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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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395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
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109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
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119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
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124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 126
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127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
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130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 139
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140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
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145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
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148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
0cb55ad2 154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
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160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
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162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
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164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
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189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
6cececfc 212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
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217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
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220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
c3b0795c 226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
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237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
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247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
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250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
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256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
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259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
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264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
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272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
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274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
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277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
89e0b9a3 284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
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287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
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291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
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293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 298
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299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
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305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
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314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
395cf969 317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
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318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
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324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
ca1eda2d 331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 336
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337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
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346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
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349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
1da177e4 358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 360
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361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
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368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
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373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 384
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385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
a106fb0c 395 Default: unset
f3411cb2 396
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397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
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401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
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408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 410
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411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
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415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
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420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
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425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
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429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
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434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
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436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
1da177e4 439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
1da177e4 442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
395cf969 443 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 444
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445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
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449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
cd4f0ef7 451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
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458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
32c4741c 461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
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463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
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469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 471
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472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 482
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483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
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488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 492
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493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
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498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
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503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
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507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
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cd4f0ef7 517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 518 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
592913ec 524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
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543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
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551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
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564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
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571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
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573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
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580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 583
6cececfc 584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 585 in an oops report.
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586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
1da177e4 589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
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596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
a9913044 602
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603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 608 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
614
e52347bd 615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
1da177e4 619
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620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
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635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
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643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645 disables the blank timer.
646
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647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
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652 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
653 disable the cpuidle sub-system
654
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655 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
656 disable the cpufreq sub-system
657
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658 cpu_init_udelay=N
659 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
660 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
661 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
662 Default: 10000
663
1da177e4 664 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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665 Format:
666 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 667
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668 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
669 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
670 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
671 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
672 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
673 is selected automatically. Check
674 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
dc009d92 675
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676 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
677 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
678 in the running system. The syntax of range is
679 start-[end] where start and end are both
680 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 682
adbc742b 683 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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684 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
685 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
686 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
687 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
688 available.
689 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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690 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
691 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
692 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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693 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
694 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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695 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
696 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
697 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
698 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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699 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
700 for second kernel instead.
701 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 702 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 703 or memory reserved is below 4G.
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705 cryptomgr.notests
706 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
707
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708 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
709 Format: <dma>
710
711 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
712 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 713
a9913044 714 dasd= [HW,NET]
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715 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
716
717 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
718 (one device per port)
719 Format: <port#>,<type>
720 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
721
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722 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
723 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
29e36c9f 724 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 725
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726 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
727
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728 debug_locks_verbose=
729 [KNL] verbose self-tests
730 Format=<0|1>
731 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
732 self-tests.
733 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
734 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
735 only useful to kernel developers.
736
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737 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
738
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739 no_debug_objects
740 [KNL] Disable object debugging
741
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742 debug_guardpage_minorder=
743 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
744 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
745 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
746 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
747 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
748 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
749 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
750 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
751 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
752 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
753 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
754 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
755 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
756 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
757 bypassed) which are not detectable by
758 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
759 tracking down these problems.
760
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761 debug_pagealloc=
762 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
763 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
764 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
765 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
766 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
767 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
768 on: enable the feature
769
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770 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
771
2d27a966 772 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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773 Format: <area>[,<node>]
774 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
775
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776 default_hugepagesz=
777 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
778 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
779 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
780 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
781 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
782 if not specified.
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784 dhash_entries= [KNL]
785 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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787 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
788 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
789 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
790 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
791 miss to occur.
792
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793 disable= [IPV6]
794 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
795
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796 disable_radix [PPC]
797 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
798
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799 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
800 Format: <int>
801 The number of initial APIC ID for the
802 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
803 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
804 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
805 causing system reset or hang due to sending
806 INIT from AP to BSP.
807
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808 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
809 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
810 to workaround buggy firmware.
811
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812 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
813 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
814
95ffa243 815 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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816 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
817 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 818 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 819
093af8d7 820 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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821 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
822 memory out of your available memory pool based on
823 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
824 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
825
6cececfc 826 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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827 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
828 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
829
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830 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
831
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832 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
833 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
834
835 dma_debug_entries=<number>
836 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
837 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
838 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
839 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
840 architectural default is too low.
841
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842 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
843 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
844 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
845 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
846 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
847 driver later using sysfs.
848
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849 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
850 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
851 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
852 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
853 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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854 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
855 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
856 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
857 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
858 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
859 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
860 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
861 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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862 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
863 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
864 data set with no connector name will be used for
865 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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867 dscc4.setup= [NET]
868
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869 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
870 Format: {"off" | "known"}
871 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
872 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
873 exists).
874 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
875 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
876 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
877
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878 dump_apple_properties [X86]
879 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
880 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
881 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
882
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883 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
884 module.dyndbg[="val"]
885 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
886 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
887
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888 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
889 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
890 information about the feature.
891
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892 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
893 in some Intel CPUs.
894
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895 module.async_probe [KNL]
896 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
897
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898 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
899 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
900 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
901 which are not unmapped.
902
0cb55ad2 903 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 904
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905 When used with no options, the early console is
906 determined by the stdout-path property in device
907 tree's chosen node.
908
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909 cdns,<addr>[,options]
910 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
911 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
912 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
913 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
914 configured.
6fa62fc4 915
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916 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
917 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 918 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 919 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 920 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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921 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
922 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 923 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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924 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
925 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
926 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
927 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 928 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 929
0d3c673e 930 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 931 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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932 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
933 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
934 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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935 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
936 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
937 the device registers.
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939 meson,<addr>
940 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
941 port at the specified address. The serial port must
942 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
943 supported.
944
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945 msm_serial,<addr>
946 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
947 port at the specified address. The serial port
948 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
949 yet supported.
950
951 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
952 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
953 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
954 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
955 yet supported.
956
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957 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
958
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959 s3c2410,<addr>
960 s3c2412,<addr>
961 s3c2440,<addr>
962 s3c6400,<addr>
963 s5pv210,<addr>
964 exynos4210,<addr>
965 Use early console provided by serial driver available
966 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
967 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
968 serial port must already be setup and configured.
969 Options are not yet supported.
970
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971 lantiq,<addr>
972 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
973 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
974 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
975 yet supported.
976
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977 lpuart,<addr>
978 lpuart32,<addr>
979 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
980 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
981 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
982 port must already be setup and configured.
983
f7c864e7 984 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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985 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
986 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
987 address. The serial port must already be setup
988 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
989
89175cf7 990 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 991 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 992 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 993 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 994 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 995 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 996 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 997 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 998 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 999 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1000 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
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1002 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1003 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1004 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1005
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1007 takes over.
1008
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1009 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1010 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1011
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1012 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1013 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1014 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1015 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1016 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1017 You can find the port for a given device in
1018 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1019 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1020
1021 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1022 very good.
1023
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1024 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1025 the real console.
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1027 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1028
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1029 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1030
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1031 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1032 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1033 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1034 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1035 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1036 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1037 default: on.
1038
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1039 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1040 ekgdboc=kbd
1041
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1043 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1044
1da177e4 1045 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1046 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1047
d2f7cbe7 1048 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1049 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1050 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1051 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1052 default.
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1053 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1054 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1055 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1056 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1057 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1058
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1059 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1060 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1061 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1062 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1063 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1064
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1065 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1066 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1067 updating original EFI memory map.
1068 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1069 from ss to ss+nn.
1070 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1071 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1072 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1073 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1074
1075 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1076 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1077 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1078 doesn't support it.
1079
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1080 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1081 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1082 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1083 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1084 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1085
1086
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1087 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1088 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1089
cd4f0ef7 1090 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1091 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1092 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
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1093
1094 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1095 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1096 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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1097 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1098
d3bf3795 1099 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1100 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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1101 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1102 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1103 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1104
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1105 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1106 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1107 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1108 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1109
ca1eda2d 1110 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1111 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1112 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1113 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1114 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1115
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1116 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1117 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1118 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1119 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1120 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1121 Default value is 0.
1122 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1123
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HY
1124 erst_disable [ACPI]
1125 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1126 support.
1127
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LT
1128 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1129 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1130 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1131
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MZ
1132 evm= [EVM]
1133 Format: { "fix" }
1134 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1135 current integrity status.
1136
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AM
1137 failslab=
1138 fail_page_alloc=
1139 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1140 General fault injection mechanism.
1141 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1142 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1143
1da177e4 1144 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1145 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1146
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AC
1147 force_pal_cache_flush
1148 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1149 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1150 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1151 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1152
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CB
1153 forcepae [X86-32]
1154 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1155 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1156 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1157 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1158 and may cause unknown problems.
1159
d9e54076 1160 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1161 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
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PZ
1162 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1163 boot debugging.
1164
cecbca96 1165 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1166 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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FW
1167 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1168 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1169 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1170 oops.
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SR
1171
1172 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1173 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1174 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1175 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1176 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1177 tracing directory.
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SR
1178
1179 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1180 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1181 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1182 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1183 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1184
369bc18f
SA
1185 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1186 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1187 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1188 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1189 that can be changed at run time by the
1190 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1191
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NK
1192 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1193 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1194 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1195 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1196 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1197
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TB
1198 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1199 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1200 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1201 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1202 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1203
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LT
1204 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1205 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1206 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1207 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1208 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1209
1210 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1211
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YL
1212 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1213 Format: off | on
1214 default: on
1215
2521f2c2
PO
1216 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1217 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1218 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1219 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1220 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1221
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TG
1222 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1223 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1224 android emulator
1225
1da177e4 1226 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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DB
1227 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1228 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1229 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1230
6cec9b07
AL
1231 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1232 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1233 Format: 0 | 1
1234 Default: 0
1235 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1236 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1237 Format: 0 | 1
1238 Default: 0
1239 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1240 Format: 0 | 1
1241 Default: 0
1242 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1243 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1244 Default: 1024
1245 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1246 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1247 Default: 1024
1248
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BJZ
1249 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1250 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1251 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1252
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JK
1253 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1254 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1255 backtraces on all cpus.
1256 Format: <integer>
1257
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LT
1258 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1259 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1260 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1261 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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LT
1262
1263 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1264
1265 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1266 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1267
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HY
1268 hest_disable [ACPI]
1269 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1270 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1271 logic will be disabled.
1272
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LT
1273 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1274 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1275 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1276 size on bigger boxes.
1277
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TG
1278 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1279 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1280 Default: "on"
1281
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LT
1282 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1283 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1284
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1285 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1286
1287 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1288 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1289 verbose }
1290 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1291 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1292 VIA, nVidia)
1293 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1294
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1295 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1296 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1297
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1298 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1299 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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1300 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1301 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1302 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1303 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1304 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1305
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HB
1306 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1307 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
431429ff
HB
1308 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1309 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1310 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1311
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JH
1312 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1313 hardware thread id mappings.
1314 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1315
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FDN
1316 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1317 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1318 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1319 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1320 the real console.
1321
3a853fb9 1322 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
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JN
1323 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1324 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1325 Format:
1326 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1327
36d95739 1328 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
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SCP
1329 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1330 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1331 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1332 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1333 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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ML
1334 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1335 keyboard and cannot control its state
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LT
1336 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1337 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1338 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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JK
1339 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1340 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1341 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1342 controller
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LT
1343 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1344 controllers
24775d65 1345 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
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MPS
1346 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1347 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1348 transitions, or never reset
1349 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1350 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1351 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1352 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1353 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1354 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1355 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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LT
1356
1357 i810= [HW,DRM]
1358
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DT
1359 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1360 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1361 hardware.
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LT
1362 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1363 does not match list of supported models.
1364 i8k.power_status
1365 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1366 (disabled by default)
1367 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1368 capability is set.
1369
4dca20ef 1370 i915.invert_brightness=
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1371 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1372 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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CE
1373 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1374 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1375 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1376 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1377 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1378 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1379 value switches the backlight off.
1380 -1 -- never invert brightness
1381 0 -- machine default
1382 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1383
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LT
1384 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1385 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1386
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DF
1387 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1388 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1389 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1390 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1391 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1392
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MR
1393 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1394 Format: <int>
1395 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1396 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1397 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1398 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1399 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1400 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1401 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1402 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1403 was 0x3.
1404
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1405 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1406 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1407
f039b754 1408 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1409 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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RD
1410 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1411 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1412 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1413 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1414 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1415 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1416 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1417
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MR
1418 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1419 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1420 Default: strict
1421
1422 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1423 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1424 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1425 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1426 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1427 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1428 encoding mode.
1429
1430 Available settings are as follows:
1431 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1432 supported by the FPU
1433 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1434 by the FPU
1435 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1436 by the FPU
1437 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1438 supported by the FPU
1439
1440 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1441 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1442 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1443 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1444 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1445 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1446 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1447 MIPS64 CPUs.
1448
1449 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1450 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1451 except where unsupported by hardware.
1452
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1453 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1454 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1455 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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YZ
1456 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1457 could change it dynamically, usually by
1458 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1459
d977d56c
KK
1460 ignore_rlimit_data
1461 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1462 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1463 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1464
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1465 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1466 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1467
2fe5d6de 1468 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1469 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1470 default: "enforce"
1471
07f6a794
MZ
1472 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1473 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1474 owned by uid=0.
1475
d68a6fe9
MZ
1476 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1477 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1478 measurements, instead of host native format.
1479
3323eec9 1480 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1481 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1482 | sha512 | ... }
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MZ
1483 default: "sha1"
1484
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1485 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1486 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1487
24fd03c8
MZ
1488 ima_policy= [IMA]
1489 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1490 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1491 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1492 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1493 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1494 Format: "tcb"
1495
1496 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1497 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1498 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1499 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1500 opened for read by uid=0.
1501
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RS
1502 ima_template= [IMA]
1503 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1504 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1505 Default: "ima-ng"
1506
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RS
1507 ima_template_fmt=
1508 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1509 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1510
3bcced39
DK
1511 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1512 Format: <min_file_size>
1513 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1514 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1515
1516 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1517 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1518 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1519
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DK
1520 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1521 Format: <bufsize>
1522 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1523
1524 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1525 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1526 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1527
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LT
1528 init= [KNL]
1529 Format: <full_path>
1530 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1531 process.
1532
1533 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1534 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1535 startup.
1536
7b0b73d7
PB
1537 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1538 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1539 modules and initcalls.
1540
1da177e4
LT
1541 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1542
acd547b2
DH
1543 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1544 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1545 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1546 override in debugfs after boot.
1547
1da177e4
LT
1548 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1549 Format: <irq>
1550
6bb2ff84
FY
1551 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1552
d726d8d7
MZ
1553 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1554 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1555 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1556 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1557
ba395927 1558 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1559 on
1560 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1561 off
1562 Disable intel iommu driver.
1563 igfx_off [Default Off]
1564 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1565 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1566 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1567 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1568 DMA.
7d3b03ce
KA
1569 forcedac [x86_64]
1570 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1571 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1572 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
16290246
RD
1573 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1574 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1575 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1576 strict [Default Off]
1577 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1578 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1579 to batching them for performance.
6dd9a7c7
YS
1580 sp_off [Default Off]
1581 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1582 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1583 not be supported.
c83b2f20
DW
1584 ecs_off [Default Off]
1585 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1586 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1587 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1588 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1589 on hardware which claims to support them.
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SL
1590 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1591 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1592 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1593 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1594 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1595 mapping is enabled.
1596 Note that using this option lowers the security
1597 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1598 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2e92c7ad
MI
1599
1600 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1601 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1602 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1603
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1604 intel_pstate= [X86]
1605 disable
1606 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1607 scaling driver for the supported processors
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1608 passive
1609 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1610 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1611 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1612 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1613 feature.
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1614 force
1615 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1616 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1617 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1618 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1619 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1620 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1621 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1622 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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1623 no_hwp
1624 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1625 if available.
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1626 hwp_only
1627 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1628 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1629 support_acpi_ppc
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1630 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1631 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1632 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1633 then this feature is turned on by default.
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1634 per_cpu_perf_limits
1635 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1636 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1637
d1423d56 1638 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1639 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1640 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1641 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1642 no_x2apic_optout
1643 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1644 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1645
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1646 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1647 strict regions from userspace.
1648 relaxed
1649
1650 iommu= [x86]
1651 off
1652 force
1653 noforce
1654 biomerge
1655 panic
1656 nopanic
1657 merge
1658 nomerge
1659 forcesac
1660 soft
bcb71abe 1661 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1662 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1663 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1664
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1665 iommu.passthrough=
1666 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1667 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1668 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1669 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1670 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1671
1672 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1673 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1674 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1675
6cececfc 1676 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1677 0x80
1678 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1679 0xed
1680 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1681 udelay
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1682 Simple two microseconds delay
1683 none
1684 No delay
b02aae9c 1685
1da177e4 1686 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1687 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1688
fbf19803 1689 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1690 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1691
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1692 irqfixup [HW]
1693 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1694 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1695 firmware running.
1696
1697 irqpoll [HW]
1698 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1699 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1700 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1701 firmware running.
1702
1da177e4 1703 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1704 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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1705
1706 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
2d13e6ca 1707 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
b225d44e 1708
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1709 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1710 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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1711 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1712 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
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1713 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1714 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1715
1716 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1717 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1718 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1719 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1720
a9913044 1721 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1722
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1723 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1724 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1725 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1726 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1727 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1728 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1729
1730 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1731 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1732 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1733 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1734 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1735 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1736
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1737 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1738 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1739 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1740 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1741 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1742 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1743
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1744 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1745 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1746
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1747 nokaslr [KNL]
1748 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1749 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1750 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1751
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1752 kasan_multi_shot
1753 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1754 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1755 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1756 invalid access.
1757
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1758 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1759
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1760 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1761 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1762 This parameter
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1763 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1764 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1765 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1766 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1767 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1768 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1769 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1770 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1771 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1772 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1773 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1774 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1775 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1776 zone if it does not.
1777
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1778 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1779 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1780 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1781 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1782 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1783 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1784 time.
ed7ed365 1785
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1786 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1787 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1788 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1789 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1790 optional and is the number seconds in between
1791 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1792 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1793 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1794 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1795 the kernel debugger.
1796
84c08fd6 1797 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1798 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1799 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1800 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1801 keyboard only format: kbd
1802 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1803 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1804 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1805 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1806
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1807 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1808 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1809
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1810 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1811 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1812 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1813
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1814 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1815 Valid arguments: on, off
1816 Default: on
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1817 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1818 the default is off.
04f70336 1819
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1820 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1821 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1822 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1823 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1824 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1825 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1826
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1827 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1828 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1829
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1830 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1831 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1832 Default is 0 (off)
1833
fef07aae 1834 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1835 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1836
1837 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1838 for all guests.
16290246 1839 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1840
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1841 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1842 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1843 Default is 1 (enabled)
1844
1845 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1846 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1847 Default is 0 (disabled)
1848
1849 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1850 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1851 Default is 1 (enabled)
1852
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1853 kvm-intel.nested=
1854 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1855 Default is 0 (disabled)
1856
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1857 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1858 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1859 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1860 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1861
1862 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1863 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1864 Default is 1 (enabled)
1865
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1866 l2cr= [PPC]
1867
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1868 l3cr= [PPC]
1869
cd4f0ef7 1870 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1871 disabled it.
1da177e4 1872
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1873 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1874 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1875 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1876
6cececfc 1877 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1878 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1879
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1880 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1881 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1882 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1883 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1884 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1885 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1886 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1887
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1888 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1889 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1890 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1891
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1892 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1893 when set.
1894 Format: <int>
1895
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1896 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1897 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1898 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1899 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1900 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1901 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1902 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1903 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1904
1905 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1906 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1907 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1908 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1909 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1910 host link and device attached to it.
1911
1912 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1913 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1914 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1915 The following configurations can be forced.
1916
1917 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1918 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1919
1920 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1921
1922 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1923 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1924 allowed.
1925
1926 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1927
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1928 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1929
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1930 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1931 and both resets.
1932
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1933 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1934 hot-unplug link recovery
1935
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1936 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1937
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1938 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1939
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1940 * disable: Disable this device.
1941
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1942 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1943 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1944
95f72d1e 1945 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1946
1da177e4 1947 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1948 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1949
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1950 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1951 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1952
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1953 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1954 Format: <integer>
1955
1956 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1957 Format: <integer>
1958
1959 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1960 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1961
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1962 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1963 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1964 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1965 number of online CPUs.
1966
1967 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1968 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1969
1970 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1971 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1972
1973 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1974 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1975 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1976
1977 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1978 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1979 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1980 mode during the locktorture test.
1981
1982 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1983 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1984 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1985
1986 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1987 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1988
1989 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1990 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1991 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1992 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1993 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1994 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1995
1996 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1997 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1998
1999 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2000 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2001
2002 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2003 Enable additional printk() statements.
2004
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2005 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2006 Format: <irq>
2007
2008 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2009 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2010 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2011 loglevels are defined as follows:
2012
2013 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2014 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2015 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2016 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2017 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2018 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2019 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2020 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2021
c756d08a 2022 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2023 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2024 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2025 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2026 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2027 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2028 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2029
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2030 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2031 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2032 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2033 kernel boot problems.
2034
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2035 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2036 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2037 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2038 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2039 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2040 attached printers to be reset. Using
2041 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2042 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2043 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2044 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2045 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2046 port specification list means that device IDs
2047 from each port should be examined, to see if
2048 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2049 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2050 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2051
2052 lpj=n [KNL]
2053 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2054 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2055 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2056 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2057 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2058 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2059 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2060 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2061 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2062 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2063 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2064 hardware.
2065
2066 ltpc= [NET]
2067 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2068
16290246 2069 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2070 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2071 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2072
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2073 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2074 yeeloong laptop.
2075 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2076
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2077 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2078 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2079
2080 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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2081 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2082 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2083 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2084 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2085 only takes effect during system bootup.
2086 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2087 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2088
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2089 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2090 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2091 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2092 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2093 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2094 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2095
cd4f0ef7 2096 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2097
71cced6e 2098 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2099
1da177e4 2100 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2101 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2102
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2103 mdacon= [MDA]
2104 Format: <first>,<last>
2105 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2106
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2107 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2108 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2109 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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2110 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2111 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2112 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2113 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2114
cd4f0ef7 2115 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2116 memory.
2117
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2118 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2119 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2120 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2121
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2122 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2123 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2124 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2125 set according to the
2126 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2127 option.
2128 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2129
6cececfc 2130 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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2131 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2132 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2133 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2134 option description.
2135
2136 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2137 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2138 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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2139 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2140 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2141 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2142 comma delimited.
2143 Example:
2144 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2145
2146 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2147 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2148 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2149
2150 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2151 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2152 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2153 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2154 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2155 or
2156 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2157 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2158 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2159 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2160
ec776ef6
CH
2161 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2162 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2163 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2164 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2165 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2166
9f077871
JF
2167 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2168 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2169 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2170 Setting this option will scan the memory
2171 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2172 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2173 from using the memory being corrupted.
2174 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2175 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2176 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2177 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2178
2179 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2180 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2181 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2182 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2183 corruption in more or less memory.
2184
2185 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2186 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2187 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2188 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2189
e4b0db72 2190 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2191 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2192 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2193 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2194 performed. Each pass selects another test
2195 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2196 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2197 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2198 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2199
406e7938
RW
2200 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2201 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2202 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2203 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2204 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2205
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LT
2206 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2207 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2208
8f36881b
AS
2209 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2210 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2211 platforms.
2212
e6c4dc6c
WT
2213 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2214 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2215 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2216 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2217
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LT
2218 mga= [HW,DRM]
2219
1c207f95
RD
2220 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2221 physical address is ignored.
2222
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MP
2223 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2224 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2225 Default: "0tb"
2226 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2227 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2228 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2229 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2230 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2231 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2232 unconfigured.
2233 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2234 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2235 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2236 VGA shield.
2237 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2238 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2239 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2240 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2241 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2242 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2243
6b74ab97
MG
2244 mminit_loglevel=
2245 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2246 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2247 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2248 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2249 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2250 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2251
106a4ee2
RR
2252 module.sig_enforce
2253 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2254 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2255 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2256 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2257
be7de5f9
PB
2258 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2259 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2260
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LT
2261 mousedev.tap_time=
2262 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2263 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2264 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2265 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2266 Format: <msecs>
2267 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2268 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2269 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2270 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2271
6cececfc 2272 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2273 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2274 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2275 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2276 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2277 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2278 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2279 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2280 is not too small.
2281
39fa104d 2282 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
c5320926
TC
2283 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2284
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LT
2285 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2286 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2287
a9913044
RD
2288 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2289 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2290
2291 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2292 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2293
4e89a2d8
WS
2294 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2295 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2296 at a time.
2297
5988af23
RH
2298 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2299
2300 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2301
2302 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2303 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2304 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2305 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2306 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2307
9db829f4
BD
2308 mtdset= [ARM]
2309 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2310
2311 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2312
1da177e4 2313 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2314 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2315 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2316
0cb55ad2 2317 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2318 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2319 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2320
2321 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2322 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2323 Default is 1.
2324 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2325 using up MTRRs.
2326
2327 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2328 Format: <integer>
2329 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2330 Default : 1
2331 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2332 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2333
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LT
2334 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2335
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LT
2336 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2337 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2338 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2339 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2340 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2341 file if at all.
2342
58401572
KPO
2343 nf_conntrack.acct=
2344 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2345 0 to disable accounting
2346 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2347 Default value is 0.
58401572 2348
306a0753 2349 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2350 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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LT
2351
2352 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2353 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2354
306a0753
CL
2355 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2356 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2357
5405fc44
TM
2358 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2359 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2360 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2361 requests.
2362
a72b4422
TM
2363 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2364 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2365 channel should listen.
2366
e571cbf1
TM
2367 nfs.cache_getent=
2368 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2369 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2370
2371 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2372 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2373 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2374
58df095b
TM
2375 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2376 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2377 entries.
2378
f43bf0be
TM
2379 nfs.enable_ino64=
2380 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2381 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2382 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2383 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2384 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2385
5405fc44
TM
2386 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2387 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2388 slots the client will assign to the callback
2389 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2390 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2391 a particular server.
2392
ef159e91
TM
2393 nfs.max_session_slots=
2394 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2395 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2396 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2397 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2398 Note that there is little point in setting this
2399 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2400
b064eca2 2401 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2402 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2403 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2404 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2405 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2406 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2407 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2408 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2409 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2410 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2411 back to using the idmapper.
2412 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2413 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2414 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2415 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2416 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2417 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2418
db8ac8ba
WAA
2419 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2420 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2421 information in exchange_id requests.
2422 If zero, no implementation identification information
2423 will be sent.
2424 The default is to send the implementation identification
2425 information.
e52347bd 2426
f6de7a39
TM
2427 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2428 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2429 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2430 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2431 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2432 after the locks are lost.
2433 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2434 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2435 parameter to '1'.
2436 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2437 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2438
bbf58bf3
TM
2439 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2440 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2441 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2442
2443 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2444 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2445 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2446 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2447
e9541ce8
BF
2448 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2449 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2450 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2451 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2452 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2453 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2454
c0c74acb 2455 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2456 when a NMI is triggered.
2457 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2458
6cececfc 2459 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2460 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2461 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2462 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2463 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2464 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2465 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2466 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2467 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2468 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2469 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2470
bff38771
AV
2471 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2472 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2473 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2474 waits 4 seconds.
2475
cd4f0ef7 2476 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2477 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2478 is present.
2479
0cb55ad2
RD
2480 no_console_suspend
2481 [HW] Never suspend the console
2482 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2483 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2484 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2485 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2486 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2487 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2488 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2489 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2490 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2491 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2492 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2493 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2494
c1aee215
CL
2495 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2496 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2497 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2498
a9913044
RD
2499 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2500
1da177e4
LT
2501 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2502 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2503
5091faa4
MG
2504 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2505
1da177e4
LT
2506 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2507 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2508
2509 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2510
0cb55ad2
RD
2511 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2512
163ecdff
SN
2513 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2514
6902aa84
PM
2515 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2516
b2e0a54a 2517 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2518
1da177e4
LT
2519 noexec [IA-64]
2520
6cececfc 2521 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2522 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2523 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2524 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2525
52b6179a
PA
2526 nosmap [X86]
2527 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2528 even if it is supported by processor.
2529
de5397ad 2530 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2531 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2532 even if it is supported by processor.
2533
f5a1b191
JS
2534 noexec32 [X86-64]
2535 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2536 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2537 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2538 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2539 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2540
fab43ef4 2541 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2542
cd4f0ef7 2543 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2544 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2545 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2546
0ddab1d2
TK
2547 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2548
52c48c51
SS
2549 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2550 Equivalent to smt=1.
2551
0c752a93
SS
2552 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2553 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2554 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2555
b6f42a4a
FY
2556 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2557 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2558 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2559 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2560 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2561 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2562
2563 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2564 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2565 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2566 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2567 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2568 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2569 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2570
01a24d2b
PZ
2571 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2572 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2573 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2574
1f29fae2
SH
2575 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2576 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2577 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2578
1da177e4
LT
2579 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2580 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2581 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2582 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2583 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2584 real-time systems.
2585
a6e15a39
KC
2586 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2587
79bf2bb3
TG
2588 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2589 Valid arguments: on, off
2590 Default: on
2591
c5bfece2 2592 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2d13e6ca 2593 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2594 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2595 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2596 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2597 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2598 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2599 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2600
eeee7853
PM
2601 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2602
cd4f0ef7 2603 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2604 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2605
6cececfc 2606 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2607 broken timer IRQ sources.
2608
1da177e4
LT
2609 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2610
2611 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2612 initial RAM disk.
2613
03ea8155
WH
2614 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2615 remapping.
d1423d56 2616 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2617
1da177e4
LT
2618 nointroute [IA-64]
2619
d12a72b8
AL
2620 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2621
16290246 2622 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2623
9cf4c4fc
JK
2624 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2625
fd10cde9
GN
2626 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2627 fault handling.
2628
80e9a4f2
AM
2629 no-vmw-sched-clock
2630 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2631 clock and use the default one.
2632
d910f5c1
GC
2633 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2634 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2635 behaviour
2636
cd4f0ef7 2637 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2638
cd4f0ef7 2639 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2640
1da177e4 2641 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2642 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2643
312f1f01
H
2644 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2645
13696e0a 2646 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2647
83d7384f
AS
2648 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2649 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2650
bda62633
DZ
2651 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2652 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2653 irq.
2654
02608bef
DY
2655 nomodule Disable module load
2656
016ddd9b
JK
2657 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2658 pagetables) support.
2659
0cb55ad2
RD
2660 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2661 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2662
bbff2168 2663 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2664
cd4f0ef7 2665 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2666 with UP alternatives
2667
7a5091d5
PA
2668 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2669 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2670 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2671 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2672
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2673 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2674 space.
2675
1da177e4
LT
2676 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2677 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2678 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2679
2680 nosbagart [IA-64]
2681
cd4f0ef7 2682 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2683
61ec7567
LB
2684 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2685 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2686
97842216
DJ
2687 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2688
1da177e4
LT
2689 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2690
cd4f0ef7 2691 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2692
195daf66
UO
2693 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2694 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2695
1da177e4 2696 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2697
2b2fd87a
WH
2698 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2699
f78cff48
FY
2700 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2701 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2702 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2703 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2704 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2705 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2706 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2707 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2708 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2709 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2710 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2711 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2712 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2713
16290246 2714 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2715 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2716 SAL PALO.
2717
2b633e3f
YL
2718 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2719 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2720 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2721 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2722 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2723 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2724 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2725 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2726
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RD
2727 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2728
1a687c2e
MG
2729 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2730 Allowed values are enable and disable
2731
f0c0b2b8
KH
2732 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2733 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2734 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2735 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2736
7c4be253
RD
2737 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2738 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2739 info.
2740
3ef0e1f8
AS
2741 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2742 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2743 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2744 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2745 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2746 interrupts *may* be lost!
2747
15ac7afe
TL
2748 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2749 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2750 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2751 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2752
1da177e4
LT
2753 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2754 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2755
7e4e0bd5
RR
2756 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2757 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2758 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2759 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2760 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2761 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2762 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2763 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2764 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2765 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2766
44a4dcf7
RD
2767 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2768 process, but there is a small probability of
2769 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2770 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2771 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2772
bcfde334
RD
2773 OSS [HW,OSS]
2774 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2775
48c96a36
JK
2776 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2777 Storage of the information about who allocated
2778 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2779 we can turn it on.
2780 on: enable the feature
2781
8823b1db
LA
2782 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2783 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2784 off: turn off poisoning
2785 on: turn on poisoning
2786
44a4dcf7 2787 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2788 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2789 timeout = 0: wait forever
2790 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2791 Format: <timeout>
2792
9e3961a0
PB
2793 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2794 on a WARN().
2795
f06e5153
MH
2796 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2797 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2798 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2799 succeeds in any situation.
2800 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2801 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2802 kernel more unstable.
2803
1da177e4
LT
2804 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2805 connected to, default is 0.
2806 Format: <parport#>
2807 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2808 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
2809 Format: <mode>
2810
2811 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2812 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2813 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2814 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2815 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2816 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2817 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2818 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2819 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2820 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2821 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2822 are specified on the command line, starting
2823 with parport0.
2824
2825 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2826 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2827 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2828 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2829 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2830 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2831 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2832
dd287796
AM
2833 pause_on_oops=
2834 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2835 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2836 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2837
1da177e4
LT
2838 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2839
2840 pcd. [PARIDE]
2841 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2842 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2843
a9913044 2844 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2845 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2846 changes anything
c0115606 2847 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2848 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2849 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2850 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2851 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2852 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2853 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2854 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2855 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2856 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2857 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2858 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2859 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2860 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2861 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2862 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2863 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2864 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2865 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2866 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2867 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2868 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2869 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2870 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2871 Configuration
12983077
AH
2872 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2873 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2874 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2875 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2876 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2877 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2878 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2879 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2880 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2881 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2882 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2883 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2884 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2885 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2886 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2887 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2888 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2889 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2890 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2891 on several machines and they hang the machine
2892 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2893 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2894 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2895 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2896 motherboard.
c0115606 2897 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2898 Use with caution as certain devices share
2899 address decoders between ROMs and other
2900 resources.
c0115606 2901 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2902 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2903 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2904 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2905 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2906 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
2907 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2908 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2909 this way.
c0115606 2910 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
2911 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2912 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2913 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2914 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
2915 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2916 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2917 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2918 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
2919 numbers ourselves, overriding
2920 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2921 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
2922 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2923 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2924 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2925 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2926 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2927 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2928 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
2929 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2930 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2931 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2932 please report a bug.
2933 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2934 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
2935 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2936 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2937 so this option is a temporary workaround
2938 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2939 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2940 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
2941 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2942 This might help on some broken boards which
2943 machine check when some devices' config space
2944 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2945 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
2946 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2947 This sorting is done to get a device
2948 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2949 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2950 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2951 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2952 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2953 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2954 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2955 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2956 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2957 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2958 or bus can support) for best performance.
2959 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2960 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2961 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2962 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2963 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2964 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2965 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2966 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2967 The default value is 256 bytes.
2968 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2969 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2970 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
2971 resource_alignment=
2972 Format:
2973 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
2974 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2975 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
2976 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2977 aligned memory resources.
2978 If <order of align> is not specified,
2979 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2980 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2981 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
2982 To specify the alignment for several
2983 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2984 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2985 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
2986 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2987 end-to-end CRC checking).
2988 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2989 the default.
2990 off: Turn ECRC off
2991 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
2992 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2993 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2994 Default size is 256 bytes.
2995 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2996 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2997 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
2998 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2999 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3000 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3001 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3002 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3003 accommodate resources required by all child
3004 devices.
3005 off: Turn realloc off
3006 on: Turn realloc on
3007 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3008 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
3009 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3010 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3011 port.
6b4b78fe 3012
e5665a45
CE
3013 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3014 Management.
3015 off Disable ASPM.
3016 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3017 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3018
7570a333
MT
3019 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3020 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3021 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3022
79dd9182 3023 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
3024 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3025 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3026 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3027 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3028 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
3029 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3030 ports driver.
3031
9d26d3a8
MW
3032 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3033 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3034 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3035
c7f48656 3036 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3037 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3038 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3039
1da177e4
LT
3040 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3041
39ac5ba5
TB
3042 pd_ignore_unused
3043 [PM]
3044 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3045 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3046 for debug and development, but should not be
3047 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3048
1da177e4 3049 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3050 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3051
3052 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3053 boot time.
3054 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3055 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3056
f58dc01b 3057 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3058 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3059 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3060 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3061 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3062 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3063
1da177e4 3064 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3065 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3066
3067 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3068 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3069
3070 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3071 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3072
3073 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3074 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3075 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3076
16290246 3077 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3078 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3079 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3080
96242116
BH
3081 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3082 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3083 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3084 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3085 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3086 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3087
1da177e4
LT
3088 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3089 { off }
3090
3091 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3092 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3093
3094 pnp_reserve_irq=
3095 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3096
3097 pnp_reserve_dma=
3098 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3099
3100 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3101 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3102
3103 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3104 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3105 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3106 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3107
4af94f39
RD
3108 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3109 Default is 21.
3110 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3111 may be specified.
3112 Format: <port>,<port>....
3113
c3cbd075
BS
3114 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3115 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3116 platform machine description specific power_save
3117 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3118 execution priority.
3119
3eb5d588
AB
3120 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3121 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3122 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3123 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3124 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3125
45807a1d
IM
3126 print-fatal-signals=
3127 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3128
3129 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3130 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3131 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3132 coredump - etc.
3133
3134 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3135 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3136
45807a1d
IM
3137 default: off.
3138
c22ab332
MG
3139 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3140 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3141 panics
3142 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3143 default: disabled
3144
750afe7b
BP
3145 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3146 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3147 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3148 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3149 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3150 Default: ratelimit
3151
e84845c4
RD
3152 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3153 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3154
0cb55ad2
RD
3155 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3156 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3157 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3158
3159 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3160 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3161 instead using the legacy FADT method
3162
1da177e4 3163 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
a9913044
RD
3164 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3165 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3166 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3167 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
3168 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3169 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3170 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 3171
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3172 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3173 before loading.
31c00fc1 3174 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3175
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3176 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3177 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3178 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3179 per second.
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3180 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3181 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3182 (0 = never).
3183 psmouse.resolution=
3184 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3185 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3186 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
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3187 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3188
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3189 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3190
1da177e4 3191 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3192 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3193
dc8c8587
KS
3194 pty.legacy_count=
3195 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3196 default number.
3197
7d2c502f 3198 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3199
1da177e4
LT
3200 r128= [HW,DRM]
3201
3202 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3203 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3204
1da177e4 3205 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3206 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3207
011d8261
BP
3208 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3209
3210 cec_disable [X86]
3211 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3212 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3213
4102adab 3214 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
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NC
3215 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3216
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3217 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3218 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3219 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
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3220 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3221 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3222 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3223 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
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3224 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3225 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3226 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3227
4102adab 3228 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3229 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3230 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3231 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3232 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3233 This improves the real-time response for the
3234 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3235 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3236 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3237 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3238
4102adab 3239 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
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PM
3240 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3241 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3242
a3dc2948
PM
3243 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3244 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3245 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3246 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3247
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PM
3248 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3249 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3250 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3251
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3252 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3253 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3254 RCU grace-period initialization.
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PM
3255
3256 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3257 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3258 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3259 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3260 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3261
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3262 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3263 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3264 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3265 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3266 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3267
4102adab 3268 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
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PM
3269 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3270 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3271 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3272 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3273 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3274 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3275
4a81e832
PM
3276 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3277 Set required age in jiffies for a
3278 given grace period before RCU starts
3279 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3280 rcu_note_context_switch().
3281
4102adab 3282 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3283 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3284 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3285 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3286 and maximum value is HZ.
3287
4102adab 3288 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3289 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3290 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3291 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3292
21871d7e 3293 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3294 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3295 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3296 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3297 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3298 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3299 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3300 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3301 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3302 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3303
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3304 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3305 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3306 defaults to the square root of the number of
3307 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3308 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3309 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3310
4102adab 3311 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
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PM
3312 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3313 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3314
4102adab 3315 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
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RD
3316 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3317 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3318
4102adab 3319 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3320 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3321 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3322
4102adab 3323 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3324 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3325 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3326 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3327 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3328
e3c50dfb
PM
3329 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3330 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3331 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3332 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3333 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3334 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3335
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PM
3336 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3337 Measure performance of asynchronous
3338 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3339
3340 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3341 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3342 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3343 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3344 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3345 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3346
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3347 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3348 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3349 grace-period primitives.
3350
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3351 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3352 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3353 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3354 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3355 interference.
3356
bdea9e34
PM
3357 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3358 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3359 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3360 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3361 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3362 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3363 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3364 a single reader.
3365
3366 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3367 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3368 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3369 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3370
3371 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3372 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3373
820687a7
PM
3374 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3375 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3376
bdea9e34
PM
3377 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3378 Shut the system down after performance tests
3379 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3380 testing.
3381
bdea9e34
PM
3382 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3383 Enable additional printk() statements.
3384
820687a7
PM
3385 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3386 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3387 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3388 no holdoff.
3389
38706bc5
PM
3390 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3391 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3392 callback-flood tests.
3393
3394 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3395 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3396 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3397 test.
3398
3399 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3400 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3401 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3402 disable callback-flood testing.
3403
3404 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3405 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3406 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3407
4102adab 3408 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3409 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3410 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3411
4102adab 3412 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3413 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3414 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3415
4102adab 3416 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3417 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3418 in seconds.
3419
3420 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3421 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3422 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3423
4102adab 3424 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3425 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3426
3427 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3428 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3429 update-side primitives, if available.
3430
3431 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3432 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3433 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3434 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3435 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3436 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3437 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3438
4102adab 3439 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3440 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3441
4102adab 3442 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3443 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3444 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3445 test, hence the "fake".
3446
4102adab 3447 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3448 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3449 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3450 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3451 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3452 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3453
4102adab
PM
3454 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3455 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3456
3457 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3458 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3459
4102adab 3460 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3461 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3462 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3463
4102adab 3464 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3465 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3466 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3467 during the rcutorture test.
3468
4102adab 3469 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3470 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3471 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3472
4102adab 3473 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3474 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3475 warnings, zero to disable.
3476
4102adab 3477 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3478 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3479
4102adab 3480 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3481 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3482
4102adab 3483 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3484 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3485 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3486 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3487 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3488
4102adab 3489 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3490 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3491 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3492 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3493
4102adab 3494 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3495 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3496
4102adab 3497 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3498 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3499
4102adab 3500 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3501 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3502 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3503
21b05de4
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3504 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3505 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3506
4102adab 3507 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3508 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3509
4102adab 3510 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3511 Enable additional printk() statements.
3512
5a9be7c6
PM
3513 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3514 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3515
3516 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3517 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3518
4102adab
PM
3519 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3520 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3521 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3522 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3523 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3524 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3525 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3526
5a9be7c6
PM
3527 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3528 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3529 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3530 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3531 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3532 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3533 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3534 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3535 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3536
3e42ec1a
PM
3537 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3538 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3539 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3540 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3541 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3542
52db30ab
PM
3543 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3544 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3545 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3546 to zero.
3547
74860fee
PK
3548 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3549 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3550
3551 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3552 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3553
3554 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3555 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3556
ffdfc409
OJ
3557 rdinit= [KNL]
3558 Format: <full_path>
3559 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3560 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3561
1b3a5d02
RH
3562 reboot= [KNL]
3563 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3564 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3565 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3566 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3567 [[,]f[orce]
3568 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3569 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3570 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3571 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3572 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3573
46b6d94e
PJ
3574 relax_domain_level=
3575 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3576 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3577
1da177e4
LT
3578 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3579
cd4f0ef7 3580 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3581 Format: nn[KMG]
3582 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3583 address space.
3584
9ea77bdb
PA
3585 reservelow= [X86]
3586 Format: nn[K]
3587 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3588 the bottom of the address space.
3589
7e96287d
VG
3590 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3591 during initialization.
3592
a9913044
RD
3593 resume= [SWSUSP]
3594 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3595 Format:
3596 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3597
ecbd0da1
RW
3598 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3599 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3600 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3601 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3602 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3603
f126f733
BS
3604 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3605 read the resume files
3606
6f8d7022
BS
3607 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3608 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3609 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3610
f996fc96
BS
3611 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3612 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3613 present during boot.
3614 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3615 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
3616 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3617 (that will set all pages holding image data
3618 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3619
0a7b35cb
MN
3620 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3621
0efbb786
AC
3622 rfkill.default_state=
3623 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3624 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3625 1 Unblocked.
3626
3627 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3628 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3629 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3630 blocked and the previous configuration.
3631 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3632 blocked and everything unblocked.
3633
1da177e4
LT
3634 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3635 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3636
e16fd002
GA
3637 ring3mwait=disable
3638 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3639 CPUs.
3640
1da177e4
LT
3641 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3642
d2aa1aca
KC
3643 rodata= [KNL]
3644 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3645 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3646
605df8af
HS
3647 rockchip.usb_uart
3648 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3649 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3650 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3651 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3652
1da177e4 3653 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3654 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3655
3656 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3657 mount the root filesystem
3658
3659 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3660
3661 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3662
cc1ed754
PO
3663 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3664 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3665 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3666
5c71d618
RT
3667 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3668 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3669 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3670 managed by CMA.
3671
1da177e4
LT
3672 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3673
3674 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3675
c60d1ae4
GS
3676 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3677 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3678 strict
3679 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3680 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3681 which is faster.
3682
1da177e4
LT
3683 sa1100ir [NET]
3684 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3685
1da177e4 3686 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3687
f6630114
MT
3688 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3689
cb251765
MG
3690 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3691 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3692 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3693 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3694
5307c955
MG
3695 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3696 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3697 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3698 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3699 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3700 1 -- enable.
3701 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3702 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3703
0cb55ad2
RD
3704 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3705 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3706 security module asking for security registration will be
3707 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3708 as if no module has been chosen.
3709
3710 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3711 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3712 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3713 0 -- disable.
3714 1 -- enable.
3715 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3716 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3717 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3718
c1c124e9
JJ
3719 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3720 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3721 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3722 0 -- disable.
3723 1 -- enable.
3724 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3725
cd4f0ef7 3726 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3727
1da177e4
LT
3728 shapers= [NET]
3729 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3730
1da177e4
LT
3731 simeth= [IA-64]
3732 simscsi=
a9913044 3733
1da177e4
LT
3734 slram= [HW,MTD]
3735
423c929c
JK
3736 slab_nomerge [MM]
3737 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3738 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3739 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3740 merging on their own.
3741 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3742
3df1cccd
DR
3743 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3744 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3745 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3746 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3747 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3748
f0630fff
CL
3749 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3750 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3751 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3752 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3753 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3754 last alloc / free. For more information see
3755 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215 3756
1663f26d
TH
3757 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3758 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3759 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3760 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3761 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3762 directories and files being created under
3763 /sys/kernel/slub.
3764
c1aee215 3765 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3766 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3767 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3768 fragmentation. For more information see
3769 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3770
3771 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3772 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3773 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3774 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3775 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3776 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3777 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3778 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3779
3780 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3781 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3782 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3783 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3784
3785 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3786 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3787 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3788
1da177e4
LT
3789 smart2= [HW]
3790 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3791
d0d4f69b
BH
3792 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3793 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3794 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3795 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3796 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3797 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3798 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3799 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3800 1: Fast pin select (default)
3801 2: ATC IRMode
3802
52c48c51
SS
3803 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3804 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3805 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3806 actual hardware limit.
3807 Format: <integer>
3808 Default: -1 (no limit)
3809
9c44bc03
IM
3810 softlockup_panic=
3811 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3812 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3813
ed235875
AT
3814 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3815 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3816 backtraces on all cpus.
3817 Format: <integer>
3818
1da177e4 3819 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3820 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3821
1da177e4
LT
3822 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3823 spia_fio_base=
3824 spia_pedr=
3825 spia_peddr=
3826
c350c008
PM
3827 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3828 Specifies how frequently to check for
3829 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3830 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3831 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3832 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3833 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3834 are ignored.
3835
22607d66
PM
3836 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3837 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3838 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3839 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3840 grace period will be considered for automatic
3841 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3842 expediting.
3843
1be7107f
HD
3844 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
3845 override the default stack gap protection. The value
3846 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3847 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3848 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3849 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3850
f38f1d2a
SR
3851 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3852 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3853
762e1207
SR
3854 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3855 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3856 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3857 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3858 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3859 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3860 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3861
1da177e4
LT
3862 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3863 Format: <num>
3864 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3865 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3866 as the initial boot-console.
3867 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3868
3869 sti_font= [HW]
3870 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3871
3872 stifb= [HW]
3873 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3874
cbf11071
TM
3875 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3876 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3877 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3878 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3879 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3880 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3881 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3882 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3883 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3884 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3885 maximum port values.
3886
ff3ac5c3
TM
3887 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3888 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3889 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3890 process in parallel from a single connection.
3891 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3892
42a7fc4a
GB
3893 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3894 [NFS]
3895 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3896 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3897 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3898 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3899 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3900 NFS server is running.
3901
3902 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3903 automatically using heuristics
3904 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3905 percpu one pool for each CPU
3906 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3907 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3908
cbf11071
TM
3909 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3910 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3911 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3912 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3913 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3914 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3915 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3916 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3917
1d4a9c17
BN
3918 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3919 [SUSPEND]
3920 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3921 mode before resuming the system (see
3922 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3923 is set. Default value is 5.
3924
07555ac1 3925 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3926 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3927 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 3928 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 3929
91fec0f5 3930 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 3931 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
3932 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3933 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3934 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 3935 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 3936
1da177e4
LT
3937 switches= [HW,M68k]
3938
e52eec13
AK
3939 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3940 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3941 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3942 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3943 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3944 in older udev will not work anymore.
3945 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3946 the kernel configuration.
3947
5d6f647f
IM
3948 sysrq_always_enabled
3949 [KNL]
3950 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3951 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3952 Useful for debugging.
3953
747029a5
FF
3954 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3955 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3956 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3957 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3958 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3959 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3960
1da177e4
LT
3961 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3962
acc82342 3963 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 3964 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
3965 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3966 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3967 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3968 The system is woken from this state using a
3969 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 3970
1da177e4
LT
3971 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3972 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3973
f8707ec9
LB
3974 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3975 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3976 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3977
c52a7419
LB
3978 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3979 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 3980 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 3981
f5487145
LB
3982 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3983 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3984 critical and hot trip points.
3985
72b33ef8
LB
3986 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3987 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3988
a70cdc52
LB
3989 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3990 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
3991 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3992 value
a70cdc52 3993
730ff34d
LB
3994 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3995 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3996 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3997 0: no polling (default)
3998
8d32a307
TG
3999 threadirqs [KNL]
4000 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4001 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4002
2ca62b04
KRW
4003 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4004 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4005
4006 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4007 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4008 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4009
4010 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4011 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4012 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4013 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4014
4015 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4016 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4017 to the hypervisor.
4018
4019 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4020 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4021 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4022 kernel based on different criteria.
4023
2b1a61f0
HC
4024 topology= [S390]
4025 Format: {off | on}
4026 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4027 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4028 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4029 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4030 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4031
2d73bae1
NA
4032 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4033 Format: {off}
4034 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4035 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4036 LPAR.
4037
1da177e4
LT
4038 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4039
225a9be2
RA
4040 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4041 Format: integer pcr id
4042 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4043 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4044 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4045 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4046 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4047 are saved.
4048
9d612bef 4049 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4050 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4051
020e5f85
LZ
4052 trace_event=[event-list]
4053 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4054 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4055 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4056 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 4057
7bcfaf54
SR
4058 trace_options=[option-list]
4059 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4060 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4061 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4062 to echo the option name into
4063
4064 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4065
4066 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4067 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4068
4069 trace_options=stacktrace
4070
4071 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4072 section.
4073
0daa2302
SRRH
4074 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4075 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4076 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4077 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4078 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4079 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4080
4081 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4082 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4083 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4084 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4085
4086 ** CAUTION **
4087
4088 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4089 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4090 the system to live lock.
4091
de7edd31
SRRH
4092 traceoff_on_warning
4093 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4094 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4095 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4096 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4097
4098 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4099 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4100 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4101
4102 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4103 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4104
fcf4d821
JK
4105 transparent_hugepage=
4106 [KNL]
4107 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4108 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4109 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4110 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4111
d3b8f889 4112 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4113 Format: <string>
4114 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889 4115 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4116 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4117 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4118 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4119 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4120 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4121 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4122 can add overhead.
395628ef 4123
a9913044
RD
4124 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4125 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4126 Format:
4127 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
4128 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4129
b6935f8c 4130 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4131 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4132 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4133 help "seeing" what's going on.
4134
f86dcc5a
ED
4135 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4136 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4137
5f8364b7
AS
4138 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4139 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4140 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4141 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4142 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4143 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4144 reported either.
4145
e3a61b0a 4146 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4147 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4148
c4fc2342
CDH
4149 usbcore.authorized_default=
4150 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4151 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4152 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4153
b5e795f8
AS
4154 usbcore.autosuspend=
4155 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4156 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4157 is the time required before an idle device will be
4158 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4159 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4160
fd7c519d
JK
4161 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4162 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4163
0290cc9f
AS
4164 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4165 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4166 (default = 65536).
4167
fd7c519d
JK
4168 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4169 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4170
4171 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4172 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4173 scheme (default 0 = off).
4174
3f5eb8d5
AS
4175 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4176 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4177 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4178
fd7c519d
JK
4179 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4180 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4181 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4182
4183 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4184 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4185 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4186 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4187
40d58148
ON
4188 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4189
1da177e4
LT
4190 usbhid.mousepoll=
4191 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4192
933bfe4d
TJ
4193 usbhid.jspoll=
4194 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4195
d4f373e5
AS
4196 usb-storage.delay_use=
4197 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4198 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4199
4200 usb-storage.quirks=
4201 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4202 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4203 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4204 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4205 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4206 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4207 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4208 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4209 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4210 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4211 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4212 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4213 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4214 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4215 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4216 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4217 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4218 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4219 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4220 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4221 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4222 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4223 reported device capacity by one
4224 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4225 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4226 device);
13630746
HG
4227 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4228 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4229 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4230 unlock ejectable media);
4231 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4232 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4233 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4234 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4235 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4236 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4237 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4238 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4239 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4240 bogus residue values);
4241 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4242 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4243 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4244 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4245 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4246 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4247 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4248 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4249 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4250 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4251
ac1667db
SB
4252 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4253 Format: <int>
4254 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4255 1 - undefined instruction events
4256 2 - system calls
4257 4 - invalid data aborts
4258 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4259 16 - SIGBUS faults
4260 Example: user_debug=31
4261
14315592
IC
4262 userpte=
4263 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4264
4265 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4266 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4267 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4268
6cececfc 4269 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4270 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4271
4272 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4273 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4274
b0b49f26
AL
4275 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4276 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4277 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4278
4279 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4280 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4281 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4282
4283 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4284 alias for vdso32=0.
4285
4286 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4287 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4288
d080d397
YI
4289 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4290 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4291
1da177e4
LT
4292 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4293 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4294
3afe6dab
AL
4295 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4296 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4297 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4298 level and then send out the event to user space through
4299 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4300 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4301 brightness level.
2843768b 4302 default: 1
3afe6dab 4303
81a054ce
PM
4304 virtio_mmio.device=
4305 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4306
4307 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4308 where:
4309 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4310 like K, M and G)
4311 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4312 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4313 request_irq())
4314 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4315 example:
4316 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4317
4318 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4319
cd4f0ef7 4320 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4321 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4322 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4323 Use vga=ask for menu.
4324 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4325 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4326
a9913044 4327 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4328 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4329 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4330 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4331 mapped kernel RAM.
4332
585c3047
PO
4333 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4334 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4335
585c3047
PO
4336 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4337 Format: <command>
4338
4339 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4340 Format: <command>
a9913044 4341
3ae36655
AL
4342 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4343 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4344 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4345 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4346 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4347 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4348 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4349
2e57ae05
AL
4350 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4351 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4352
2e57ae05 4353 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
4354 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4355 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4356 better than they would in emulation mode.
4357 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4358
4359 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4360 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4361 might break your system.
4362
3855ae1c
CL
4363 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4364 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4365 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4366
9ea9a886
CL
4367 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4368 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4369 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4370 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4371
0cb55ad2
RD
4372 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4373 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4374 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4375 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4376 ranging from 0-255.
4377
4378 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4379 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4380 Change the default green palette of the console.
4381 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4382 ranging from 0-255.
4383
4384 vt.default_red= [VT]
4385 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4386 Change the default red palette of the console.
4387 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4388 ranging from 0-255.
4389
4390 vt.default_utf8=
4391 [VT]
4392 Format=<0|1>
4393 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4394 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4395 newly opened terminals.
4396
f6c06b68
MG
4397 vt.global_cursor_default=
4398 [VT]
4399 Format=<-1|0|1>
4400 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4401 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4402 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4403 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4404 cursors, 1 will display them.
4405
3855ae1c
CL
4406 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4407 Default: 2 = green.
4408
4409 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4410 Default: 3 = cyan.
4411
4724ba57
RD
4412 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4413 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4414 or other driver-specific files in the
4415 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4416
82607adc
TH
4417 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4418 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4419 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4420 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4421 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4422 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4423 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4424 corresponding sysfs file.
4425
d55262c4
TH
4426 workqueue.disable_numa
4427 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4428 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4429 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4430 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4431 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4432 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4433 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4434
cee22a15
VK
4435 workqueue.power_efficient
4436 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4437 they show better performance thanks to cache
4438 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4439 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4440
4441 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4442 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4443 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4444 power usage at the cost of small performance
4445 overhead.
4446
4447 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4448 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4449
f303fccb
TH
4450 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4451 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4452 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4453 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4454 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4455 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4456 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4457 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4458 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4459 impacted.
4460
0cb55ad2
RD
4461 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4462 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4463 supporting x2apic.
4464
712b6aa8
KS
4465 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4466 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
4467 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4468 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4469 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4470
c70727a5
JG
4471 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4472 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4473 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4474 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4475 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4476 domains.
4477
c1c5413a
SS
4478 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4479 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4480 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4481 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4482 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4483 nics -- unplug network devices
4484 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
4485 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4486 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4487 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4488 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4489
15a3eac0
KRW
4490 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4491 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4492 optimizations.
4493
8d693b91
KRW
4494 xen_nopv [X86]
4495 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4496 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4497
1da177e4 4498 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
4499 Format:
4500 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]