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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
395cf969 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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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>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 143
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
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226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
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258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
259 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
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391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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393 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
394 until the next reboot
395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
398 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
399 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
400 auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
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435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
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440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
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442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
1da177e4 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
a405ed85 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 449 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 450
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451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
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455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
cd4f0ef7 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
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464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
32c4741c 467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 468
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469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
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475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 477
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478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 488
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489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
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494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495 Format: <string>
496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 498
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499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500 Format: { "0" | "1" }
501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503 any implied execute protection).
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504 1 -- check protection requested by application.
505 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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506 Value can be changed at runtime via
507 /selinux/checkreqprot.
508
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509 cio_ignore= [S390]
510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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511 clk_ignore_unused
512 [CLK]
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513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520 platform with proper driver support. For more
521 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
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cd4f0ef7 523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 524 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
592913ec 530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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531 Format: <string>
532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533 with the name specified.
534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535 the platform:
536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537 [ACPI] acpi_pm
538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542 [MIPS] MIPS
543 [PARISC] cr16
544 [S390] tod
545 [SH] SuperH
546 [SPARC64] tick
547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
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549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550 [ARM,ARM64]
551 Format: <bool>
552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555 systems.
556
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557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562 ones should be.
563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564 or using the feature without checking anything
565 will still see it. This just prevents it from
566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568 some critical bits.
569
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570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571 [ARM,X86,KNL]
572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576 altogether. For more information, see
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577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
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579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583 a hypervisor.
584 Default: yes
585
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586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 588 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 589
6cececfc 590 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 591 in an oops report.
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593 Default: 64
594
1da177e4 595 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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596 Format:
597 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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598
599 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
600 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
601
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602 com90xx= [HW,NET]
603 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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604 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
605
606 condev= [HW,S390] console device
607 conmode=
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609 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
610
611 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
612
613 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 614 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 615 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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616 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
617 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
618 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
619 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
620
e52347bd 621 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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622 information. See
623 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
624 alternative.
1da177e4 625
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626 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
627 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 628 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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629 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
630 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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631 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
632 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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633 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
634 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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635 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
636 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
637 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
638 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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639 the h/w is not re-initialized.
640
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642 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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644 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
645 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
646 console=brl,ttyS0
647 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
648
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650 [KNL] Change console messages format
651 default
652 By default we print messages on consoles in
653 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
654 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
655 `printk_time' param).
656 syslog
657 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
658 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
659 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
660 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
661 from /proc/kmsg.
662
f324edc8 663 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
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664 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
665 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 666
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667 coredump_filter=
668 [KNL] Change the default value for
669 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
670 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
671
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672 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
673 [ARM,ARM64]
674 Format: <bool>
675 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
676 0: default value, disable debugging
677 1: enable debugging at boot time
678
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679 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
680 disable the cpuidle sub-system
681
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682 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
683 disable the cpufreq sub-system
684
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685 cpu_init_udelay=N
686 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
687 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
688 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
689 Default: 10000
690
1da177e4 691 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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693 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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695 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
696 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
697 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
698 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
699 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
700 is selected automatically. Check
701 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
dc009d92 702
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703 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
704 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
705 in the running system. The syntax of range is
706 start-[end] where start and end are both
707 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 708 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 709
adbc742b 710 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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711 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
712 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
713 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
714 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
715 available.
716 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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717 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
718 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
719 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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720 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
721 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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722 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
723 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
724 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
725 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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726 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
727 for second kernel instead.
728 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 729 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 730 or memory reserved is below 4G.
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732 cryptomgr.notests
733 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
734
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735 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
736 Format: <dma>
737
738 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
739 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 740
a9913044 741 dasd= [HW,NET]
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742 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
743
744 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
745 (one device per port)
746 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 747 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 748
a648ec05 749 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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750 time. See
751 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 752 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 753
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754 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
755
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756 debug_locks_verbose=
757 [KNL] verbose self-tests
758 Format=<0|1>
759 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
760 self-tests.
761 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
762 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
763 only useful to kernel developers.
764
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765 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
766
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767 no_debug_objects
768 [KNL] Disable object debugging
769
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770 debug_guardpage_minorder=
771 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
772 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
773 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
774 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
775 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
776 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
777 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
778 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
779 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
780 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
781 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
782 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
783 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
784 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
785 bypassed) which are not detectable by
786 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
787 tracking down these problems.
788
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789 debug_pagealloc=
790 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
791 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
792 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
793 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
794 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
795 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
796 on: enable the feature
797
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798 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
799
2d27a966 800 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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801 Format: <area>[,<node>]
802 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
803
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805 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
806 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
807 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
808 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
809 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
810 if not specified.
55ff9780 811
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813 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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815 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
816 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
817 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
818 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
819 miss to occur.
820
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821 disable= [IPV6]
822 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
823
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824 disable_radix [PPC]
825 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
826
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827 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
828 Format: <int>
829 The number of initial APIC ID for the
830 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
831 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
832 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
833 causing system reset or hang due to sending
834 INIT from AP to BSP.
835
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836 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
837 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
838 to workaround buggy firmware.
839
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840 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
841 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
842
95ffa243 843 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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844 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
845 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 846 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 847
093af8d7 848 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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849 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
850 memory out of your available memory pool based on
851 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
852 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
853
6cececfc 854 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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855 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
856 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
857
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858 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
859
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860 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
861 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
862
863 dma_debug_entries=<number>
864 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
865 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
866 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
867 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
868 architectural default is too low.
869
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870 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
871 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
872 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
873 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
874 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
875 driver later using sysfs.
876
53fd40a9 877 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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878 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
879 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
880 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
881 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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882 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
883 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
884 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
885 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
886 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
887 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
888 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
889 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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890 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
891 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
892 data set with no connector name will be used for
893 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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895 dscc4.setup= [NET]
896
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897 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
898 Format: {"off" | "known"}
899 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
900 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
901 exists).
902 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
903 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
904 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
905
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906 dump_apple_properties [X86]
907 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
908 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
909 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
910
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911 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
912 module.dyndbg[="val"]
913 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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914 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
915 for details.
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917 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
918 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
919 information about the feature.
920
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921 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
922 in some Intel CPUs.
923
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924 module.async_probe [KNL]
925 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
926
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927 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
928 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
929 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
930 which are not unmapped.
931
0cb55ad2 932 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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934 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
935 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
936 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
937
938 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
939 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 940
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941 cdns,<addr>[,options]
942 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
943 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
944 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
945 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
946 configured.
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948 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
949 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 950 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 951 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 952 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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953 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
954 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 955 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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956 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
957 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
958 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
959 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 960 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 961
0d3c673e 962 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 963 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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964 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
965 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
966 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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967 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
968 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
969 the device registers.
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971 meson,<addr>
972 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
973 port at the specified address. The serial port must
974 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
975 supported.
976
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977 msm_serial,<addr>
978 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
979 port at the specified address. The serial port
980 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
981 yet supported.
982
983 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
984 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
985 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
986 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
987 yet supported.
988
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989 owl,<addr>
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
991 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
992 specified address. The serial port must already be
993 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
994
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995 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
996
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997 s3c2410,<addr>
998 s3c2412,<addr>
999 s3c2440,<addr>
1000 s3c6400,<addr>
1001 s5pv210,<addr>
1002 exynos4210,<addr>
1003 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1004 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1005 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1006 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1007 Options are not yet supported.
1008
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1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1011 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013 yet supported.
1014
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1015 lpuart,<addr>
1016 lpuart32,<addr>
1017 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1018 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1019 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1020 port must already be setup and configured.
1021
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1023 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1024 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1025 address. The serial port must already be setup
1026 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1027
89175cf7 1028 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1029 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1030 earlyprintk=efi
89175cf7 1031 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1032 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1033 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1034 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1035 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1036 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 1037 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1038 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
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1040 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1041 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1042 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1043
a9913044 1044 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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1046
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1047 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1048 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1049
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1050 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1051 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1052 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1053 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1054 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1055 You can find the port for a given device in
1056 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1057 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1058
1059 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1060 very good.
1061
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1062 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1063 the real console.
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1065 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1066
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1067 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1068
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1069 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1070 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1071 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1072 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1073 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1074 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1075 default: on.
1076
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1077 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1078 ekgdboc=kbd
1079
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1081 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1082
1da177e4 1083 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1084 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1085
d2f7cbe7 1086 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1087 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1088 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1089 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1090 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1091 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1092 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1093 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1094 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1095 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1096
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RW
1097 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1098 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1099 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1100 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1101 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1102
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TI
1103 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1104 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1105 updating original EFI memory map.
1106 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1107 from ss to ss+nn.
1108 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1109 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1110 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1111 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1112
1113 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1114 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1115 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1116 doesn't support it.
1117
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OP
1118 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1119 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1120 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1121 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1122 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1123
1124
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LT
1125 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1126 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1127
cd4f0ef7 1128 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1129 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1130 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1131
1132 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1133 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1134 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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RD
1135 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1136
d3bf3795 1137 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1138 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1139 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1140 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1141 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1142
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RD
1143 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1144 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1145 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1146 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1147
ca1eda2d 1148 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1149 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1150 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1151 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1152 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1153
1da177e4
LT
1154 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1155 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1156 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1157 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1158 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1159 Default value is 0.
1160 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1161
a08f82d0
HY
1162 erst_disable [ACPI]
1163 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1164 support.
1165
1da177e4
LT
1166 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1167 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1168 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1169
7102ebcd
MZ
1170 evm= [EVM]
1171 Format: { "fix" }
1172 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1173 current integrity status.
1174
de1ba09b
AM
1175 failslab=
1176 fail_page_alloc=
1177 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1178 General fault injection mechanism.
1179 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1180 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1181
1da177e4 1182 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1183 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1184
f13ae30e
AC
1185 force_pal_cache_flush
1186 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1187 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1188 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1189 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1190
69f2366c
CB
1191 forcepae [X86-32]
1192 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1193 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1194 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1195 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1196 and may cause unknown problems.
1197
d9e54076 1198 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1199 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1200 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1201 boot debugging.
1202
cecbca96 1203 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1204 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1205 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1206 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1207 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1208 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1209
1210 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1211 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1212 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1213 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1214 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1215 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1216
1217 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1218 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1219 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1220 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1221 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1222
369bc18f
SA
1223 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1224 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1225 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1226 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1227 that can be changed at run time by the
1228 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1229
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NK
1230 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1231 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1232 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1233 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1234 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1235
65a50c65
TB
1236 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1237 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1238 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1239 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1240 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1241
1da177e4
LT
1242 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1243 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1244 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1245 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1246 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1247
1248 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1249
aaf23042
YL
1250 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1251 Format: off | on
1252 default: on
1253
2521f2c2
PO
1254 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1255 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1256 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1257 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1258 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1259
47512cfd
TG
1260 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1261 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1262 android emulator
1263
1da177e4 1264 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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DB
1265 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1266 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1267 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1268
6cec9b07
AL
1269 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1270 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1271 Format: 0 | 1
1272 Default: 0
1273 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1274 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1275 Format: 0 | 1
1276 Default: 0
1277 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1278 Format: 0 | 1
1279 Default: 0
1280 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1281 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1282 Default: 1024
1283 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1284 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1285 Default: 1024
1286
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1287 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1288 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1289 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1290
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JK
1291 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1292 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1293 backtraces on all cpus.
1294 Format: <integer>
1295
1da177e4
LT
1296 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1297 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1298 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1299 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1300
1301 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1302
1303 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1304 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1305
ea8c071c
HY
1306 hest_disable [ACPI]
1307 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1308 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1309 logic will be disabled.
1310
1da177e4
LT
1311 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1312 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1313 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1314 size on bigger boxes.
1315
54cdfdb4
TG
1316 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1317 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1318 Default: "on"
1319
1da177e4
LT
1320 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1321 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1322
0cb55ad2
RD
1323 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1324
1325 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1326 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1327 verbose }
1328 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1329 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1330 VIA, nVidia)
1331 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1332
3d035f58
PB
1333 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1334 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1335
b4718e62
AK
1336 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1337 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1338 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1339 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1340 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1341 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1342 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1343
555d61d6
HB
1344 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1345 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
431429ff
HB
1346 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1347 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1348 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1349
fdabf525
JH
1350 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1351 hardware thread id mappings.
1352 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1353
7bf69395
FDN
1354 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1355 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1356 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1357 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1358 the real console.
1359
3a853fb9 1360 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1361 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1362 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1363 Format:
1364 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1365
36d95739 1366 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1367 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1368 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1369 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1370 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1371 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1372 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1373 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1374 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1375 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1376 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1377 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1378 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1379 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1380 controller
1da177e4
LT
1381 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1382 controllers
24775d65 1383 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1384 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1385 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1386 transitions, or never reset
1387 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1388 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1389 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1390 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1391 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1392 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1393 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1394
1395 i810= [HW,DRM]
1396
e70c9d5e
DT
1397 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1398 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1399 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1400 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1401 does not match list of supported models.
1402 i8k.power_status
1403 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1404 (disabled by default)
1405 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1406 capability is set.
1407
4dca20ef 1408 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1409 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1410 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1411 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1412 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1413 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1414 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1415 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1416 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1417 value switches the backlight off.
1418 -1 -- never invert brightness
1419 0 -- machine default
1420 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1421
1da177e4
LT
1422 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1423 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1424
0af80c04
DF
1425 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1426 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1427 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1428 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1429 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1430
0f8b7f5d
MR
1431 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1432 Format: <int>
1433 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1434 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1435 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1436 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1437 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1438 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1439 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1440 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1441 was 0x3.
1442
0cb55ad2
RD
1443 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1444 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1445
f039b754 1446 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1447 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1448 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1449 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1450 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1451 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1452 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1453 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1454 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1455
503943e0
MR
1456 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1457 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1458 Default: strict
1459
1460 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1461 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1462 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1463 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1464 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1465 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1466 encoding mode.
1467
1468 Available settings are as follows:
1469 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1470 supported by the FPU
1471 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1472 by the FPU
1473 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1474 by the FPU
1475 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1476 supported by the FPU
1477
1478 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1479 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1480 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1481 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1482 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1483 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1484 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1485 MIPS64 CPUs.
1486
1487 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1488 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1489 except where unsupported by hardware.
1490
79290822
IM
1491 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1492 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1493 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1494 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1495 could change it dynamically, usually by
1496 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1497
d977d56c
KK
1498 ignore_rlimit_data
1499 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1500 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1501 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1502
1da177e4
LT
1503 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1504 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1505
2fe5d6de 1506 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1507 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1508 default: "enforce"
1509
07f6a794
MZ
1510 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1511 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1512 owned by uid=0.
1513
d68a6fe9
MZ
1514 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1515 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1516 measurements, instead of host native format.
1517
3323eec9 1518 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1519 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1520 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1521 default: "sha1"
1522
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1523 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1524 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1525
24fd03c8 1526 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1527 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
503ceaef 1528 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
33ce9549
MZ
1529
1530 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1531 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1532 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1533 uid=0.
1534
1535 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1536 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1537 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
24fd03c8 1538
503ceaef
MZ
1539 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1540 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1541 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8
MZ
1542
1543 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1544 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1545 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1546 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1547 opened for read by uid=0.
1548
9b9d4ce5
RS
1549 ima_template= [IMA]
1550 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1551 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1552 Default: "ima-ng"
1553
c2426d2a
RS
1554 ima_template_fmt=
1555 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1556 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1557
3bcced39
DK
1558 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1559 Format: <min_file_size>
1560 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1561 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1562
1563 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1564 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1565 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1566
6edf7a89
DK
1567 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1568 Format: <bufsize>
1569 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1570
1571 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1572 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1573 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1574
1da177e4
LT
1575 init= [KNL]
1576 Format: <full_path>
1577 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1578 process.
1579
1580 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1581 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1582 startup.
1583
7b0b73d7
PB
1584 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1585 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1586 modules and initcalls.
1587
1da177e4
LT
1588 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1589
acd547b2
DH
1590 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1591 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1592 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1593 override in debugfs after boot.
1594
1da177e4
LT
1595 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1596 Format: <irq>
1597
6bb2ff84
FY
1598 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1599
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1600 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1601 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1602 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1603 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1604
ba395927 1605 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1606 on
1607 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1608 off
1609 Disable intel iommu driver.
1610 igfx_off [Default Off]
1611 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1612 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1613 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1614 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1615 DMA.
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1616 forcedac [x86_64]
1617 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1618 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1619 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1620 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1621 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1622 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1623 strict [Default Off]
1624 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1625 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1626 to batching them for performance.
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1627 sp_off [Default Off]
1628 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1629 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1630 not be supported.
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1631 ecs_off [Default Off]
1632 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1633 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1634 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1635 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1636 on hardware which claims to support them.
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1637 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1638 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1639 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1640 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1641 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1642 mapping is enabled.
1643 Note that using this option lowers the security
1644 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1645 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1646
1647 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1648 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1649 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1650
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1651 intel_pstate= [X86]
1652 disable
1653 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1654 scaling driver for the supported processors
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1655 passive
1656 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1657 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1658 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1659 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1660 feature.
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1661 force
1662 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1663 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1664 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1665 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1666 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1667 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1668 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1669 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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1670 no_hwp
1671 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1672 if available.
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1673 hwp_only
1674 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1675 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
9522a2ff 1676 support_acpi_ppc
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1677 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1678 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1679 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1680 then this feature is turned on by default.
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1681 per_cpu_perf_limits
1682 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1683 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1684
d1423d56 1685 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1686 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1687 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1688 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1689 no_x2apic_optout
1690 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1691 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1692
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1693 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1694 strict regions from userspace.
1695 relaxed
1696
1697 iommu= [x86]
1698 off
1699 force
1700 noforce
1701 biomerge
1702 panic
1703 nopanic
1704 merge
1705 nomerge
1706 forcesac
1707 soft
bcb71abe 1708 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1709 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1710 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1711
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1712 iommu.passthrough=
1713 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1714 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1715 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1716 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1717 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
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1718
1719 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1720 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1721 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1722
6cececfc 1723 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1724 0x80
1725 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1726 0xed
1727 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1728 udelay
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1729 Simple two microseconds delay
1730 none
1731 No delay
b02aae9c 1732
1da177e4 1733 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1734 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1735
fbf19803 1736 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1737 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1738
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1739 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1740 [ARM, ARM64]
1741 Format: <bool>
1742 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1743 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1744 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1745
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1746 irqfixup [HW]
1747 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1748 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1749 firmware running.
1750
1751 irqpoll [HW]
1752 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1753 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1754 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1755 firmware running.
1756
1da177e4 1757 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1758 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1759
d94d1053 1760 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1761 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1762 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1763
1764 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1765 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1766
1767 nohz
1768 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1769 domain
1770 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1771 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1772 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1773 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1774 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1775 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1776 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1777 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1778
1779 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1780 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1781 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1782 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1783
1784 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1785
1da177e4 1786
1da177e4 1787
a9913044 1788 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1789
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1790 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1791 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1792 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1793 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1794 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1795 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1796
1797 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1798 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1799 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1800 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1801 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1802 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1803
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1804 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1805 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1806 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1807 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1808 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1809 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1810
1da177e4 1811 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1812 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1813
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1814 nokaslr [KNL]
1815 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1816 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1817 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1818
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1819 kasan_multi_shot
1820 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1821 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1822 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1823 invalid access.
1824
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1825 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1826
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1827 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1828 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1829 This parameter
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1830 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1831 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1832 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1833 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1834 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1835 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1836 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1837 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1838 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1839 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1840 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1841 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1842 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1843 zone if it does not.
1844
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1845 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1846 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1847 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1848 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1849 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1850 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1851 time.
ed7ed365 1852
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1853 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1854 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1855 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1856 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1857 optional and is the number seconds in between
1858 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1859 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1860 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1861 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1862 the kernel debugger.
1863
84c08fd6 1864 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1865 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1866 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1867 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1868 keyboard only format: kbd
1869 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1870 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1871 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1872 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1873
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1874 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1875 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1876
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1877 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1878 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1879 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1880
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1881 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1882 Valid arguments: on, off
1883 Default: on
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1884 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1885 the default is off.
04f70336 1886
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1887 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1888 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1889
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1890 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1891 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1892 Default is 0 (off)
1893
fef07aae 1894 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1895 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1896
1897 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1898 for all guests.
16290246 1899 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1900
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1901 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1902 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1903 system registers
1904
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1905 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1906 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1907 system registers
1908
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1909 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1910 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1911 system registers
1912
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1913 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1914 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1915 LPIs.
1916
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1917 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1918 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1919 Default is 1 (enabled)
1920
1921 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1922 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1923 Default is 0 (disabled)
1924
1925 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1926 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1927 Default is 1 (enabled)
1928
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1929 kvm-intel.nested=
1930 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1931 Default is 0 (disabled)
1932
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1933 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1934 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1935 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1936 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1937
1938 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1939 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1940 Default is 1 (enabled)
1941
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1942 l2cr= [PPC]
1943
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1944 l3cr= [PPC]
1945
cd4f0ef7 1946 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1947 disabled it.
1da177e4 1948
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1949 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1950 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1951 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1952
6cececfc 1953 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1954 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1955
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1956 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1957 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1958 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1959 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1960 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1961 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1962 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1963
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1964 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1965 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1966 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1967
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1968 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1969 when set.
1970 Format: <int>
1971
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1972 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1973 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1974 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1975 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1976 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1977 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1978 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1979 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1980
1981 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1982 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1983 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1984 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1985 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1986 host link and device attached to it.
1987
1988 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1989 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1990 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1991 The following configurations can be forced.
1992
1993 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1994 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1995
1996 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1997
1998 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1999 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2000 allowed.
2001
2002 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2003
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2004 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2005
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2006 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2007 and both resets.
2008
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2009 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2010 hot-unplug link recovery
2011
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2012 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2013
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2014 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2015
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2016 * disable: Disable this device.
2017
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2018 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2019 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2020
95f72d1e 2021 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2022
1da177e4 2023 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 2024 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2025
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2026 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2027 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2028
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2029 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2030 Format: <integer>
2031
2032 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2033 Format: <integer>
2034
2035 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2036 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2037
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2038 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2039 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2040 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2041 number of online CPUs.
2042
2043 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2044 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2045
2046 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2047 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2048
2049 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2050 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2051 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2052
2053 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2054 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2055 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2056 mode during the locktorture test.
2057
2058 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2059 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2060 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2061
2062 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2063 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2064
2065 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2066 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2067 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2068 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2069 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2070 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2071
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2072 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2073 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2074
2075 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2076 Enable additional printk() statements.
2077
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2078 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2079 Format: <irq>
2080
2081 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2082 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2083 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2084 loglevels are defined as follows:
2085
2086 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2087 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2088 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2089 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2090 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2091 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2092 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2093 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2094
c756d08a 2095 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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2096 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2097 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2098 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2099 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2100 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2101 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2102
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2103 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2104 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2105 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2106 kernel boot problems.
2107
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2108 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2109 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2110 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2111 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2112 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2113 attached printers to be reset. Using
2114 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2115 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2116 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2117 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2118 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2119 port specification list means that device IDs
2120 from each port should be examined, to see if
2121 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2122 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2123 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2124
2125 lpj=n [KNL]
2126 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2127 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2128 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2129 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2130 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2131 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2132 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2133 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2134 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2135 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2136 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2137 hardware.
2138
2139 ltpc= [NET]
2140 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2141
16290246 2142 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2143 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2144 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
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2146 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2147 yeeloong laptop.
2148 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2149
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2150 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2151 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1da177e4
LT
2152
2153 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2154 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2155 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2156 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2157 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2158 only takes effect during system bootup.
2159 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2160 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2161
d134b00b
KS
2162 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2163 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2164 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2165 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2166 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2167 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2168
cd4f0ef7 2169 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2170
71cced6e 2171 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2172
1da177e4 2173 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2174 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2175
1da177e4
LT
2176 mdacon= [MDA]
2177 Format: <first>,<last>
2178 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2179
1da177e4
LT
2180 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2181 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2182 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2183 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2184 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2185 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2186 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2187
cd4f0ef7 2188 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2189 memory.
2190
6902aa84
PM
2191 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2192 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2193 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2194
86dd995d
VK
2195 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2196 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2197 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2198 set according to the
2199 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2200 option.
2201 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2202
6cececfc 2203 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2204 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2205 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2206 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2207 option description.
2208
2209 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2210 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2211 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2212 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2213 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2214 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2215 comma delimited.
2216 Example:
2217 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2218
2219 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2220 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2221 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2222
2223 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2224 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2225 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2226 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2227 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2228 or
2229 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2230 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2231 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2232 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2233
ec776ef6
CH
2234 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2235 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2236 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2237 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2238 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2239
9f077871
JF
2240 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2241 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2242 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2243 Setting this option will scan the memory
2244 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2245 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2246 from using the memory being corrupted.
2247 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2248 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2249 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2250 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2251
2252 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2253 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2254 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2255 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2256 corruption in more or less memory.
2257
2258 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2259 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2260 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2261 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2262
e4b0db72 2263 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2264 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2265 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2266 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2267 performed. Each pass selects another test
2268 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2269 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2270 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2271 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2272
c262f3b9
TL
2273 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2274 Valid arguments: on, off
2275 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2276 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2277 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2278 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2279 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2280
2281 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2282 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2283
406e7938
RW
2284 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2285 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2286 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2287 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2288 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2289
1da177e4 2290 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2291 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2292
8f36881b
AS
2293 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2294 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2295 platforms.
2296
e6c4dc6c
WT
2297 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2298 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2299 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2300 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2301
1da177e4
LT
2302 mga= [HW,DRM]
2303
1c207f95
RD
2304 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2305 physical address is ignored.
2306
39f45d7b
MP
2307 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2308 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2309 Default: "0tb"
2310 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2311 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2312 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2313 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2314 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2315 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2316 unconfigured.
2317 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2318 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2319 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2320 VGA shield.
2321 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2322 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2323 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2324 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2325 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2326 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2327
6b74ab97
MG
2328 mminit_loglevel=
2329 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2330 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2331 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2332 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2333 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2334 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2335
106a4ee2
RR
2336 module.sig_enforce
2337 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2338 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2339 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2340 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2341
be7de5f9
PB
2342 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2343 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2344
1da177e4
LT
2345 mousedev.tap_time=
2346 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2347 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2348 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2349 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2350 Format: <msecs>
2351 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2352 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2353 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2354 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2355
6cececfc 2356 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2357 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2358 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2359 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2360 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2361 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2362 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2363 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2364 is not too small.
2365
f70029bb
MH
2366 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2367 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2368 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2369 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2370 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2371
1da177e4
LT
2372 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2373 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2374
a9913044
RD
2375 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2376 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2377
2378 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2379 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2380
4e89a2d8
WS
2381 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2382 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2383 at a time.
2384
5988af23
RH
2385 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2386
2387 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2388
2389 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2390 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2391 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2392 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2393 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2394
9db829f4
BD
2395 mtdset= [ARM]
2396 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2397
2398 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2399
1da177e4 2400 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2401 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2402 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2403
0cb55ad2 2404 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2405 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2406 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2407
2408 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2409 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2410 Default is 1.
2411 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2412 using up MTRRs.
2413
2414 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2415 Format: <integer>
2416 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2417 Default : 1
2418 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2419 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2420
1da177e4
LT
2421 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2422
1da177e4
LT
2423 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2424 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2425 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2426 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2427 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2428 file if at all.
2429
58401572
KPO
2430 nf_conntrack.acct=
2431 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2432 0 to disable accounting
2433 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2434 Default value is 0.
58401572 2435
306a0753 2436 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2437 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2438
2439 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2440 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2441
306a0753
CL
2442 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2443 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2444
5405fc44
TM
2445 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2446 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2447 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2448 requests.
2449
a72b4422
TM
2450 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2451 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2452 channel should listen.
2453
e571cbf1
TM
2454 nfs.cache_getent=
2455 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2456 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2457
2458 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2459 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2460 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2461
58df095b
TM
2462 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2463 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2464 entries.
2465
f43bf0be
TM
2466 nfs.enable_ino64=
2467 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2468 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2469 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2470 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2471 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2472
5405fc44
TM
2473 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2474 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2475 slots the client will assign to the callback
2476 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2477 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2478 a particular server.
2479
ef159e91
TM
2480 nfs.max_session_slots=
2481 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2482 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2483 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2484 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2485 Note that there is little point in setting this
2486 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2487
b064eca2 2488 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2489 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2490 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2491 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2492 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2493 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2494 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2495 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2496 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2497 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2498 back to using the idmapper.
2499 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2500 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2501 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2502 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2503 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2504 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2505
db8ac8ba
WAA
2506 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2507 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2508 information in exchange_id requests.
2509 If zero, no implementation identification information
2510 will be sent.
2511 The default is to send the implementation identification
2512 information.
e52347bd 2513
f6de7a39
TM
2514 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2515 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2516 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2517 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2518 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2519 after the locks are lost.
2520 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2521 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2522 parameter to '1'.
2523 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2524 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2525
bbf58bf3
TM
2526 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2527 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2528 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2529
2530 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2531 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2532 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2533 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2534
e9541ce8
BF
2535 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2536 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2537 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2538 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2539 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2540 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2541
c0c74acb 2542 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2543 when a NMI is triggered.
2544 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2545
6cececfc 2546 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2547 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2548 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2549 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2550 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2551 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2552 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2553 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2554 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2555 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2556 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2557
d22881dc
SW
2558 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2559 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2560
bff38771
AV
2561 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2562 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2563 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2564 waits 4 seconds.
2565
cd4f0ef7 2566 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2567 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2568 is present.
2569
0cb55ad2
RD
2570 no_console_suspend
2571 [HW] Never suspend the console
2572 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2573 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2574 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2575 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2576 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2577 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2578 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2579 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2580 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2581 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2582 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2583 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2584
c1aee215
CL
2585 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2586 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2587 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2588
a9913044
RD
2589 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2590
686140a1
VG
2591 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2592 (CPU alternatives feature).
2593
1da177e4
LT
2594 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2595 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2596
5091faa4
MG
2597 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2598
1da177e4
LT
2599 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2600 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2601
2602 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2603
0cb55ad2
RD
2604 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2605
163ecdff
SN
2606 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2607
6902aa84
PM
2608 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2609
b2e0a54a 2610 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2611
1da177e4
LT
2612 noexec [IA-64]
2613
6cececfc 2614 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2615 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2616 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2617 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2618
52b6179a
PA
2619 nosmap [X86]
2620 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2621 even if it is supported by processor.
2622
de5397ad 2623 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2624 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2625 even if it is supported by processor.
2626
f5a1b191
JS
2627 noexec32 [X86-64]
2628 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2629 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2630 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2631 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2632 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2633
fab43ef4 2634 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2635
cd4f0ef7 2636 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2637 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2638 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2639
0ddab1d2
TK
2640 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2641
52c48c51
SS
2642 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2643 Equivalent to smt=1.
2644
da285121
DW
2645 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2646 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2647 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2648 to spectre_v2=off.
2649
0c752a93
SS
2650 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2651 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2652 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2653
b6f42a4a
FY
2654 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2655 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2656 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2657 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2658 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2659 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2660
2661 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2662 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2663 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2664 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2665 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2666 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2667 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2668
01a24d2b
PZ
2669 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2670 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2671 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2672
1f29fae2
SH
2673 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2674 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2675 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2676
1da177e4
LT
2677 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2678 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2679 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2680 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2681 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2682 real-time systems.
2683
a6e15a39
KC
2684 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2685
79bf2bb3
TG
2686 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2687 Valid arguments: on, off
2688 Default: on
2689
d94d1053 2690 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 2691 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 2692 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2693 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 2694 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
2695 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2696 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2697 just as if they had also been called out in the
2698 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 2699
eeee7853
PM
2700 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2701
cd4f0ef7 2702 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2703 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2704
6cececfc 2705 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2706 broken timer IRQ sources.
2707
1da177e4
LT
2708 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2709
2710 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2711 initial RAM disk.
2712
03ea8155
WH
2713 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2714 remapping.
d1423d56 2715 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2716
1da177e4
LT
2717 nointroute [IA-64]
2718
d12a72b8
AL
2719 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2720
16290246 2721 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2722
9cf4c4fc
JK
2723 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2724
fd10cde9
GN
2725 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2726 fault handling.
2727
80e9a4f2
AM
2728 no-vmw-sched-clock
2729 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2730 clock and use the default one.
2731
d910f5c1
GC
2732 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2733 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2734 behaviour
2735
cd4f0ef7 2736 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2737
cd4f0ef7 2738 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2739
1da177e4 2740 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 2741 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 2742
312f1f01
H
2743 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2744
13696e0a 2745 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2746
83d7384f
AS
2747 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2748 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2749
bda62633
DZ
2750 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2751 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2752 irq.
2753
02608bef
DY
2754 nomodule Disable module load
2755
016ddd9b
JK
2756 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2757 pagetables) support.
2758
0790c9aa
AL
2759 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2760
0cb55ad2
RD
2761 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2762 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2763
cd4f0ef7 2764 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2765 with UP alternatives
2766
7a5091d5
PA
2767 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2768 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2769 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2770 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2771
a9913044
RD
2772 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2773 space.
2774
1da177e4
LT
2775 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2776 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2777 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2778
2779 nosbagart [IA-64]
2780
cd4f0ef7 2781 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2782
61ec7567
LB
2783 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2784 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2785
97842216
DJ
2786 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2787
1da177e4
LT
2788 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2789
cd4f0ef7 2790 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2791
195daf66
UO
2792 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2793 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2794
1da177e4 2795 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2796
2b2fd87a
WH
2797 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2798
f78cff48
FY
2799 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2800 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2801 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2802 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2803 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2804 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2805 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2806 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2807 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2808 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2809 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2810 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2811 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2812
35b55ef2
NC
2813 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2814 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2815 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2816 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2817 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2818 parameter's value.
2819 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2820 Default: 255
2821
16290246 2822 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2823 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2824 SAL PALO.
2825
2b633e3f
YL
2826 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2827 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
2828 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2829 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2830 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2831 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2832 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2833 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 2834
0cb55ad2
RD
2835 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2836
1a687c2e
MG
2837 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2838 Allowed values are enable and disable
2839
f0c0b2b8 2840 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 2841 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8
KH
2842 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2843 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2844
7c4be253
RD
2845 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2846 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2847 info.
2848
3ef0e1f8
AS
2849 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2850 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2851 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2852 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2853 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2854 interrupts *may* be lost!
2855
15ac7afe
TL
2856 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2857 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2858 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2859 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2860
1da177e4
LT
2861 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2862 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2863
7e4e0bd5
RR
2864 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2865 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2866 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2867 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2868 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2869 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2870 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2871 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2872 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2873 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 2874
44a4dcf7
RD
2875 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2876 process, but there is a small probability of
2877 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2878 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2879 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2880
bcfde334
RD
2881 OSS [HW,OSS]
2882 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2883
48c96a36
JK
2884 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2885 Storage of the information about who allocated
2886 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2887 we can turn it on.
2888 on: enable the feature
2889
8823b1db
LA
2890 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2891 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2892 off: turn off poisoning
2893 on: turn on poisoning
2894
44a4dcf7 2895 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2896 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2897 timeout = 0: wait forever
2898 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2899 Format: <timeout>
2900
9e3961a0
PB
2901 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2902 on a WARN().
2903
f06e5153
MH
2904 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2905 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2906 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2907 succeeds in any situation.
2908 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2909 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2910 kernel more unstable.
2911
1da177e4
LT
2912 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2913 connected to, default is 0.
2914 Format: <parport#>
2915 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2916 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
2917 Format: <mode>
2918
2919 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2920 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2921 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2922 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2923 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2924 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2925 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2926 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2927 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2928 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2929 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2930 are specified on the command line, starting
2931 with parport0.
2932
2933 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2934 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2935 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2936 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2937 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2938 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2939 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2940
dd287796
AM
2941 pause_on_oops=
2942 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2943 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2944 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2945
1da177e4
LT
2946 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2947
2948 pcd. [PARIDE]
2949 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2950 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2951
a9913044 2952 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2953 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2954 changes anything
c0115606 2955 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2956 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2957 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2958 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2959 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2960 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2961 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2962 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2963 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2964 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2965 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2966 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2967 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2968 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2969 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2970 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2971 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2972 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2973 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2974 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2975 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2976 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2977 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2978 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2979 Configuration
12983077
AH
2980 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2981 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2982 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2983 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2984 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2985 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2986 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2987 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2988 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2989 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2990 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2991 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2992 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2993 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2994 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2995 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2996 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2997 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2998 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2999 on several machines and they hang the machine
3000 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3001 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3002 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3003 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3004 motherboard.
c0115606 3005 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3006 Use with caution as certain devices share
3007 address decoders between ROMs and other
3008 resources.
c0115606 3009 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3010 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3011 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3012 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3013 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3014 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3015 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3016 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3017 this way.
c0115606 3018 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3019 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3020 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3021 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3022 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3023 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3024 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3025 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3026 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3027 numbers ourselves, overriding
3028 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3029 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3030 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3031 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3032 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3033 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3034 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3035 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3036 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3037 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3038 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3039 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3040 please report a bug.
3041 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3042 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3043 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3044 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3045 so this option is a temporary workaround
3046 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3047 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3048 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3049 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3050 This might help on some broken boards which
3051 machine check when some devices' config space
3052 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3053 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3054 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3055 This sorting is done to get a device
3056 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3057 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3058 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3059 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3060 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3061 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3062 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3063 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3064 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3065 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3066 or bus can support) for best performance.
3067 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3068 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3069 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3070 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3071 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3072 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3073 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3074 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3075 The default value is 256 bytes.
3076 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3077 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3078 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3079 resource_alignment=
3080 Format:
3081 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
644a544f
KMEE
3082 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3083 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
32a9a682
YS
3084 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3085 aligned memory resources.
3086 If <order of align> is not specified,
3087 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3088 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3089 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3090 To specify the alignment for several
3091 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3092 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3093 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3094 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3095 end-to-end CRC checking).
3096 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3097 the default.
3098 off: Turn ECRC off
3099 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3100 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3101 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3102 Default size is 256 bytes.
3103 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3104 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3105 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3106 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3107 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3108 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3109 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3110 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3111 accommodate resources required by all child
3112 devices.
3113 off: Turn realloc off
3114 on: Turn realloc on
3115 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3116 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
3117 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3118 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3119 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3120 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3121 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3122 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3123 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3124 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3125 taints the kernel.
6b4b78fe 3126
e5665a45
CE
3127 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3128 Management.
3129 off Disable ASPM.
3130 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3131 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3132
7570a333
MT
3133 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3134 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3135 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3136
79dd9182 3137 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
3138 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3139 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3140 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3141 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3142 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
3143 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3144 ports driver.
3145
9d26d3a8
MW
3146 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3147 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3148 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3149
c7f48656 3150 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3151 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3152 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3153
1da177e4
LT
3154 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3155
39ac5ba5
TB
3156 pd_ignore_unused
3157 [PM]
3158 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3159 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3160 for debug and development, but should not be
3161 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3162
1da177e4 3163 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3164 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3165
3166 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3167 boot time.
3168 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3169 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3170
f58dc01b 3171 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
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TH
3172 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3173 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3174 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3175 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3176 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3177
1da177e4 3178 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3179 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3180
3181 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3182 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3183
3184 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 3185 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3186
3187 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3188 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3189 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3190
16290246 3191 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3192 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3193 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3194
96242116
BH
3195 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3196 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3197 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3198 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3199 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3200 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3201
1da177e4
LT
3202 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3203 { off }
3204
3205 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3206 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3207
3208 pnp_reserve_irq=
3209 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3210
3211 pnp_reserve_dma=
3212 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3213
3214 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3215 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3216
3217 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3218 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3219 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3220 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3221
4af94f39
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3222 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3223 Default is 21.
3224 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3225 may be specified.
3226 Format: <port>,<port>....
3227
c3cbd075
BS
3228 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3229 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3230 platform machine description specific power_save
3231 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3232 execution priority.
3233
3eb5d588
AB
3234 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3235 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3236 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3237 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3238 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3239
07fd1761
CB
3240 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3241 Format: {"off"}
3242 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3243
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3244 print-fatal-signals=
3245 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3246
3247 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3248 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3249 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3250 coredump - etc.
3251
3252 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3253 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3254
45807a1d
IM
3255 default: off.
3256
c22ab332
MG
3257 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3258 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3259 panics
3260 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3261 default: disabled
3262
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BP
3263 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3264 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3265 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3266 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3267 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3268 Default: ratelimit
3269
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3270 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3271 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3272
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3273 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3274 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3275 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3276
3277 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3278 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3279 instead using the legacy FADT method
3280
1da177e4 3281 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
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3282 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3283 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3284 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3285 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
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MG
3286 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3287 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3288 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
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3289 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3290 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3291
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3292 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3293 before loading.
31c00fc1 3294 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3295
a9913044
RD
3296 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3297 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
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LT
3298 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3299 per second.
a9913044
RD
3300 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3301 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3302 (0 = never).
3303 psmouse.resolution=
3304 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3305 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3306 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3307 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3308
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MG
3309 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3310
1da177e4 3311 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3312 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3313
01c9b17b
DH
3314 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3315 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3316 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3317 system calls and interrupts.
3318
3319 on - unconditionally enable
3320 off - unconditionally disable
3321 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3322 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3323
3324 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3325
3326 nopti [X86_64]
3327 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3328
dc8c8587
KS
3329 pty.legacy_count=
3330 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3331 default number.
3332
7d2c502f 3333 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3334
1da177e4
LT
3335 r128= [HW,DRM]
3336
3337 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3338 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3339
1da177e4 3340 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3341 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3342
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BP
3343 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3344
3345 cec_disable [X86]
3346 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3347 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3348
4102adab 3349 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
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NC
3350 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3351
3fbfbf7a
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3352 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3353 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3354 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
3355 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3356 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3357 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3358 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
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3359 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3360 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3361 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3362
4102adab 3363 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3364 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3365 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3366 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3367 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3368 This improves the real-time response for the
3369 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3370 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3371 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3372 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3373
4102adab 3374 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3375 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3376 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3377
a3dc2948
PM
3378 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3379 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3380 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3381 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3382
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PM
3383 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3384 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3385 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3386
37745d28
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3387 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3388 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3389 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3390
3391 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3392 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3393 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3394 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3395 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3396
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3397 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3398 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3399 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3400 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3401 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3402
4102adab 3403 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
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PM
3404 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3405 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3406 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3407 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3408 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3409 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3410
4a81e832
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3411 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3412 Set required age in jiffies for a
3413 given grace period before RCU starts
3414 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3415 rcu_note_context_switch().
3416
4102adab 3417 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3418 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3419 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3420 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3421 and maximum value is HZ.
3422
4102adab 3423 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3424 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3425 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3426 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3427
21871d7e 3428 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3429 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3430 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3431 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3432 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3433 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3434 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3435 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3436 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3437 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3438
fbce7497
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3439 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3440 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3441 defaults to the square root of the number of
3442 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3443 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3444 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3445
4102adab 3446 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3447 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3448 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3449
4102adab 3450 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
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3451 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3452 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3453
4102adab 3454 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3455 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3456 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3457
4102adab 3458 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3459 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3460 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3461 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3462 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3463
e3c50dfb
PM
3464 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3465 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3466 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3467 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3468 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3469 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3470
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3471 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3472 Measure performance of asynchronous
3473 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3474
3475 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3476 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3477 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3478 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3479 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3480 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3481
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3482 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3483 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3484 grace-period primitives.
3485
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3486 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3487 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3488 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3489 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3490 interference.
3491
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3492 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3493 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3494 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3495 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3496 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3497 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3498 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3499 a single reader.
3500
3501 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3502 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3503 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3504 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3505
820687a7
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3506 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3507 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3508
bdea9e34
PM
3509 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3510 Shut the system down after performance tests
3511 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3512 testing.
3513
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3514 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3515 Enable additional printk() statements.
3516
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3517 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3518 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3519 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3520 no holdoff.
3521
38706bc5
PM
3522 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3523 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3524 callback-flood tests.
3525
3526 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3527 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3528 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3529 test.
3530
3531 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3532 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3533 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3534 disable callback-flood testing.
3535
3536 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3537 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3538 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3539
4102adab 3540 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3541 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3542 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3543
4102adab 3544 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
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PM
3545 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3546 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3547
4102adab 3548 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
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PM
3549 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3550 in seconds.
3551
3552 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3553 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3554 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3555
4102adab 3556 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3557 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
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3558
3559 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3560 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3561 update-side primitives, if available.
3562
3563 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3564 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3565 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3566 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3567 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3568 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3569 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3570
4102adab 3571 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
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PM
3572 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3573
4102adab 3574 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3575 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3576 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3577 test, hence the "fake".
3578
4102adab 3579 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
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PM
3580 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3581 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3582 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3583 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3584 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3585
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3586 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3587 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3588
3589 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
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3590 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3591
4102adab 3592 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3593 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3594 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3595
4102adab 3596 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
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PM
3597 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3598 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3599 during the rcutorture test.
3600
4102adab 3601 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
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3602 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3603 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3604
4102adab 3605 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
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3606 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3607 warnings, zero to disable.
3608
4102adab 3609 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
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3610 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3611
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3612 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3613 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3614
4102adab 3615 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
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3616 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3617
4102adab 3618 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
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3619 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3620 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3621 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3622 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3623
4102adab 3624 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3625 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3626 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3627 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3628
4102adab 3629 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3630 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3631
4102adab 3632 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
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3633 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3634
4102adab 3635 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
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3636 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3637 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3638
4102adab 3639 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
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3640 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3641
4102adab 3642 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
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3643 Enable additional printk() statements.
3644
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3645 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3646 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3647
3648 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3649 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3650
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3651 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3652 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3653 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3654 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3655 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3656 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3657 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3658
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3659 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3660 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3661 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3662 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
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3663 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3664 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3665 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3666 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3667 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3668
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3669 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3670 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3671 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
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3672 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3673 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3674
52db30ab
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3675 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3676 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3677 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3678 to zero.
3679
74860fee
PK
3680 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3681 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3682
3683 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3684 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3685
3686 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3687 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3688
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3689 rdinit= [KNL]
3690 Format: <full_path>
3691 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3692 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3693
1d9807fc
TL
3694 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3695 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
3696 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3697 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
3698 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3699 rdt=cmt,!mba
3700
1b3a5d02
RH
3701 reboot= [KNL]
3702 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3703 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3704 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3705 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3706 [[,]f[orce]
3707 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3708 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3709 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3710 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3711 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3712
46b6d94e
PJ
3713 relax_domain_level=
3714 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
09c3bcce 3715 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3716
ffd2e8df
BH
3717 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3718 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3719 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3720 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3721 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 3722
cd4f0ef7 3723 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3724 Format: nn[KMG]
3725 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3726 address space.
3727
9ea77bdb
PA
3728 reservelow= [X86]
3729 Format: nn[K]
3730 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3731 the bottom of the address space.
3732
7e96287d
VG
3733 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3734 during initialization.
3735
a9913044
RD
3736 resume= [SWSUSP]
3737 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3738 Format:
3739 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3740
ecbd0da1
RW
3741 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3742 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3743 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3744 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3745 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3746
f126f733
BS
3747 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3748 read the resume files
3749
6f8d7022
BS
3750 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3751 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3752 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3753
f996fc96
BS
3754 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3755 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3756 present during boot.
3757 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3758 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
3759 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3760 (that will set all pages holding image data
3761 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 3762
0a7b35cb
MN
3763 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3764
0efbb786
AC
3765 rfkill.default_state=
3766 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3767 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3768 1 Unblocked.
3769
3770 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3771 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3772 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3773 blocked and the previous configuration.
3774 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3775 blocked and everything unblocked.
3776
1da177e4
LT
3777 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3778 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3779
e16fd002
GA
3780 ring3mwait=disable
3781 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3782 CPUs.
3783
1da177e4
LT
3784 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3785
d2aa1aca
KC
3786 rodata= [KNL]
3787 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3788 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3789
605df8af
HS
3790 rockchip.usb_uart
3791 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3792 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3793 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3794 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3795
1da177e4 3796 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3797 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3798
3799 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3800 mount the root filesystem
3801
3802 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3803
3804 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3805
cc1ed754
PO
3806 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3807 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3808 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3809
5c71d618
RT
3810 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3811 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3812 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3813 managed by CMA.
3814
1da177e4
LT
3815 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3816
3817 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3818
c60d1ae4
GS
3819 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3820 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3821 strict
3822 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3823 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3824 which is faster.
3825
1da177e4
LT
3826 sa1100ir [NET]
3827 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3828
1da177e4 3829 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3830
f6630114
MT
3831 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3832
cb251765
MG
3833 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3834 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3835 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3836 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 3837
5307c955
MG
3838 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3839 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3840 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3841 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3842 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3843 1 -- enable.
3844 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3845 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3846
0cb55ad2
RD
3847 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3848 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3849 security module asking for security registration will be
3850 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3851 as if no module has been chosen.
3852
3853 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3854 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3855 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3856 0 -- disable.
3857 1 -- enable.
3858 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3859 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3860 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3861
c1c124e9
JJ
3862 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3863 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3864 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3865 0 -- disable.
3866 1 -- enable.
3867 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3868
cd4f0ef7 3869 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3870
1da177e4
LT
3871 shapers= [NET]
3872 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3873
1da177e4
LT
3874 simeth= [IA-64]
3875 simscsi=
a9913044 3876
1da177e4
LT
3877 slram= [HW,MTD]
3878
423c929c
JK
3879 slab_nomerge [MM]
3880 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3881 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
3882 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3883 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3884 layout control by attackers can usually be
3885 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3886 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3887 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3888 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3889 own.
423c929c
JK
3890 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3891
3df1cccd
DR
3892 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3893 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3894 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3895 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3896 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3897
f0630fff
CL
3898 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3899 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3900 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3901 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3902 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3903 last alloc / free. For more information see
3904 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215 3905
1663f26d
TH
3906 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3907 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3908 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3909 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3910 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3911 directories and files being created under
3912 /sys/kernel/slub.
3913
c1aee215 3914 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3915 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3916 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3917 fragmentation. For more information see
3918 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3919
3920 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3921 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3922 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3923 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3924 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3925 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3926 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3927 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3928
3929 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3930 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3931 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3932 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3933
3934 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3935 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3936 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3937
1da177e4
LT
3938 smart2= [HW]
3939 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3940
d0d4f69b
BH
3941 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3942 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3943 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3944 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3945 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3946 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3947 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3948 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3949 1: Fast pin select (default)
3950 2: ATC IRMode
3951
52c48c51
SS
3952 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3953 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3954 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3955 actual hardware limit.
3956 Format: <integer>
3957 Default: -1 (no limit)
3958
9c44bc03
IM
3959 softlockup_panic=
3960 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3961 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3962
3ce62385
BP
3963 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3964 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3965 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3966 which is the respective build-time switch to that
3967 functionality.
3968
ed235875
AT
3969 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3970 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3971 backtraces on all cpus.
3972 Format: <integer>
3973
1da177e4 3974 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3975 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3976
da285121
DW
3977 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3978 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3979
3980 on - unconditionally enable
3981 off - unconditionally disable
3982 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3983 vulnerable
3984
3985 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
3986 mitigation method at run time according to the
3987 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
3988 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
3989 compiler with which the kernel was built.
3990
3991 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
3992
3993 retpoline - replace indirect branches
3994 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
3995 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
3996
3997 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3998 spectre_v2=auto.
3999
1da177e4
LT
4000 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4001 spia_fio_base=
4002 spia_pedr=
4003 spia_peddr=
4004
c350c008
PM
4005 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4006 Specifies how frequently to check for
4007 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4008 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4009 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4010 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4011 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4012 are ignored.
4013
22607d66
PM
4014 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4015 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4016 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4017 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4018 grace period will be considered for automatic
4019 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4020 expediting.
4021
1be7107f
HD
4022 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4023 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4024 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4025 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4026 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4027 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4028
f38f1d2a
SR
4029 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4030 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4031
762e1207
SR
4032 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4033 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4034 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4035 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4036 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4037 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4038 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4039
1da177e4
LT
4040 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4041 Format: <num>
4042 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4043 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4044 as the initial boot-console.
4045 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4046
4047 sti_font= [HW]
4048 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4049
4050 stifb= [HW]
4051 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4052
cbf11071
TM
4053 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4054 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4055 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4056 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4057 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4058 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4059 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4060 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4061 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4062 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4063 maximum port values.
4064
ff3ac5c3
TM
4065 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4066 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4067 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4068 process in parallel from a single connection.
4069 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4070
42a7fc4a
GB
4071 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4072 [NFS]
4073 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4074 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4075 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4076 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4077 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4078 NFS server is running.
4079
4080 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4081 automatically using heuristics
4082 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4083 percpu one pool for each CPU
4084 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4085 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4086
cbf11071
TM
4087 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4088 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4089 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4090 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4091 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4092 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4093 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4094 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4095
1d4a9c17
BN
4096 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4097 [SUSPEND]
4098 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4099 mode before resuming the system (see
4100 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4101 is set. Default value is 5.
4102
07555ac1 4103 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4104 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4105 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
09c3bcce 4106 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
a42c390c 4107
91fec0f5 4108 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4109 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4110 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4111 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4112 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4113 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4114
1da177e4
LT
4115 switches= [HW,M68k]
4116
e52eec13
AK
4117 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4118 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4119 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4120 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4121 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4122 in older udev will not work anymore.
4123 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4124 the kernel configuration.
4125
5d6f647f
IM
4126 sysrq_always_enabled
4127 [KNL]
4128 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4129 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4130 Useful for debugging.
4131
747029a5
FF
4132 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4133 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4134 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4135 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4136 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4137 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4138
1da177e4
LT
4139 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4140
acc82342 4141 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4142 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4143 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4144 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4145 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4146 The system is woken from this state using a
4147 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4148
1da177e4
LT
4149 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4150 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4151
f8707ec9
LB
4152 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4153 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4154 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4155
c52a7419
LB
4156 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4157 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4158 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4159
f5487145
LB
4160 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4161 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4162 critical and hot trip points.
4163
72b33ef8
LB
4164 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4165 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4166
a70cdc52
LB
4167 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4168 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4169 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4170 value
a70cdc52 4171
730ff34d
LB
4172 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4173 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4174 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4175 0: no polling (default)
4176
8d32a307
TG
4177 threadirqs [KNL]
4178 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4179 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4180
2ca62b04
KRW
4181 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4182 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4183
4184 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4185 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4186 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4187
4188 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4189 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
4190 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4191 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
4192
4193 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4194 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4195 to the hypervisor.
4196
4197 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4198 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4199 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4200 kernel based on different criteria.
4201
2b1a61f0
HC
4202 topology= [S390]
4203 Format: {off | on}
4204 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4205 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4206 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4207 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4208 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4209
2d73bae1
NA
4210 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4211 Format: {off}
4212 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4213 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4214 LPAR.
4215
1da177e4
LT
4216 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4217
225a9be2
RA
4218 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4219 Format: integer pcr id
4220 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4221 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4222 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4223 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4224 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4225 are saved.
4226
9d612bef 4227 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4228 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4229
020e5f85
LZ
4230 trace_event=[event-list]
4231 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4232 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4233 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4234 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
020e5f85 4235
7bcfaf54
SR
4236 trace_options=[option-list]
4237 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4238 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4239 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4240 to echo the option name into
4241
4242 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4243
4244 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4245 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4246
4247 trace_options=stacktrace
4248
4249 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4250 section.
4251
0daa2302
SRRH
4252 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4253 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4254 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4255 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4256 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4257 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4258
4259 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4260 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4261 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4262 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4263
4264 ** CAUTION **
4265
4266 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4267 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4268 the system to live lock.
4269
de7edd31
SRRH
4270 traceoff_on_warning
4271 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4272 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4273 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4274 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4275
4276 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4277 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4278 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4279
4280 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4281 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4282
fcf4d821
JK
4283 transparent_hugepage=
4284 [KNL]
4285 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4286 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4287 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4288 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4289
d3b8f889 4290 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4291 Format: <string>
4292 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889 4293 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4294 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4295 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4296 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4297 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4298 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4299 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4300 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4301 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4302 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4303 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
395628ef 4304
a9913044
RD
4305 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4306 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4307 Format:
4308 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4309 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4310
b6935f8c 4311 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4312 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4313 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4314 help "seeing" what's going on.
4315
f86dcc5a
ED
4316 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4317 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4318
5f8364b7
AS
4319 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4320 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4321 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4322 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4323 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4324 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4325 reported either.
4326
e3a61b0a 4327 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4328 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4329
c4fc2342
CDH
4330 usbcore.authorized_default=
4331 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4332 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4333 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4334
b5e795f8
AS
4335 usbcore.autosuspend=
4336 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4337 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4338 is the time required before an idle device will be
4339 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4340 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4341
fd7c519d
JK
4342 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4343 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4344
0290cc9f
AS
4345 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4346 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4347 (default = 65536).
4348
fd7c519d
JK
4349 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4350 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4351
4352 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4353 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4354 scheme (default 0 = off).
4355
3f5eb8d5
AS
4356 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4357 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4358 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4359
fd7c519d
JK
4360 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4361 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4362 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4363
4364 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4365 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4366 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4367 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4368
40d58148
ON
4369 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4370
1da177e4
LT
4371 usbhid.mousepoll=
4372 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4373
933bfe4d
TJ
4374 usbhid.jspoll=
4375 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4376
d4f373e5
AS
4377 usb-storage.delay_use=
4378 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4379 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4380
4381 usb-storage.quirks=
4382 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4383 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4384 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4385 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4386 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4387 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4388 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4389 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4390 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4391 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4392 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4393 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4394 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4395 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4396 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4397 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4398 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4399 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4400 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4401 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4402 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4403 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4404 reported device capacity by one
4405 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4406 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4407 device);
13630746
HG
4408 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4409 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4410 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4411 unlock ejectable media);
4412 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4413 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4414 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4415 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4416 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4417 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4418 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4419 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
4420 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4421 bogus residue values);
4422 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4423 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
4424 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4425 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 4426 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
4427 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4428 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
4429 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4430 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
4431 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4432
ac1667db
SB
4433 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4434 Format: <int>
4435 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4436 1 - undefined instruction events
4437 2 - system calls
4438 4 - invalid data aborts
4439 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4440 16 - SIGBUS faults
4441 Example: user_debug=31
4442
14315592
IC
4443 userpte=
4444 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4445
4446 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4447 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4448 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4449
6cececfc 4450 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4451 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4452
4453 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4454 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4455
b0b49f26
AL
4456 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4457 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4458 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4459
4460 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4461 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4462 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4463
4464 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4465 alias for vdso32=0.
4466
4467 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4468 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4469
d080d397
YI
4470 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4471 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4472
1da177e4
LT
4473 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4474 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4475
3afe6dab
AL
4476 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4477 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4478 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4479 level and then send out the event to user space through
4480 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4481 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4482 brightness level.
2843768b 4483 default: 1
3afe6dab 4484
81a054ce
PM
4485 virtio_mmio.device=
4486 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4487
4488 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4489 where:
4490 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4491 like K, M and G)
4492 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4493 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4494 request_irq())
4495 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4496 example:
4497 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4498
4499 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4500
cd4f0ef7 4501 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4502 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4503 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4504 Use vga=ask for menu.
4505 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4506 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4507
a9913044 4508 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4509 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4510 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4511 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4512 mapped kernel RAM.
4513
3f429842
HC
4514 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4515 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4516 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4517
585c3047
PO
4518 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4519 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4520
585c3047
PO
4521 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4522 Format: <command>
4523
4524 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4525 Format: <command>
a9913044 4526
3ae36655
AL
4527 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4528 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4529 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4530 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4531 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4532 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4533 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4534
2e57ae05
AL
4535 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4536 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4537
2e57ae05 4538 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
4539 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4540 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4541 better than they would in emulation mode.
4542 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4543
4544 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4545 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4546 might break your system.
4547
3855ae1c
CL
4548 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4549 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4550 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4551
9ea9a886
CL
4552 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4553 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4554 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4555 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4556
0cb55ad2
RD
4557 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4558 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4559 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4560 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4561 ranging from 0-255.
4562
4563 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4564 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4565 Change the default green palette of the console.
4566 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4567 ranging from 0-255.
4568
4569 vt.default_red= [VT]
4570 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4571 Change the default red palette of the console.
4572 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4573 ranging from 0-255.
4574
4575 vt.default_utf8=
4576 [VT]
4577 Format=<0|1>
4578 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4579 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4580 newly opened terminals.
4581
f6c06b68
MG
4582 vt.global_cursor_default=
4583 [VT]
4584 Format=<-1|0|1>
4585 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4586 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4587 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4588 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4589 cursors, 1 will display them.
4590
3855ae1c
CL
4591 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4592 Default: 2 = green.
4593
4594 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4595 Default: 3 = cyan.
4596
4724ba57
RD
4597 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4598 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4599 or other driver-specific files in the
4600 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4601
82607adc
TH
4602 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4603 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4604 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4605 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4606 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4607 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4608 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4609 corresponding sysfs file.
4610
d55262c4
TH
4611 workqueue.disable_numa
4612 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4613 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4614 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4615 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4616 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4617 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4618 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4619
cee22a15
VK
4620 workqueue.power_efficient
4621 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4622 they show better performance thanks to cache
4623 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4624 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4625
4626 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4627 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4628 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4629 power usage at the cost of small performance
4630 overhead.
4631
4632 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4633 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4634
f303fccb
TH
4635 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4636 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4637 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4638 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4639 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4640 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4641 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4642 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4643 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4644 impacted.
4645
0cb55ad2
RD
4646 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4647 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4648 supporting x2apic.
4649
712b6aa8
KS
4650 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4651 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
4652 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4653 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4654 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4655
c70727a5
JG
4656 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4657 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4658 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4659 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4660 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4661 domains.
4662
c1c5413a
SS
4663 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4664 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4665 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4666 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4667 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4668 nics -- unplug network devices
4669 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
4670 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4671 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4672 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4673 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4674
15a3eac0
KRW
4675 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4676 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4677 optimizations.
4678
8d693b91
KRW
4679 xen_nopv [X86]
4680 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4681 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4682
1da177e4 4683 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
4684 Format:
4685 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]