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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
151f4e2b 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
e76f4276 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
cb1aaebe 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
e76f4276 57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
a7583e72 116 Format: <byte>
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.
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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 }
151f4e2b 226 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
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227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 334 Change the output verbosity while booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
898bd37a 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
080506ad 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 bootconfig [KNL]
441 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
442 and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
443
444 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
445
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446 bert_disable [ACPI]
447 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
448
1da177e4 449 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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450 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
451 kernel args too.
a405ed85 452 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 453 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 454
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455 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
456 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
457 at a time.
458
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459 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
460
cd4f0ef7 461 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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462 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
463 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
464 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
465 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
466 This option provides an override for these situations.
467
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468 carrier_timeout=
469 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
470 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
471 it waits 120 seconds.
472
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473 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
474 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
475 trust validation.
32c4741c 476 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 477
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478 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
479 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
480 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
481 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
482 others).
483
6dddd7a7 484 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
8b4a503d 485 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
1da177e4 486
6dddd7a7 487 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 488 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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489 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
490 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
491 a single hierarchy
492 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
493 subsystem
494 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
495 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
496 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 497
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498 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
499 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
500 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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501 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
502 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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503 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
504 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
505 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 506
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507 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
508 Format: <string>
509 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 510 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 511
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512 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
513 Format: { "0" | "1" }
514 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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515 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
516 any implied execute protection).
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517 1 -- check protection requested by application.
518 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
a9913044 519 Value can be changed at runtime via
d41415eb 520 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
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661ca0da 522 cio_ignore= [S390]
8b4a503d 523 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
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524 clk_ignore_unused
525 [CLK]
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526 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
527 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
528 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
529 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
530 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
531 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
532 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
533 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 534 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 535
cd4f0ef7 536 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 537 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 538 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 539 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 540 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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541 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
542
592913ec 543 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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544 Format: <string>
545 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
546 with the name specified.
547 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
548 the platform:
549 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
550 [ACPI] acpi_pm
551 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
552 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 553 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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554 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
555 [MIPS] MIPS
556 [PARISC] cr16
557 [S390] tod
558 [SH] SuperH
559 [SPARC64] tick
560 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
561
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562 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
563 [ARM,ARM64]
564 Format: <bool>
565 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
566 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
567 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
568 systems.
569
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570 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
571 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 572 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 573 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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574 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
575 ones should be.
576 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
577 or using the feature without checking anything
578 will still see it. This just prevents it from
579 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
580 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
581 some critical bits.
582
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583 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
584 [ARM,X86,KNL]
585 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
586 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
587 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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588 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
589 altogether. For more information, see
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590 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
591
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592 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
593 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
594 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
595 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
596 a hypervisor.
597 Default: yes
598
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599 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
600 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 601 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 602
1da177e4 603 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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604 Format:
605 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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606
607 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
608 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
609
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610 com90xx= [HW,NET]
611 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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612 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
613
614 condev= [HW,S390] console device
615 conmode=
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617 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
618
619 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
620
621 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 622 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 623 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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624 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
625 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
626 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
627 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
628
e52347bd 629 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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630 information. See
631 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
632 alternative.
1da177e4 633
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634 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
635 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 636 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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637 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
638 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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639 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
640 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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641 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
642 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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643 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
644 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
645 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
646 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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647 the h/w is not re-initialized.
648
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649 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
650 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
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652 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
653 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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654 console=brl,ttyS0
655 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
656
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657 console_msg_format=
658 [KNL] Change console messages format
659 default
660 By default we print messages on consoles in
661 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
662 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
663 `printk_time' param).
664 syslog
665 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
666 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
667 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
668 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
669 from /proc/kmsg.
670
f324edc8 671 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 672 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 673 Defaults to 0.
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675 coredump_filter=
676 [KNL] Change the default value for
677 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
678 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
679
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680 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
681 [ARM,ARM64]
682 Format: <bool>
683 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
684 0: default value, disable debugging
685 1: enable debugging at boot time
686
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687 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
688 disable the cpuidle sub-system
689
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690 cpuidle.governor=
691 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
692
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693 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
694 disable the cpufreq sub-system
695
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696 cpu_init_udelay=N
697 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
698 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
699 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
700 Default: 10000
701
1da177e4 702 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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703 Format:
704 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
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706 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
707 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
708 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
709 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
710 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
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711 is selected automatically.
712 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
713 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
714 hasn't been specified.
330d4810 715 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
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717 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
718 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
719 in the running system. The syntax of range is
720 start-[end] where start and end are both
721 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
330d4810 722 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
fb391599 723
adbc742b 724 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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725 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
726 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
727 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
728 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
729 available.
730 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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731 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
732 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
733 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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734 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
735 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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736 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
737 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
738 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
739 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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740 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
741 for second kernel instead.
742 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 743 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 744 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 745
9e5c9fe4 746 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 747 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 748
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749 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
750 Format: <dma>
751
752 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
753 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 755 dasd= [HW,NET]
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756 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
757
758 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
759 (one device per port)
760 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 761 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 762
6dddd7a7 763 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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764 time. See
765 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 766 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 767
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768 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
769
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770 debug_boot_weak_hash
771 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
772 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
773 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
774 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
775 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
776 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
777
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778 debug_locks_verbose=
779 [KNL] verbose self-tests
780 Format=<0|1>
781 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
782 self-tests.
783 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
784 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
785 only useful to kernel developers.
786
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787 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
788
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789 no_debug_objects
790 [KNL] Disable object debugging
791
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792 debug_guardpage_minorder=
793 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
794 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
795 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
796 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
797 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
798 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
799 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
800 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
801 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
802 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
803 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
804 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
805 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
806 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
807 bypassed) which are not detectable by
808 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
809 tracking down these problems.
810
031bc574 811 debug_pagealloc=
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812 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
813 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
814 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
815 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
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816 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
817 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
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818 on: enable the feature
819
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820 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
821
2d27a966 822 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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823 Format: <area>[,<node>]
824 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
825
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826 default_hugepagesz=
827 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
828 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
829 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
830 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
831 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
832 if not specified.
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834 deferred_probe_timeout=
835 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
836 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
837 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
838 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
839 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
840 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
841 retrying.
842
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843 dfltcc= [HW,S390]
844 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
845 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
846 level 1 and decompression (default)
847 off: No s390 zlib hardware support
848 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
849 only (compression on level 1)
850 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
851 only (decompression)
852 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
853 level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
854
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855 dhash_entries= [KNL]
856 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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858 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
859 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
860 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
861 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
862 miss to occur.
863
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864 disable= [IPV6]
865 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
866
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867 hardened_usercopy=
868 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
869 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
870 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
871 from reading or writing beyond known memory
872 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
873 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
874 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
875 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
876 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
877
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878 disable_radix [PPC]
879 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
880
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881 disable_tlbie [PPC]
882 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
883 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
884
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885 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
886 Format: <int>
887 The number of initial APIC ID for the
888 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
889 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
890 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
891 causing system reset or hang due to sending
892 INIT from AP to BSP.
893
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894 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
895 Format: <bool>
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896 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
897 The feature only exists starting from
898 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
899
6dddd7a7 900 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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901 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
902 to workaround buggy firmware.
903
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904 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
905 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
906
95ffa243 907 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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908 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
909 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 910 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 911
093af8d7 912 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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913 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
914 memory out of your available memory pool based on
915 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
916 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
917
6cececfc 918 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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919 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
920 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
921
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922 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
923
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924 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
925 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
926
927 dma_debug_entries=<number>
928 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
929 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
930 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
931 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
932 architectural default is too low.
933
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934 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
935 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
936 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
937 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
938 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
939 driver later using sysfs.
940
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941 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
942 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
943 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
944
53fd40a9 945 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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946 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
947 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
948 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
949 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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950 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
951 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
952 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
953 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
954 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
baa293e9 955 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
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956 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
957 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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958 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
959 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
960 data set with no connector name will be used for
961 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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963 dscc4.setup= [NET]
964
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965 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
966 Format: {"off" | "known"}
967 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
968 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
969 exists).
970 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
971 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
972 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
973
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974 dump_apple_properties [X86]
975 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
976 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
977 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
978
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979 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
980 module.dyndbg[="val"]
981 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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983 for details.
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985 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
986 in some Intel CPUs.
987
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988 module.async_probe [KNL]
989 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
990
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991 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
992 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
993 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
994 which are not unmapped.
995
0cb55ad2 996 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 997
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998 When used with no options, the early console is
999 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1000 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1001 the platform.
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1003 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1004 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1005 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1006 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1007 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1008 configured.
6fa62fc4 1009
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1010 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1011 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 1012 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 1013 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 1014 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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1015 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1016 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1017 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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1018 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1019 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1020 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1021 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1022 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
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0d3c673e 1024 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1025 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1026 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1027 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1028 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1029 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1030 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1031 the device registers.
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1033 meson,<addr>
1034 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1035 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1036 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1037 supported.
1038
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1039 msm_serial,<addr>
1040 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1041 port at the specified address. The serial port
1042 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1043 yet supported.
1044
1045 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1046 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1047 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1048 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1049 yet supported.
1050
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1051 owl,<addr>
1052 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1053 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1054 specified address. The serial port must already be
1055 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1056
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1057 rda,<addr>
1058 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1059 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1060 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1061 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1062
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1063 sbi
1064 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1065 console.
1066
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1067 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1068
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1069 s3c2410,<addr>
1070 s3c2412,<addr>
1071 s3c2440,<addr>
1072 s3c6400,<addr>
1073 s5pv210,<addr>
1074 exynos4210,<addr>
1075 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1076 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1077 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1078 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1079 Options are not yet supported.
1080
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1081 lantiq,<addr>
1082 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1083 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1084 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1085 yet supported.
1086
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SA
1087 lpuart,<addr>
1088 lpuart32,<addr>
1089 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1090 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1091 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1092 port must already be setup and configured.
1093
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JN
1094 ec_imx21,<addr>
1095 ec_imx6q,<addr>
1096 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1097 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1098 must already be setup and configured.
1099
f7c864e7 1100 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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WD
1101 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1102 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1103 address. The serial port must already be setup
1104 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1105
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KR
1106 qcom_geni,<addr>
1107 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1108 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1109 specified address. The serial port must already be
1110 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1111
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AB
1112 efifb,[options]
1113 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1114 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1115 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1116 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1117 mapped with the correct attributes.
1118
09864c1c 1119 linflex,<addr>
9905f32a 1120 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
09864c1c
SM
1121 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1122 address must be provided, and the serial port must
1123 already be setup and configured.
1124
4ba66a97 1125 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1126 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1127 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1128 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1129 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1130 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1131 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1132 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1133 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1134 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1135
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DH
1136 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1137 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1138 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1139
a9913044 1140 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1141 takes over.
1142
72548e83
MF
1143 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1144 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1145
147ea091
DH
1146 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1147 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1148 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1149 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1150 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1151 You can find the port for a given device in
1152 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1153 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1da177e4
LT
1154
1155 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1156 very good.
1157
72548e83
MF
1158 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1159 the real console.
1da177e4 1160
2482a92e
KRW
1161 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1162
89175cf7
HC
1163 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1164
d2266bbf
FT
1165 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1166 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1167 UART class.
1168
c700f013
CG
1169 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1170 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1171 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1172 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1173 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1174 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1175 default: on.
1176
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JW
1177 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1178 ekgdboc=kbd
1179
25985edc 1180 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1181 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1182
1da177e4 1183 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1184 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1185
d2f7cbe7 1186 efi= [EFI]
b617c526 1187 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug",
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MG
1188 "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1189 "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
d2f7cbe7 1190 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1f299fad 1191 runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y]
5a17dae4
MF
1192 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1193 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1194 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1195 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1196 debug: enable misc debug output
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DW
1197 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1198 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1199 memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1200 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1201 reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1202 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
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MG
1203 disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all
1204 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1205 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1206 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
d2f7cbe7 1207
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RW
1208 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1209 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1210 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1211 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1212 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1213
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TI
1214 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1215 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1216 updating original EFI memory map.
1217 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1218 from ss to ss+nn.
199c8471 1219
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TI
1220 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1221 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1222 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1223 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1224
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DW
1225 If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1226 EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1227 range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1228
0f96a99d 1229 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
199c8471 1230 related features. For example, you can do debugging of
0f96a99d 1231 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
199c8471
DW
1232 doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1233 "soft reserved".
0f96a99d 1234
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OP
1235 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1236 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1237 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1238 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
cb1aaebe 1239 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
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OP
1240
1241
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LT
1242 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1243 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1244
cd4f0ef7 1245 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1246 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1247 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4 1248
d3bf3795 1249 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1250 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1251 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1252 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
330d4810 1253 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1da177e4 1254
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RD
1255 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1256 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1257 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1258 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1259
ca1eda2d 1260 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1261 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1262 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1263 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1264 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1265
1da177e4
LT
1266 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1267 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1268 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1269 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1270 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1271 Default value is 0.
d41415eb
SS
1272 Value can be changed at runtime via
1273 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1da177e4 1274
a08f82d0
HY
1275 erst_disable [ACPI]
1276 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1277 support.
1278
1da177e4
LT
1279 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1280 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1281 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1282
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MZ
1283 evm= [EVM]
1284 Format: { "fix" }
1285 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1286 current integrity status.
1287
de1ba09b
AM
1288 failslab=
1289 fail_page_alloc=
1290 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1291 General fault injection mechanism.
1292 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1293 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1294
1da177e4 1295 floppy= [HW]
e7751617 1296 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1da177e4 1297
f13ae30e
AC
1298 force_pal_cache_flush
1299 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1300 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1301 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1302 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1303
6dddd7a7 1304 forcepae [X86-32]
69f2366c
CB
1305 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1306 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1307 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1308 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1309 and may cause unknown problems.
1310
d9e54076 1311 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1312 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1313 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1314 boot debugging.
1315
cecbca96 1316 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1317 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1318 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1319 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1320 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1321 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1322
1323 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1324 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1325 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1326 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1327 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1328 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1329
1330 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1331 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1332 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1333 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1334 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1335
369bc18f
SA
1336 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1337 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1338 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1339 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1340 that can be changed at run time by the
1341 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1342
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NK
1343 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1344 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1345 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1346 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1347 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1348
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TB
1349 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1350 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1351 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1352 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1353 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1354
1da177e4
LT
1355 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1356 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1357 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1358 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1359 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1360
1361 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1362
6dddd7a7 1363 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1364 Format: off | on
1365 default: on
1366
2521f2c2
PO
1367 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1368 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1369 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1370 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1371 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1372
47512cfd
TG
1373 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1374 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1375 android emulator
1376
1da177e4 1377 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1378 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1379 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1380 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1381
6cec9b07
AL
1382 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1383 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1384 Format: 0 | 1
1385 Default: 0
1386 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1387 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1388 Format: 0 | 1
1389 Default: 0
1390 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1391 Format: 0 | 1
1392 Default: 0
1393 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1394 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1395 Default: 1024
1396 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1397 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1398 Default: 1024
1399
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BJZ
1400 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1401 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1402 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1403
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JK
1404 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1405 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1406 backtraces on all cpus.
1407 Format: <integer>
1408
1da177e4
LT
1409 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1410 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1411 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1412 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1413
1414 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1415
1416 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1417 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1418
ea8c071c
HY
1419 hest_disable [ACPI]
1420 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1421 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1422 logic will be disabled.
1423
1da177e4
LT
1424 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1425 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1426 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1427 size on bigger boxes.
1428
54cdfdb4
TG
1429 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1430 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1431 Default: "on"
1432
0cb55ad2
RD
1433 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1434
1435 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1436 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1437 verbose }
1438 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1439 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1440 VIA, nVidia)
1441 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1442
3d035f58
PB
1443 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1444 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1445
b4718e62
AK
1446 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1447 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1448 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1449 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1450 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1451 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1452 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1453
a49d9c0a
OS
1454 hung_task_panic=
1455 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1456 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1457
a49d9c0a
OS
1458 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1459 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1460 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1461 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1462 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1463
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TB
1464 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1465 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1466 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1467 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1468 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1469
1470 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1471 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1472 guest on lock contention.
1473
7bf69395
FDN
1474 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1475 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1476 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1477 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1478 the real console.
1479
6dddd7a7
TB
1480 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1481 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1482 registered from board initialization code.
1483 Format:
1484 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1485
36d95739 1486 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1487 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1488 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1489 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1490 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1491 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1492 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1493 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1494 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1495 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1496 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1497 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1498 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1499 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1500 controller
1da177e4
LT
1501 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1502 controllers
24775d65 1503 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1504 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1505 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1506 transitions, or never reset
1507 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1508 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1509 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1510 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1511 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1512 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1513 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1514
1515 i810= [HW,DRM]
1516
e70c9d5e
DT
1517 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1518 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1519 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1520 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1521 does not match list of supported models.
1522 i8k.power_status
1523 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1524 (disabled by default)
1525 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1526 capability is set.
1527
4dca20ef 1528 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1529 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1530 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1531 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1532 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1533 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1534 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1535 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1536 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1537 value switches the backlight off.
1538 -1 -- never invert brightness
1539 0 -- machine default
1540 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1541
1da177e4
LT
1542 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1543 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1544
0af80c04
DF
1545 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1546 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1547 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1548 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
d7b461c5 1549 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1da177e4 1550
0f8b7f5d
MR
1551 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1552 Format: <int>
1553 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1554 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1555 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1556 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1557 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1558 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1559 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1560 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1561 was 0x3.
1562
0cb55ad2
RD
1563 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1564 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1565
f039b754 1566 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1567 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1568 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1569 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1570 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1571 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1572 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1573 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1574 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1575
503943e0
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1576 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1577 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1578 Default: strict
1579
1580 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1581 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1582 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1583 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1584 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1585 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1586 encoding mode.
1587
1588 Available settings are as follows:
1589 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1590 supported by the FPU
1591 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1592 by the FPU
1593 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1594 by the FPU
1595 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1596 supported by the FPU
1597
1598 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1599 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1600 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1601 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1602 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1603 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1604 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1605 MIPS64 CPUs.
1606
1607 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1608 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1609 except where unsupported by hardware.
1610
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1611 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1612 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1613 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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1614 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1615 could change it dynamically, usually by
1616 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
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1618 ignore_rlimit_data
1619 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1620 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1621 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1622
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1623 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1624 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1625
2fe5d6de 1626 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1627 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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1628 default: "enforce"
1629
41475a3e 1630 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1631 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1632 owned by uid=0.
1633
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1634 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1635 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1636 measurements, instead of host native format.
1637
3323eec9 1638 ima_hash= [IMA]
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1639 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1640 | sha512 | ... }
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1641 default: "sha1"
1642
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1643 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1644 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1645
24fd03c8 1646 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1647 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
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1648 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1649 fail_securely"
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1650
1651 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1652 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1653 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1654 uid=0.
1655
1656 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1657 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1658
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1659 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1660 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1661 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1662
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1663 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1664 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1665 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1666 flag.
1667
24fd03c8 1668 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1669 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1670 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1671 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1672 opened for read by uid=0.
1673
6dddd7a7 1674 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1675 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1676 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1677 Default: "ima-ng"
1678
c2426d2a 1679 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1680 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1681 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1682
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1683 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1684 Format: <min_file_size>
1685 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1686 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1687
1688 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1689 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1690 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1691
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1692 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1693 Format: <bufsize>
1694 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1695
1696 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1697 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1698 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1699
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1700 init= [KNL]
1701 Format: <full_path>
1702 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1703 process.
1704
1705 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1706 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1707 startup.
1708
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1709 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1710 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1711 modules and initcalls.
1712
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1713 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1714
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1715 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1716 zeroes.
1717 Format: 0 | 1
1718 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1719
1720 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1721 Format: 0 | 1
1722 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1723
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1724 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1725 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1726 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1727 override in debugfs after boot.
1728
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1729 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1730 Format: <irq>
1731
6dddd7a7 1732 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1733
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1734 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1735 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1736 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1737 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1738
ba395927 1739 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1740 on
1741 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1742 off
1743 Disable intel iommu driver.
1744 igfx_off [Default Off]
1745 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1746 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1747 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1748 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1749 DMA.
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1750 forcedac [x86_64]
1751 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1752 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1753 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1754 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1755 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1756 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1757 strict [Default Off]
1758 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1759 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1760 to batching them for performance.
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1761 sp_off [Default Off]
1762 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1763 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1764 not be supported.
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1765 sm_on [Default Off]
1766 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
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1767 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1768 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
8950dcd8 1769 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
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1770 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1771 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1772 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1773 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1774 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1775 mapping is enabled.
1776 Note that using this option lowers the security
1777 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1778 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
e5e04d05 1779 nobounce [Default off]
bf347b9d 1780 Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as
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1781 the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1782 devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1783 risks of DMA attacks.
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1784
1785 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1786 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1787 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1788
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1789 intel_pstate= [X86]
1790 disable
1791 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1792 scaling driver for the supported processors
1793 passive
1794 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1795 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1796 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1797 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1798 feature.
1799 force
1800 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1801 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1802 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1803 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1804 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1805 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1806 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1807 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1808 no_hwp
1809 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1810 if available.
1811 hwp_only
1812 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1813 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1814 support_acpi_ppc
1815 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1816 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1817 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1818 then this feature is turned on by default.
1819 per_cpu_perf_limits
1820 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1821 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1822
d1423d56 1823 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1824 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1825 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1826 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1827 no_x2apic_optout
1828 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1829 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1830
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1831 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1832 strict regions from userspace.
1833 relaxed
1834
1835 iommu= [x86]
1836 off
1837 force
1838 noforce
1839 biomerge
1840 panic
1841 nopanic
1842 merge
1843 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1844 soft
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1845 pt [x86]
1846 nopt [x86]
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1847 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1848 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1849
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1850 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1851 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1852 0 - Lazy mode.
1853 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1854 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1855 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1856 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1857 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1858 1 - Strict mode (default).
1859 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1860 synchronously.
1861
fccb4e3b 1862 iommu.passthrough=
c8fb436b 1863 [ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
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1864 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1865 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1866 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1867 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
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1868
1869 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1870 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1871 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1872
6cececfc 1873 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1874 0x80
1875 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1876 0xed
1877 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1878 udelay
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1879 Simple two microseconds delay
1880 none
1881 No delay
b02aae9c 1882
1da177e4 1883 ip= [IP_PNP]
3eb30c51 1884 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4 1885
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1886 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1887 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1888
fbf19803 1889 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1890 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1891
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1892 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1893 [ARM, ARM64]
1894 Format: <bool>
1895 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1896 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1897 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1898
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1899 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1900 [ARM, ARM64]
1901 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1902 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1903 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1904 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1905 LPIs.
1906
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1907 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1908 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1909 requires the kernel to be built with
1910 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1911
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1912 irqfixup [HW]
1913 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1914 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1915 firmware running.
1916
1917 irqpoll [HW]
1918 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1919 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1920 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1921 firmware running.
1922
1da177e4 1923 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1924 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1925
d94d1053 1926 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1927 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1928 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1929
1930 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1931 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1932
1933 nohz
1934 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1935
1936 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1937 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1938 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1939 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1940 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1941
1942 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1943 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1944 be configured manually after bootup.
1945
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1946 domain
1947 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1948 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1949 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1950 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1951 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1952 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1953 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1954 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1955
1956 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1957 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1958 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1959 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1960
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1961 managed_irq
1962
1963 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
1964 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
1965 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
1966 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
1967 the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
1968
1969 This isolation is best effort and only effective
1970 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
1971 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
1972 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
1973 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
1974 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
1975 cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
1976
1977 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
1978 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
1979 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
1980 only delivered when tasks running on those
1981 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
1982 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
1983 queues.
1da177e4 1984
11ea68f5 1985 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1da177e4 1986
a9913044 1987 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1988
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1989 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1990 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1991 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1992 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1993 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1994 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1995
1996 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1997 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1998 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1999 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2000 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2001 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2002
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2003 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
2004 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2005 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2006 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2007 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2008 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2009
1da177e4 2010 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 2011 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 2012
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2013 nokaslr [KNL]
2014 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2015 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2016 Layout Randomization).
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2018 kasan_multi_shot
2019 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2020 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2021 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2022 invalid access.
2023
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2024 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
2025
342332e6 2026 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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2027 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2028 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2029 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
2030 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2031 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
2032 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
2033 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2034 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2035 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2036
2037 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2038 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2039 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2040 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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2041 zone if it does not.
2042
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2043 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2044 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2045 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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2046 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2047 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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2048 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2049 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
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2051 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2052 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2053 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2054 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
2055 optional and is the number seconds in between
2056 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2057 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2058 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
2059 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2060 the kernel debugger.
2061
84c08fd6 2062 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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2063 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2064 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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2065 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2066 keyboard only format: kbd
2067 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2068 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2069 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2070 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 2071
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2072 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2073 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2074
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2075 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2076 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2077 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2078
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2079 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2080 Valid arguments: on, off
2081 Default: on
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2082 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2083 the default is off.
04f70336 2084
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2085 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2086 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2087 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2088 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2089 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2090 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2091 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2092
2093 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2094
2095 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2096 Boot Parameter" section.
2097
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2098 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2099 and kernel address spaces.
2100 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2101 0: force disabled
2102 1: force enabled
2103
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2104 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2105 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2106
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2107 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2108 Default is false (don't support).
2109
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2110 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2111 KVM MMU at runtime.
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2112 Default is 0 (off)
2113
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2114 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2115 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2116 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2117 force : Always deploy workaround.
2118 off : Never deploy workaround.
2119 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2120 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2121
2122 Default is 'auto'.
2123
2124 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2125 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2126
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2127 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2128 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2129 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2130 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2131 minute. The default is 60.
2132
fef07aae 2133 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2134 Default is 1 (enabled)
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2135
2136 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2137 for all guests.
16290246 2138 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 2139
e23f62f7
MZ
2140 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2141 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2142 system registers
2143
182936ee
MZ
2144 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2145 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2146 system registers
2147
ff89511e
MZ
2148 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2149 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2150 system registers
2151
a7546054
MZ
2152 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2153 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2154 LPIs.
2155
fef07aae
AP
2156 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2157 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2158 Default is 1 (enabled)
2159
2160 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2161 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2162 Default is 0 (disabled)
2163
2164 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2165 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2166 Default is 1 (enabled)
2167
e1a72ae2
SL
2168 kvm-intel.nested=
2169 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2170 Default is 0 (disabled)
2171
fef07aae
AP
2172 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2173 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2174 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2175 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2176
a399477e
KRW
2177 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2178 CVE-2018-3620.
2179
2180 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2181
2182 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2183 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2184 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2185 never: Disables the mitigation
2186
2187 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2188
fef07aae
AP
2189 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2190 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2191 Default is 1 (enabled)
2192
d90a7a0e
JK
2193 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2194 affected CPUs
2195
2196 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2197 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2198
2199 full
2200 Provides all available mitigations for the
2201 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2202 enables all mitigations in the
2203 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2204
2205 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2206 sysfs interface is still possible after
2207 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2208 when the first VM is started in a
2209 potentially insecure configuration,
2210 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2211
2212 full,force
2213 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2214 flush runtime control. Implies the
2215 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2216 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2217
2218 flush
2219 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2220 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2221 L1D flush.
2222
2223 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2224 sysfs interface is still possible after
2225 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2226 when the first VM is started in a
2227 potentially insecure configuration,
2228 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2229
2230 flush,nosmt
2231
2232 Disables SMT and enables the default
2233 hypervisor mitigation.
2234
2235 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2236 sysfs interface is still possible after
2237 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2238 when the first VM is started in a
2239 potentially insecure configuration,
2240 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2241
2242 flush,nowarn
2243 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2244 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2245 insecure configuration.
2246
2247 off
2248 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2249 emit any warnings.
5b5e4d62
MH
2250 It also drops the swap size and available
2251 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2252 bare metal.
d90a7a0e
JK
2253
2254 Default is 'flush'.
2255
65fd4cb6 2256 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2257
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LT
2258 l2cr= [PPC]
2259
a78bfbfc
RB
2260 l3cr= [PPC]
2261
cd4f0ef7 2262 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2263 disabled it.
1da177e4 2264
279f1461
SS
2265 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2266 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2267 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2268
6cececfc 2269 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2270 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2271
fcb71f6f
FC
2272 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2273 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2274 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2275 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2276 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
fcb71f6f
FC
2277 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2278 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2279
20308871
MP
2280 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2281 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2282 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2283
78e70c23
DJ
2284 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2285 when set.
2286 Format: <int>
2287
33267325
TH
2288 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2289 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2290 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
33267325
TH
2291 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2292 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2293 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2294 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2295 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2296
2297 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2298 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2299 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2300 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2301 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2302 host link and device attached to it.
2303
2304 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2305 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2306 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2307 The following configurations can be forced.
2308
2309 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2310 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2311
2312 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2313
2314 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2315 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2316 allowed.
2317
2318 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2319
d7b16e4f
MP
2320 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2321
05944bdf 2322 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2323 and both resets.
05944bdf 2324
ca6d43b0
DW
2325 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2326 hot-unplug link recovery
2327
43c9c591
TH
2328 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2329
966fbe19
VP
2330 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2331
b8bd6dc3
RJ
2332 * disable: Disable this device.
2333
33267325
TH
2334 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2335 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2336
95f72d1e 2337 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2338
1da177e4 2339 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
e7751617 2340 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 2341
a6b25b67
RD
2342 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2343 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2344
a6b25b67
RD
2345 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2346 Format: <integer>
2347
2348 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2349 Format: <integer>
2350
2351 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2352 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2353
000d388e
MG
2354 lockdown= [SECURITY]
2355 { integrity | confidentiality }
2356 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2357 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2358 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2359 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2360 to extract confidential information from the kernel
2361 are also disabled.
2362
ec4518aa
PM
2363 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2364 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2365 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2366 number of online CPUs.
2367
2368 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2369 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2370
2371 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2372 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2373
2374 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2375 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2376 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2377
2378 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2379 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2380 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2381 mode during the locktorture test.
2382
2383 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2384 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2385 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2386
2387 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2388 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2389
2390 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2391 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2392 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2393 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2394 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2395 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2396
ec4518aa
PM
2397 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2398 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2399
2400 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2401 Enable additional printk() statements.
2402
1da177e4
LT
2403 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2404 Format: <irq>
2405
2406 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2407 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2408 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2409 loglevels are defined as follows:
2410
2411 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2412 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2413 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2414 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2415 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2416 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2417 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2418 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2419
c756d08a 2420 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
23b2899f
LR
2421 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2422 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2423 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2424 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2425 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2426 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2427
accaa24c
RD
2428 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2429 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2430 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2431 kernel boot problems.
2432
1da177e4
LT
2433 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2434 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2435 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2436 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2437 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2438 attached printers to be reset. Using
2439 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2440 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2441 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2442 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2443 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2444 port specification list means that device IDs
2445 from each port should be examined, to see if
2446 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2447 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2448 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2449
2450 lpj=n [KNL]
2451 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2452 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2453 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2454 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2455 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2456 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2457 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2458 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2459 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2460 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2461 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2462 hardware.
2463
2464 ltpc= [NET]
2465 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2466
9b8c7c14
KC
2467 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2468
79f7865d
KC
2469 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2470 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2471 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2472
16290246 2473 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
a9913044 2474 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
df43acac 2475 Example: machvec=hpzx1
1da177e4 2476
3209e70e
WZ
2477 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2478 yeeloong laptop.
2479 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2480
0cb55ad2
RD
2481 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2482 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1da177e4
LT
2483
2484 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2485 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2486 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2487 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2488 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2489 only takes effect during system bootup.
2490 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2491 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2492
d134b00b
KS
2493 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2494 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2495 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2496 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2497 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2498 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2499
cd4f0ef7 2500 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2501
cb1aaebe 2502 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
909dd324 2503
1da177e4 2504 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2505 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2506
1da177e4
LT
2507 mdacon= [MDA]
2508 Format: <first>,<last>
2509 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2510
bc124170
TG
2511 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2512 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2513 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2514
2515 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2516 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2517 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2518
2519 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2520 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2521 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2522 not have direct access.
2523
2524 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2525 options are:
2526
d71eb0ce
JP
2527 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2528 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2529 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2530 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170 2531
64870ed1
WL
2532 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2533 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2534 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2535 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2536 too.
2537
bc124170
TG
2538 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2539 mds=full.
2540
5999bbe7
TG
2541 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2542
1da177e4
LT
2543 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2544 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2545 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2546 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2547 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2548 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2549 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2550
cd4f0ef7 2551 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2552 memory.
2553
6902aa84
PM
2554 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2555 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2556 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2557
6dddd7a7 2558 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2559 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2560 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2561 set according to the
2562 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2563 option.
cb1aaebe 2564 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
86dd995d 2565
6cececfc 2566 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1da177e4
LT
2567 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2568 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2569 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2570 option description.
2571
2572 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2573 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2574 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2575 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2576 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2577 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2578 comma delimited.
2579 Example:
2580 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2581
2582 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2583 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2584 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2585
2586 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2587 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2588 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1312848e
PM
2589 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2590 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2591 or
2592 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2593 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2594 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2595 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2596
ec776ef6
CH
2597 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2598 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2599 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2600 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2601 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2602
ef61f8a3
JS
2603 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2604 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2605 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2606 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2607 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2608 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2609 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2610 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2611
9f077871
JF
2612 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2613 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2614 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2615 Setting this option will scan the memory
2616 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2617 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2618 from using the memory being corrupted.
2619 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2620 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2621 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2622 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2623
2624 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2625 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2626 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2627 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2628 corruption in more or less memory.
2629
2630 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2631 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2632 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2633 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2634
d90fe2ac 2635 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2636 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2637 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2638 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2639 performed. Each pass selects another test
2640 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2641 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2642 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2643 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2644
c262f3b9
TL
2645 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2646 Valid arguments: on, off
2647 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2648 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2649 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2650 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2651 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2652
2f5947df 2653 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
c262f3b9
TL
2654 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2655
406e7938
RW
2656 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2657 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2658 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2659 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2660 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2661
1da177e4 2662 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2663 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2664
8f36881b
AS
2665 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2666 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2667 platforms.
2668
e6c4dc6c
WT
2669 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2670 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2671 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2672 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2673
1da177e4
LT
2674 mga= [HW,DRM]
2675
1c207f95
RD
2676 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2677 physical address is ignored.
2678
39f45d7b
MP
2679 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2680 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2681 Default: "0tb"
2682 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2683 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2684 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2685 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2686 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2687 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2688 unconfigured.
2689 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2690 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2691 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2692 VGA shield.
2693 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2694 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2695 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2696 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2697 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2698 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2699
98af8452 2700 mitigations=
a111b7c0
JP
2701 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2702 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
2703 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2704 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
2705
2706 off
2707 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2708 improves system performance, but it may also
2709 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 2710 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2711 kpti=0 [ARM64]
a2059825 2712 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
0336e04a 2713 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 2714 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 2715 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 2716 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2717 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 2718 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 2719 mds=off [X86]
a7a248c5 2720 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
b8e8c830
PB
2721 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2722
2723 Exceptions:
2724 This does not have any effect on
2725 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2726 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
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JP
2727
2728 auto (default)
2729 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2730 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2731 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2732 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2733 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 2734 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
98af8452
JP
2735
2736 auto,nosmt
2737 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2738 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2739 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 2740 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 2741 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
a7a248c5 2742 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 2743
6b74ab97
MG
2744 mminit_loglevel=
2745 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2746 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2747 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2748 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2749 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2750 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2751
106a4ee2
RR
2752 module.sig_enforce
2753 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2754 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2755 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2756 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2757
be7de5f9
PB
2758 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2759 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2760
1da177e4
LT
2761 mousedev.tap_time=
2762 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2763 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2764 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2765 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2766 Format: <msecs>
2767 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2768 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2769 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2770 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2771
a5c6d650
DR
2772 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2773 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2774 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2775 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2776 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2777 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2778 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2779 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
2780 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2781 is not too small.
2782
f70029bb
MH
2783 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2784 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2785 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2786 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2787 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2788
1da177e4
LT
2789 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2790 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2791
a9913044
RD
2792 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2793 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2794
2795 mtdparts= [MTD]
fb251124 2796 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
1da177e4 2797
4e89a2d8
WS
2798 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2799 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2800 at a time.
2801
5988af23
RH
2802 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2803
2804 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2805
2806 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2807 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2808 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2809 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2810 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2811
9db829f4
BD
2812 mtdset= [ARM]
2813 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2814
2815 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2816
1da177e4 2817 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2818 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2819 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2820
0cb55ad2 2821 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2822 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2823 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2824
2825 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2826 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2827 Default is 1.
2828 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2829 using up MTRRs.
2830
2831 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2832 Format: <integer>
2833 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2834 Default : 1
2835 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2836 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2837
1da177e4
LT
2838 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2839
1da177e4
LT
2840 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2841 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2842 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2843 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2844 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2845 file if at all.
2846
58401572
KPO
2847 nf_conntrack.acct=
2848 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2849 0 to disable accounting
2850 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2851 Default value is 0.
58401572 2852
306a0753 2853 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
3eb30c51 2854 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4
LT
2855
2856 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3eb30c51 2857 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1da177e4 2858
306a0753 2859 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3eb30c51 2860 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
306a0753 2861
5405fc44
TM
2862 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2863 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2864 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2865 requests.
2866
a72b4422
TM
2867 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2868 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2869 channel should listen.
2870
e571cbf1
TM
2871 nfs.cache_getent=
2872 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2873 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2874
2875 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2876 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2877 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2878
58df095b
TM
2879 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2880 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2881 entries.
2882
f43bf0be
TM
2883 nfs.enable_ino64=
2884 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2885 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2886 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2887 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2888 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2889
5405fc44
TM
2890 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2891 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2892 slots the client will assign to the callback
2893 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2894 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2895 a particular server.
2896
ef159e91
TM
2897 nfs.max_session_slots=
2898 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2899 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2900 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2901 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2902 Note that there is little point in setting this
2903 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2904
b064eca2 2905 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2906 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2907 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2908 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2909 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2910 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2911 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2912 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2913 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2914 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2915 back to using the idmapper.
2916 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2917 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2918 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2919 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2920 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2921 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2922
db8ac8ba
WAA
2923 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2924 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2925 information in exchange_id requests.
2926 If zero, no implementation identification information
2927 will be sent.
2928 The default is to send the implementation identification
2929 information.
e52347bd 2930
f6de7a39
TM
2931 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2932 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2933 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2934 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2935 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2936 after the locks are lost.
2937 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2938 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2939 parameter to '1'.
2940 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2941 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2942
bbf58bf3
TM
2943 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2944 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2945 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2946
2947 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2948 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2949 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2950 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2951
e9541ce8
BF
2952 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2953 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2954 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2955 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2956 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2957 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2958
c0c74acb 2959 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2960 when a NMI is triggered.
2961 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2962
6cececfc 2963 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2964 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2965 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2966 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2967 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2968 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
93285c01
ZD
2969 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2970 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2971 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
334bb79c 2972 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2973 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2974 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2975
d22881dc
SW
2976 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2977 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2978
bff38771
AV
2979 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2980 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2981 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2982 waits 4 seconds.
2983
cd4f0ef7 2984 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2985 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2986 is present.
2987
372fddf7
KS
2988 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2989 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2990
0cb55ad2
RD
2991 no_console_suspend
2992 [HW] Never suspend the console
2993 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2994 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2995 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2996 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2997 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2998 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2999 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
3000 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3001 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3002 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3003 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3004 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 3005
c6c40533
KS
3006 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
3007 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3008 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3009 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
3010 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3011 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
3012 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3013 data will be no longer available. This parameter
3014 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3015 is set.
3016
c1aee215
CL
3017 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3018 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
3019 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 3020
a9913044
RD
3021 noalign [KNL,ARM]
3022
686140a1
VG
3023 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3024 (CPU alternatives feature).
3025
1da177e4
LT
3026 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3027 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3028
5091faa4
MG
3029 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3030
1da177e4
LT
3031 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3032 on "Classic" PPC cores.
3033
3034 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 3035
0cb55ad2
RD
3036 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3037
163ecdff
SN
3038 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3039
6902aa84
PM
3040 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3041
b2e0a54a 3042 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 3043
1da177e4
LT
3044 noexec [IA-64]
3045
6cececfc 3046 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 3047 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 3048 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
3049 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3050
de78a9c4 3051 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
3052 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3053 even if it is supported by processor.
3054
0fb1c25a 3055 nosmep [X86,PPC]
52b6179a 3056 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
3057 even if it is supported by processor.
3058
f5a1b191
JS
3059 noexec32 [X86-64]
3060 This affects only 32-bit executables.
3061 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3062 read doesn't imply executable mappings
3063 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3064 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 3065
fab43ef4 3066 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 3067
cd4f0ef7 3068 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
3069 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3070 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 3071
d909f910 3072 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
0ddab1d2 3073
52c48c51
SS
3074 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3075 Equivalent to smt=1.
3076
05736e4a 3077 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
3078 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3079 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 3080
a2059825
JP
3081 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3082 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3083 possible in the system.
05736e4a 3084
e5ce5e72
JL
3085 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3086 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3087 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3088 option.
da285121 3089
24f7fc83
KRW
3090 nospec_store_bypass_disable
3091 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3092
0c752a93
SS
3093 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3094 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3095 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3096
b6f42a4a
FY
3097 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3098 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3099 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3100 performance of saving the states is degraded because
3101 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3102 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3103
3104 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3105 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3106 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3107 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3108 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3109 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3110 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3111
01a24d2b
PZ
3112 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3113 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3114 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 3115
1f29fae2
SH
3116 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3117 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3118 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3119
1da177e4
LT
3120 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3121 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3122 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3123 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3124 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3125 real-time systems.
3126
a6e15a39
KC
3127 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3128
79bf2bb3
TG
3129 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3130 Valid arguments: on, off
3131 Default: on
3132
d94d1053 3133 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 3134 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 3135 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 3136 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 3137 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
3138 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3139 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3140 just as if they had also been called out in the
3141 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 3142
eeee7853
PM
3143 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3144
cd4f0ef7 3145 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3146 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3147
6cececfc 3148 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3149 broken timer IRQ sources.
3150
1da177e4
LT
3151 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3152
3153 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3154 initial RAM disk.
3155
03ea8155
WH
3156 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3157 remapping.
d1423d56 3158 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3159
1da177e4
LT
3160 nointroute [IA-64]
3161
d12a72b8
AL
3162 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3163
16290246 3164 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3165
9cf4c4fc
JK
3166 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3167
fd10cde9
GN
3168 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3169 fault handling.
3170
80e9a4f2
AM
3171 no-vmw-sched-clock
3172 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3173 clock and use the default one.
3174
e0685fa2
SP
3175 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3176 accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3177 influence scheduler behaviour
d910f5c1 3178
cd4f0ef7 3179 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3180
cd4f0ef7 3181 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3182
1da177e4 3183 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3184 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3185
312f1f01
H
3186 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3187
13696e0a 3188 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3189
83d7384f
AS
3190 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3191 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3192
bda62633
DZ
3193 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3194 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3195 irq.
3196
02608bef
DY
3197 nomodule Disable module load
3198
016ddd9b
JK
3199 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3200 pagetables) support.
3201
0790c9aa
AL
3202 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3203
0cb55ad2
RD
3204 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3205 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3206
cd4f0ef7 3207 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3208 with UP alternatives
3209
7a5091d5
PA
3210 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3211 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3212 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3213 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3214
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3215 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3216 space.
3217
1da177e4
LT
3218 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3219 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3220 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3221
3222 nosbagart [IA-64]
3223
cd4f0ef7 3224 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3225
61ec7567
LB
3226 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3227 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3228
97842216
DJ
3229 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3230
1da177e4
LT
3231 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3232
195daf66 3233 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3234 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3235
1da177e4 3236 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3237
2b2fd87a
WH
3238 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3239
f78cff48
FY
3240 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3241 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3242 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3243 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3244 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3245 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3246 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3247 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3248 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3249 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3250 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3251 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3252 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3253
6dddd7a7 3254 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3255 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3256 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3257 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3258 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3259 parameter's value.
3260 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3261 Default: 255
3262
16290246 3263 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3264 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3265 SAL PALO.
3266
2b633e3f
YL
3267 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3268 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3269 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3270 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3271 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3272 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3273 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3274 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3275
0cb55ad2
RD
3276 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3277
1a687c2e
MG
3278 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3279 Allowed values are enable and disable
3280
f0c0b2b8 3281 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3282 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8 3283 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
57043247 3284 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
f0c0b2b8 3285
a3e1d1a7
SK
3286 of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
3287 supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
3288 consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device
3289 will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
3290 probed successfully.
3291
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RD
3292 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3293 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3294 info.
3295
3ef0e1f8
AS
3296 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3297 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3298 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3299 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3300 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3301 interrupts *may* be lost!
3302
15ac7afe
TL
3303 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3304 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3305 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3306 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3307
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LT
3308 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3309 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3310
7e4e0bd5
RR
3311 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3312 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3313 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3314 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3315 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3316 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3317 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3318 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3319 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3320 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3321
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RD
3322 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3323 process, but there is a small probability of
3324 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3325 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3326 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3327
e900a918
DW
3328 page_alloc.shuffle=
3329 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3330 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3331 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3332 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3333 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3334 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3335 can be read from sysfs at:
3336 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3337
48c96a36
JK
3338 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3339 Storage of the information about who allocated
3340 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3341 we can turn it on.
3342 on: enable the feature
3343
8823b1db 3344 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3345 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3346 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3347 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3348 on: turn on poisoning
3349
44a4dcf7 3350 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3351 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3352 timeout = 0: wait forever
3353 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3354 Format: <timeout>
3355
d999bd93
FT
3356 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3357 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3358 bit 0: print all tasks info
3359 bit 1: print system memory info
3360 bit 2: print timer info
3361 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3362 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3363 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
d999bd93 3364
9e3961a0
PB
3365 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3366 on a WARN().
3367
f06e5153
MH
3368 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3369 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3370 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3371 succeeds in any situation.
3372 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3373 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3374 kernel more unstable.
3375
1da177e4
LT
3376 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3377 connected to, default is 0.
3378 Format: <parport#>
3379 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3380 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
3381 Format: <mode>
3382
3383 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3384 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3385 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3386 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3387 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3388 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3389 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3390 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3391 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3392 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3393 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3394 are specified on the command line, starting
3395 with parport0.
3396
3397 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3398 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3399 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3400 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3401 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3402 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3403 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3404
dd287796
AM
3405 pause_on_oops=
3406 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3407 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3408 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3409
1da177e4
LT
3410 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3411
3412 pcd. [PARIDE]
3413 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
e7751617 3414 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3415
07d8d7e5
LG
3416 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3417
3418 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3419 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3420 specified in one of the following formats:
3421
45db3370 3422 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3423 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3424
3425 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3426 bus/device/function address which may change
3427 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3428 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3429 by other kernel parameters. If the
3430 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3431 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3432 to a device through multiple device/function
3433 addresses can be specified after the base
3434 address (this is more robust against
3435 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3436 selects devices using IDs from the
3437 configuration space which may match multiple
3438 devices in the system.
3439
11eb0e0e 3440 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3441 changes anything
c0115606 3442 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3443 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3444 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3445 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3446 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3447 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3448 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3449 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3450 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3451 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3452 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3453 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3454 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3455 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3456 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3457 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3458 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3459 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3460 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3461 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3462 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3463 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3464 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3465 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3466 Configuration
12983077
AH
3467 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3468 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3469 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3470 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3471 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3472 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3473 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3474 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3475 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3476 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3477 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3478 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3479 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3480 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3481 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3482 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3483 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3484 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3485 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3486 on several machines and they hang the machine
3487 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3488 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3489 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3490 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3491 motherboard.
c0115606 3492 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3493 Use with caution as certain devices share
3494 address decoders between ROMs and other
3495 resources.
c0115606 3496 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3497 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3498 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3499 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3500 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3501 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3502 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3503 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3504 this way.
c0115606 3505 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3506 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3507 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3508 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3509 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3510 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3511 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3512 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3513 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3514 numbers ourselves, overriding
3515 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3516 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3517 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3518 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3519 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3520 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3521 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3522 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3523 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3524 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3525 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3526 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3527 please report a bug.
3528 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3529 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3530 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3531 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3532 so this option is a temporary workaround
3533 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3534 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3535 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3536 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3537 This might help on some broken boards which
3538 machine check when some devices' config space
3539 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3540 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3541 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3542 This sorting is done to get a device
3543 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3544 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3545 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3546 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3547 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3548 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3549 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3550 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3551 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3552 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3553 or bus can support) for best performance.
3554 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3555 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3556 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3557 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3558 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3559 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3560 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3561 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3562 The default value is 256 bytes.
3563 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3564 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3565 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3566 resource_alignment=
3567 Format:
07d8d7e5 3568 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3569 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3570 aligned memory resources. How to
3571 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3572 If <order of align> is not specified,
3573 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3b1b1ce3 3574 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
32a9a682 3575 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3576 To specify the alignment for several
3577 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3578 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3b1b1ce3
AK
3579 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3580 for 4096-byte alignment.
43c16408
AP
3581 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3582 end-to-end CRC checking).
3583 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3584 the default.
3585 off: Turn ECRC off
3586 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3587 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3588 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3589 Default size is 256 bytes.
d7b8a217
NJ
3590 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3591 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3592 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3593 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3594 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3595 Default size is 2 megabytes.
8c8803c5 3596 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
d7b8a217
NJ
3597 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3598 MMIO_PREF window.
8c8803c5 3599 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3600 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3601 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3602 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3603 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3604 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3605 accommodate resources required by all child
3606 devices.
3607 off: Turn realloc off
3608 on: Turn realloc on
3609 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3610 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3611 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3612 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3613 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3614 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3615 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3616 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3617 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3618 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3619 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3620 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3621 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3622 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3623 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3624 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3625 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3626 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3627 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3628 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3629 this removes isolation between devices and
3630 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 3631 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 3632 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
6b4b78fe 3633
e5665a45
CE
3634 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3635 Management.
3636 off Disable ASPM.
3637 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3638 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3639
4c0fd764
BH
3640 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3641 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3642 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3643 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3644 also tries to use these services.
35a0b237
OJ
3645 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May
3646 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4c0fd764
BH
3647 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3648 hotplug).
79dd9182 3649
9d26d3a8
MW
3650 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3651 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3652 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3653
c7f48656 3654 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3655 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3656 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3657
1da177e4
LT
3658 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3659
39ac5ba5
TB
3660 pd_ignore_unused
3661 [PM]
3662 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3663 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3664 for debug and development, but should not be
3665 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3666
1da177e4 3667 pd. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3668 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3669
3670 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3671 boot time.
3672 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3673 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3674
f58dc01b 3675 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3676 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3677 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3678 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3679 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3680 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3681
1da177e4 3682 pf. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3683 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3684
3685 pg. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3686 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3687
3688 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
cb1aaebe 3689 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3690
3691 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3692 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3693 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3694
16290246 3695 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3696 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3697 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3698
96242116
BH
3699 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3700 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3701 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3702 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3703 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3704 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3705
1da177e4
LT
3706 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3707 { off }
3708
3709 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3710 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3711
3712 pnp_reserve_irq=
3713 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3714
3715 pnp_reserve_dma=
3716 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3717
3718 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3719 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3720
3721 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3722 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3723 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3724 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3725
4af94f39
RD
3726 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3727 Default is 21.
3728 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3729 may be specified.
3730 Format: <port>,<port>....
3731
c3cbd075
BS
3732 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3733 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3734 platform machine description specific power_save
3735 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3736 execution priority.
3737
3eb5d588
AB
3738 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3739 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3740 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3741 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3742 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3743
07fd1761
CB
3744 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3745 Format: {"off"}
3746 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3747
45807a1d
IM
3748 print-fatal-signals=
3749 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3750
3751 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3752 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3753 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3754 coredump - etc.
3755
3756 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3757 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3758
45807a1d
IM
3759 default: off.
3760
c22ab332
MG
3761 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3762 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3763 panics
3764 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3765 default: disabled
3766
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BP
3767 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3768 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3769 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3770 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3771 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3772 Default: ratelimit
3773
e84845c4
RD
3774 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3775 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3776
0cb55ad2
RD
3777 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3778 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3779 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3780
3781 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3782 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3783 instead using the legacy FADT method
3784
1da177e4 3785 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3786 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3787 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3788 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3789 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3790 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3791 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3792 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3793 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3794 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3795
1da177e4
LT
3796 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3797 before loading.
e7751617 3798 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 3799
e0c27447
JW
3800 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3801 tracking.
3802 Format: <bool>
3803
a9913044
RD
3804 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3805 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3806 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3807 per second.
a9913044
RD
3808 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3809 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3810 (0 = never).
3811 psmouse.resolution=
3812 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3813 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3814 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3815 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3816
dee28e72
MG
3817 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3818
1da177e4 3819 pt. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3820 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3821
01c9b17b
DH
3822 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3823 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3824 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3825 system calls and interrupts.
3826
3827 on - unconditionally enable
3828 off - unconditionally disable
3829 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3830 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3831
3832 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3833
3834 nopti [X86_64]
3835 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3836
dc8c8587
KS
3837 pty.legacy_count=
3838 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3839 default number.
3840
7d2c502f 3841 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3842
1da177e4
LT
3843 r128= [HW,DRM]
3844
3845 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3846 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3847
1da177e4 3848 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
e7751617 3849 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 3850
9b254366
KC
3851 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3852 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3853 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3854 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3855 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3856
011d8261
BP
3857 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3858
3859 cec_disable [X86]
3860 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3861 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3862
4102adab 3863 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
da8739f2
PM
3864 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3865 except that the string "all" can be used to
3866 specify every CPU on the system.
2d13e6ca 3867
3fbfbf7a
PM
3868 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3869 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
3870 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3871 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3872 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3873 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3874 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3875 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3876 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3877 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 3878
4102adab 3879 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3880 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3881 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3882 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3883 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3884 This improves the real-time response for the
3885 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3886 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3887 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3888 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3889
4102adab 3890 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3891 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3892 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3893
a3dc2948
PM
3894 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3895 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3896 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3897 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3898
0f41c0dd
PM
3899 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3900 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3901 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3902
37745d28
PM
3903 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3904 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3905 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3906
3907 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3908 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3909 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3910 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3911 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3912
48d07c04
SAS
3913 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
3914 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3915 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
3916 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3917 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3918
7fa27001
PM
3919 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3920 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3921 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3922 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3923 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3924
4102adab 3925 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3926 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3927 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3928 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3929 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3930 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3931 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3932
4102adab 3933 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3934 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3935 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3936 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3937 and maximum value is HZ.
3938
4102adab 3939 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3940 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3941 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3942 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3943
1a4762b9
PM
3944 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3945 Set required age in jiffies for a
3946 given grace period before RCU starts
3947 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3948 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3949 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3950 a value based on the most recent settings
3951 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3952 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3953 This calculated value may be viewed in
3954 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
3955 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3956 overwritten.
3957
21871d7e 3958 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3959 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3960 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3961 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3962 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3963 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3964 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3965 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3966 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3967 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3968
f7c612b0
PM
3969 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3970 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3971 each group, which defaults to the square root
3972 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce
3973 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3974 kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3975 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
fbce7497 3976
4102adab 3977 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3978 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3979 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3980
4102adab 3981 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3982 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3983 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3984
4102adab 3985 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3986 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3987 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3988
4102adab 3989 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3990 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3991 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3992 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3993 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3994
e3c50dfb
PM
3995 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3996 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3997 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3998 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3999 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4000 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4001
2ccaff10
PM
4002 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4003 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4004 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4005 why a new grace period has not yet started.
4006
881ed593
PM
4007 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
4008 Measure performance of asynchronous
4009 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4010
4011 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4012 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4013 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
4014 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4015 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4016 previously posted callbacks to drain.
4017
bdea9e34
PM
4018 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
4019 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4020 grace-period primitives.
4021
df37e66b
PM
4022 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
4023 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
4024 this parameter is to delay the start of the
4025 test until boot completes in order to avoid
4026 interference.
4027
e6e78b00
JFG
4028 rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4029 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4030
4031 rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4032 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4033
4034 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4035 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4036
4037 rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4038 Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number
4039 of allocations and frees.
4040
bdea9e34
PM
4041 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
4042 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4043 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4044 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4045 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4046 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4047 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4048 a single reader.
4049
4050 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
4051 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
4052 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
4053 N, where N is the number of CPUs
4054
820687a7
PM
4055 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
4056 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4057
bdea9e34
PM
4058 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
4059 Shut the system down after performance tests
4060 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
4061 testing.
4062
bdea9e34
PM
4063 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
4064 Enable additional printk() statements.
4065
820687a7
PM
4066 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4067 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4068 in microseconds. The default of zero says
4069 no holdoff.
4070
4102adab 4071 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4072 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4073 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 4074
4102adab 4075 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4076 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4077 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 4078
4102adab 4079 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4080 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4081 in seconds.
4082
ed8f6fb2
PM
4083 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4084 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4085 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4086
4087 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4088 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4089 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4090
4091 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4092 Number of seconds to wait between successive
4093 forward-progress tests.
4094
4095 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4096 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4097 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4098 testing.
4099
21b05de4
PM
4100 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4101 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4102 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 4103
4102adab 4104 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 4105 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
4106
4107 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
4108 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4109 update-side primitives, if available.
4110
4111 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4112 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4113 update-side primitives, if available. If all
4114 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4115 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4116 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4117 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 4118
4102adab 4119 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4120 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4121
4102adab 4122 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4123 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
4124 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4125 test, hence the "fake".
4126
4102adab 4127 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
4128 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
4129 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
4130 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4131 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
4132 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 4133
4102adab
PM
4134 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4135 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4136
4137 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4138 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4139
4102adab 4140 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
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PM
4141 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4142 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 4143
4102adab 4144 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4145 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4146 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4147 during the rcutorture test.
4148
4102adab 4149 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4150 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4151 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4152
4102adab 4153 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4154 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4155 warnings, zero to disable.
4156
4102adab 4157 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4158 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4159
2b1516e5
PM
4160 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4161 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4162
4102adab 4163 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4164 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4165
4102adab 4166 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4167 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4168 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4169 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4170 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4171
4102adab 4172 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4173 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4174 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4175 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4176
4102adab 4177 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4178 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4179
4102adab 4180 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4181 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4182
4102adab 4183 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4184 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4185 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4186
4102adab 4187 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4188 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4189
4102adab 4190 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4191 Enable additional printk() statements.
4192
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4193 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4194 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4195 stall warning.
4196
5a9be7c6
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4197 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4198 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4199
4200 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4201 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4202
4102adab
PM
4203 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4204 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4205 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4206 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4207 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4208 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4209 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4210
5a9be7c6
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4211 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4212 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4213 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4214 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4215 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4216 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4217 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4218 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4219 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4220
3e42ec1a
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4221 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4222 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4223 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4224 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4225 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4226
52db30ab
PM
4227 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4228 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4229 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4230 to zero.
4231
74860fee
PK
4232 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4233 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4234
ffdfc409
OJ
4235 rdinit= [KNL]
4236 Format: <full_path>
4237 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4238 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4239
c49a0a80
TL
4240 rdrand= [X86]
4241 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4242 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4243 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4244 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4245 path).
4246
1d9807fc
TL
4247 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4248 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4249 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4250 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4251 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4252 rdt=cmt,!mba
4253
1b3a5d02
RH
4254 reboot= [KNL]
4255 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4256 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4257 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4258 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4259 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4260 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4261 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4262 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4263 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4264 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4265 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4266 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4267
46b6d94e
PJ
4268 relax_domain_level=
4269 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
da82c92f 4270 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
46b6d94e 4271
ffd2e8df
BH
4272 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4273 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4274 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4275 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4276 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 4277
cd4f0ef7 4278 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
4279 Format: nn[KMG]
4280 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4281 address space.
4282
9ea77bdb
PA
4283 reservelow= [X86]
4284 Format: nn[K]
4285 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4286 the bottom of the address space.
4287
7e96287d
VG
4288 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4289 during initialization.
4290
a9913044
RD
4291 resume= [SWSUSP]
4292 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4293 Format:
4294 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4295
ecbd0da1
RW
4296 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4297 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4298 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4299 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
151f4e2b 4300 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
ecbd0da1 4301
f126f733
BS
4302 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4303 read the resume files
4304
6f8d7022
BS
4305 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4306 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4307 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4308
f996fc96
BS
4309 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4310 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4311 present during boot.
4312 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4313 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4314 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4315 (that will set all pages holding image data
4316 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4317
0a7b35cb
MN
4318 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4319
0efbb786
AC
4320 rfkill.default_state=
4321 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4322 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4323 1 Unblocked.
4324
4325 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4326 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4327 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4328 blocked and the previous configuration.
4329 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4330 blocked and everything unblocked.
4331
1da177e4
LT
4332 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4333 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4334
e16fd002
GA
4335 ring3mwait=disable
4336 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4337 CPUs.
4338
1da177e4
LT
4339 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4340
d2aa1aca
KC
4341 rodata= [KNL]
4342 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4343 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4344
605df8af
HS
4345 rockchip.usb_uart
4346 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4347 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4348 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4349 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4350
1da177e4 4351 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4352 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4353
4354 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4355 mount the root filesystem
4356
4357 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4358
4359 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4360
cc1ed754
PO
4361 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4362 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4363 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4364
5c71d618
RT
4365 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4366 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4367 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4368 managed by CMA.
4369
1da177e4
LT
4370 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4371
4372 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4373
c60d1ae4
GS
4374 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4375 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4376 strict
4377 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4378 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4379 which is faster.
4380
1da177e4
LT
4381 sa1100ir [NET]
4382 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4383
1da177e4 4384 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4385
f6630114
MT
4386 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4387
cb251765
MG
4388 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4389 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4390 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4391 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4392
5307c955
MG
4393 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4394 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4395 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4396 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4397 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4398 1 -- enable.
4399 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4400 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4401
89a9684e
KC
4402 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4403 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4404 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
4405
4406 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4407 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4408 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4409 0 -- disable.
4410 1 -- enable.
d41415eb 4411 Default value is 1.
1da177e4 4412
c1c124e9
JJ
4413 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4414 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4415 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4416 0 -- disable.
4417 1 -- enable.
4418 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4419
cd4f0ef7 4420 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4421
1da177e4
LT
4422 shapers= [NET]
4423 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4424
1da177e4
LT
4425 simeth= [IA-64]
4426 simscsi=
a9913044 4427
1da177e4
LT
4428 slram= [HW,MTD]
4429
423c929c
JK
4430 slab_nomerge [MM]
4431 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4432 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4433 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4434 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4435 layout control by attackers can usually be
4436 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4437 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4438 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4439 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4440 own.
ad56b738 4441 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4442
3df1cccd
DR
4443 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4444 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4445 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4446 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4447 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4448
f0630fff
CL
4449 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4450 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4451 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4452 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4453 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4454 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4455 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4456
1663f26d
TH
4457 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4458 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4459 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4460 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4461 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4462 directories and files being created under
4463 /sys/kernel/slub.
4464
c1aee215 4465 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4466 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4467 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4468 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4469 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4470
4471 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4472 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4473 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4474 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4475 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4476 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4477 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4478 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4479
4480 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4481 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4482 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4483 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4484
4485 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4486 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4487 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4488
1da177e4
LT
4489 smart2= [HW]
4490 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4491
d0d4f69b
BH
4492 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4493 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4494 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4495 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4496 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4497 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4498 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4499 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4500 1: Fast pin select (default)
4501 2: ATC IRMode
4502
52c48c51
SS
4503 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4504 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4505 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4506 actual hardware limit.
4507 Format: <integer>
4508 Default: -1 (no limit)
4509
9c44bc03
IM
4510 softlockup_panic=
4511 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4512 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4513
3ce62385 4514 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
0a07bef6
GP
4515 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
4516 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
4517 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
4518 respective build-time switch to that functionality.
3ce62385 4519
ed235875
AT
4520 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4521 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4522 backtraces on all cpus.
4523 Format: <integer>
4524
1da177e4 4525 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
9e1cbede 4526 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
1da177e4 4527
da285121
DW
4528 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4529 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4530 The default operation protects the kernel from
4531 user space attacks.
da285121 4532
fa1202ef
TG
4533 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4534 spectre_v2_user=on
4535 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4536 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4537 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4538 vulnerable
4539
4540 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4541 mitigation method at run time according to the
4542 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4543 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4544 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4545
fa1202ef
TG
4546 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4547 against user space to user space task attacks.
4548
4549 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4550 the user space protections.
4551
da285121
DW
4552 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4553
4554 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4555 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4556 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4557
4558 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4559 spectre_v2=auto.
4560
fa1202ef
TG
4561 spectre_v2_user=
4562 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4563 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4564 user space tasks
4565
4566 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4567 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4568
4569 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4570 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4571
7cc765a6
TG
4572 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4573 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4574 per thread. The mitigation control state
4575 is inherited on fork.
4576
55a97402
TG
4577 prctl,ibpb
4578 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4579 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4580 always when switching between different user
4581 space processes.
4582
6b3e64c2
TG
4583 seccomp
4584 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4585 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4586 they explicitly opt out.
4587
55a97402
TG
4588 seccomp,ibpb
4589 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4590 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4591 always when switching between different
4592 user space processes.
4593
fa1202ef
TG
4594 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4595 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
4596
4597 Default mitigation:
4598 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
4599
4600 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4601 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4602
24f7fc83
KRW
4603 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4604 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4605 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4606
4607 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4608 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4609 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4610 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4611 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4612 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4613 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4614 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4615
4616 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4617 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4618 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4619 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4620
4621 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4622 Bypass optimization is used.
4623
6b4c1360
ME
4624 On x86 the options are:
4625
f21b53b2
KC
4626 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4627 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4628 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4629 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4630 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4631 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4632 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4633 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4634 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4635 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4636 for a process by default. The state of the control
4637 is inherited on fork.
4638 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4639 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4640
f21b53b2
KC
4641 Default mitigations:
4642 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4643
6b4c1360
ME
4644 On powerpc the options are:
4645
4646 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4647 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4648 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4649 exit.
4650 off - No action.
4651
4652 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4653 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4654
1da177e4
LT
4655 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4656 spia_fio_base=
4657 spia_pedr=
4658 spia_peddr=
4659
c350c008
PM
4660 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4661 Specifies how frequently to check for
4662 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4663 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4664 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4665 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4666 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4667 are ignored.
4668
22607d66
PM
4669 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4670 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4671 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4672 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4673 grace period will be considered for automatic
4674 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4675 expediting.
4676
a43ae4df
MZ
4677 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4678 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4679
4680 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4681 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4682 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4683 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4684
4685 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4686 for both kernel and userspace
4687 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4688 for both kernel and userspace
4689 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4690 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4691 to allow userspace to register its
4692 interest in being mitigated too.
4693
1be7107f
HD
4694 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4695 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4696 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4697 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4698 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4699 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4700
f38f1d2a
SR
4701 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4702 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4703
762e1207
SR
4704 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4705 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4706 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4707 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4708 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4709 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4710 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4711
1da177e4
LT
4712 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4713 Format: <num>
4714 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4715 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4716 as the initial boot-console.
4717 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4718
4719 sti_font= [HW]
4720 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4721
4722 stifb= [HW]
4723 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4724
cbf11071
TM
4725 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4726 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4727 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4728 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4729 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4730 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4731 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4732 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4733 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4734 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4735 maximum port values.
4736
ff3ac5c3
TM
4737 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4738 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4739 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4740 process in parallel from a single connection.
4741 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4742
42a7fc4a
GB
4743 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4744 [NFS]
4745 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4746 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4747 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4748 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4749 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4750 NFS server is running.
4751
4752 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4753 automatically using heuristics
4754 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4755 percpu one pool for each CPU
4756 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4757 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4758
cbf11071
TM
4759 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4760 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4761 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4762 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4763 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4764 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4765 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4766 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4767
1d4a9c17
BN
4768 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4769 [SUSPEND]
4770 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4771 mode before resuming the system (see
4772 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4773 is set. Default value is 5.
4774
6a9c930b
RP
4775 svm= [PPC]
4776 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4777 This parameter controls use of the Protected
4778 Execution Facility on pSeries.
4779
07555ac1 4780 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4781 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4782 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
da82c92f 4783 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
a42c390c 4784
91fec0f5 4785 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4786 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4787 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4788 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4789 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4790 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4791
1da177e4
LT
4792 switches= [HW,M68k]
4793
e52eec13
AK
4794 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4795 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4796 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4797 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4798 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4799 in older udev will not work anymore.
4800 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4801 the kernel configuration.
4802
5d6f647f
IM
4803 sysrq_always_enabled
4804 [KNL]
4805 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4806 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4807 Useful for debugging.
4808
747029a5
FF
4809 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4810 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4811 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4812 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4813 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4814 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4815
1da177e4
LT
4816 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4817
acc82342 4818 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4819 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4820 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4821 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4822 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4823 The system is woken from this state using a
4824 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4825
1da177e4
LT
4826 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4827 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4828
f8707ec9
LB
4829 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4830 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4831 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4832
c52a7419
LB
4833 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4834 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4835 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4836
f5487145
LB
4837 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4838 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4839 critical and hot trip points.
4840
72b33ef8
LB
4841 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4842 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4843
a70cdc52
LB
4844 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4845 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4846 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4847 value
a70cdc52 4848
730ff34d
LB
4849 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4850 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4851 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4852 0: no polling (default)
4853
8d32a307
TG
4854 threadirqs [KNL]
4855 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4856 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4857
2b1a61f0
HC
4858 topology= [S390]
4859 Format: {off | on}
4860 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4861 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4862 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4863 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4864 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4865
2d73bae1
NA
4866 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4867 Format: {off}
4868 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4869 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4870 LPAR.
4871
1da177e4
LT
4872 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4873
225a9be2
RA
4874 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4875 Format: integer pcr id
4876 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4877 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4878 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4879 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4880 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4881 are saved.
4882
9d612bef 4883 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4884 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4885
020e5f85
LZ
4886 trace_event=[event-list]
4887 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4888 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4889 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4890 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4891
7bcfaf54
SR
4892 trace_options=[option-list]
4893 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4894 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4895 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4896 to echo the option name into
4897
4898 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4899
4900 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4901 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4902
4903 trace_options=stacktrace
4904
5fb94e9c 4905 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4906 section.
4907
0daa2302
SRRH
4908 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4909 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4910 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4911 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4912 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4913 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4914
4915 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4916 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4917 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4918 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4919
4920 ** CAUTION **
4921
4922 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4923 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4924 the system to live lock.
4925
de7edd31
SRRH
4926 traceoff_on_warning
4927 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4928 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4929 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4930 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4931
4932 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4933 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4934 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4935
4936 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4937 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4938
fcf4d821
JK
4939 transparent_hugepage=
4940 [KNL]
4941 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4942 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4943 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4944 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4945 for more details.
fcf4d821 4946
d3b8f889 4947 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4948 Format: <string>
4949 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889 4950 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4951 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4952 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4953 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4954 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4955 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4956 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4957 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4958 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4959 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4960 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
4961 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4962 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4963 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4964 acceptable).
395628ef 4965
95c5824f
PG
4966 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4967 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4968 support TSX control.
4969
4970 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4971
4972 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4973 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4974 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4975 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4976 so there may be unknown security risks associated
4977 with leaving it enabled.
4978
4979 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4980 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4981 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4982 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4983 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4984 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4985 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4986
7531a359
PG
4987 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4988 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4989
95c5824f
PG
4990 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4991
4992 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4993 for more details.
4994
a7a248c5
PG
4995 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
4996 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
4997
4998 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
4999 certain CPUs that support Transactional
5000 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5001 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5002 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5003 conditions.
5004
5005 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5006 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5007 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5008 access.
5009
5010 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
5011 options are:
5012
5013 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5014 if TSX is enabled.
5015
5016 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5017 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5018 is not disabled because CPU is not
5019 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5020 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5021
64870ed1
WL
5022 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5023 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5024 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5025 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5026
a7a248c5
PG
5027 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5028 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
5029 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5030 required and doesn't provide any additional
5031 mitigation.
5032
5033 For details see:
5034 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5035
a9913044
RD
5036 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
5037 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5038 Format:
5039 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 5040 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 5041
b6935f8c 5042 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 5043 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
5044 console driver takes over, this boot options might
5045 help "seeing" what's going on.
5046
f86dcc5a
ED
5047 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5048 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5049
5f8364b7
AS
5050 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5051 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5052 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5053 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5054 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5055 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5056 reported either.
5057
e3a61b0a 5058 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 5059 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 5060
c4fc2342
CDH
5061 usbcore.authorized_default=
5062 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
5063 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
5064 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5065 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 5066
b5e795f8
AS
5067 usbcore.autosuspend=
5068 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5069 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
5070 is the time required before an idle device will be
5071 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 5072 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 5073
fd7c519d
JK
5074 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5075 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5076
0290cc9f
AS
5077 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5078 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5079 (default = 65536).
5080
fd7c519d
JK
5081 usbcore.blinkenlights=
5082 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5083
5084 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5085 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
bd0e6c96
ZT
5086 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
5087 (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 5088
3f5eb8d5
AS
5089 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5090 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5091 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5092
fd7c519d
JK
5093 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5094 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5095 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5096
5097 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5098 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 5099 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
5100 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5101
40d58148
ON
5102 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5103
027bd6ca
KHF
5104 usbcore.quirks=
5105 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5106 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5107 commas. Each entry has the form
5108 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5109 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5110 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5111 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5112 the following meanings:
5113 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5114 descriptors must not be fetched using
5115 a 255-byte read);
5116 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5117 correctly so reset it instead);
5118 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5119 Set-Interface requests);
5120 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5121 handle its Configuration or Interface
5122 strings);
5123 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5124 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5125 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5126 more interface descriptions than the
5127 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5128 talking to these interfaces);
5129 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5130 during initialization, after we read
5131 the device descriptor);
5132 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5133 high speed and super speed interrupt
5134 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5135 require the interval in microframes (1
5136 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5137 calculated as interval = 2 ^
5138 (bInterval-1).
5139 Devices with this quirk report their
5140 bInterval as the result of this
5141 calculation instead of the exponent
5142 variable used in the calculation);
5143 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5144 handle device_qualifier descriptor
5145 requests);
5146 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5147 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5148 remote wakeup capability);
5149 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5150 Power Management);
5151 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5152 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
5153 frames instead of the USB 2.0
5154 calculation);
5155 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5156 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
5157 prevent spurious wakeup);
5158 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5159 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
5160 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5161 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
5162 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5163
1da177e4
LT
5164 usbhid.mousepoll=
5165 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 5166
933bfe4d
TJ
5167 usbhid.jspoll=
5168 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5169
2ddc8e2d
FA
5170 usbhid.kbpoll=
5171 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5172
d4f373e5
AS
5173 usb-storage.delay_use=
5174 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 5175 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
5176
5177 usb-storage.quirks=
5178 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5179 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
5180 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
5181 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5182 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5183 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5184 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46 5185 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
65cc8bf9 5186 of sense data, not on uas);
a0bb1081 5187 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
65cc8bf9 5188 bytes of sense data, not on uas);
d4f373e5
AS
5189 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5190 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d 5191 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
65cc8bf9 5192 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5116901d
KR
5193 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5194 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
5195 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5196 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
5197 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5198 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
5199 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5200 reported device capacity by one
5201 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
5202 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5203 device);
13630746
HG
5204 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5205 command, uas only);
d4f373e5 5206 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
65cc8bf9 5207 unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
d4f373e5 5208 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
65cc8bf9
ON
5209 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5210 not on uas);
21c13a4f 5211 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
65cc8bf9 5212 initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
c838ea46 5213 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
65cc8bf9 5214 reported by the device, not on uas);
eaa05dfc 5215 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
65cc8bf9 5216 by default, not on uas);
d4f373e5 5217 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
65cc8bf9 5218 bogus residue values, not on uas);
d4f373e5
AS
5219 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5220 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
5221 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5222 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 5223 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
5224 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5225 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8 5226 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
65cc8bf9
ON
5227 even if the device claims no cache,
5228 not on uas)
d4f373e5
AS
5229 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5230
ac1667db
SB
5231 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5232 Format: <int>
5233 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5234 1 - undefined instruction events
5235 2 - system calls
5236 4 - invalid data aborts
5237 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5238 16 - SIGBUS faults
5239 Example: user_debug=31
5240
14315592
IC
5241 userpte=
5242 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5243
5244 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5245 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5246 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5247
6cececfc 5248 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
5249 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5250
5251 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
5252 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5253
b0b49f26
AL
5254 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5255 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5256 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5257
5258 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5259 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5260 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5261
5262 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5263 alias for vdso32=0.
5264
5265 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5266 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 5267
d080d397
YI
5268 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5269 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5270
1da177e4 5271 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
ab42b818 5272 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
1da177e4 5273
3afe6dab
AL
5274 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5275 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5276 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5277 level and then send out the event to user space through
5278 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5279 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5280 brightness level.
2843768b 5281 default: 1
3afe6dab 5282
81a054ce
PM
5283 virtio_mmio.device=
5284 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5285
5286 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5287 where:
5288 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5289 like K, M and G)
5290 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5291 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5292 request_irq())
5293 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5294 example:
5295 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5296
5297 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5298
cd4f0ef7 5299 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
cb1aaebe 5300 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
4f4cfa6c 5301 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
1da177e4
LT
5302 Use vga=ask for menu.
5303 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5304 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5305
f682a97a
AD
5306 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5307 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5308 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5309 All options are enabled by default, and this
5310 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5311 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5312 debugging features.
5313
5314 Available options are:
5315 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5316 - Disable all of the above options
5317
a9913044 5318 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
5319 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5320 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5321 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5322 mapped kernel RAM.
5323
3f429842
HC
5324 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5325 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5326 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5327
585c3047
PO
5328 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5329 Format: <command>
1da177e4 5330
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5331 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5332 Format: <command>
5333
5334 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5335 Format: <command>
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5337 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5338 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5339 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5340 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5341 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5342 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5343 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5344
2e57ae05 5345 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
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5346 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5347 page is readable.
3ae36655 5348
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5349 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5350 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5351 page is not readable.
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5352
5353 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5354 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5355 might break your system.
5356
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5357 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5358 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5359 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5360
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CL
5361 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5362 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5363 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5364 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5365
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5366 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5367 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5368 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5369 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5370 ranging from 0-255.
5371
5372 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5373 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5374 Change the default green palette of the console.
5375 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5376 ranging from 0-255.
5377
5378 vt.default_red= [VT]
5379 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5380 Change the default red palette of the console.
5381 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5382 ranging from 0-255.
5383
5384 vt.default_utf8=
5385 [VT]
5386 Format=<0|1>
5387 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5388 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5389 newly opened terminals.
5390
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5391 vt.global_cursor_default=
5392 [VT]
5393 Format=<-1|0|1>
5394 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5395 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5396 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5397 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5398 cursors, 1 will display them.
5399
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5400 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5401 Default: 2 = green.
5402
5403 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5404 Default: 3 = cyan.
5405
4724ba57 5406 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
cc2a2d19 5407 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
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5408 or other driver-specific files in the
5409 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
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5411 watchdog_thresh=
5412 [KNL]
5413 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5414 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5415 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5416 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5417 seconds.
5418
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5419 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5420 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5421 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5422 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5423 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5424 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5425 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5426 corresponding sysfs file.
5427
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5428 workqueue.disable_numa
5429 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5430 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5431 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5432 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5433 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5434 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5435 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5436
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5437 workqueue.power_efficient
5438 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5439 they show better performance thanks to cache
5440 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5441 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5442
5443 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5444 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5445 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5446 power usage at the cost of small performance
5447 overhead.
5448
5449 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5450 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5451
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5452 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5453 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5454 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5455 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5456 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5457 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5458 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5459 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5460 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5461 impacted.
5462
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5463 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5464 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5465 supporting x2apic.
5466
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KS
5467 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5468 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
5469 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5470 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5471 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5472
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JG
5473 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5474 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5475 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5476 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5477 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5478 domains.
5479
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SS
5480 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5481 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5482 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5483 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5484 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5485 nics -- unplug network devices
5486 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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IC
5487 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5488 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5489 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5490 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5491
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BO
5492 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN]
5493 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5494 panic() code such as dumping handler.
5495
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KRW
5496 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5497 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5498 optimizations.
5499
8d693b91
KRW
5500 xen_nopv [X86]
5501 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5502 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
b39b0497
ZD
5503 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5504 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8d693b91 5505
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MMG
5506 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5507 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5508 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5509 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5510 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5511
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RT
5512 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5513 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5514 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5515 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5516 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5517 more timer interrupts.
5518
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5519 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5520 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5521 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5522 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5523
1da177e4 5524 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
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5525 Format:
5526 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
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MN
5528 xive= [PPC]
5529 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5530 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5531 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5532
5533 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5534 controller on both pseries and powernv
5535 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5536
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LT
5537 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5538 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5539 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5540 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
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GR
5541
5542 xmon [PPC]
5543 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5544 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5545 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5546 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5547 debugger is called from setup_arch().
5548 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5549 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5550 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5551 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5552 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5553 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5554 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5555 can be written using xmon commands.
5556 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5557 memory, and other data can't be written using
5558 xmon commands.
5559 off xmon is disabled.