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
448 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 449
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450 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
451 Format: <io>,<mode>
452 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
453
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454 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
455 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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456 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
457 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
458
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459 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
460 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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461 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
462 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
463
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464 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
465 embedded devices based on command line input.
898bd37a 466 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
080506ad 467
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468 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
469 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
470 no delay (0).
471 Format: integer
472
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473 bootconfig [KNL]
474 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
475 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
476
477 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
478
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479 bert_disable [ACPI]
480 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
481
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482 bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86]
483 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
484
1da177e4 485 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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486 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
487 kernel args too.
32e2eae2 488 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
395cf969 489 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 490
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491 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
492 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
493 at a time.
494
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495 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
496
cd4f0ef7 497 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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498 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
499 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
500 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
501 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
502 This option provides an override for these situations.
503
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504 carrier_timeout=
505 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
506 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
507 it waits 120 seconds.
508
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509 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
510 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
511 trust validation.
32c4741c 512 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 513
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514 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
515 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
516 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
517 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
518 others).
519
6dddd7a7 520 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
8b4a503d 521 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
1da177e4 522
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523 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
524 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
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525 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
526 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
527 a single hierarchy
528 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
529 subsystem
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530 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
531 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
532 created
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533 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
534 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
535 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
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536 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
537 stall information accounting feature
8bab8dde 538
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539 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
540 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
541 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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542 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
543 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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544 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
545 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
546 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 547
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548 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
549 Format: <string>
550 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 551 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 552
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553 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
554 Format: { "0" | "1" }
555 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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556 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
557 any implied execute protection).
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558 1 -- check protection requested by application.
559 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
a9913044 560 Value can be changed at runtime via
d41415eb 561 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
e9c38f9f 562 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
a9913044 563
661ca0da 564 cio_ignore= [S390]
8b4a503d 565 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
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566 clk_ignore_unused
567 [CLK]
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568 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
569 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
570 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
571 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
572 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
573 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
574 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
575 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 576 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 577
cd4f0ef7 578 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 579 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 580 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 581 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 582 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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583 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
584
592913ec 585 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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586 Format: <string>
587 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
588 with the name specified.
589 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
590 the platform:
591 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
592 [ACPI] acpi_pm
593 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
594 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 595 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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596 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
597 [MIPS] MIPS
598 [PARISC] cr16
599 [S390] tod
600 [SH] SuperH
601 [SPARC64] tick
602 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
603
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604 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
605 [ARM,ARM64]
606 Format: <bool>
607 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
608 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
609 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
610 systems.
611
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612 clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
613 Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
614 external delays before the clock will be marked
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615 unstable. Defaults to two retries, that is,
616 three attempts to read the clock under test.
db3a34e1 617
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618 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
619 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
620 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
621 are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
622 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
623 zero says not to check any. Values larger than
624 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
625 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
626 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
627
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628 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
629 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
630 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
631 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
632 10 seconds when built into the kernel.
633
0a4bb5e5 634 clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
ac72e788 635 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 636 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 637 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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638 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
639 ones should be.
640 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
641 or using the feature without checking anything
642 will still see it. This just prevents it from
643 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
644 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
645 some critical bits.
646
5ea3b1b2 647 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
c372e741 648 [KNL,CMA]
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649 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
650 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
651 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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652 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
653 altogether. For more information, see
0b1abd1f 654 kernel/dma/contiguous.c
c64be2bb 655
b7176c26 656 cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
bc47190d 657 [ARM64,KNL,CMA]
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658 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
659 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
660 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
661 specificed, the default value is 0.
662 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
663 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
664 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
665 they will fallback to the global default memory area.
c64be2bb 666
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667 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
668 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
669 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
670 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
671 a hypervisor.
672 Default: yes
673
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674 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
675 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 676 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 677
1da177e4 678 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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679 Format:
680 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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681
682 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
683 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
684
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685 com90xx= [HW,NET]
686 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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687 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
688
689 condev= [HW,S390] console device
690 conmode=
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692 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
693
694 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
695
696 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 697 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 698 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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699 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
700 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
701 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
702 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
703
e52347bd 704 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
f1a1c2dc 705 information. See
d9d6ef25 706 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
f1a1c2dc 707 alternative.
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709 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
710 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 711 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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712 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
713 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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714 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
715 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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716 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
717 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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718 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
719 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
720 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
721 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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722 the h/w is not re-initialized.
723
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724 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
725 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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727 { null | "" }
728 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
729 console messages discarded.
730 This must be the only console= parameter used on the
731 kernel command line.
732
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733 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
734 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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735 console=brl,ttyS0
736 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
737
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738 console_msg_format=
739 [KNL] Change console messages format
740 default
741 By default we print messages on consoles in
742 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
743 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
744 `printk_time' param).
745 syslog
746 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
747 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
748 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
749 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
750 from /proc/kmsg.
751
f324edc8 752 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 753 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 754 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 755
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756 coredump_filter=
757 [KNL] Change the default value for
758 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
cd4ca341 759 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
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761 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
762 [ARM,ARM64]
763 Format: <bool>
764 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
765 0: default value, disable debugging
766 1: enable debugging at boot time
767
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768 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
769 disable the cpuidle sub-system
770
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771 cpuidle.governor=
772 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
773
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774 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
775 disable the cpufreq sub-system
776
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777 cpufreq.default_governor=
778 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
779 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
780 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
781
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782 cpu_init_udelay=N
783 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
784 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
785 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
786 Default: 10000
787
1da177e4 788 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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789 Format:
790 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 791
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792 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
793 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
794 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
795 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
796 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
b9ac3849 797 is selected automatically.
be3a5b0e 798 [KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
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799 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
800 hasn't been specified.
330d4810 801 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
dc009d92 802
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803 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
804 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
805 in the running system. The syntax of range is
806 start-[end] where start and end are both
807 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
330d4810 808 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
fb391599 809
adbc742b 810 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
be3a5b0e 811 [KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
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812 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
813 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
814 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
815 available.
816 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
adbc742b 817 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
be3a5b0e 818 [KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
adbc742b 819 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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820 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
821 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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822 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
823 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
824 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
825 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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826 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
827 for second kernel instead.
828 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 829 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 830 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 831
9e5c9fe4 832 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 833 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 834
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835 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
836 Format: <dma>
837
838 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
839 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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841 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
842 handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
843 printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
844 detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
845 to resolve the hang situation.
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846 0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
847 1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
848 ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
849 but more data)
8d0968cc 850
a9913044 851 dasd= [HW,NET]
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852 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
853
854 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
855 (one device per port)
856 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 857 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
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858
859 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
860
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861 debug_boot_weak_hash
862 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
863 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
864 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
865 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
866 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
867 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
868
cae2ed9a 869 debug_locks_verbose=
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870 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests
871 Format: <int>
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872 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
873 self-tests.
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874 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
875 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
876 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
877 useful to lockdep developers.
cae2ed9a 878
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879 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
880
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881 no_debug_objects
882 [KNL] Disable object debugging
883
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884 debug_guardpage_minorder=
885 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
886 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
887 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
888 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
889 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
890 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
891 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
892 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
893 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
894 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
895 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
896 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
897 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
898 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
899 bypassed) which are not detectable by
900 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
901 tracking down these problems.
902
031bc574 903 debug_pagealloc=
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904 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
905 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
906 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
907 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
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908 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
909 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
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910 on: enable the feature
911
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912 debugfs= [KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
913 and debugfs internal clients.
914 Format: { on, no-mount, off }
915 on: All functions are enabled.
916 no-mount:
917 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
918 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
919 its content. There is nothing to mount.
920 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients
921 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
922 or directories within debugfs.
923 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
924 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
925 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
926
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927 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
928
2d27a966 929 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 930 Format: <area>[,<node>]
9a69fb9c 931 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
1da177e4 932
0cb55ad2 933 default_hugepagesz=
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934 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
935 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
936 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
937 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
938 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
939 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
940 sizes are architecture dependent. See also
941 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
942 Format: size[KMG]
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944 deferred_probe_timeout=
945 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
946 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
947 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
948 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
949 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
950 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
951 retrying.
952
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953 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
954 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
955 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
956 hardware.
957
958 dell_smm_hwmon.force=
959 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
960 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
961 blacklisted features.
962
963 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
964 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
965 (disabled by default).
966
967 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
968 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
969 capability is set.
970
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971 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
972 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
973
974 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
975 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
976
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977 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
978 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
979 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
980 level 1 and decompression (default)
981 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
982 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
983 only (compression on level 1)
984 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
985 only (decompression)
986 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
987 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
988
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989 dhash_entries= [KNL]
990 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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992 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
993 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
994 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
995 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
996 miss to occur.
997
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998 stress_slb [PPC]
999 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
1000 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
1001 on kernel addresses.
1002
b0f83b28 1003 disable= [IPV6]
19093313 1004 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
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1006 hardened_usercopy=
1007 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1008 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1009 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1010 from reading or writing beyond known memory
1011 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1012 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1013 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1014 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1015 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1016
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1017 disable_radix [PPC]
1018 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1019
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1020 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES]
1021 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
1022 invalidate.
1023
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1024 disable_tlbie [PPC]
1025 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1026 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1027
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1028 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1029 Format: <int>
1030 The number of initial APIC ID for the
1031 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1032 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1033 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1034 causing system reset or hang due to sending
1035 INIT from AP to BSP.
1036
6dddd7a7 1037 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
255bf90f 1038 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
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1039 to workaround buggy firmware.
1040
b0f83b28 1041 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
19093313 1042 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
b0f83b28 1043
95ffa243 1044 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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1045 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1046 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 1047 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 1048
093af8d7 1049 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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1050 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1051 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1052 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1053 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1054
6cececfc 1055 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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1056 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1057 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1058
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1059 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1060
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1061 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1062 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1063
1064 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1065 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1066 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1067 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1068 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1069 architectural default is too low.
1070
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1071 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1072 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1073 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1074 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1075 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1076 driver later using sysfs.
1077
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1078 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
1079 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1080 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1081
53fd40a9 1082 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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1083 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1084 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1085 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1086 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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1087 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1088 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1089 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1090 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1091 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
cd4ca341 1092 available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
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1093 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1094 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
96206e29
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1095 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1096 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1097 data set with no connector name will be used for
1098 any connectors not explicitly specified.
da0df92b 1099
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1100 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1101
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1102 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
1103 Format: {"off" | "known"}
1104 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1105 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1106 exists).
1107 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1108 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1109 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1110
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1111 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1112 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1113 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1114 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1115
29e36c9f 1116 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
307e3ee9 1117 <module>.dyndbg[="val"]
29e36c9f 1118 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
787e3075
SM
1119 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1120 for details.
29e36c9f 1121
06976945
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1122 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1123 in some Intel CPUs.
1124
307e3ee9 1125 <module>.async_probe [KNL]
f2411da7
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1126 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1127
56aeeba8
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1128 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1129 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1130 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1131 which are not unmapped.
1132
0cb55ad2 1133 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 1134
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1135 When used with no options, the early console is
1136 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1137 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1138 the platform.
5664f764 1139
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1140 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1141 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1142 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1143 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1144 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1145 configured.
6fa62fc4 1146
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1147 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1148 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 1149 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 1150 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 1151 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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1152 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1153 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1154 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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1155 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1156 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1157 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1158 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1159 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 1160
0d3c673e 1161 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1162 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
0d3c673e
RH
1163 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1164 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1165 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1166 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1167 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1168 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1169
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1170 liteuart,<addr>
1171 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1172 specified address. The serial port must already be
1173 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1174
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AF
1175 meson,<addr>
1176 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1177 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1178 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1179 supported.
1180
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1181 msm_serial,<addr>
1182 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1183 port at the specified address. The serial port
1184 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1185 yet supported.
1186
1187 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1188 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1189 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1190 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1191 yet supported.
1192
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AF
1193 owl,<addr>
1194 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1195 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1196 specified address. The serial port must already be
1197 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1198
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1199 rda,<addr>
1200 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1201 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1202 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1203 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1204
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1205 sbi
1206 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1207 console.
1208
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1209 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1210
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1211 s3c2410,<addr>
1212 s3c2412,<addr>
1213 s3c2440,<addr>
1214 s3c6400,<addr>
1215 s5pv210,<addr>
1216 exynos4210,<addr>
1217 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1218 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1219 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1220 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1221 Options are not yet supported.
1222
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1223 lantiq,<addr>
1224 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1225 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1226 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1227 yet supported.
1228
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1229 lpuart,<addr>
1230 lpuart32,<addr>
1231 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1232 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1233 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1234 port must already be setup and configured.
1235
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1236 ec_imx21,<addr>
1237 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1238 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1239 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1240 must already be setup and configured.
1241
f7c864e7 1242 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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1243 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1244 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1245 address. The serial port must already be setup
1246 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1247
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1248 qcom_geni,<addr>
1249 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1250 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1251 specified address. The serial port must already be
1252 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1253
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1254 efifb,[options]
1255 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1256 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1257 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1258 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1259 mapped with the correct attributes.
1260
09864c1c 1261 linflex,<addr>
9905f32a 1262 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
09864c1c
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1263 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1264 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1265 already be setup and configured.
1266
4ba66a97 1267 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1268 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1269 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1270 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1271 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1272 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1273 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1274 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1275 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1276 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1277
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DH
1278 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1279 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1280 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1281
a9913044 1282 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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LT
1283 takes over.
1284
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MF
1285 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1286 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1287
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DH
1288 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1289 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1290 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1291 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1292 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1293 You can find the port for a given device in
1294 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1295 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1296
1297 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1298 very good.
1299
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1300 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1301 the real console.
1da177e4 1302
42bc9716 1303 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
2482a92e 1304
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1305 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1306
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FT
1307 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1308 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1309 UART class.
1310
c700f013
CG
1311 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1312 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1313 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1314 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1315 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1316 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1317 default: on.
1318
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1319 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1320 ekgdboc=kbd
1321
25985edc 1322 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
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1323 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1324
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1325 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1326 but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1327 very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1328 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1329
1da177e4 1330 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1331 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1332
d2f7cbe7 1333 efi= [EFI]
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HS
1334 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1335 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
fb1201ae 1336 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
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1337 debug: enable misc debug output.
1338 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1339 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
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1340 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1341 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1342 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1343 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
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DW
1344 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1345 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1346 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1347 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1348 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1349 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
c03f739f 1350 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
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1351 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1352 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
d2f7cbe7 1353
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1354 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1355 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1356 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1357 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1358 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1359
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TI
1360 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1361 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1362 updating original EFI memory map.
1363 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1364 from ss to ss+nn.
199c8471 1365
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TI
1366 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1367 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1368 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1369 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1370
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DW
1371 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1372 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1373 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1374
0f96a99d 1375 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
199c8471 1376 related features. For example, you can do debugging of
0f96a99d 1377 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
199c8471
DW
1378 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1379 "soft reserved".
0f96a99d 1380
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1381 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1382 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1383 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1384 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
cb1aaebe 1385 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
475fb4e8
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1386
1387
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LT
1388 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1389 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1390
cd4f0ef7 1391 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1392 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1393 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4 1394
d3bf3795 1395 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1396 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1397 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1398 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
330d4810 1399 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1da177e4 1400
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RD
1401 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1402 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1403 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1404 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1405
ca1eda2d 1406 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1407 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1408 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1409 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1410 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1411
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LT
1412 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1413 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1414 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1415 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1416 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1417 Default value is 0.
d41415eb
SS
1418 Value can be changed at runtime via
1419 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1da177e4 1420
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HY
1421 erst_disable [ACPI]
1422 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1423 support.
1424
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LT
1425 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1426 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1427 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1428
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MZ
1429 evm= [EVM]
1430 Format: { "fix" }
1431 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1432 current integrity status.
1433
de1ba09b 1434 failslab=
2c739ced 1435 fail_usercopy=
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AM
1436 fail_page_alloc=
1437 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1438 General fault injection mechanism.
1439 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1440 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1441
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1442 fb_tunnels= [NET]
1443 Format: { initns | none }
1444 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1445 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1446
1da177e4 1447 floppy= [HW]
e7751617 1448 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1da177e4 1449
f13ae30e
AC
1450 force_pal_cache_flush
1451 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1452 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1453 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1454 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1455
6dddd7a7 1456 forcepae [X86-32]
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CB
1457 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1458 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1459 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1460 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1461 and may cause unknown problems.
1462
d9e54076 1463 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1464 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1465 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1466 boot debugging.
1467
380af29b
SRG
1468 ftrace_boot_snapshot
1469 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1470 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1471 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1472 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1473 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1474 start up functionality.
1475
cecbca96 1476 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1477 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1478 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1479 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1480 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1481 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1482
1483 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1484 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
25942e5e 1485 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
2af15d6a
SR
1486 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1487 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1488 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1489
1490 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1491 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1492 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1493 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1494 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1495
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SA
1496 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1497 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1498 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
25942e5e 1499 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
369bc18f
SA
1500 that can be changed at run time by the
1501 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1502
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NK
1503 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1504 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
25942e5e 1505 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of
0d7d9a16
NK
1506 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1507 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1508
65a50c65
TB
1509 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1510 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1511 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1512 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1513 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1514
8375e74f
SK
1515 fw_devlink= [KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1516 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1517 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1518 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1519 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1520 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1521 clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1522 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1523 suppliers).
1524 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1525 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info.
1526 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1527 but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1528 up (sync_state() calls).
1529 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it
1530 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1531 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1532
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1533 fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1534 [KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1535 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1536 Format: <bool>
1537
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LT
1538 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1539 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1540 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1541 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1542 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1543
1544 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1545
be3a5b0e 1546 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1547 Format: off | on
1548 default: on
1549
2521f2c2
PO
1550 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1551 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1552 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1553 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1554 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1555
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TG
1556 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1557 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1558 android emulator
1559
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AD
1560 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1561 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1562 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
6984a320
AD
1563 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1564 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
3eb52226 1565
1da177e4 1566 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1567 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1568 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1569 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1570
6cec9b07
AL
1571 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1572 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1573 Format: 0 | 1
1574 Default: 0
1575 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1576 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1577 Format: 0 | 1
1578 Default: 0
1579 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1580 Format: 0 | 1
1581 Default: 0
1582 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1583 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1584 Default: 1024
1585 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1586 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1587 Default: 1024
1588
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1589 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1590 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1591 backtraces on all cpus.
f117955a 1592 Format: 0 | 1
55537871 1593
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1594 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1595 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1596 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1597 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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1598
1599 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1600
1601 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1602 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1603
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1604 hest_disable [ACPI]
1605 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1606 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1607 logic will be disabled.
1608
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LT
1609 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1610 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1611 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1612 size on bigger boxes.
1613
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1614 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1615 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1616 Default: "on"
1617
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1618 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1619
1620 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1621 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1622 verbose }
1623 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1624 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1625 VIA, nVidia)
1626 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1627
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1628 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1629 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1630
bc47190d 1631 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
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1632 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1633 of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1634 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1635 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
cf11e85f 1636
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1637 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1638 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
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1639 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1640
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1641 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1642 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1643 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1644 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1645 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
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1646 the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1647 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1648 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1649 Format: <integer> or (node format)
1650 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
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1651
1652 hugepagesz=
1653 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in
1654 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1655 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair
1656 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1657 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1658 architecture dependent. See also
1659 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1660 Format: size[KMG]
6902aa84 1661
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1662 hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1663 [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
1664 enabled.
1665 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
e7d32485 1666 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
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1667 Format: { on | off (default) }
1668
1669 on: enable the feature
1670 off: disable the feature
1671
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1672 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1673 the default is on.
1674
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1675 This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1676 If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
1677 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1678
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1679 hung_task_panic=
1680 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
f117955a 1681 Format: 0 | 1
cef7125d 1682
b467f3ef 1683 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
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1684 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1685 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1686 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1687 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1688
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1689 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1690 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1691 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1692 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1693 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
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1694
1695 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1696 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1697 guest on lock contention.
1698
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1699 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1700 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1701 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1702 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1703 the real console.
1704
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1705 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1706 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1707 registered from board initialization code.
1708 Format:
1709 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1710
36d95739 1711 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
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1712 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1713 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1714 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1715 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1716 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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1717 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1718 keyboard and cannot control its state
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1719 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1720 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1721 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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1722 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1723 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1724 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1725 controller
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1726 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1727 controllers
24775d65 1728 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
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1729 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1730 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1731 transitions, or never reset
1732 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1733 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1734 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1735 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1736 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1737 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1738 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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1739 i8042.probe_defer
1740 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
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1741
1742 i810= [HW,DRM]
1743
4dca20ef 1744 i915.invert_brightness=
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1745 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1746 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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1747 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1748 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1749 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1750 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1751 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1752 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1753 value switches the backlight off.
1754 -1 -- never invert brightness
1755 0 -- machine default
1756 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1757
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1758 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1759 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1760
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1761 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1762 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
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1763 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1764 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
d7b461c5 1765 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1da177e4 1766
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MR
1767 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1768 Format: <int>
1769 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1770 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1771 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1772 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1773 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1774 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1775 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1776 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1777 was 0x3.
1778
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1779 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1780 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1781
f039b754 1782 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1783 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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1784 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1785 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1786 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1787 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1788 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1789 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1790 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1791
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DJ
1792 idxd.sva= [HW]
1793 Format: <bool>
1794 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1795 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1796 true (1).
1797
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DJ
1798 idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1799 Format: <bool>
1800 Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1801 for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1802
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MR
1803 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1804 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1805 Default: strict
1806
1807 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1808 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1809 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1810 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1811 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1812 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1813 encoding mode.
1814
1815 Available settings are as follows:
1816 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1817 supported by the FPU
1818 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1819 by the FPU
1820 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1821 by the FPU
1822 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1823 supported by the FPU
1824
1825 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1826 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1827 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1828 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1829 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1830 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1831 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1832 MIPS64 CPUs.
1833
1834 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1835 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1836 except where unsupported by hardware.
1837
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IM
1838 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1839 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1840 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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YZ
1841 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1842 could change it dynamically, usually by
1843 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1844
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KK
1845 ignore_rlimit_data
1846 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1847 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1848 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1849
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LT
1850 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1851 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1852
2fe5d6de 1853 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1854 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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MZ
1855 default: "enforce"
1856
41475a3e 1857 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
07f6a794
MZ
1858 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1859 owned by uid=0.
1860
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MZ
1861 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1862 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1863 measurements, instead of host native format.
1864
3323eec9 1865 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1866 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1867 | sha512 | ... }
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MZ
1868 default: "sha1"
1869
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MZ
1870 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1871 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1872
24fd03c8 1873 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1874 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
9e67028e 1875 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
03cee168 1876 fail_securely | critical_data"
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1877
1878 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1879 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1880 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1881 uid=0.
1882
1883 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1884 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1885
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1886 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1887 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1888 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1889
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1890 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1891 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1892 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1893 flag.
1894
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1895 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1896 critical data.
1897
24fd03c8 1898 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1899 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1900 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1901 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1902 opened for read by uid=0.
1903
6dddd7a7 1904 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1905 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1906 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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RS
1907 Default: "ima-ng"
1908
c2426d2a 1909 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1910 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1911 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1912
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DK
1913 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1914 Format: <min_file_size>
1915 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1916 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1917
1918 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1919 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1920 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1921
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1922 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1923 Format: <bufsize>
1924 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1925
1926 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1927 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1928 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1929
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1930 init= [KNL]
1931 Format: <full_path>
1932 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1933 process.
1934
1935 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1936 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1937 startup.
1938
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1939 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1940 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1941 modules and initcalls.
1942
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1943 initramfs_async= [KNL]
1944 Format: <bool>
1945 Default: 1
1946 This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1947 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1948 with devices being probed and
1949 initialized. This should normally just work,
1950 but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1951 historical behaviour of the initramfs
1952 unpacking being completed before device_ and
1953 late_ initcalls.
1954
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1955 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1956
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1957 initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1958 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1959 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1960 setting.
1961 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1962 Default is 0, 0
1963
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1964 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1965 zeroes.
1966 Format: 0 | 1
1967 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1968
1969 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1970 Format: 0 | 1
1971 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1972
be3a5b0e 1973 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
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DH
1974 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1975 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1976 override in debugfs after boot.
1977
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1978 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1979 Format: <irq>
1980
be3a5b0e 1981 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1982
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1983 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1984 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1985 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1986 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1987
ba395927 1988 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1989 on
1990 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1991 off
1992 Disable intel iommu driver.
1993 igfx_off [Default Off]
1994 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1995 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1996 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1997 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1998 DMA.
5e0d2a6f 1999 strict [Default Off]
1d479f16 2000 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
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2001 sp_off [Default Off]
2002 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2003 has the capability. With this option, super page will
2004 not be supported.
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2005 sm_on
2006 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2007 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2008 translation.
2009 sm_off
2010 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
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2011 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2012 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2013 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2014 could harm performance of some high-throughput
2015 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2016 mapping is enabled.
2017 Note that using this option lowers the security
2018 provided by tboot because it makes the system
2019 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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2020
2021 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2022 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 2023 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 2024
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TB
2025 intel_pstate= [X86]
2026 disable
2027 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2028 scaling driver for the supported processors
2029 passive
2030 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2031 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2032 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
2033 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2034 feature.
2035 force
2036 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2037 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2038 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2039 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2040 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2041 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2042 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2043 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2044 no_hwp
2045 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2046 if available.
2047 hwp_only
2048 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2049 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2050 support_acpi_ppc
2051 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2052 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2053 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2054 then this feature is turned on by default.
2055 per_cpu_perf_limits
2056 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2057 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 2058
d1423d56 2059 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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CW
2060 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2061 off disable Interrupt Remapping
2062 nosid disable Source ID checking
41750d31
SS
2063 no_x2apic_optout
2064 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 2065 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 2066
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2067 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2068 strict regions from userspace.
2069 relaxed
2070
be3a5b0e 2071 iommu= [X86]
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2072 off
2073 force
2074 noforce
2075 biomerge
2076 panic
2077 nopanic
2078 merge
2079 nomerge
0cb55ad2 2080 soft
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2081 pt [X86]
2082 nopt [X86]
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TLSC
2083 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
2084 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
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RM
2086 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2087 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2088 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2089 falling back to the full range if needed.
2090 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2091 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2092 greater than 32-bit addressing.
2093
531353e6 2094 iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
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2095 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2096 0 - Lazy mode.
2097 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2098 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2099 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2100 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2101 the relevant IOMMU driver.
712d8f20 2102 1 - Strict mode.
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ZL
2103 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2104 synchronously.
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RM
2105 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2106 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2107 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
68a6efe8 2108
fccb4e3b 2109 iommu.passthrough=
c8fb436b 2110 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
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WD
2111 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2112 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2113 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 2114 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
0cb55ad2 2115
7c42376e 2116 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
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2117 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2118 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2119
6cececfc 2120 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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2121 0x80
2122 Standard port 0x80 based delay
2123 0xed
2124 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 2125 udelay
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2126 Simple two microseconds delay
2127 none
2128 No delay
b02aae9c 2129
1da177e4 2130 ip= [IP_PNP]
3eb30c51 2131 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4 2132
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WL
2133 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2134 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2135
fbf19803 2136 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 2137 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 2138
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2139 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2140 [ARM, ARM64]
2141 Format: <bool>
2142 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2143 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2144 exposed by the device tree is too small.
2145
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2146 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2147 [ARM, ARM64]
2148 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2149 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2150 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2151 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2152 LPIs.
2153
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2154 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2155 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2156 requires the kernel to be built with
2157 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2158
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AC
2159 irqfixup [HW]
2160 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2161 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2162 firmware running.
2163
2164 irqpoll [HW]
2165 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2166 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2167 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2168 firmware running.
2169
1da177e4 2170 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 2171 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 2172
d94d1053 2173 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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2174 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2175 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2176
2177 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2178 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2179
2180 nohz
2181 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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2182
2183 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2184 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2185 workqueue's affinity configured via the
2186 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2187 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2188
2189 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2190 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2191 be configured manually after bootup.
2192
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2193 domain
2194 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2195 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2196 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2197 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2198 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2199 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2200 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2201 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2202
2203 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2204 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2205 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2206 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2207
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2208 managed_irq
2209
2210 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2211 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2212 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2213 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2214 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2215
2216 This isolation is best effort and only effective
2217 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2218 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2219 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2220 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2221 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2222 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2223
2224 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2225 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2226 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2227 only delivered when tasks running on those
2228 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2229 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2230 queues.
1da177e4 2231
11ea68f5 2232 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1da177e4 2233
a9913044 2234 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 2235
be3a5b0e 2236 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64]
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JR
2237 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2238 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2239 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2240 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2241 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2242
be3a5b0e 2243 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64]
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JR
2244 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2245 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2246 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2247 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2248 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2249
be3a5b0e 2250 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64]
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SS
2251 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2252 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2253 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2254 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2255 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2256
1da177e4 2257 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 2258 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 2259
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2260 nokaslr [KNL]
2261 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2262 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2263 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 2264
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MR
2265 kasan_multi_shot
2266 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2267 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2268 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2269 invalid access.
2270
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RD
2271 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
2272
342332e6 2273 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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DR
2274 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2275 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2276 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2277 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2278 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2279 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2280 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2281 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2282 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2283
2284 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2285 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2286 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2287 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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MG
2288 zone if it does not.
2289
a5c6d650
DR
2290 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2291 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2292 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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TI
2293 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2294 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
a5c6d650
DR
2295 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2296 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
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JW
2298 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2299 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2300 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2301 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2302 optional and is the number seconds in between
2303 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2304 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2305 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2306 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2307 the kernel debugger.
2308
84c08fd6 2309 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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JW
2310 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2311 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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JW
2312 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2313 keyboard only format: kbd
2314 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2315 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2316 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2317 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 2318
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DA
2319 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW]
2320 If the boot console provides the ability to read
2321 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2322 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2323 until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2324 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2325 specifies the normal console to transition to.
2326
2327 The name of the early console should be specified
2328 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2329 the early console might be different than the tty
2330 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2331 blank and the first boot console that implements
2332 read() will be picked.
2333
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JW
2334 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2335 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2336
497de97e 2337 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
9bed90c6
FF
2338 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2339 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2340
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CM
2341 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2342 Valid arguments: on, off
2343 Default: on
47aeeddc
MI
2344 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2345 the default is off.
04f70336 2346
970988e1
MH
2347 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2348 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2349 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2350 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2351 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2352 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2353 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2354
2355 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2356
2357 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2358 Boot Parameter" section.
2359
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JL
2360 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2361 and kernel address spaces.
2362 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2363 0: force disabled
2364 1: force enabled
2365
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AP
2366 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2367 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2368
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DM
2369 kvm.eager_page_split=
2370 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2371 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2372 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2373 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2374 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2375 required to split huge pages lazily.
2376
2377 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2378 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2379 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2380 still be used for reads.
2381
2382 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2383 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2384 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2385 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
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DM
2386 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2387 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2388 cleared.
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DM
2389
2390 Eager page splitting currently only supports splitting
2391 huge pages mapped by the TDP MMU.
2392
2393 Default is Y (on).
2394
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LA
2395 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2396 Default is false (don't support).
2397
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PB
2398 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2399 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2400 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2401 force : Always deploy workaround.
2402 off : Never deploy workaround.
2403 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2404 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2405
2406 Default is 'auto'.
2407
2408 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2409 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2410
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JS
2411 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2412 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2413 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2414 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
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JS
2415 period (see below). The default is 60.
2416
2417 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2418 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2419 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2420 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2421 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2422 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
1aa9b957 2423
fef07aae 2424 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2425 Default is 1 (enabled)
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AP
2426
2427 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2428 for all guests.
16290246 2429 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 2430
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DB
2431 kvm-arm.mode=
2432 [KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2433
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MZ
2434 none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2435
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MZ
2436 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2437 protected guests.
2438
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DB
2439 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2440 state is kept private from the host.
2441 Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2442
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AE
2443 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2444 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2445 for the host.
d8b369c4 2446
e23f62f7
MZ
2447 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2448 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2449 system registers
2450
182936ee
MZ
2451 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2452 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2453 system registers
2454
ff89511e
MZ
2455 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2456 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2457 system registers
2458
a7546054
MZ
2459 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2460 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2461 LPIs.
2462
aed26eeb
SR
2463 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2464 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2465 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2466 allocation.
2467 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2468 Format: <integer>
2469 Default: 5
2470
fef07aae
AP
2471 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2472 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2473 Default is 1 (enabled)
2474
2475 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
0ff29701
SC
2476 [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2477 Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2478 guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2479 This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2480 never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2481 Default is 1 (enabled)
fef07aae
AP
2482
2483 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2484 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2485 Default is 1 (enabled)
2486
e1a72ae2
SL
2487 kvm-intel.nested=
2488 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2489 Default is 0 (disabled)
2490
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AP
2491 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2492 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2493 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2494 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2495
a399477e
KRW
2496 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2497 CVE-2018-3620.
2498
2499 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2500
2501 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2502 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2503 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2504 never: Disables the mitigation
2505
2506 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2507
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AP
2508 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2509 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2510 Default is 1 (enabled)
2511
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BS
2512 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL]
2513 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2514
2515 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2516 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2517 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2518
2519 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2520 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2521 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2522 not have direct access.
2523
2524 This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2525 options are:
2526
2527 on - enable the interface for the mitigation
2528
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JK
2529 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2530 affected CPUs
2531
2532 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2533 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2534
2535 full
2536 Provides all available mitigations for the
2537 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2538 enables all mitigations in the
2539 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2540
2541 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2542 sysfs interface is still possible after
2543 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2544 when the first VM is started in a
2545 potentially insecure configuration,
2546 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2547
2548 full,force
2549 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2550 flush runtime control. Implies the
2551 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2552 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2553
2554 flush
2555 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2556 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2557 L1D flush.
2558
2559 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2560 sysfs interface is still possible after
2561 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2562 when the first VM is started in a
2563 potentially insecure configuration,
2564 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2565
2566 flush,nosmt
2567
2568 Disables SMT and enables the default
2569 hypervisor mitigation.
2570
2571 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2572 sysfs interface is still possible after
2573 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2574 when the first VM is started in a
2575 potentially insecure configuration,
2576 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2577
2578 flush,nowarn
2579 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2580 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2581 insecure configuration.
2582
2583 off
2584 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2585 emit any warnings.
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MH
2586 It also drops the swap size and available
2587 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2588 bare metal.
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JK
2589
2590 Default is 'flush'.
2591
65fd4cb6 2592 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2593
1da177e4
LT
2594 l2cr= [PPC]
2595
a78bfbfc
RB
2596 l3cr= [PPC]
2597
cd4f0ef7 2598 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2599 disabled it.
1da177e4 2600
622381e6 2601 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
279f1461
SS
2602 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2603 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
622381e6 2604 Format: notscdeadline
279f1461 2605
6cececfc 2606 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2607 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2608
fcb71f6f
FC
2609 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2610 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2611 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2612 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2613 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
fcb71f6f
FC
2614 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2615 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2616
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MP
2617 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2618 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2619 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2620
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DJ
2621 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2622 when set.
2623 Format: <int>
2624
25942e5e 2625 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma-
33267325 2626 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2627 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
33267325
TH
2628 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2629 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2630 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2631 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2632 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2633
2634 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2635 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2636 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2637 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2638 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2639 host link and device attached to it.
2640
2641 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2642 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2643 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2644 The following configurations can be forced.
2645
2646 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2647 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2648
2649 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2650
2651 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2652 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2653 allowed.
2654
2655 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2656
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MP
2657 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2658
05944bdf 2659 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2660 and both resets.
05944bdf 2661
ca6d43b0
DW
2662 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2663 hot-unplug link recovery
2664
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TH
2665 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2666
966fbe19
VP
2667 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2668
b8bd6dc3
RJ
2669 * disable: Disable this device.
2670
33267325
TH
2671 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2672 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2673
95f72d1e 2674 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2675
6b99e6e6 2676 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
1da177e4 2677
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RD
2678 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2679 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2680
a6b25b67
RD
2681 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2682 Format: <integer>
2683
2684 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2685 Format: <integer>
2686
2687 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2688 Format: <integer>
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2690 lockdown= [SECURITY]
2691 { integrity | confidentiality }
2692 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2693 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2694 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2695 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2696 to extract confidential information from the kernel
2697 are also disabled.
2698
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PM
2699 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2700 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2701 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2702 number of online CPUs.
2703
2704 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2705 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2706
2707 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2708 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2709
2710 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2711 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2712 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2713
2714 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2715 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2716 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2717 mode during the locktorture test.
2718
2719 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2720 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2721 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2722
2723 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2724 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2725
2726 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2727 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2728 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2729 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2730 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2731 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2732
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2733 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2734 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2735
2736 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2737 Enable additional printk() statements.
2738
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LT
2739 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2740 Format: <irq>
2741
2742 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2743 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2744 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2745 loglevels are defined as follows:
2746
2747 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2748 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2749 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2750 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2751 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2752 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2753 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2754 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2755
c756d08a 2756 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
23b2899f
LR
2757 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2758 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2759 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2760 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2761 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2762 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
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RD
2764 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2765 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2766 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2767 kernel boot problems.
2768
1da177e4
LT
2769 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2770 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2771 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2772 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2773 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2774 attached printers to be reset. Using
2775 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2776 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2777 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2778 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2779 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2780 port specification list means that device IDs
2781 from each port should be examined, to see if
2782 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2783 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2784 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2785
2786 lpj=n [KNL]
2787 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2788 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2789 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2790 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2791 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2792 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2793 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2794 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2795 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2796 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2797 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2798 hardware.
2799
2800 ltpc= [NET]
2801 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2802
9b8c7c14
KC
2803 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2804
79f7865d
KC
2805 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2806 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2807 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2808
16290246 2809 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
a9913044 2810 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
df43acac 2811 Example: machvec=hpzx1
1da177e4 2812
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RD
2813 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2814 different yeeloong laptops.
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WZ
2815 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2816
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2817 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2818 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1da177e4
LT
2819
2820 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2821 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2822 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2823 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2824 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2825 only takes effect during system bootup.
2826 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2827 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2828
d134b00b
KS
2829 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2830 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2831 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2832 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2833 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2834 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2835
cd4f0ef7 2836 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2837
cb1aaebe 2838 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
909dd324 2839
1da177e4 2840 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2841 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2842
1da177e4
LT
2843 mdacon= [MDA]
2844 Format: <first>,<last>
2845 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2846
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TG
2847 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2848 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2849 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2850
2851 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2852 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2853 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2854
2855 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2856 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2857 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2858 not have direct access.
2859
2860 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2861 options are:
2862
d71eb0ce
JP
2863 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2864 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2865 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2866 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170 2867
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WL
2868 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2869 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2870 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2871 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2872 too.
2873
bc124170
TG
2874 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2875 mds=full.
2876
5999bbe7
TG
2877 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2878
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MR
2879 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
2880 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
2881
1da177e4 2882 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
f3cd4c86
BH
2883 Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2884
2885 1 for test;
2886 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2887 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2888 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
75c05fab
MR
2889 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
2890
2891 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
2892 high memory is not affected.
2893
2894 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
2895 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
f3cd4c86 2896
fbb97d87
WC
2897 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2898 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2899 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2900 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2901
f3cd4c86
BH
2902 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2903 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2904 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2905
75c05fab
MR
2906 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2907 [ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
2908 firmware.
2909 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
2910 ss[KMG].
2911 Multiple different regions can be specified with
2912 multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
2913
cd4f0ef7 2914 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2915 memory.
2916
6902aa84
PM
2917 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2918 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2919 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2920
6dddd7a7 2921 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2922 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2923 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2924 set according to the
2925 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2926 option.
cb1aaebe 2927 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
86dd995d 2928
6cececfc 2929 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2930 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2931 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2932 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2933 option description.
2934
2935 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
4c8e3de4 2936 [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
277cba1d 2937 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2938 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2939 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2940 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2941 comma delimited.
2942 Example:
2943 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2944
2945 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2946 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2947 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2948
2949 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2950 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2951 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2952 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2953 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2954 or
2955 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2956 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2957 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2958 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2959
ec776ef6
CH
2960 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2961 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2962 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2963 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2964 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2965
ef61f8a3
JS
2966 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2967 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2968 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2969 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2970 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2971 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2972 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2973 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2974
9f077871
JF
2975 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2976 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2977 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2978 Setting this option will scan the memory
2979 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2980 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2981 from using the memory being corrupted.
2982 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2983 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2984 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2985 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2986
2987 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2988 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2989 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2990 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2991 corruption in more or less memory.
2992
2993 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2994 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2995 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2996 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2997
e3a9d9fc
OS
2998 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
2999 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3000 Format: {on | off (default)}
3001 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3002 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
3003 from the hotadded memory which will allow to
3004 hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
3005 additional memory to do so.
3006 This feature is disabled by default because it
3007 has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3008 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3009 memory blocks).
3010 The state of the flag can be read in
3011 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3012 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3013 the feature is not effective.
3014
4bab4964
MS
3015 This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
3016 both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
3017 precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
3018
376e3fde 3019 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
c64df707 3020 Format: <integer>
c64df707 3021 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
3022 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3023 performed. Each pass selects another test
3024 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3025 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3026 memory contents and reserves bad memory
3027 regions that are detected.
c64df707 3028
c262f3b9
TL
3029 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3030 Valid arguments: on, off
3031 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3032 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3033 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3034 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
3035 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
3036
2f5947df 3037 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
c262f3b9
TL
3038 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3039
406e7938
RW
3040 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3041 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
3042 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3043 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 3044 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 3045
1da177e4 3046 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
32e2eae2 3047 See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
1da177e4 3048
8f36881b
AS
3049 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3050 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3051 platforms.
3052
e6c4dc6c
WT
3053 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3054 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3055 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3056 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3057
1da177e4
LT
3058 mga= [HW,DRM]
3059
1c207f95
RD
3060 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
3061 physical address is ignored.
3062
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MP
3063 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
3064 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3065 Default: "0tb"
3066 MINI2440 configuration specification:
3067 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3068 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3069 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3070 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3071 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3072 unconfigured.
3073 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3074 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3075 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3076 VGA shield.
3077 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3078 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3079 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3080 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3081 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
6b2484e1 3082 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
39f45d7b 3083
98af8452 3084 mitigations=
a111b7c0
JP
3085 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3086 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
3087 arch-independent options, each of which is an
3088 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
3089
3090 off
3091 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
3092 improves system performance, but it may also
3093 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 3094 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 3095 kpti=0 [ARM64]
a2059825 3096 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
0336e04a 3097 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 3098 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 3099 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 3100 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 3101 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 3102 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 3103 mds=off [X86]
a7a248c5 3104 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
b8e8c830 3105 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
f7964378 3106 no_entry_flush [PPC]
9a32a7e7 3107 no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
b8e8c830
PB
3108
3109 Exceptions:
3110 This does not have any effect on
3111 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3112 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
98af8452
JP
3113
3114 auto (default)
3115 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3116 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
3117 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3118 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3119 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 3120 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
98af8452
JP
3121
3122 auto,nosmt
3123 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3124 if needed. This is for users who always want to
3125 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 3126 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 3127 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
a7a248c5 3128 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 3129
6b74ab97
MG
3130 mminit_loglevel=
3131 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3132 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3133 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3134 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3135 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3136 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3137
106a4ee2
RR
3138 module.sig_enforce
3139 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3140 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 3141 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
3142 is always true, so this option does nothing.
3143
be7de5f9
PB
3144 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3145 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
3146
1da177e4
LT
3147 mousedev.tap_time=
3148 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3149 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3150 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3151 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3152 Format: <msecs>
3153 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3154 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3155 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3156 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3157
a5c6d650
DR
3158 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3159 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3160 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3161 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3162 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3163 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3164 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
3165 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
3166 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3167 is not too small.
3168
f70029bb
MH
3169 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3170 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3171 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3172 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3173 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 3174
1da177e4
LT
3175 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
3176 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3177
a9913044
RD
3178 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
3179 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
3180
3181 mtdparts= [MTD]
fb251124 3182 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
1da177e4 3183
4e89a2d8
WS
3184 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3185 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3186 at a time.
3187
5988af23
RH
3188 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3189
3190 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3191
3192 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3193 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3194 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3195 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3196 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3197
9db829f4
BD
3198 mtdset= [ARM]
3199 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3200
0f12999e 3201 See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
9db829f4 3202
1da177e4 3203 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
3204 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3205 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 3206
0cb55ad2 3207 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 3208 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
3209 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3210
3211 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3212 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3213 Default is 1.
3214 Large value could prevent small alignment from
3215 using up MTRRs.
3216
3217 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3218 Format: <integer>
3219 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3220 Default : 1
3221 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3222 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3223
1da177e4
LT
3224 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3225
1da177e4
LT
3226 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
3227 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3228 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3229 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
3230 This usage is only documented in each driver source
3231 file if at all.
3232
58401572
KPO
3233 nf_conntrack.acct=
3234 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3235 0 to disable accounting
3236 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 3237 Default value is 0.
58401572 3238
306a0753 3239 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
3eb30c51 3240 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3241
3242 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3eb30c51 3243 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4 3244
306a0753 3245 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3eb30c51 3246 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
306a0753 3247
5405fc44
TM
3248 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3249 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3250 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3251 requests.
3252
a72b4422
TM
3253 nfs.callback_tcpport=
3254 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3255 channel should listen.
3256
e571cbf1
TM
3257 nfs.cache_getent=
3258 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3259 to update the NFS client cache entries.
3260
3261 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3262 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3263 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3264
58df095b
TM
3265 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3266 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3267 entries.
3268
f43bf0be
TM
3269 nfs.enable_ino64=
3270 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3271 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3272 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3273 of returning the full 64-bit number.
3274 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3275
5405fc44
TM
3276 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3277 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3278 slots the client will assign to the callback
3279 channel. This determines the maximum number of
3280 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3281 a particular server.
3282
ef159e91
TM
3283 nfs.max_session_slots=
3284 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3285 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3286 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3287 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3288 Note that there is little point in setting this
3289 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3290
b064eca2 3291 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
3292 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3293 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3294 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3295 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3296 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3297 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3298 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3299 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3300 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3301 back to using the idmapper.
3302 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
3303 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3304 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3305 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3306 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
3307 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 3308
db8ac8ba
WAA
3309 nfs.send_implementation_id =
3310 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3311 information in exchange_id requests.
3312 If zero, no implementation identification information
3313 will be sent.
3314 The default is to send the implementation identification
3315 information.
e52347bd 3316
f6de7a39
TM
3317 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3318 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3319 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3320 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3321 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3322 after the locks are lost.
3323 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3324 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3325 parameter to '1'.
3326 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3327 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 3328
bbf58bf3
TM
3329 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3330 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3331 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3332
3333 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3334 whatever value is the default set by the layout
3335 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3336 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3337
6d91929a
BF
3338 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3339 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3340 server-to-server copies for which this server is
3341 the destination of the copy.
3342
3343 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3344 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3345 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3346 the source server. It caches the mount in case
3347 it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3348 used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3349 this parameter.
3350
e9541ce8
BF
3351 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3352 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3353 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3354 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3355 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
3356 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 3357
6d91929a 3358
160c7ba3
PM
3359 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3360 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3361 NMI stack-backtrace request.
3362
c0c74acb 3363 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
3364 when a NMI is triggered.
3365 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3366
6cececfc 3367 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 3368 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 3369 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
3370 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3371 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 3372 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
93285c01
ZD
3373 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3374 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3375 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
334bb79c 3376 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
3377 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3378 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 3379
d22881dc
SW
3380 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3381 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3382
bff38771
AV
3383 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3384 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3385 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3386 waits 4 seconds.
3387
cd4f0ef7 3388 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
3389 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3390 is present.
3391
372fddf7
KS
3392 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3393 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3394
b745cfba 3395 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
dd649bd0 3396
0cb55ad2
RD
3397 no_console_suspend
3398 [HW] Never suspend the console
3399 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3400 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
3401 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3402 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3403 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
3404 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3405 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
3406 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3407 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3408 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3409 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3410 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 3411
c6c40533
KS
3412 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
3413 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3414 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3415 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
3416 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3417 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
3418 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3419 data will be no longer available. This parameter
3420 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3421 is set.
3422
c1aee215
CL
3423 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3424 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
3425 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 3426
a9913044
RD
3427 noalign [KNL,ARM]
3428
686140a1
VG
3429 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3430 (CPU alternatives feature).
3431
1da177e4
LT
3432 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3433 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3434
5091faa4
MG
3435 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3436
1da177e4
LT
3437 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3438 on "Classic" PPC cores.
3439
3440 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 3441
0cb55ad2
RD
3442 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3443
e4042ad4 3444 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
163ecdff 3445
6902aa84
PM
3446 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3447
b2e0a54a 3448 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 3449
f7964378
NP
3450 no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3451
1da177e4
LT
3452 noexec [IA-64]
3453
6cececfc 3454 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 3455 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 3456 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
3457 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3458
de78a9c4 3459 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
3460 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3461 even if it is supported by processor.
3462
67548622 3463 nosmep [X86,PPC64s]
52b6179a 3464 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
3465 even if it is supported by processor.
3466
f5a1b191
JS
3467 noexec32 [X86-64]
3468 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3469 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3470 read doesn't imply executable mappings
3471 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3472 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 3473
fab43ef4 3474 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 3475
cd4f0ef7 3476 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
3477 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3478 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 3479
5b280ed4 3480 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
0ddab1d2 3481
8abddd96
NP
3482 nohugevmalloc [PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3483
52c48c51
SS
3484 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3485 Equivalent to smt=1.
3486
be3a5b0e 3487 [KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
3488 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3489 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 3490
a2059825
JP
3491 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3492 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3493 possible in the system.
05736e4a 3494
e5ce5e72
JL
3495 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3496 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3497 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3498 option.
da285121 3499
24f7fc83
KRW
3500 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3501 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3502
9a32a7e7
NP
3503 no_uaccess_flush
3504 [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3505
0c752a93
SS
3506 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3507 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3508 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3509
b6f42a4a
FY
3510 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3511 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3512 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3513 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3514 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3515 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3516
3517 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3518 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3519 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3520 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3521 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3522 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3523 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3524
3cae85f5
FF
3525 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3526 in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3527 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3528 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3529 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3530 correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3531 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3532 useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 3533
1f29fae2
SH
3534 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3535 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3536 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3537
1da177e4
LT
3538 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3539 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3540 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3541 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3542 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3543 real-time systems.
3544
5ead723a
TT
3545 no_hash_pointers
3546 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3547 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3548 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3549 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature
3550 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3551 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3552 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3553 compared. However, if this command-line option is
3554 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
84842911 3555 value printed. This option should only be specified when
5ead723a
TT
3556 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production
3557 kernels.
3558
a6e15a39
KC
3559 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3560
79bf2bb3
TG
3561 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3562 Valid arguments: on, off
3563 Default: on
3564
d94d1053 3565 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 3566 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 3567 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 3568 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 3569 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
3570 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3571 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3572 just as if they had also been called out in the
3573 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 3574
eeee7853
PM
3575 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3576
cd4f0ef7 3577 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3578 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3579
6cececfc 3580 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3581 broken timer IRQ sources.
3582
1da177e4
LT
3583 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3584
3585 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3586 initial RAM disk.
3587
03ea8155
WH
3588 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3589 remapping.
d1423d56 3590 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3591
1da177e4
LT
3592 nointroute [IA-64]
3593
d12a72b8
AL
3594 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3595
16290246 3596 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3597
9cf4c4fc
JK
3598 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3599
fd10cde9
GN
3600 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3601 fault handling.
3602
80e9a4f2
AM
3603 no-vmw-sched-clock
3604 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3605 clock and use the default one.
3606
e73a8f38 3607 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
e0685fa2
SP
3608 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3609 influence scheduler behaviour
d910f5c1 3610
cd4f0ef7 3611 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3612
cd4f0ef7 3613 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3614
1da177e4 3615 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3616 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3617
312f1f01
H
3618 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3619
13696e0a 3620 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3621
83d7384f
AS
3622 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3623 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3624
bda62633
DZ
3625 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3626 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3627 irq.
3628
b22a15a5
JMC
3629 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3630 display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3631 system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3632 set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3633
3634 Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3635
02608bef
DY
3636 nomodule Disable module load
3637
016ddd9b
JK
3638 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3639 pagetables) support.
3640
0790c9aa
AL
3641 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3642
0cb55ad2
RD
3643 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3644 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3645
cd4f0ef7 3646 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3647 with UP alternatives
3648
7a5091d5
PA
3649 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3650 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3651 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3652 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3653
a9913044
RD
3654 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3655 space.
3656
1da177e4
LT
3657 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3658 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3659 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3660
3661 nosbagart [IA-64]
3662
cd4f0ef7 3663 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3664
38853a30
JS
3665 nosgx [X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3666
61ec7567
LB
3667 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3668 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3669
97842216
DJ
3670 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3671
1da177e4
LT
3672 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3673
195daf66 3674 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3675 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3676
1da177e4 3677 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3678
2b2fd87a
WH
3679 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3680
f78cff48
FY
3681 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3682 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3683 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3684 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3685 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3686 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3687 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3688 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3689 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3690 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3691 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3692 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3693 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3694
6dddd7a7 3695 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3696 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3697 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3698 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3699 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3700 parameter's value.
3701 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3702 Default: 255
3703
16290246 3704 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3705 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3706 SAL PALO.
3707
2b633e3f
YL
3708 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3709 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3710 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3711 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3712 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3713 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3714 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3715 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3716
0cb55ad2
RD
3717 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3718
544ef682
BS
3719 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3720 set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3721
00b072c0
BS
3722 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3723 NUMA balancing.
1a687c2e
MG
3724 Allowed values are enable and disable
3725
f0c0b2b8 3726 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3727 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8 3728 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
57043247 3729 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
f0c0b2b8 3730
7c4be253 3731 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
a74e2a22 3732 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
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3733 info.
3734
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3735 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3736 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3737 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3738 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3739 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3740 interrupts *may* be lost!
3741
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3742 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3743 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3744 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3745 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3746
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3747 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3748 process, but there is a small probability of
3749 deadlocking the machine.
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3750 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3751 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3752
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3753 page_alloc.shuffle=
3754 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3755 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3756 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3757 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3758 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3759 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3760 can be read from sysfs at:
3761 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3762
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3763 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3764 Storage of the information about who allocated
3765 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3766 we can turn it on.
3767 on: enable the feature
3768
8823b1db 3769 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
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KC
3770 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3771 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3772 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3773 on: turn on poisoning
3774
f58780a8
GS
3775 page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3776 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3777 Format: <integer>
3778 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3779 reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3780
44a4dcf7 3781 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
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HD
3782 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3783 timeout = 0: wait forever
3784 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
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LT
3785 Format: <timeout>
3786
d999bd93
FT
3787 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3788 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3789 bit 0: print all tasks info
3790 bit 1: print system memory info
3791 bit 2: print timer info
3792 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3793 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3794 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
8d470a45 3795 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
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GP
3796 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3797 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3798 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3799 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
d999bd93 3800
db38d5c1
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3801 panic_on_taint= Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3802 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3803 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3804 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3805 called with any of the flags in this set.
3806 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3807 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3808 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3809 bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3810 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3811 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3812 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3813
9e3961a0
PB
3814 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3815 on a WARN().
3816
f06e5153
MH
3817 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3818 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3819 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3820 succeeds in any situation.
3821 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3822 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3823 kernel more unstable.
3824
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3825 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3826 connected to, default is 0.
3827 Format: <parport#>
3828 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3829 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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3830 Format: <mode>
3831
3832 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3833 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3834 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3835 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3836 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3837 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3838 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3839 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3840 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3841 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3842 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3843 are specified on the command line, starting
3844 with parport0.
3845
3846 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3847 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3848 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3849 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3850 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3851 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
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3852 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3853
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3854 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA]
3855 Format: <int>
3856 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3857 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3858 has been found at either range. Disabled by default.
3859
3860 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA]
3861 Format: <int>
3862 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3863 changes. Disabled by default.
3864
3865 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA]
3866 Format: <int>
3867 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3868 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3869 Disabled by default.
3870
3871 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA]
3872 Format: <int>
3873 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3874 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3875 Disabled by default.
3876
3877 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3878 Format: <int>
3879 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3880 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first
3881 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3882 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often
3883 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3884 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3885 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3886 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across
3887 all channels.
3888
3889 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA]
3890 Format: <int>
3891 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3892 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3893 respectively. Disabled by default.
3894
3895 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA]
3896 Format: <int>
3897 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3898 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3899 respectively. Disabled by default.
3900
3901 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3902 Format: <int>
3903 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual
3904 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3905 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3906 All modes allowed by default.
3907
3908 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA]
3909 Format: <int>
3910 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3911 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default.
3912
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MR
3913 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3914 Format: <int>
3915 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on
3916 platform configuration and the use of other driver
3917 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3918 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3919 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3920 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for
3921 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3922 By default all supported ports are probed.
3923
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MR
3924 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA]
3925 Format: <int>
3926 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default
3927 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3928
3929 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA]
3930 Format: <int>
3931 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use
3932 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3933 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3934 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3935 0 otherwise.
3936
6ddcec95
MR
3937 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA]
3938 Format: <int>
3939 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow
3940 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for
3941 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only
3942 allowed by default.
3943
dd287796
AM
3944 pause_on_oops=
3945 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3946 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3947 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3948
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LT
3949 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3950
3951 pcd. [PARIDE]
3952 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
e7751617 3953 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3954
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LG
3955 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3956
3957 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3958 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3959 specified in one of the following formats:
3960
45db3370 3961 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3962 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3963
3964 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3965 bus/device/function address which may change
3966 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3967 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3968 by other kernel parameters. If the
3969 domain is left unspecified, it is
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LG
3970 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3971 to a device through multiple device/function
3972 addresses can be specified after the base
3973 address (this is more robust against
3974 renumbering issues). The second format
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LG
3975 selects devices using IDs from the
3976 configuration space which may match multiple
3977 devices in the system.
3978
11eb0e0e 3979 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3980 changes anything
c0115606 3981 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3982 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
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3983 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3984 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3985 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
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3986 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3987 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3988 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3989 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3990 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3991 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3992 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3993 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3994 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3995 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3996 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3997 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3998 on the configuration access mechanisms.
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3999 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4000 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4001 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
4002 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4003 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 4004 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 4005 Configuration
12983077
AH
4006 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4007 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4008 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
4009 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4010 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4011 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
4012 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4013 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4014 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
4015 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4016 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4017 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4018 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
4019 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4020 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4021 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4022 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 4023 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
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4024 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4025 on several machines and they hang the machine
4026 when used, but on other computers it's the only
4027 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4028 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4029 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4030 motherboard.
c0115606 4031 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
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4032 Use with caution as certain devices share
4033 address decoders between ROMs and other
4034 resources.
c0115606 4035 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
4036 expansion ROMs that do not already have
4037 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
4038 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
4039 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 4040 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
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4041 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4042 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4043 this way.
c0115606 4044 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
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4045 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4046 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4047 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 4048 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
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4049 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4050 secondary buses and you want to tell it
4051 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 4052 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
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4053 numbers ourselves, overriding
4054 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 4055 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
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4056 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4057 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4058 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4059 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4060 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 4061 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 4062 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
4063 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4064 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4065 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
4066 please report a bug.
4067 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 4068 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
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RD
4069 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4070 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4071 so this option is a temporary workaround
4072 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
4073 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4074 handle more pci cards
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AK
4075 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4076 This might help on some broken boards which
4077 machine check when some devices' config space
4078 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4079 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
4080 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4081 This sorting is done to get a device
4082 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4083 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
4084 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4085 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4086 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4087 supported by all devices below the root complex.
4088 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4089 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4090 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4091 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4092 or bus can support) for best performance.
4093 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4094 every device is guaranteed to support. This
4095 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4096 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4097 reduced performance. This also guarantees
4098 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
4099 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4100 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4101 The default value is 256 bytes.
4102 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4103 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4104 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
4105 resource_alignment=
4106 Format:
07d8d7e5 4107 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 4108 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
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4109 aligned memory resources. How to
4110 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
4111 If <order of align> is not specified,
4112 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3b1b1ce3 4113 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
32a9a682 4114 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
4115 To specify the alignment for several
4116 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4117 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
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AK
4118 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4119 for 4096-byte alignment.
43c16408
AP
4120 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4121 end-to-end CRC checking).
4122 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4123 the default.
4124 off: Turn ECRC off
4125 on: Turn ECRC on.
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YW
4126 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4127 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4128 Default size is 256 bytes.
d7b8a217
NJ
4129 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4130 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4131 Default size is 2 megabytes.
4132 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
4133 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4134 Default size is 2 megabytes.
8c8803c5 4135 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
d7b8a217
NJ
4136 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4137 MMIO_PREF window.
8c8803c5 4138 Default size is 2 megabytes.
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4139 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4140 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4141 Default is 1.
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YL
4142 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4143 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4144 accommodate resources required by all child
4145 devices.
4146 off: Turn realloc off
4147 on: Turn realloc on
4148 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 4149 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
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GK
4150 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4151 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
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BH
4152 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
4153 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4154 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
4155 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4156 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4157 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4158 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4159 conflict with unreported devices), so this
4160 taints the kernel.
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LG
4161 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4162 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4163 specified above) separated by semicolons.
4164 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4165 redirect capabilities forced off which will
4166 allow P2P traffic between devices through
4167 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4168 this removes isolation between devices and
4169 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 4170 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 4171 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
de267a7c
PM
4172 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4173 one PCI domain per PCI function
6b4b78fe 4174
e5665a45
CE
4175 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4176 Management.
4177 off Disable ASPM.
4178 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4179 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4180
4c0fd764
BH
4181 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4182 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4183 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4184 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
4185 also tries to use these services.
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OJ
4186 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
4187 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4c0fd764
BH
4188 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4189 hotplug).
79dd9182 4190
9d26d3a8
MW
4191 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4192 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4193 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4194
c7f48656 4195 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 4196 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 4197 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 4198
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4199 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4200
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TB
4201 pd_ignore_unused
4202 [PM]
4203 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4204 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4205 for debug and development, but should not be
4206 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4207
1da177e4 4208 pd. [PARIDE]
e7751617 4209 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
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LT
4210
4211 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4212 boot time.
4213 Format: { 0 | 1 }
4214 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4215
f58dc01b 4216 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
4217 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4218 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
4219 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4220 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
4221 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 4222
1da177e4 4223 pf. [PARIDE]
e7751617 4224 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
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LT
4225
4226 pg. [PARIDE]
e7751617 4227 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
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LT
4228
4229 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
cb1aaebe 4230 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
1da177e4
LT
4231
4232 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4233 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 4234 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 4235
16290246 4236 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
4237 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4238 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4239
0a4b4327
NP
4240 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU.
4241 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4242 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4243 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4244 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4245 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4246 remains 0.
4247
db96a759
CY
4248 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL]
4249 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4250
96242116
BH
4251 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
4252 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4253 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
4254 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
4255 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4256 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 4257
1da177e4
LT
4258 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
4259 { off }
4260
4261 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
4262 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4263
4264 pnp_reserve_irq=
4265 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4266
4267 pnp_reserve_dma=
4268 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4269
4270 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 4271 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
4272
4273 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
4274 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4275 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
4276 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4277
4af94f39
RD
4278 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4279 Default is 21.
4280 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4281 may be specified.
4282 Format: <port>,<port>....
4283
c3cbd075
BS
4284 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4285 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4286 platform machine description specific power_save
4287 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4288 execution priority.
4289
3eb5d588
AB
4290 ppc_strict_facility_enable
4291 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4292 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4293 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4294 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4295
07fd1761
CB
4296 ppc_tm= [PPC]
4297 Format: {"off"}
4298 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4299
6ef869e0
MH
4300 preempt= [KNL]
4301 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4302 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4303 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4304 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4305 can be preempted anytime.
4306
45807a1d
IM
4307 print-fatal-signals=
4308 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
4309
4310 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4311 related application anomalies: too many signals,
4312 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4313 coredump - etc.
4314
4315 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4316 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4317
45807a1d
IM
4318 default: off.
4319
c22ab332
MG
4320 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4321 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4322 panics
4323 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4324 default: disabled
4325
10102a89
DS
4326 printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4327 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4328 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4329 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4330 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4331 in order to provide more debug information.
4332 Format: <bool>
4333 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4334
750afe7b
BP
4335 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4336 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4337 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4338 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4339 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4340 Default: ratelimit
4341
e84845c4
RD
4342 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4343 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4344
0cb55ad2
RD
4345 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
4346 Limit processor to maximum C-state
4347 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4348
4349 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
4350 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4351 instead using the legacy FADT method
4352
1da177e4 4353 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
4354 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4355 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4356 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 4357 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
4358 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4359 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 4360 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
4361 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4362 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 4363
6b99e6e6 4364 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated]
1da177e4 4365
ecdc5d84
VG
4366 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4367 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4368 that).
4369 Format: <bool>
4370
e0c27447
JW
4371 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4372 tracking.
4373 Format: <bool>
4374
a9913044
RD
4375 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4376 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
4377 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4378 per second.
a9913044
RD
4379 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
4380 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
4381 (0 = never).
4382 psmouse.resolution=
4383 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4384 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 4385 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
4386 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4387
dee28e72
MG
4388 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4389
1da177e4 4390 pt. [PARIDE]
e7751617 4391 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 4392
be3a5b0e 4393 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
01c9b17b
DH
4394 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
4395 removes hardening, but improves performance of
4396 system calls and interrupts.
4397
4398 on - unconditionally enable
4399 off - unconditionally disable
4400 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4401 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4402
4403 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4404
be3a5b0e 4405 nopti [X86-64]
01c9b17b 4406 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 4407
dc8c8587
KS
4408 pty.legacy_count=
4409 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4410 default number.
4411
7d2c502f 4412 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 4413
1da177e4
LT
4414 r128= [HW,DRM]
4415
4416 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 4417 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 4418
1da177e4 4419 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
e7751617 4420 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 4421
6b99e6e6
RD
4422 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address
4423
9b254366
KC
4424 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4425 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4426 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4427 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4428 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4429
39218ff4
KC
4430 randomize_kstack_offset=
4431 [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4432 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4433 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4434 that depend on stack address determinism or
4435 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4436 available on architectures that have defined
4437 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4438 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4439 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4440
011d8261
BP
4441 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
4442
4443 cec_disable [X86]
4444 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4445 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4446
d2cf0854
FW
4447 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4448 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4449 as described above.
4450
4451 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4452 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4453 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4454 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4455 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4456 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4457 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4458 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4459 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4460 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4461 and real-time workloads. It can also improve
4462 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4463
4464 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4465 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4466
4467 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4468 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4469 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4470 toggled at runtime via cpusets.
3fbfbf7a 4471
4102adab 4472 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
4473 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4474 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4475 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4476 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4477 This improves the real-time response for the
4478 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4479 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4480 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4481 periodically wake up to do the polling.
4482
4102adab 4483 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
4484 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4485 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 4486
a3dc2948
PM
4487 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
4488 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4489 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
4490 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4491
0f41c0dd
PM
4492 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
4493 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 4494 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 4495
37745d28
PM
4496 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
4497 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 4498 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
4499
4500 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
4501 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4502 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4503 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 4504 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 4505
48d07c04
SAS
4506 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
4507 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4508 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
4509 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4510 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4511
8b9a0ecc
SW
4512 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4513 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4514 to zero.
4515
7fa27001
PM
4516 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4517 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4518 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
4519 possibly be useful for architectures having high
4520 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 4521
4102adab 4522 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
4523 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4524 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
4525 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4526 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4527 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4528 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 4529
53c72b59
URS
4530 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4531 Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4532 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4533 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4534 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4535 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4536 condition.
4537
d0bfa8b3
ZQ
4538 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4539 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4540 in response to low-memory conditions. The range
4541 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4542
4102adab 4543 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
4544 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4545 first attempt to force quiescent states.
4546 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4547 and maximum value is HZ.
4548
4102adab 4549 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
4550 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4551 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
4552 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4553
1a4762b9
PM
4554 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4555 Set required age in jiffies for a
4556 given grace period before RCU starts
4557 soliciting quiescent-state help from
4558 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4559 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4560 a value based on the most recent settings
4561 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4562 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4563 This calculated value may be viewed in
4564 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
4565 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4566 overwritten.
4567
21871d7e 4568 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
4569 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4570 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4571 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4572 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4573 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4574 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4575 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
4576 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4577 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
a469948b
AC
4578 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4579 priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
21871d7e 4580
f7c612b0
PM
4581 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4582 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4583 each group, which defaults to the square root
4584 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
4585 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4586 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4587 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
fbce7497 4588
4102adab 4589 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
4590 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4591 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 4592
4102adab 4593 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
4594 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4595 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 4596
b2b00ddf
PM
4597 rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4598 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4599 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4600 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4601 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4602 Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4603 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4604 disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4605
e3c50dfb
PM
4606 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4607 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4608 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4609 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4610 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4611 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4612
3d29aaf1
PM
4613 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4614 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4615 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4616 in microseconds. This defaults to zero.
4617 Larger delays increase the probability of
4618 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4619 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4620 rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4621
2ccaff10
PM
4622 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4623 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4624 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4625 why a new grace period has not yet started.
4626
4e88ec4a 4627 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
881ed593
PM
4628 Measure performance of asynchronous
4629 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4630
4e88ec4a 4631 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
881ed593
PM
4632 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4633 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
4634 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4635 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4636 previously posted callbacks to drain.
4637
4e88ec4a 4638 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4639 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4640 grace-period primitives.
4641
4e88ec4a 4642 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
df37e66b
PM
4643 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4644 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4645 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4646 interference.
4647
4e88ec4a 4648 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
e6e78b00
JFG
4649 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4650
686fe1bf
URS
4651 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4652 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4653 If this parameter has the same value as
4654 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4655 and double-argument variants are tested.
4656
4657 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4658 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4659 If this parameter has the same value as
4660 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4661 and double-argument variants are tested.
4662
4e88ec4a 4663 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
e6e78b00
JFG
4664 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4665
4e88ec4a 4666 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
e6e78b00
JFG
4667 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4668
4e88ec4a
PM
4669 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4670 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
e6e78b00
JFG
4671 of allocations and frees.
4672
4e88ec4a 4673 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4674 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4675 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4676 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4677 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4678 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4679 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4680 a single reader.
4681
4e88ec4a 4682 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
bdea9e34 4683 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
4e88ec4a 4684 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
bdea9e34
PM
4685 N, where N is the number of CPUs
4686
4e88ec4a 4687 rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
820687a7
PM
4688 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4689
4e88ec4a 4690 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4691 Shut the system down after performance tests
4692 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
4693 testing.
4694
4e88ec4a 4695 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
bdea9e34
PM
4696 Enable additional printk() statements.
4697
4e88ec4a 4698 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
820687a7
PM
4699 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4700 in microseconds. The default of zero says
4701 no holdoff.
4702
4102adab 4703 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4704 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4705 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 4706
4102adab 4707 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4708 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4709 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 4710
4102adab 4711 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4712 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4713 in seconds.
4714
ed8f6fb2 4715 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
82e31003
PM
4716 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4717 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
ed8f6fb2 4718 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
82e31003
PM
4719 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4720 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4721 of CPUs to be used.
ed8f6fb2
PM
4722
4723 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4724 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4725 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4726
4727 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4728 Number of seconds to wait between successive
4729 forward-progress tests.
4730
4731 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4732 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4733 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4734 testing.
4735
21b05de4
PM
4736 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4737 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4738 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 4739
4102adab 4740 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 4741 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
4742
4743 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4744 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4745 update-side primitives, if available.
4746
4747 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4748 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4749 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4750 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4751 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4752 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4753 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 4754
d6855142
PM
4755 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4756 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4757 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU
4758 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4759
4760 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4761 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4762 This can of course result in splats, and is
4763 intended to test the ability of things like
4764 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4765 such leaks.
4766
4102adab 4767 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4768 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4769
4102adab 4770 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4771 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4772 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4773 test, hence the "fake".
4774
2c4319bd
PM
4775 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4776 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4777 Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4778
4779 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4780 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4781 callback-offload toggling attempts.
4782
4102adab 4783 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
4784 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4785 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4786 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4787 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4788 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 4789
4102adab
PM
4790 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4791 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4792
4793 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4794 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4795
4102adab 4796 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
4797 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4798 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 4799
4a5f133c
PM
4800 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4801 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4802 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4803 task-exit processing.
4804
4805 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4806 The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4807 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4808 is spawned.
4809
4810 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4811 The delay, in seconds, between successive
4812 read-then-exit testing episodes.
4813
4102adab 4814 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4815 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4816 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4817 during the rcutorture test.
4818
4102adab 4819 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4820 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4821 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4822
4102adab 4823 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4824 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4825 warnings, zero to disable.
4826
19a8ff95
PM
4827 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4828 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result
4829 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4830 to any other stall-related activity.
4831
4102adab 4832 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4833 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4834
2b1516e5
PM
4835 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4836 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4837
55b2dcf5
PM
4838 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4839 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4840 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4841 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu
4842 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4843 kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4844
4102adab 4845 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4846 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4847
4102adab 4848 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4849 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4850 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4851 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4852 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4853
4102adab 4854 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4855 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4856 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4857 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4858
4102adab 4859 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4860 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4861
4102adab 4862 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4863 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4864
4102adab 4865 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4866 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4867 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4868
4102adab 4869 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4870 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4871
4102adab 4872 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4873 Enable additional printk() statements.
4874
cdc694b2
PM
4875 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4876 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4877 stall warning.
4878
5a9be7c6
PM
4879 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4880 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4881
58c53360
PM
4882 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4883 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4884 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4885 during early boot, that is, during the time
4886 before the init task is spawned.
4887
5a9be7c6
PM
4888 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4889 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4890
4102adab
PM
4891 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4892 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4893 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4894 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4895 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4896 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4897 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4898
5a9be7c6
PM
4899 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4900 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4901 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4902 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4903 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4904 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4905 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4906 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4907 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4908
3e42ec1a
PM
4909 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4910 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4911 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4912 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4913 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4914
36221e10
JC
4915 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4916 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4917 it to the value one, that is, converting any
4918 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4919 period to instead use normal non-expedited
4920 grace-period processing.
4921
fd796e41
PM
4922 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
4923 Set the maximum number of callbacks present
4924 at the beginning of a grace period that allows
4925 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
4926 a single callback queue. This switching only
4927 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
4928 set to the default value of -1.
4929
ab97152f
PM
4930 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
4931 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
4932 lock-contention events per jiffy required to
4933 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
4934 callback queuing. This switching only occurs
4935 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
4936 the default value of -1.
4937
8610b656
PM
4938 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
4939 Set the number of callback queues to use for the
4940 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default
4941 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
4942 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended
4943 for use in testing.
4944
b0afa0f0
PM
4945 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4946 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4947 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4948 of a given grace period. Setting a large
4949 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4950 but lengthens grace periods.
4951
52db30ab
PM
4952 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4953 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4954 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4955 to zero.
4956
74860fee
PK
4957 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4958 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4959
ffdfc409
OJ
4960 rdinit= [KNL]
4961 Format: <full_path>
4962 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4963 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4964
c49a0a80
TL
4965 rdrand= [X86]
4966 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4967 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4968 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4969 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4970 path).
4971
1d9807fc
TL
4972 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4973 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4974 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4975 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4976 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4977 rdt=cmt,!mba
4978
1b3a5d02
RH
4979 reboot= [KNL]
4980 Format (x86 or x86_64):
12febc18 4981 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
1b3a5d02
RH
4982 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4983 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4984 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4985 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4986 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4987 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4988 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4989 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4990 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4991 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4992
1fbeb3a8 4993 refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
4994 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4995 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4996 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4997 interference.
4998
1fbeb3a8 4999 refscale.loops= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
5000 Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5001 primitive under test. Increasing this number
5002 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5003 but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5004 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5005 x86 laptops.
5006
1fbeb3a8 5007 refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
5008 Set number of readers. The default value of -1
5009 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5010 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5011
1fbeb3a8 5012 refscale.nruns= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
5013 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5014 the console log.
5015
1fbeb3a8 5016 refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
5017 Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5018 measured in microseconds.
5019
1fbeb3a8
PM
5020 refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5021 Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5022
5023 refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
5024 Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5025 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4e88ec4a
PM
5026 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5027 it running) when refscale is built as a module.
847dd70a 5028
1fbeb3a8 5029 refscale.verbose= [KNL]
847dd70a
PM
5030 Enable additional printk() statements.
5031
e76506f0
PM
5032 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5033 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero
5034 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise,
5035 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5036 specified.
5037
46b6d94e
PJ
5038 relax_domain_level=
5039 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
da82c92f 5040 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
46b6d94e 5041
ffd2e8df
BH
5042 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5043 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5044 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5045 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5046 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 5047
cd4f0ef7 5048 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
5049 Format: nn[KMG]
5050 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5051 address space.
5052
7e96287d
VG
5053 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5054 during initialization.
5055
a9913044
RD
5056 resume= [SWSUSP]
5057 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
5058 Format:
5059 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 5060
ecbd0da1
RW
5061 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
5062 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5063 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5064 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
151f4e2b 5065 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
ecbd0da1 5066
f126f733
BS
5067 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5068 read the resume files
5069
6f8d7022
BS
5070 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5071 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5072 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5073
f996fc96
BS
5074 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
5075 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
5076 present during boot.
5077 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 5078 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
5079 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
5080 (that will set all pages holding image data
5081 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 5082
0a7b35cb
MN
5083 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5084
0efbb786
AC
5085 rfkill.default_state=
5086 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5087 etc. communication is blocked by default.
5088 1 Unblocked.
5089
5090 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5091 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5092 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5093 blocked and the previous configuration.
5094 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5095 blocked and everything unblocked.
5096
1da177e4
LT
5097 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5098 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5099
e16fd002
GA
5100 ring3mwait=disable
5101 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5102 CPUs.
5103
1da177e4
LT
5104 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5105
d2aa1aca
KC
5106 rodata= [KNL]
5107 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5108 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5109
605df8af
HS
5110 rockchip.usb_uart
5111 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5112 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5113 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5114 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5115
1da177e4 5116 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 5117 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
5118
5119 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5120 mount the root filesystem
5121
5122 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5123
5124 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
5125
cc1ed754
PO
5126 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5127 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5128 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5129
5c71d618
RT
5130 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5131 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5132 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5133 managed by CMA.
5134
1da177e4
LT
5135 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5136
5137 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
5138
c60d1ae4
GS
5139 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
5140 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5141 strict
5142 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5143 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5144 which is faster.
5145
6aefbf1c
NS
5146 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390]
5147 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5148 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5149 factor of the size of main memory.
5150 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5151 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5152 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5153 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5154 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5155 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5156 cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5157
1da177e4
LT
5158 sa1100ir [NET]
5159 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5160
9406415f 5161 sched_verbose [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
f6630114 5162
cb251765
MG
5163 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5164 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5165 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5166 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 5167
05289b90
TG
5168 sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5169 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5170 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5171 default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5172 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5173 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5174 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5175 value.
5176 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5177 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr
5178 1 64 ms
5179 2 128 ms
5180 and so on.
5181 Format: integer between 0 and 10
5182 Default is 0.
5183
e9d338a0
PM
5184 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5185 Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5186 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5187 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5188 tests.
5189
5190 scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5191 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5192 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the
5193 default) disables this feature. Please note
5194 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5195 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5196 softlockup complaints, and so on.
5197
5198 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5199 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5200 smp_call_function() family of functions.
5201 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5202 equal to the number of CPUs.
5203
5204 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5205 Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5206 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5207
5208 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5209 Number seconds to wait between successive
5210 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which
5211 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5212
5213 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5214 The number of seconds following the start of the
5215 test after which to shut down the system. The
5216 default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5217 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5218
5219 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5220 The number of seconds between outputting the
5221 current test statistics to the console. A value
5222 of zero disables statistics output.
5223
5224 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5225 The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5226 to the set of CPUs under test.
5227
5228 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5229 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5230 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5231 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5232 functions.
5233
5234 scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5235 Enable additional printk() statements.
5236
5237 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5238 The probability weighting to use for the
5239 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5240 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the
5241 default if all other weights are -1. However,
5242 if at least one weight has some other value, a
5243 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5244
5245 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5246 The probability weighting to use for the
5247 smp_call_function_single() function with a
5248 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
5249
5250 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5251 The probability weighting to use for the
5252 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5253 "wait" parameter. See weight_single.
5254 Note well that setting a high probability for
5255 this weighting can place serious IPI load
5256 on the system.
5257
5258 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5259 The probability weighting to use for the
5260 smp_call_function_many() function with a
5261 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
5262 and weight_many.
5263
5264 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5265 The probability weighting to use for the
5266 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5267 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and
5268 weight_many.
5269
5270 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5271 The probability weighting to use for the
5272 smp_call_function_all() function with a
5273 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single
5274 and weight_many.
5275
5307c955
MG
5276 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5277 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5278 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5279 Format: { "0" | "1" }
5280 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5281 1 -- enable.
5282 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5283 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5284
89a9684e
KC
5285 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5286 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5287 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
5288
5289 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
5290 Format: { "0" | "1" }
5291 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5292 0 -- disable.
5293 1 -- enable.
d41415eb 5294 Default value is 1.
1da177e4 5295
c1c124e9
JJ
5296 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5297 Format: { "0" | "1" }
5298 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5299 0 -- disable.
5300 1 -- enable.
5301 Default value is set via kernel config option.
5302
cd4f0ef7 5303 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 5304
1da177e4
LT
5305 shapers= [NET]
5306 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 5307
1da177e4
LT
5308 simeth= [IA-64]
5309 simscsi=
a9913044 5310
1da177e4
LT
5311 slram= [HW,MTD]
5312
82edd9d5
RA
5313 slab_merge [MM]
5314 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5315 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5316
423c929c
JK
5317 slab_nomerge [MM]
5318 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5319 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
5320 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5321 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5322 layout control by attackers can usually be
5323 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5324 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5325 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5326 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5327 own.
ad56b738 5328 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 5329
3df1cccd
DR
5330 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
5331 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5332 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5333 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
5334 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5335
e17f1dfb 5336 slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
5337 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5338 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5339 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5340 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5341 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 5342 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
5343
5344 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
5345 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5346 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5347 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 5348 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
5349
5350 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
5351 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5352 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5353 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5354 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5355 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5356 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 5357 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
5358
5359 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 5360 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 5361 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 5362 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 5363
82edd9d5
RA
5364 slub_merge [MM, SLUB]
5365 Same with slab_merge.
5366
c1aee215 5367 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
5368 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5369 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 5370
1da177e4
LT
5371 smart2= [HW]
5372 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5373
d0d4f69b
BH
5374 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5375 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
5376 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
5377 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
5378 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
5379 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
5380 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5381 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5382 1: Fast pin select (default)
5383 2: ATC IRMode
5384
52c48c51
SS
5385 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5386 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5387 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5388 actual hardware limit.
5389 Format: <integer>
5390 Default: -1 (no limit)
5391
9c44bc03
IM
5392 softlockup_panic=
5393 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
f117955a 5394 Format: 0 | 1
9c44bc03 5395
f117955a 5396 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
0a07bef6
GP
5397 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5398 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5399 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5400 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
3ce62385 5401
ed235875
AT
5402 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5403 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5404 backtraces on all cpus.
f117955a 5405 Format: 0 | 1
ed235875 5406
1da177e4 5407 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
9e1cbede 5408 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
1da177e4 5409
da285121
DW
5410 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5411 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
5412 The default operation protects the kernel from
5413 user space attacks.
da285121 5414
fa1202ef
TG
5415 on - unconditionally enable, implies
5416 spectre_v2_user=on
5417 off - unconditionally disable, implies
5418 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
5419 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5420 vulnerable
5421
5422 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5423 mitigation method at run time according to the
5424 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5425 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5426 compiler with which the kernel was built.
5427
fa1202ef
TG
5428 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5429 against user space to user space task attacks.
5430
5431 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5432 the user space protections.
5433
da285121
DW
5434 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5435
5436 retpoline - replace indirect branches
5ad3eb11
PZ
5437 retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5438 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
5439 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
5440 eibrs - enhanced IBRS
5441 eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5442 eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
da285121
DW
5443
5444 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5445 spectre_v2=auto.
5446
fa1202ef
TG
5447 spectre_v2_user=
5448 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5449 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5450 user space tasks
5451
5452 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5453 enforced by spectre_v2=on
5454
5455 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5456 enforced by spectre_v2=off
5457
7cc765a6
TG
5458 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5459 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5460 per thread. The mitigation control state
5461 is inherited on fork.
5462
55a97402
TG
5463 prctl,ibpb
5464 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5465 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5466 always when switching between different user
5467 space processes.
5468
6b3e64c2
TG
5469 seccomp
5470 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5471 threads will enable the mitigation unless
5472 they explicitly opt out.
5473
55a97402
TG
5474 seccomp,ibpb
5475 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5476 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5477 always when switching between different
5478 user space processes.
5479
fa1202ef
TG
5480 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5481 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2 5482
2f46993d 5483 Default mitigation: "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
5484
5485 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5486 spectre_v2_user=auto.
5487
24f7fc83
KRW
5488 spec_store_bypass_disable=
5489 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5490 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5491
5492 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5493 a common industry wide performance optimization known
5494 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5495 to the same memory location may not be observed by
5496 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5497 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5498 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5499 end of a particular speculation execution window.
5500
5501 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5502 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5503 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5504 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5505
5506 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5507 Bypass optimization is used.
5508
6b4c1360
ME
5509 On x86 the options are:
5510
f21b53b2
KC
5511 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5512 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5513 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5514 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5515 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5516 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5517 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5518 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5519 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5520 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5521 for a process by default. The state of the control
5522 is inherited on fork.
5523 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5524 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 5525
f21b53b2 5526 Default mitigations:
2f46993d 5527 X86: "prctl"
f21b53b2 5528
6b4c1360
ME
5529 On powerpc the options are:
5530
5531 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5532 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5533 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5534 exit.
5535 off - No action.
5536
5537 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5538 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5539
1da177e4
LT
5540 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
5541 spia_fio_base=
5542 spia_pedr=
5543 spia_peddr=
5544
6650cdd9 5545 split_lock_detect=
ebca1770 5546 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6650cdd9
PZI
5547
5548 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5549 instructions that access data across cache line
ebca1770
FY
5550 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5551 for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5552 bus lock detection.
6650cdd9
PZI
5553
5554 off - not enabled
5555
ebca1770 5556 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6650cdd9 5557 about applications triggering the #AC
ebca1770
FY
5558 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5559 the default on CPUs that support split lock
5560 detection or bus lock detection. Default
5561 behavior is by #AC if both features are
5562 enabled in hardware.
6650cdd9
PZI
5563
5564 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
ebca1770
FY
5565 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5566 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5567 both features are enabled in hardware.
6650cdd9 5568
9d839c28
FY
5569 ratelimit:N -
5570 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5571 per second for bus lock detection.
5572 0 < N <= 1000.
5573
5574 N/A for split lock detection.
5575
5576
6650cdd9
PZI
5577 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5578 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5579 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5580 mode.
5581
ebca1770
FY
5582 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5583 CPL > 0.
5584
7e5b3c26
MG
5585 srbds= [X86,INTEL]
5586 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5587 (SRBDS) mitigation.
5588
5589 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5590 exploit which can leak bits from the random
5591 number generator.
5592
5593 By default, this issue is mitigated by
5594 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
5595 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5596 much slower. Among other effects, this will
5597 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5598
5599 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5600 the following option:
5601
5602 off: Disable mitigation and remove
5603 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5604
c350c008
PM
5605 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5606 Specifies how frequently to check for
5607 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5608 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5609 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5610 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5611 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
5612 are ignored.
5613
22607d66
PM
5614 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5615 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5616 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5617 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5618 grace period will be considered for automatic
5619 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
5620 expediting.
5621
a43ae4df
MZ
5622 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
5623 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5624
5625 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5626 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5627 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5628 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5629
5630 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5631 for both kernel and userspace
5632 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5633 for both kernel and userspace
5634 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
5635 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5636 to allow userspace to register its
5637 interest in being mitigated too.
5638
1be7107f
HD
5639 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
5640 override the default stack gap protection. The value
5641 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5642 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5643 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5644 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5645
e1fdc403
VJ
5646 stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5647 Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5648 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5649 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5650 to false.
5651
f38f1d2a
SR
5652 stacktrace [FTRACE]
5653 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5654
762e1207
SR
5655 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5656 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
25942e5e 5657 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
762e1207
SR
5658 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5659 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5660 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5661 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5662
1da177e4
LT
5663 sti= [PARISC,HW]
5664 Format: <num>
5665 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5666 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5667 as the initial boot-console.
5668 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5669
5670 sti_font= [HW]
5671 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5672
5673 stifb= [HW]
5674 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5675
3aac3ebe
TG
5676 strict_sas_size=
5677 [X86]
5678 Format: <bool>
5679 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5680 against the required signal frame size which
5681 depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5682 be used to filter out binaries which have
5683 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5684
cbf11071
TM
5685 sunrpc.min_resvport=
5686 sunrpc.max_resvport=
5687 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5688 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5689 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5690 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5691 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5692 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5693 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5694 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5695 maximum port values.
5696
ff3ac5c3
TM
5697 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5698 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5699 Limit the number of requests that the server will
5700 process in parallel from a single connection.
5701 The default value is 0 (no limit).
5702
42a7fc4a
GB
5703 sunrpc.pool_mode=
5704 [NFS]
5705 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5706 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
5707 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5708 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5709 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5710 NFS server is running.
5711
5712 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
5713 automatically using heuristics
5714 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
5715 percpu one pool for each CPU
5716 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5717 to global on non-NUMA machines)
5718
cbf11071
TM
5719 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5720 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5721 [NFS,SUNRPC]
5722 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5723 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5724 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5725 improve throughput, but will also increase the
5726 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5727
1d4a9c17
BN
5728 suspend.pm_test_delay=
5729 [SUSPEND]
5730 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5731 mode before resuming the system (see
5732 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5733 is set. Default value is 5.
5734
6a9c930b
RP
5735 svm= [PPC]
5736 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5737 This parameter controls use of the Protected
5738 Execution Facility on pSeries.
5739
07555ac1 5740 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
5741 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5742 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
da82c92f 5743 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
a42c390c 5744
91fec0f5 5745 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 5746 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
5747 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5748 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5749 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 5750 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 5751
1da177e4
LT
5752 switches= [HW,M68k]
5753
3db978d4
VB
5754 sysctl.*= [KNL]
5755 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5756 process, as if the value was written to the respective
5757 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5758 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5759 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5760 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5761 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5762
e52eec13
AK
5763 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5764 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5765 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5766 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5767 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5768 in older udev will not work anymore.
5769 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5770 the kernel configuration.
5771
5d6f647f
IM
5772 sysrq_always_enabled
5773 [KNL]
5774 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5775 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5776 Useful for debugging.
5777
747029a5
FF
5778 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5779 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5780 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5781 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
1cec2cac 5782 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
747029a5
FF
5783 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5784
1da177e4
LT
5785 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
5786
acc82342 5787 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 5788 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
5789 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5790 as the system sleep state during system startup with
5791 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5792 The system is woken from this state using a
5793 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 5794
1da177e4
LT
5795 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5796 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5797
f8707ec9
LB
5798 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
5799 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5800 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5801
c52a7419
LB
5802 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
5803 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 5804 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 5805
f5487145
LB
5806 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
5807 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5808 critical and hot trip points.
5809
72b33ef8
LB
5810 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
5811 1: disable ACPI thermal control
5812
a70cdc52
LB
5813 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
5814 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
5815 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5816 value
a70cdc52 5817
730ff34d
LB
5818 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
5819 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5820 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5821 0: no polling (default)
5822
8d32a307
TG
5823 threadirqs [KNL]
5824 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 5825 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 5826
2b1a61f0
HC
5827 topology= [S390]
5828 Format: {off | on}
5829 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
5830 topology information if the hardware supports this.
5831 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 5832 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 5833 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 5834
2d73bae1
NA
5835 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5836 Format: {off}
5837 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5838 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5839 LPAR.
5840
8171d3e0
PM
5841 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5842 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5843 until after init has spawned.
5844
2102ad29
PM
5845 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5846 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5847 even if there were no errors. This can be a
5848 very costly operation when many torture tests
5849 are running concurrently, especially on systems
5850 with rotating-rust storage.
5851
8a67a20b
PM
5852 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5853 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5854 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero
5855 disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5856
5857 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5858 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5859
1da177e4
LT
5860 tp720= [HW,PS2]
5861
225a9be2
RA
5862 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5863 Format: integer pcr id
5864 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5865 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5866 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5867 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5868 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5869 are saved.
5870
9d612bef 5871 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 5872 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 5873
020e5f85
LZ
5874 trace_event=[event-list]
5875 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea 5876 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
25942e5e 5877 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 5878 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 5879
7bcfaf54
SR
5880 trace_options=[option-list]
5881 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5882 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5883 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5884 to echo the option name into
5885
5886 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5887
5888 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5889 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5890
5891 trace_options=stacktrace
5892
5fb94e9c 5893 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
5894 section.
5895
0daa2302
SRRH
5896 tp_printk[FTRACE]
5897 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5898 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5899 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5900 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5901 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5902
5903 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5904 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5905 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5906 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5907
f3860136
SRV
5908 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
5909 to stop the printing of events to console at
5910 late_initcall_sync.
5911
0daa2302
SRRH
5912 ** CAUTION **
5913
5914 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5915 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5916 the system to live lock.
5917
f3860136
SRV
5918 tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE]
5919 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
5920 on the console. It may be useful to only include the
5921 printing of events during boot up, as user space may
5922 make the system inoperable.
5923
5924 This command line option will stop the printing of events
5925 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
5926
de7edd31
SRRH
5927 traceoff_on_warning
5928 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5929 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5930 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5931 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5932
5933 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5934 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5935 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5936
5937 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5938 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5939
fcf4d821
JK
5940 transparent_hugepage=
5941 [KNL]
5942 Format: [always|madvise|never]
5943 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5944 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
5945 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5946 for more details.
fcf4d821 5947
5d0682be
SG
5948 trusted.source= [KEYS]
5949 Format: <string>
5950 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
5951 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
5952 sources:
5953 - "tpm"
5954 - "tee"
5955 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
5956 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
5957 first trust source as a backend which is initialized
5958 successfully during iteration.
5959
d3b8f889 5960 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
5961 Format: <string>
5962 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889 5963 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5964 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
5965 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5966 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
5967 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5968 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5969 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5970 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
5971 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5972 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5973 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
5974 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5975 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5976 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5977 acceptable).
395628ef 5978
bd35c77e
KP
5979 tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5980 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5981 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5982 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5983 Format: <unsigned int>
5984
95c5824f
PG
5985 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5986 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5987 support TSX control.
5988
5989 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5990
5991 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5992 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5993 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5994 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5995 so there may be unknown security risks associated
5996 with leaving it enabled.
5997
5998 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5999 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6000 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6001 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6002 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6003 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6004 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6005
7531a359
PG
6006 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6007 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6008
95c5824f
PG
6009 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6010
6011 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6012 for more details.
6013
a7a248c5
PG
6014 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6015 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6016
6017 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6018 certain CPUs that support Transactional
6019 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6020 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6021 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6022 conditions.
6023
6024 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6025 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6026 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6027 access.
6028
6029 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
6030 options are:
6031
6032 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6033 if TSX is enabled.
6034
6035 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6036 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6037 is not disabled because CPU is not
6038 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6039 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6040
64870ed1
WL
6041 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6042 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6043 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6044 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6045
a7a248c5
PG
6046 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6047 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
6048 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6049 required and doesn't provide any additional
6050 mitigation.
6051
6052 For details see:
6053 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6054
a9913044
RD
6055 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
6056 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6057 Format:
6058 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 6059 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 6060
b6935f8c 6061 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 6062 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
6063 console driver takes over, this boot options might
6064 help "seeing" what's going on.
6065
f86dcc5a
ED
6066 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6067 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6068
5f8364b7
AS
6069 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6070 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6071 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6072 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6073 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6074 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6075 reported either.
6076
e3a61b0a 6077 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 6078 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 6079
c4fc2342
CDH
6080 usbcore.authorized_default=
6081 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
6082 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
6083 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6084 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 6085
b5e795f8
AS
6086 usbcore.autosuspend=
6087 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6088 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
6089 is the time required before an idle device will be
6090 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 6091 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 6092
fd7c519d
JK
6093 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6094 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6095
0290cc9f
AS
6096 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6097 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6098 (default = 65536).
6099
fd7c519d
JK
6100 usbcore.blinkenlights=
6101 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6102
6103 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6104 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3155f4f4 6105 scheme (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 6106
3f5eb8d5
AS
6107 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6108 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6109 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6110
fd7c519d
JK
6111 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6112 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6113 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6114
6115 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6116 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 6117 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
6118 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6119
40d58148
ON
6120 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6121
027bd6ca
KHF
6122 usbcore.quirks=
6123 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6124 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6125 commas. Each entry has the form
6126 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6127 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6128 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6129 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6130 the following meanings:
6131 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6132 descriptors must not be fetched using
6133 a 255-byte read);
6134 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6135 correctly so reset it instead);
6136 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6137 Set-Interface requests);
6138 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6139 handle its Configuration or Interface
6140 strings);
6141 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6142 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6143 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6144 more interface descriptions than the
6145 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6146 talking to these interfaces);
6147 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6148 during initialization, after we read
6149 the device descriptor);
6150 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6151 high speed and super speed interrupt
6152 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6153 require the interval in microframes (1
6154 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6155 calculated as interval = 2 ^
6156 (bInterval-1).
6157 Devices with this quirk report their
6158 bInterval as the result of this
6159 calculation instead of the exponent
6160 variable used in the calculation);
6161 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6162 handle device_qualifier descriptor
6163 requests);
6164 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6165 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6166 remote wakeup capability);
6167 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6168 Power Management);
6169 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6170 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
6171 frames instead of the USB 2.0
6172 calculation);
6173 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6174 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
6175 prevent spurious wakeup);
6176 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6177 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
6178 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6179 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
6180 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6181
1da177e4
LT
6182 usbhid.mousepoll=
6183 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 6184
933bfe4d
TJ
6185 usbhid.jspoll=
6186 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6187
2ddc8e2d
FA
6188 usbhid.kbpoll=
6189 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6190
d4f373e5
AS
6191 usb-storage.delay_use=
6192 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 6193 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
6194
6195 usb-storage.quirks=
6196 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6197 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
6198 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
6199 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6200 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6201 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6202 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46 6203 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
65cc8bf9 6204 of sense data, not on uas);
a0bb1081 6205 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
65cc8bf9 6206 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
d4f373e5
AS
6207 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6208 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d 6209 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
65cc8bf9 6210 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5116901d
KR
6211 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6212 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
6213 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6214 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
6215 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6216 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
6217 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6218 reported device capacity by one
6219 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
6220 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6221 device);
13630746
HG
6222 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6223 command, uas only);
8010622c 6224 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
d4f373e5 6225 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
65cc8bf9 6226 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
d4f373e5 6227 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
65cc8bf9
ON
6228 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6229 not on uas);
21c13a4f 6230 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
65cc8bf9 6231 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
c838ea46 6232 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
65cc8bf9 6233 reported by the device, not on uas);
eaa05dfc 6234 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
65cc8bf9 6235 by default, not on uas);
d4f373e5 6236 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
65cc8bf9 6237 bogus residue values, not on uas);
d4f373e5
AS
6238 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6239 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
6240 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6241 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 6242 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
6243 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6244 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8 6245 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
65cc8bf9
ON
6246 even if the device claims no cache,
6247 not on uas)
d4f373e5
AS
6248 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6249
ac1667db
SB
6250 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
6251 Format: <int>
6252 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6253 1 - undefined instruction events
6254 2 - system calls
6255 4 - invalid data aborts
6256 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6257 16 - SIGBUS faults
6258 Example: user_debug=31
6259
14315592
IC
6260 userpte=
6261 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6262
6263 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6264 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6265 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6266
6cececfc 6267 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
6268 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
6269
6270 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
6271 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6272
b0b49f26
AL
6273 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6274 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6275 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6276
6277 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6278 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6279 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6280
6281 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6282 alias for vdso32=0.
6283
6284 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6285 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 6286
d080d397
YI
6287 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
6288 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6289
1da177e4 6290 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
ab42b818 6291 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
1da177e4 6292
3afe6dab
AL
6293 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
6294 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6295 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6296 level and then send out the event to user space through
6297 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
6298 will only send out the event without touching backlight
6299 brightness level.
2843768b 6300 default: 1
3afe6dab 6301
81a054ce
PM
6302 virtio_mmio.device=
6303 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6304
6305 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6306 where:
6307 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
6308 like K, M and G)
6309 <baseaddr> := physical base address
6310 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
6311 request_irq())
6312 <id> := (optional) platform device id
6313 example:
6314 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6315
6316 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6317
cd4f0ef7 6318 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
cb1aaebe 6319 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
4f4cfa6c 6320 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
1da177e4
LT
6321 Use vga=ask for menu.
6322 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6323 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6324
f682a97a
AD
6325 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6326 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6327 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6328 All options are enabled by default, and this
6329 interface is meant to allow for selectively
6330 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6331 debugging features.
6332
6333 Available options are:
6334 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
6335 - Disable all of the above options
6336
a9913044 6337 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
6338 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6339 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6340 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6341 mapped kernel RAM.
6342
3f429842
HC
6343 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
6344 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6345 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6346
585c3047
PO
6347 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6348 Format: <command>
1da177e4 6349
585c3047
PO
6350 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6351 Format: <command>
6352
6353 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6354 Format: <command>
a9913044 6355
3ae36655
AL
6356 vsyscall= [X86-64]
6357 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6358 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6359 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
6360 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
6361 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6362 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6363
2e57ae05 6364 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
bd49e16e
AL
6365 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
6366 page is readable.
3ae36655 6367
bd49e16e
AL
6368 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6369 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
6370 page is not readable.
3ae36655
AL
6371
6372 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
6373 them quite hard to use for exploits but
6374 might break your system.
6375
3855ae1c
CL
6376 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
6377 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6378 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6379
9ea9a886
CL
6380 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
6381 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6382 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6383 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6384
0cb55ad2
RD
6385 vt.default_blu= [VT]
6386 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6387 Change the default blue palette of the console.
6388 This is a 16-member array composed of values
6389 ranging from 0-255.
6390
6391 vt.default_grn= [VT]
6392 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6393 Change the default green palette of the console.
6394 This is a 16-member array composed of values
6395 ranging from 0-255.
6396
6397 vt.default_red= [VT]
6398 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6399 Change the default red palette of the console.
6400 This is a 16-member array composed of values
6401 ranging from 0-255.
6402
6403 vt.default_utf8=
6404 [VT]
6405 Format=<0|1>
6406 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6407 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6408 newly opened terminals.
6409
f6c06b68
MG
6410 vt.global_cursor_default=
6411 [VT]
6412 Format=<-1|0|1>
6413 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6414 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6415 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6416 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6417 cursors, 1 will display them.
6418
3855ae1c
CL
6419 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6420 Default: 2 = green.
6421
6422 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6423 Default: 3 = cyan.
6424
4724ba57 6425 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
cc2a2d19 6426 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
4724ba57
RD
6427 or other driver-specific files in the
6428 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
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6430 watchdog_thresh=
6431 [KNL]
6432 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6433 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6434 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6435 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6436 seconds.
6437
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6438 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6439 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6440 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6441 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
6442 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6443 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
6444 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6445 corresponding sysfs file.
6446
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6447 workqueue.disable_numa
6448 By default, all work items queued to unbound
6449 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6450 issued on, which results in better behavior in
6451 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6452 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
6453 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6454 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6455
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6456 workqueue.power_efficient
6457 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6458 they show better performance thanks to cache
6459 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6460 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6461
6462 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6463 were observed to contribute significantly to power
6464 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6465 power usage at the cost of small performance
6466 overhead.
6467
6468 The default value of this parameter is determined by
6469 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6470
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6471 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6472 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6473 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6474 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
6475 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6476 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
6477 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6478 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6479 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6480 impacted.
6481
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6482 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6483 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6484 supporting x2apic.
6485
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6486 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6487 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6488 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6489 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6490 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6491 domains.
6492
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6493 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
6494 Unplug Xen emulated devices
6495 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6496 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6497 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6498 nics -- unplug network devices
6499 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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6500 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6501 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6502 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 6503 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
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6505 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
6506 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6507 panic() code such as dumping handler.
6508
15a3eac0 6509 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
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6510 Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6511 This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6512 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
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6514 xen_nopv [X86]
6515 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6516 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
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6517 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6518 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
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6520 xen_no_vector_callback
6521 [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6522 event channel interrupts.
6523
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6524 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
6525 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6526 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6527 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6528 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
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6530 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
6531 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6532 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6533 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6534 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6535 more timer interrupts.
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6537 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6538 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6539 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6540 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6541 started with less memory configured than allowed at
6542 max. Default is 180.
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6544 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
6545 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6546 storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6547
6548 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
6549 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6550 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6551
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6552 xen.fifo_events= [XEN]
6553 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6554 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6555 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6556 fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6557 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6558
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6559 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6560 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6561 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6562 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6563
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6565 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6566 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6567 contention.
6568
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6570 Format:
6571 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
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6573 xive= [PPC]
6574 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6575 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6576 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6577
6578 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6579 controller on both pseries and powernv
6580 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6581
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6582 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC]
6583 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6584 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6585 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6586 loads instead, as on POWER9.
6587
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6588 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
6589 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6590 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6591 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
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6592
6593 xmon [PPC]
6594 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6595 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6596 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6597 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6598 debugger is called from setup_arch().
6599 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6600 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6601 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6602 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6603 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6604 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6605 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6606 can be written using xmon commands.
6607 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6608 memory, and other data can't be written using
6609 xmon commands.
6610 off xmon is disabled.