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1 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
5implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
6and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
7punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
8manner), and with descriptions where known.
9
10The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
11if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
12parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
13environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
14Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
15
16Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
17line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
18
19 (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
21
22Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
23specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
24kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
25when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
26loadable modules too.
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28Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
29 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
30can also be entered as
31 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
32
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33Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
34 param="spaces in here"
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36This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
37"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
38module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
39reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
40parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
41"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
42
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43The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
44enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
45the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
46parameter is applicable:
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47
48 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
c99c108a 49 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
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50 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
51 APIC APIC support is enabled.
52 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
16290246 53 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
e7ba176b 54 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 55 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
0ae53640 56 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
1e435256 57 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
5c71d618 58 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
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59 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
60 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
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61 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
62 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
63 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
7102ebcd 64 EVM Extended Verification Module
1da177e4 65 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
16290246 66 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
2521f2c2 67 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
1da177e4 68 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
1da177e4 69 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
6146f0d5 70 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 71 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
41e2e8be 72 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
b0f83b28 73 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
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74 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
75 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
76 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
84c08fd6 77 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
fef07aae 78 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
11ef697b 79 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
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80 LP Printer support is enabled.
81 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
82 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
83 These options have more detailed description inside of
84 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
1da177e4 85 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
16290246 86 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 87 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
309e57df 88 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
c8facbb6 89 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
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90 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
91 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
92 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
93 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
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94 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
95 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
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96 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
97 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
7f785763 98 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
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99 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
100 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
101 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
102 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
103 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
104 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
105 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
106 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
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107 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
108 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
20510f2f 109 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
1da177e4 110 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
c1c124e9 111 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
1da177e4 112 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
e523d93c 113 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
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114 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
115 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
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116 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
117 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
225a9be2 118 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
1da177e4 119 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
d4f373e5 120 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
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121 USB USB support is enabled.
122 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
123 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
81a054ce 124 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
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125 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
126 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
127 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
128 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
cd4f0ef7 129 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
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130 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
131 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
71cced6e 132 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
16290246 133 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
c1c5413a 134 XEN Xen support is enabled
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135
136In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
137
138 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
139 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
140 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
141
142Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
143loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
144Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
954a8b81 145need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
1da177e4 146
5558870b 147There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
71cced6e 148See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
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150Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
151a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
152be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
153it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
154running once the system is up.
155
9c4751fd 156The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
157complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
158a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
159and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
160./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
161
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162Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
163parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
164multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
165bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
166
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b10d79f7 168 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 169 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
68ca4069 170 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt }
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171 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
172 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
173 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 174 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 175 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 176 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 177 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
b10d79f7 178 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off" or "acpi=force" are available
1da177e4 179
395cf969 180 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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182 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
183 Format: <int>
184 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
185 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 186 default: 0
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188 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
189 acpi_backlight=vendor
190 acpi_backlight=video
191 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
192 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
193 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
194
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195 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
196 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
197 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
198 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
199 This option is useful for developers to identify the
200 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
201 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
202
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203 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
204 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 205 Format: <int>
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206 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
207 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
208 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
209 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
210 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
211 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
212 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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213 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
214 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
215 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 216
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217 Enable processor driver info messages:
218 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
219 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
220 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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221 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
222 object while interpreting AML:
223 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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224 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
225 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
226
227 Some values produce so much output that the system is
228 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
229 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 230
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231 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
232 { strict | lax | no }
233 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
234 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
235 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
236 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
237 can interfere with legacy drivers.
238 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
239 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
240 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
241 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
242 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
243 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
244 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
245 no further checks are performed.
246
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247 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
248 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
249 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
250 size limitation.
251
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252 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
253 ACPI will balance active IRQs
254 default in APIC mode
255
256 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
257 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
258 default in PIC mode
259
260 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
261 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
262
263 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
264 use by PCI
265 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
266
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267 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
268 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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269 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
270 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
271 auto-serialization feature.
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272 This feature is enabled by default.
273 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 274
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275 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
276 kernels.
277
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278 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
279 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
280 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
281 installed automatically and they will appear under
282 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
283 This option turns off this feature.
284 Note that specifying this option does not affect
285 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
286 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 287
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288 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
289 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
290 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
291 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 292
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293 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
294 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
295
296 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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297 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
298 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 299 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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300 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
301 strings
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302 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
303
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304 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
305 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
306 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
307 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
308 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
309 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
310 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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311 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
312 care about the state of the feature group strings which
313 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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314 Examples:
315 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
316 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
317 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
318
319 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
320 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
321 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
322 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
323 multiple times through kernel command line is also
324 meaningless.
325 Examples:
326 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
327 FALSE.
328
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329 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
330 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
331 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
332 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
333 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
334 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
335 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
336 there are quirks related to this string. This command
337 is useful when one want to control the state of the
338 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
339 the OSPM features.
340 Examples:
341 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
342 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
343 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
344 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
345 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
346 equivalent to
347 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
348 and
349 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
350 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
351
6cececfc 352 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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353 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
354 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
355 and always returns good values.
356
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357 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
358 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
359
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360 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
361 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
362 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
363
364 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
365 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
c3b0795c 366 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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367 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
368 s3_bios and s3_mode.
369 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
370 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
371 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
372 used during resume from hibernation.
373 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
374 control method, with respect to putting devices into
375 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
376 of _PTS is used by default).
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377 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
378 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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379 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
380 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
381 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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382
383 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
384 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
385 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
386
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387 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
388 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
389
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390 agp= [AGP]
391 { off | try_unsupported }
392 off: disable AGP support
393 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
394 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
395
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396 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
397 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
398
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399 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
400 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
401 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
402 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
403
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404 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
405 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
406 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
407 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
408 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
409 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
410 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
411
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412 32: only for 32-bit processes
413 64: only for 64-bit processes
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414 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
415 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
416
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417 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
418 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
419 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
420 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
421 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
422 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
423
89e0b9a3 424 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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425 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
426 Possible values are:
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427 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
428 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
429 flushed before they will be reused, which
430 is a lot of faster
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431 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
432 the system
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433 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
434 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
435 allowed anymore to lift isolation
436 requirements as needed. This option
437 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 438
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439 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
440 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
441 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
442 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
443 IOMMU initialization.
444
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445 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
446 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
447 Format: <a>,<b>
395cf969 448 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
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449
450 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
451 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
452 connected to one of 16 gameports
453 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
454
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455 apc= [HW,SPARC]
456 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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457 Format: noidle
458 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
459 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
460 APC and your system crashes randomly.
461
ca1eda2d 462 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 463 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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464 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
465 Change the amount of debugging information output
466 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 467
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468 autoconf= [IPV6]
469 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
470
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471 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
472 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
473 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
474 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
475 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
476 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
477 apic=verbose is specified.
478 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
479
1da177e4 480 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 481 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 482
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483 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
484 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
485
486 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
487
488 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
489
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490 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
491 EzKey and similar keyboards
492
493 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
494
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495 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
496 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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497
498 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
499 keyboards
500
501 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
502 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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503
504 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
505 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 506
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507 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
508 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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509 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
510 until the next reboot
511 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
512 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
513 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
514 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
515 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
516 auditd.
a106fb0c 517 Default: unset
f3411cb2 518
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519 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
520 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
521 Default: 64
522
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523 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
524 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 525
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526 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
527 Format: <io>,<mode>
528 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
529
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530 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
531 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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532 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
533 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
534
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535 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
536 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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537 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
538 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
539
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540 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
541 embedded devices based on command line input.
542 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
543
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544 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
545 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
546 no delay (0).
547 Format: integer
548
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549 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
550
1da177e4 551 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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552 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
553 kernel args too.
1da177e4 554 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
395cf969 555 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 556
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557 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
558 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
559 at a time.
560
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561 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
562
cd4f0ef7 563 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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564 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
565 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
566 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
567 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
568 This option provides an override for these situations.
569
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570 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
571 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
572 trust validation.
32c4741c 573 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 574
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575 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
576 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
577 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
578 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
579 others).
580
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581 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
582 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 583
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584 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
585 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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586 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
587 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
588 a single hierarchy
589 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
590 subsystem
591 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
592 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
593 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 594
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595 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
596 Format: { "0" | "1" }
597 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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598 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
599 any implied execute protection).
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600 1 -- check protection requested by application.
601 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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602 Value can be changed at runtime via
603 /selinux/checkreqprot.
604
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605 cio_ignore= [S390]
606 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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607 clk_ignore_unused
608 [CLK]
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609 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
610 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
611 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
612 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
613 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
614 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
615 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
616 platform with proper driver support. For more
617 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
661ca0da 618
cd4f0ef7 619 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 620 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 621 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 622 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 623 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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624 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
625
592913ec 626 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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627 Format: <string>
628 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
629 with the name specified.
630 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
631 the platform:
632 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
633 [ACPI] acpi_pm
634 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
635 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
636 [AVR32] avr32
9863c90f 637 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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638 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
639 [MIPS] MIPS
640 [PARISC] cr16
641 [S390] tod
642 [SH] SuperH
643 [SPARC64] tick
644 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
645
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646 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
647 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
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648 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
649 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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650 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
651 ones should be.
652 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
653 or using the feature without checking anything
654 will still see it. This just prevents it from
655 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
656 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
657 some critical bits.
658
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659 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
660 [ARM,X86,KNL]
661 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
662 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
663 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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664 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
665 altogether. For more information, see
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666 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
667
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668 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
669 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
670 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
671 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
672 a hypervisor.
673 Default: yes
674
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675 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
676 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 677 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 678
6cececfc 679 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 680 in an oops report.
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681 Range: 0 - 8192
682 Default: 64
683
1da177e4 684 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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685 Format:
686 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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687
688 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
689 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
690
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691 com90xx= [HW,NET]
692 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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693 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
694
695 condev= [HW,S390] console device
696 conmode=
a9913044 697
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698 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
699
700 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
701
702 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 703 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 704 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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705 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
706 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
707 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
708 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
709
710 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
711 information. See
712 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
713 alternative.
1da177e4 714
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715 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
716 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
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717 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
718 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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719 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
720 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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721 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
722 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
723 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
724 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32], <addr> is assumed to be
725 equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in the
726 same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
727 the h/w is not re-initialized.
728
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729 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
730 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 731
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732 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
733 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
734 console=brl,ttyS0
735 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
736
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737 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
738 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
739 disables the blank timer.
740
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741 coredump_filter=
742 [KNL] Change the default value for
743 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
744 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
745
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746 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
747 disable the cpuidle sub-system
748
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749 cpu_init_udelay=N
750 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
751 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
752 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
753 Default: 10000
754
1da177e4 755 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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756 Format:
757 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 758
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759 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
760 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
761 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
762 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
763 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
764 is selected automatically. Check
765 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
dc009d92 766
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767 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
768 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
769 in the running system. The syntax of range is
770 start-[end] where start and end are both
771 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 772 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 773
adbc742b 774 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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775 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
776 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
777 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
778 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
779 available.
780 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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781 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
782 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
783 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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784 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
785 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
786 requires at least 64M+32K low memory. Kernel would
787 try to allocate 72M below 4G automatically.
788 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
789 for second kernel instead.
790 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 791 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 792 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 793
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794 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
795 Format: <dma>
796
797 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
798 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 800 dasd= [HW,NET]
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801 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
802
803 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
804 (one device per port)
805 Format: <port#>,<type>
806 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
807
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808 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
809 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
29e36c9f 810 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 811
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812 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
813
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814 debug_locks_verbose=
815 [KNL] verbose self-tests
816 Format=<0|1>
817 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
818 self-tests.
819 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
820 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
821 only useful to kernel developers.
822
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823 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
824
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825 no_debug_objects
826 [KNL] Disable object debugging
827
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828 debug_guardpage_minorder=
829 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
830 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
831 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
832 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
833 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
834 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
835 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
836 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
837 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
838 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
839 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
840 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
841 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
842 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
843 bypassed) which are not detectable by
844 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
845 tracking down these problems.
846
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847 debug_pagealloc=
848 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
849 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
850 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
851 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
852 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
853 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
854 on: enable the feature
855
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856 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
857
2d27a966 858 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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859 Format: <area>[,<node>]
860 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
861
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862 default_hugepagesz=
863 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
864 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
865 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
866 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
867 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
868 if not specified.
55ff9780 869
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870 dhash_entries= [KNL]
871 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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873 disable= [IPV6]
874 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
875
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876 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
877 Format: <int>
878 The number of initial APIC ID for the
879 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
880 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
881 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
882 causing system reset or hang due to sending
883 INIT from AP to BSP.
884
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885 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
886 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
887 to workaround buggy firmware.
888
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889 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
890 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
891
95ffa243 892 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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893 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
894 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 895 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 896
093af8d7 897 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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898 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
899 memory out of your available memory pool based on
900 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
901 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
902
6cececfc 903 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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904 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
905 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
906
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907 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
908 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
909
910 dma_debug_entries=<number>
911 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
912 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
913 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
914 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
915 architectural default is too low.
916
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917 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
918 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
919 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
920 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
921 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
922 driver later using sysfs.
923
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924 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>
925 Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may
926 send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter
927 allows to specify an EDID data set in the
928 /lib/firmware directory that is used instead.
929 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
930 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
931 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
932 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
933 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
934 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
935 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
936 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
937 name.
938
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939 dscc4.setup= [NET]
940
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941 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
942 module.dyndbg[="val"]
943 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
944 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
945
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946 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
947 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
948 information about the feature.
949
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950 eagerfpu= [X86]
951 on enable eager fpu restore
952 off disable eager fpu restore
953 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
954 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
955
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956 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
957 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
958 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
959 which are not unmapped.
960
0cb55ad2 961 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 962
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963 cdns,<addr>
964 Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
965 port at the specified address. The cadence serial port
966 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
967 yet supported.
968
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969 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
970 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 971 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 972 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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973 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
974 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
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975 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
976 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
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977 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32], <addr> is assumed to be
978 equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in the
979 same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
980 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 981
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982 pl011,<addr>
983 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
984 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
985 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
986 yet supported.
987
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988 msm_serial,<addr>
989 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
990 port at the specified address. The serial port
991 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
992 yet supported.
993
994 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
995 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
996 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
997 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
998 yet supported.
999
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1000 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1001
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1002 s3c2410,<addr>
1003 s3c2412,<addr>
1004 s3c2440,<addr>
1005 s3c6400,<addr>
1006 s5pv210,<addr>
1007 exynos4210,<addr>
1008 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1009 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1010 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1011 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1012 Options are not yet supported.
1013
7913ad1a 1014 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
1da177e4 1015 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1016 earlyprintk=efi
2482a92e 1017 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1018 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1019 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1020 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1021 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 1022 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1da177e4 1023
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1024 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1025 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1026 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1027
a9913044 1028 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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1029 takes over.
1030
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1031 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1032 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1033
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1034 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1035 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1036 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1037 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1038 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1039 You can find the port for a given device in
1040 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1041 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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1042
1043 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1044 very good.
1045
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1046 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1047 the real console.
1da177e4 1048
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1049 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1050
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1051 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1052 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1053 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1054 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1055 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1056 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1057 default: on.
1058
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1059 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1060 ekgdboc=kbd
1061
25985edc 1062 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
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1063 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1064
1da177e4 1065 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1066 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1067
d2f7cbe7 1068 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1069 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
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1070 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1071 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1072 default.
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1073 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1074 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1075 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1076 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1077 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1078
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1079 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1080 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1081 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1082 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1083 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1084
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1085 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1086 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1087
cd4f0ef7 1088 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1089 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1090 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
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LT
1091
1092 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1093 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1094 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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1095 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1096
d3bf3795 1097 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1098 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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1099 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1100 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1101 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1102
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1103 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1104 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1105 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1106 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1107
ca1eda2d 1108 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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1109 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1110 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1111 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1112 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1113
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1114 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1115 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1116 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1117 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1118 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1119 Default value is 0.
1120 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1121
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1122 erst_disable [ACPI]
1123 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1124 support.
1125
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LT
1126 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1127 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1128 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1129
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MZ
1130 evm= [EVM]
1131 Format: { "fix" }
1132 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1133 current integrity status.
1134
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AM
1135 failslab=
1136 fail_page_alloc=
1137 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1138 General fault injection mechanism.
1139 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1140 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1141
1da177e4 1142 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1143 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1144
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AC
1145 force_pal_cache_flush
1146 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1147 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1148 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1149 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1150
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CB
1151 forcepae [X86-32]
1152 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1153 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1154 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1155 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1156 and may cause unknown problems.
1157
d9e54076 1158 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1159 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
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PZ
1160 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1161 boot debugging.
1162
cecbca96 1163 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1164 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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FW
1165 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1166 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1167 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1168 oops.
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SR
1169
1170 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1171 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1172 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1173 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1174 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1175 tracing directory.
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SR
1176
1177 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1178 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1179 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1180 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1181 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1182
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SA
1183 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1184 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1185 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1186 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1187 that can be changed at run time by the
1188 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1189
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NK
1190 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1191 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1192 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1193 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1194 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1195
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LT
1196 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1197 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1198 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1199 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1200 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1201
1202 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1203
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1204 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1205 Format: off | on
1206 default: on
1207
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PO
1208 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1209 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1210 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1211 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1212 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1213
1da177e4 1214 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
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DB
1215 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1216 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1217 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1218
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AL
1219 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1220 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1221 Format: 0 | 1
1222 Default: 0
1223 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1224 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1225 Format: 0 | 1
1226 Default: 0
1227 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1228 Format: 0 | 1
1229 Default: 0
1230 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1231 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1232 Default: 1024
1233 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1234 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1235 Default: 1024
1236
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LT
1237 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1238 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1239 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1240 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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LT
1241
1242 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1243
1244 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1245 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1246
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HY
1247 hest_disable [ACPI]
1248 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1249 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1250 logic will be disabled.
1251
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LT
1252 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1253 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1254 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1255 size on bigger boxes.
1256
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TG
1257 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1258 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1259 Default: "on"
1260
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LT
1261 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1262 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1263
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1264 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1265
1266 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1267 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1268 verbose }
1269 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1270 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1271 VIA, nVidia)
1272 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1273
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1274 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1275 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1276
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1277 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1278 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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1279 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1280 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1281 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1282 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1283 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1284
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HB
1285 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1286 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
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HB
1287 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1288 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1289 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1290
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JH
1291 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1292 hardware thread id mappings.
1293 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1294
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FDN
1295 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1296 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1297 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1298 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1299 the real console.
1300
3a853fb9 1301 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1302 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1303 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1304 Format:
1305 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1306
36d95739 1307 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1da177e4 1308 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1309 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1310 keyboard and cannot control its state
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LT
1311 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1312 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1313 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1314 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1315 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1316 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1317 controller
1da177e4
LT
1318 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1319 controllers
24775d65 1320 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1da177e4
LT
1321 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
1322 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1323 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
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1324
1325 i810= [HW,DRM]
1326
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DT
1327 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1328 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1329 hardware.
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LT
1330 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1331 does not match list of supported models.
1332 i8k.power_status
1333 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1334 (disabled by default)
1335 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1336 capability is set.
1337
4dca20ef 1338 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
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1339 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1340 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
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CE
1341 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1342 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1343 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1344 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1345 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1346 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1347 value switches the backlight off.
1348 -1 -- never invert brightness
1349 0 -- machine default
1350 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1351
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LT
1352 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1353 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1354
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DF
1355 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1356 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
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BZ
1357 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1358 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1359 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1360
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MR
1361 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1362 Format: <int>
1363 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1364 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1365 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1366 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1367 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1368 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1369 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1370 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1371 was 0x3.
1372
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1373 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1374 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1375
f039b754 1376 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1377 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
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RD
1378 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1379 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1380 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1381 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1382 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1383 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1384 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1385
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1386 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1387 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1388 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
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YZ
1389 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1390 could change it dynamically, usually by
1391 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1392
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1393 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1394 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1395
2fe5d6de 1396 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1397 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
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1398 default: "enforce"
1399
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MZ
1400 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1401 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1402 owned by uid=0.
1403
3323eec9 1404 ima_hash= [IMA]
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MZ
1405 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1406 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1407 default: "sha1"
1408
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MZ
1409 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1410 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1411
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EP
1412 ima_tcb [IMA]
1413 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1414 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1415 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1416 opened for read by uid=0.
1417
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RS
1418 ima_template= [IMA]
1419 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1420 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" }
1421 Default: "ima-ng"
1422
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RS
1423 ima_template_fmt=
1424 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1425 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1426
3bcced39
DK
1427 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1428 Format: <min_file_size>
1429 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1430 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1431
1432 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1433 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1434 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1435
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DK
1436 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1437 Format: <bufsize>
1438 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1439
1440 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1441 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1442 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1443
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LT
1444 init= [KNL]
1445 Format: <full_path>
1446 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1447 process.
1448
1449 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1450 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1451 startup.
1452
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PB
1453 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1454 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1455 modules and initcalls.
1456
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LT
1457 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1458
1459 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1460 Format: <irq>
1461
6bb2ff84
FY
1462 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1463
d726d8d7
MZ
1464 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1465 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1466 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1467 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1468
ba395927 1469 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1470 on
1471 Enable intel iommu driver.
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KA
1472 off
1473 Disable intel iommu driver.
1474 igfx_off [Default Off]
1475 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1476 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1477 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1478 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1479 DMA.
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KA
1480 forcedac [x86_64]
1481 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1482 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1483 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1484 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1485 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1486 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1487 strict [Default Off]
1488 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1489 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1490 to batching them for performance.
6dd9a7c7
YS
1491 sp_off [Default Off]
1492 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1493 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1494 not be supported.
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DW
1495 ecs_off [Default Off]
1496 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1497 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1498 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1499 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1500 on hardware which claims to support them.
2e92c7ad
MI
1501
1502 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1503 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1504 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1505
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DB
1506 intel_pstate= [X86]
1507 disable
1508 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1509 scaling driver for the supported processors
aa4ea34d
EZ
1510 force
1511 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1512 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1513 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1514 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1515 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1516 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1517 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1518 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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DB
1519 no_hwp
1520 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1521 if available.
d64c3b0b
KCA
1522 hwp_only
1523 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1524 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
6be26498 1525
d1423d56 1526 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
d1423d56
CW
1527 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1528 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1529 nosid disable Source ID checking
41750d31
SS
1530 no_x2apic_optout
1531 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
d1423d56 1532
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RD
1533 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1534 strict regions from userspace.
1535 relaxed
1536
1537 iommu= [x86]
1538 off
1539 force
1540 noforce
1541 biomerge
1542 panic
1543 nopanic
1544 merge
1545 nomerge
1546 forcesac
1547 soft
bcb71abe 1548 pt [x86, IA-64]
4e287840
TLSC
1549 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1550 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1551
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RD
1552
1553 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1554 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1555 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1556
6cececfc 1557 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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IM
1558 0x80
1559 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1560 0xed
1561 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1562 udelay
6e7c4025
IM
1563 Simple two microseconds delay
1564 none
1565 No delay
b02aae9c 1566
1da177e4 1567 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1568 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1569
200803df
AC
1570 irqfixup [HW]
1571 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1572 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1573 firmware running.
1574
1575 irqpoll [HW]
1576 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1577 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1578 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1579 firmware running.
1580
1da177e4 1581 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1582 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4
LT
1583
1584 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
22f2e280
DF
1585 Format:
1586 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1587 or
b225d44e
LZ
1588 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1589 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
22f2e280
DF
1590 or a mixture
1591 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
b225d44e 1592
1da177e4
LT
1593 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1594 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
b225d44e
LZ
1595 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1596 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1da177e4
LT
1597 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1598 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1599
1600 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1601 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1602 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1603 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1604
a9913044 1605 iucv= [HW,NET]
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1607 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1608 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1609 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1610 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1611 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1612 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1613
1614 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1615 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1616 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1617 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1618 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1619 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1620
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1621 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1622 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1623
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1624 kaslr/nokaslr [X86]
1625 Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR
1626 (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into
1627 the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected,
1628 kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled,
1629 hibernation will be disabled.
1630
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1631 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1632
6cececfc 1633 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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1634 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1635 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1636 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1637 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1638 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1639 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1640 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1641 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1642 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1643 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1644 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1645 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1646 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1647 zone if it does not.
1648
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1649 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1650 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1651 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1652 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1653 optional and is the number seconds in between
1654 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1655 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1656 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1657 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1658 the kernel debugger.
1659
84c08fd6 1660 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1661 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1662 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1663 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1664 keyboard only format: kbd
1665 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1666 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1667 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1668 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1669
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1670 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1671 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1672
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1673 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1674 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1675 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1676
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1677 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1678 Valid arguments: on, off
1679 Default: on
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1680 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1681 the default is off.
04f70336 1682
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1683 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1684 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1685 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1686 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1687 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1688 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1689
6cececfc 1690 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
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1691 in oops dumps.
1692
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1693 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1694 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1695
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1696 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1697 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1698 Default is 0 (off)
1699
fef07aae 1700 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1701 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1702
1703 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1704 for all guests.
16290246 1705 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1706
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1707 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1708 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1709 Default is 1 (enabled)
1710
1711 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1712 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1713 Default is 0 (disabled)
1714
1715 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1716 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1717 Default is 1 (enabled)
1718
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1719 kvm-intel.nested=
1720 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1721 Default is 0 (disabled)
1722
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1723 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1724 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1725 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1726 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1727
1728 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1729 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1730 Default is 1 (enabled)
1731
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1732 l2cr= [PPC]
1733
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1734 l3cr= [PPC]
1735
cd4f0ef7 1736 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1737 disabled it.
1da177e4 1738
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1739 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1740 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1741 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1742
6cececfc 1743 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1744 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1745
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1746 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1747 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1748 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1749 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1750 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1751 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1752 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1753
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1754 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1755 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1756 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1757
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1758 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1759 when set.
1760 Format: <int>
1761
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1762 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1763 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1764 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1765 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1766 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1767 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1768 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1769 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1770
1771 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1772 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1773 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1774 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1775 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1776 host link and device attached to it.
1777
1778 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1779 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1780 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1781 The following configurations can be forced.
1782
1783 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1784 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1785
1786 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1787
1788 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1789 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1790 allowed.
1791
1792 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1793
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1794 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1795 and both resets.
1796
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1797 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1798 hot-unplug link recovery
1799
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1800 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1801
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1802 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1803
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1804 * disable: Disable this device.
1805
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1806 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1807 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1808
95f72d1e 1809 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1810
1da177e4 1811 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1812 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1813
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1814 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1815 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1816
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1817 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1818 Format: <integer>
1819
1820 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1821 Format: <integer>
1822
1823 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1824 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1825
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1826 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1827 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1828 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1829 number of online CPUs.
1830
1831 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1832 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1833
1834 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1835 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1836
1837 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1838 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1839 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1840
1841 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1842 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1843 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1844 mode during the locktorture test.
1845
1846 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1847 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1848 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1849
1850 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1851 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1852
1853 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1854 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1855 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1856 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1857 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1858 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1859
1860 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1861 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1862
1863 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1864 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1865
1866 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1867 Enable additional printk() statements.
1868
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1869 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1870 Format: <irq>
1871
1872 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1873 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1874 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1875 loglevels are defined as follows:
1876
1877 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1878 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1879 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1880 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1881 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1882 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1883 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1884 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1885
c756d08a 1886 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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1887 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1888 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1889 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1890 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1891 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1892 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 1893
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1894 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1895 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1896 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1897 kernel boot problems.
1898
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1899 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1900 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1901 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1902 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1903 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1904 attached printers to be reset. Using
1905 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1906 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1907 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1908 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1909 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1910 port specification list means that device IDs
1911 from each port should be examined, to see if
1912 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1913 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1914 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1915
1916 lpj=n [KNL]
1917 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1918 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1919 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1920 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1921 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1922 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1923 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1924 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1925 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1926 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1927 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1928 hardware.
1929
1930 ltpc= [NET]
1931 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1932
16290246 1933 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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1934 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1935 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 1936
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1937 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
1938 yeeloong laptop.
1939 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
1940
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1941 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1942 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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1943
1944 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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1945 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1946 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1947 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1948 the IO APIC.
1da177e4 1949
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1950 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
1951 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
1952 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
1953 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
1954 devices can be requested on-demand with the
1955 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 1956
cd4f0ef7 1957 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 1958
71cced6e 1959 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 1960
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1961 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1962 See Documentation/md.txt.
a9913044 1963
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1964 mdacon= [MDA]
1965 Format: <first>,<last>
1966 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 1967
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1968 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1969 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1970 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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1971 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
1972 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
1973 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
1974 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 1975
cd4f0ef7 1976 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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1977 memory.
1978
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1979 memchunk=nn[KMG]
1980 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1981 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1982
6cececfc 1983 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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1984 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1985 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1986 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1987 option description.
1988
1989 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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1990 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
1991 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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1992
1993 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1994 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 1995 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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1996
1997 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1998 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 1999 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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2000 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2001 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2002 or
2003 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
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2005 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2006 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2007 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2008 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2009 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2010
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2011 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2012 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2013 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2014 Setting this option will scan the memory
2015 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2016 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2017 from using the memory being corrupted.
2018 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2019 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2020 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2021 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2022
2023 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2024 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2025 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2026 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2027 corruption in more or less memory.
2028
2029 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2030 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2031 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2032 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2033
e4b0db72 2034 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2035 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2036 default : 0 <disable>
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2037 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2038 performed. Each pass selects another test
2039 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2040 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2041 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2042 regions that are detected.
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2044 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2045 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2046
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2047 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2048 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2049 platforms.
2050
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2051 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2052 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2053 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2054 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2055
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2056 mga= [HW,DRM]
2057
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2058 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2059 physical address is ignored.
2060
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2061 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2062 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2063 Default: "0tb"
2064 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2065 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2066 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2067 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2068 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2069 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2070 unconfigured.
2071 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2072 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2073 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2074 VGA shield.
2075 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2076 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2077 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2078 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2079 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2080 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2081
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2082 mminit_loglevel=
2083 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2084 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2085 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2086 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2087 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2088 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2089
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2090 module.sig_enforce
2091 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2092 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2093 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
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2094 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2095
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2096 mousedev.tap_time=
2097 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2098 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2099 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2100 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2101 Format: <msecs>
2102 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2103 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2104 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2105 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2106
6cececfc 2107 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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2108 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2109 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2110 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2111 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2112 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2113 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2114 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2115 is not too small.
2116
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2117 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2118 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2119
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2120 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2121 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2122
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2123 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2124 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
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2125
2126 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2127 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2128
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2129 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2130 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2131 at a time.
2132
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2133 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2134
2135 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2136
2137 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2138 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2139 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2140 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2141 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2142
9db829f4
BD
2143 mtdset= [ARM]
2144 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2145
2146 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2147
1da177e4 2148 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2149 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2150 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2151
0cb55ad2 2152 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2153 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2154 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2155
2156 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2157 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2158 Default is 1.
2159 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2160 using up MTRRs.
2161
2162 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2163 Format: <integer>
2164 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2165 Default : 1
2166 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2167 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2168
1da177e4
LT
2169 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2170
1da177e4
LT
2171 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2172 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2173 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2174 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2175 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2176 file if at all.
2177
58401572
KPO
2178 nf_conntrack.acct=
2179 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2180 0 to disable accounting
2181 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2182 Default value is 0.
58401572 2183
306a0753 2184 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2185 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2186
2187 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2188 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2189
306a0753
CL
2190 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2191 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2192
a72b4422
TM
2193 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2194 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2195 channel should listen.
2196
e571cbf1
TM
2197 nfs.cache_getent=
2198 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2199 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2200
2201 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2202 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2203 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2204
58df095b
TM
2205 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2206 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2207 entries.
2208
f43bf0be
TM
2209 nfs.enable_ino64=
2210 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2211 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2212 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2213 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2214 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2215
ef159e91
TM
2216 nfs.max_session_slots=
2217 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2218 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2219 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2220 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2221 Note that there is little point in setting this
2222 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2223
b064eca2 2224 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2225 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2226 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2227 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2228 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2229 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2230 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2231 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2232 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2233 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2234 back to using the idmapper.
2235 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2236 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2237 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2238 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2239 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2240 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2241
db8ac8ba
WAA
2242 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2243 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2244 information in exchange_id requests.
2245 If zero, no implementation identification information
2246 will be sent.
2247 The default is to send the implementation identification
2248 information.
f6de7a39
TM
2249
2250 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2251 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2252 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2253 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2254 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2255 after the locks are lost.
2256 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2257 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2258 parameter to '1'.
2259 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2260 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2261
e9541ce8
BF
2262 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2263 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2264 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2265 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2266 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2267 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2268
18d98f6c
SB
2269 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2270 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2271 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2272 osd-targets. Please see:
2273 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2274
1e1030dc 2275 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2276 when a NMI is triggered.
2277 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2278
6cececfc 2279 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2280 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2281 Valid num: 0 or 1
5b9a0e14 2282 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
195daf66 2283 1 - turn nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2284 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc
DZ
2285 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2286 default).
0cb55ad2
RD
2287 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2288 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2289
bff38771
AV
2290 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2291 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2292 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2293 waits 4 seconds.
2294
cd4f0ef7 2295 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2296 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2297 is present.
2298
0cb55ad2
RD
2299 no_console_suspend
2300 [HW] Never suspend the console
2301 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2302 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2303 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2304 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2305 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2306 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2307 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2308 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2309 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2310 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2311 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2312 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2313
c1aee215
CL
2314 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2315 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2316 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2317
a9913044
RD
2318 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2319
1da177e4
LT
2320 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2321 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2322
5091faa4
MG
2323 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2324
1da177e4
LT
2325 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2326 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2327
2328 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2329
0cb55ad2
RD
2330 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2331
163ecdff
SN
2332 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2333
1da177e4
LT
2334 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
2335
6902aa84
PM
2336 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2337
b2e0a54a 2338 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2339
1da177e4
LT
2340 noexec [IA-64]
2341
6cececfc 2342 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2343 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2344 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2345 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2346
52b6179a
PA
2347 nosmap [X86]
2348 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2349 even if it is supported by processor.
2350
de5397ad 2351 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2352 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2353 even if it is supported by processor.
2354
f5a1b191
JS
2355 noexec32 [X86-64]
2356 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2357 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2358 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2359 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2360 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2361
fab43ef4 2362 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2363
cd4f0ef7 2364 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2365 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2366 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2367
0ddab1d2
TK
2368 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2369
0c752a93
SS
2370 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2371 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2372 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2373
b6f42a4a
FY
2374 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2375 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2376 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2377 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2378 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2379 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2380
2381 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2382 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2383 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2384 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2385 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2386 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2387 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2388
01a24d2b
PZ
2389 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2390 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2391 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2392
1f29fae2
SH
2393 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2394 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2395 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2396
1da177e4
LT
2397 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2398 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2399 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2400 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2401 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2402 real-time systems.
2403
a6e15a39
KC
2404 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2405
79bf2bb3
TG
2406 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2407 Valid arguments: on, off
2408 Default: on
2409
c5bfece2
FW
2410 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2411 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2412 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2413 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2414 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2415 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2416 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2417
eeee7853
PM
2418 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2419
cd4f0ef7 2420 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2421 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2422
6cececfc 2423 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2424 broken timer IRQ sources.
2425
1da177e4
LT
2426 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2427
2428 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2429 initial RAM disk.
2430
03ea8155
WH
2431 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2432 remapping.
d1423d56 2433 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2434
1da177e4
LT
2435 nointroute [IA-64]
2436
16290246 2437 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2438
9cf4c4fc
JK
2439 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2440
fd10cde9
GN
2441 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2442 fault handling.
2443
d910f5c1
GC
2444 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2445 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2446 behaviour
2447
cd4f0ef7 2448 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2449
cd4f0ef7 2450 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2451
1da177e4
LT
2452 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2453 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
2454
312f1f01
H
2455 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2456
13696e0a 2457 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2458
83d7384f
AS
2459 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2460 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2461
bda62633
DZ
2462 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2463 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2464 irq.
2465
02608bef
DY
2466 nomodule Disable module load
2467
016ddd9b
JK
2468 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2469 pagetables) support.
2470
0cb55ad2
RD
2471 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2472 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2473
bbff2168 2474 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2475
cd4f0ef7 2476 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2477 with UP alternatives
2478
7a5091d5
PA
2479 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2480 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2481 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2482 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2483
a9913044
RD
2484 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2485 space.
2486
1da177e4
LT
2487 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2488 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2489 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2490
2491 nosbagart [IA-64]
2492
cd4f0ef7 2493 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2494
61ec7567
LB
2495 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2496 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2497
97842216
DJ
2498 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2499
1da177e4
LT
2500 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2501
cd4f0ef7 2502 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4
LT
2503
2504 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
2505
195daf66
UO
2506 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2507 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2508
1da177e4 2509 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2510
2b2fd87a
WH
2511 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2512
f78cff48
FY
2513 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2514 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2515 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2516 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2517 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2518 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2519 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2520 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2521 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2522 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2523 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2524 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2525 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2526
16290246 2527 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2528 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2529 SAL PALO.
2530
2b633e3f
YL
2531 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2532 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2533 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
2534 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
2535 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
2536
0cb55ad2
RD
2537 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2538
1a687c2e
MG
2539 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2540 Allowed values are enable and disable
2541
f0c0b2b8
KH
2542 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2543 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2544 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2545 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2546
7c4be253
RD
2547 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2548 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2549 info.
2550
3ef0e1f8
AS
2551 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2552 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2553 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2554 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2555 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2556 interrupts *may* be lost!
2557
15ac7afe
TL
2558 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2559 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2560 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2561 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2562
1da177e4
LT
2563 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2564 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2565
7e4e0bd5
RR
2566 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2567 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2568 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2569 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2570 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2571 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2572 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2573 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2574 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2575 for generic hr timer mode)
dd3c4670
AK
2576 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
2577 (report cpu_type "timer")
1dcdb5a9 2578
44a4dcf7
RD
2579 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2580 process, but there is a small probability of
2581 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2582 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2583 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2584
bcfde334
RD
2585 OSS [HW,OSS]
2586 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2587
48c96a36
JK
2588 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2589 Storage of the information about who allocated
2590 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2591 we can turn it on.
2592 on: enable the feature
2593
44a4dcf7 2594 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2595 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2596 timeout = 0: wait forever
2597 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2598 Format: <timeout>
2599
9e3961a0
PB
2600 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2601 on a WARN().
2602
f06e5153
MH
2603 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2604 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2605 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2606 succeeds in any situation.
2607 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2608 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2609 kernel more unstable.
2610
1da177e4
LT
2611 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2612 connected to, default is 0.
2613 Format: <parport#>
2614 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2615 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
a9913044
RD
2616 Format: <mode>
2617
2618 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2619 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2620 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2621 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2622 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2623 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2624 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2625 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2626 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2627 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2628 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2629 are specified on the command line, starting
2630 with parport0.
2631
2632 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2633 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2634 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2635 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2636 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2637 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2638 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2639
dd287796
AM
2640 pause_on_oops=
2641 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2642 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2643 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2644
1da177e4
LT
2645 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2646
2647 pcd. [PARIDE]
2648 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2649 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2650
a9913044 2651 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2652 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2653 changes anything
c0115606 2654 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2655 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
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2656 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2657 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2658 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
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2659 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2660 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2661 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
c0115606 2662 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
a9913044 2663 Mechanism 1.
c0115606 2664 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
a9913044 2665 Mechanism 2.
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2666 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2667 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2668 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
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JG
2669 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2670 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2671 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2672 Configuration
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AH
2673 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2674 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2675 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2676 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2677 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2678 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2679 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2680 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2681 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2682 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2683 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2684 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2685 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2686 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2687 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2688 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2689 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2690 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
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2691 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2692 on several machines and they hang the machine
2693 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2694 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2695 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2696 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2697 motherboard.
c0115606 2698 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
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2699 Use with caution as certain devices share
2700 address decoders between ROMs and other
2701 resources.
c0115606 2702 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
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GH
2703 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2704 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2705 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2706 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2707 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
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2708 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2709 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2710 this way.
c0115606 2711 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
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2712 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2713 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2714 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2715 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
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2716 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2717 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2718 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2719 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
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2720 numbers ourselves, overriding
2721 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2722 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
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2723 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2724 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2725 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2726 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2727 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2728 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2729 or for PCI scanning.
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BH
2730 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2731 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2732 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2733 please report a bug.
2734 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2735 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
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2736 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2737 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2738 so this option is a temporary workaround
2739 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2740 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2741 handle more pci cards
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2742 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2743 just use the configuration from the
2744 bootloader. This is currently used on
2745 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2746 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
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AK
2747 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2748 This might help on some broken boards which
2749 machine check when some devices' config space
2750 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2751 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
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MD
2752 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2753 This sorting is done to get a device
2754 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2755 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2756 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2757 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2758 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2759 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2760 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2761 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2762 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2763 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2764 or bus can support) for best performance.
2765 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2766 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2767 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2768 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2769 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2770 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2771 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2772 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2773 The default value is 256 bytes.
2774 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2775 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2776 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
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YS
2777 resource_alignment=
2778 Format:
2779 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2780 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2781 aligned memory resources.
2782 If <order of align> is not specified,
2783 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2784 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2785 windows need to be expanded.
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AP
2786 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2787 end-to-end CRC checking).
2788 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2789 the default.
2790 off: Turn ECRC off
2791 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
2792 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2793 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2794 Default size is 256 bytes.
2795 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2796 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2797 Default size is 2 megabytes.
b55438fd
YL
2798 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2799 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2800 accommodate resources required by all child
2801 devices.
2802 off: Turn realloc off
2803 on: Turn realloc on
2804 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 2805 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
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BH
2806 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2807 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2808 port.
6b4b78fe 2809
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CE
2810 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2811 Management.
2812 off Disable ASPM.
2813 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2814 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2815
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MT
2816 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2817 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2818 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2819
79dd9182 2820 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
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RW
2821 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2822 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2823 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2824 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2825 unconditionally.
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RW
2826 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2827 ports driver.
2828
c7f48656 2829 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 2830 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 2831 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 2832
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2833 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2834
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TB
2835 pd_ignore_unused
2836 [PM]
2837 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2838 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2839 for debug and development, but should not be
2840 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2841
1da177e4 2842 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2843 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2844
2845 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2846 boot time.
2847 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2848 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2849
f58dc01b 2850 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
2851 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2852 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2853 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2854 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2855 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 2856
1da177e4 2857 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2858 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2859
2860 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2861 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2862
2863 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 2864 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2865
2866 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2867 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2868 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2869
16290246 2870 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
2871 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2872 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
2873
96242116
BH
2874 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
2875 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
2876 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
2877 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
2878 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
2879 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 2880
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2881 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
2882 { off }
2883
2884 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
2885 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2886
2887 pnp_reserve_irq=
2888 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2889
2890 pnp_reserve_dma=
2891 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2892
2893 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 2894 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
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LT
2895
2896 pnp_reserve_mem=
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2897 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2898 autoconfiguration.
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LT
2899 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2900
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2901 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2902 Default is 21.
2903 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
2904 may be specified.
2905 Format: <port>,<port>....
2906
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IM
2907 print-fatal-signals=
2908 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
2909
2910 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
2911 related application anomalies: too many signals,
2912 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
2913 coredump - etc.
2914
2915 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
2916 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
2917
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IM
2918 default: off.
2919
c22ab332
MG
2920 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
2921 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
2922 panics
2923 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2924 default: disabled
2925
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2926 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
2927 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2928
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RD
2929 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
2930 Limit processor to maximum C-state
2931 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
2932
2933 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
2934 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
2935 instead using the legacy FADT method
2936
1da177e4 2937 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
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2938 Format: [schedule,]<number>
2939 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
2940 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
2941 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
2942 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
2943 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 2944 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 2945
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2946 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
2947 before loading.
31c00fc1 2948 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2949
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2950 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
2951 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
2952 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
2953 per second.
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2954 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
2955 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
2956 (0 = never).
2957 psmouse.resolution=
2958 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
2959 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 2960 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
2961 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
2962
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MG
2963 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
2964
1da177e4 2965 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2966 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2967
dc8c8587
KS
2968 pty.legacy_count=
2969 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
2970 default number.
2971
7d2c502f 2972 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 2973
1da177e4
LT
2974 r128= [HW,DRM]
2975
2976 raid= [HW,RAID]
2977 See Documentation/md.txt.
2978
a9913044 2979 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
31c00fc1 2980 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
a9913044 2981
1da177e4 2982 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 2983 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2984
4102adab 2985 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
2986 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
2987 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
2988 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
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PM
2989 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
2990 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
2991 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
2992 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
2993 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
2994 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
2995 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
2996
4102adab 2997 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
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PM
2998 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
2999 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3000 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3001 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3002 This improves the real-time response for the
3003 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3004 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3005 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3006 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3007
4102adab 3008 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
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PM
3009 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3010 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3011
a3dc2948
PM
3012 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3013 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3014 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3015 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3016
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PM
3017 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3018 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3019 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3020 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3021
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PM
3022 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3023 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3024 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
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PM
3025 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3026 is set.
3027
3028 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3029 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3030 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3031 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3032 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3033 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
37745d28 3034
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PM
3035 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3036 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3037 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3038 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3039 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3040
4102adab 3041 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
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PM
3042 Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each
3043 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
3044 systems.
3045
4a81e832
PM
3046 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3047 Set required age in jiffies for a
3048 given grace period before RCU starts
3049 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3050 rcu_note_context_switch().
3051
4102adab 3052 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3053 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3054 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3055 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3056 and maximum value is HZ.
3057
4102adab 3058 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
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PM
3059 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3060 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3061 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3062
21871d7e 3063 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3064 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3065 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3066 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3067 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3068 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3069 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3070 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3071 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3072 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3073
fbce7497
PM
3074 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3075 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3076 defaults to the square root of the number of
3077 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3078 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3079 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3080
4102adab 3081 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3082 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3083 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3084
4102adab 3085 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
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RD
3086 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3087 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3088
4102adab 3089 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3090 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3091 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3092
4102adab 3093 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3094 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3095 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3096 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3097 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3098
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PM
3099 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3100 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3101 callback-flood tests.
3102
3103 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3104 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3105 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3106 test.
3107
3108 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3109 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3110 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3111 disable callback-flood testing.
3112
3113 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3114 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3115 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3116
4102adab 3117 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3118 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
3119
4102adab 3120 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3121 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts.
3122
4102adab 3123 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3124 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts.
3125
4102adab
PM
3126 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3127 Use expedited update-side primitives.
3128
3129 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3130 Use normal (non-expedited) update-side primitives.
3131 If both gp_exp and gp_normal are set, do both.
3132 If neither gp_exp nor gp_normal are set, still
3133 do both.
dabb8aa9 3134
4102adab 3135 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3136 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3137
4102adab 3138 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3139 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3140 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3141 test, hence the "fake".
3142
4102adab 3143 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3144 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3145 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3146 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3147 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3148 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3149
4102adab
PM
3150 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3151 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3152
3153 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3154 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3155
4102adab 3156 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3157 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3158 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3159
59da22a0 3160 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
4102adab
PM
3161 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3162
3163 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3164 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3165 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3166 during the rcutorture test.
3167
4102adab 3168 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3169 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3170 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3171
4102adab 3172 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3173 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3174 warnings, zero to disable.
3175
4102adab 3176 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3177 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3178
4102adab 3179 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3180 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3181
4102adab 3182 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3183 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3184 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3185 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3186 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3187
4102adab 3188 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3189 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3190 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3191 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3192
4102adab 3193 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3194 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3195
4102adab 3196 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3197 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3198
4102adab 3199 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3200 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3201 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3202
4102adab 3203 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3204 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3205
4102adab 3206 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3207 Enable additional printk() statements.
3208
4102adab
PM
3209 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3210 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3211 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3212 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3213 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3214 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3215
3216 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3217 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3218
3219 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3220 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3221
52db30ab
PM
3222 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3223 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3224 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3225 to zero.
3226
74860fee
PK
3227 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3228 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3229
3230 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3231 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3232
3233 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3234 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3235
ffdfc409
OJ
3236 rdinit= [KNL]
3237 Format: <full_path>
3238 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3239 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3240
1b3a5d02
RH
3241 reboot= [KNL]
3242 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3243 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3244 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3245 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3246 [[,]f[orce]
3247 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3248 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3249 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3250 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3251 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3252
46b6d94e
PJ
3253 relax_domain_level=
3254 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
21acb9ca 3255 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3256
0399d4db
RW
3257 relative_sleep_states=
3258 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3259 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3260 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3261 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3262 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3263
1da177e4
LT
3264 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3265
cd4f0ef7 3266 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3267 Format: nn[KMG]
3268 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3269 address space.
3270
9ea77bdb
PA
3271 reservelow= [X86]
3272 Format: nn[K]
3273 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3274 the bottom of the address space.
3275
7e96287d
VG
3276 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3277 during initialization.
3278
a9913044
RD
3279 resume= [SWSUSP]
3280 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3281 Format:
3282 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3283
ecbd0da1
RW
3284 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3285 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3286 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3287 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3288 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3289
f126f733
BS
3290 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3291 read the resume files
3292
6f8d7022
BS
3293 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3294 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3295 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3296
f996fc96
BS
3297 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3298 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3299 present during boot.
3300 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3301 no Disable hibernation and resume.
f996fc96 3302
0a7b35cb
MN
3303 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3304
0efbb786
AC
3305 rfkill.default_state=
3306 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3307 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3308 1 Unblocked.
3309
3310 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3311 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3312 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3313 blocked and the previous configuration.
3314 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3315 blocked and everything unblocked.
3316
1da177e4
LT
3317 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3318 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3319
1da177e4
LT
3320 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3321
3322 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3323 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3324
3325 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3326 mount the root filesystem
3327
3328 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3329
3330 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3331
cc1ed754
PO
3332 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3333 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3334 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3335
5c71d618
RT
3336 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3337 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3338 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3339 managed by CMA.
3340
1da177e4
LT
3341 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3342
3343 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3344
c60d1ae4
GS
3345 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3346 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3347 strict
3348 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3349 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3350 which is faster.
3351
1da177e4
LT
3352 sa1100ir [NET]
3353 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3354
1da177e4 3355 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3356
f6630114
MT
3357 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3358
5307c955
MG
3359 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3360 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3361 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3362 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3363 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3364 1 -- enable.
3365 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3366 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3367
0cb55ad2
RD
3368 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3369 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3370 security module asking for security registration will be
3371 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3372 as if no module has been chosen.
3373
3374 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3375 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3376 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3377 0 -- disable.
3378 1 -- enable.
3379 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3380 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3381 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3382
c1c124e9
JJ
3383 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3384 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3385 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3386 0 -- disable.
3387 1 -- enable.
3388 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3389
cd4f0ef7 3390 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3391
1da177e4
LT
3392 shapers= [NET]
3393 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3394
b05f78f5
YL
3395 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3396 Format: { <integer> }
3397 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3398 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3399 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3400
1da177e4
LT
3401 simeth= [IA-64]
3402 simscsi=
a9913044 3403
1da177e4
LT
3404 slram= [HW,MTD]
3405
423c929c
JK
3406 slab_nomerge [MM]
3407 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3408 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3409 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3410 merging on their own.
3411 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3412
3df1cccd
DR
3413 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3414 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3415 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3416 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3417 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3418
f0630fff
CL
3419 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3420 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3421 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3422 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3423 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3424 last alloc / free. For more information see
3425 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3426
3427 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3428 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3429 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3430 fragmentation. For more information see
3431 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3432
3433 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3434 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3435 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3436 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3437 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3438 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3439 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3440 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3441
3442 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3443 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3444 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3445 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3446
3447 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3448 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3449 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3450
1da177e4
LT
3451 smart2= [HW]
3452 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3453
d0d4f69b
BH
3454 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3455 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3456 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3457 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3458 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3459 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3460 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3461 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3462 1: Fast pin select (default)
3463 2: ATC IRMode
3464
9c44bc03
IM
3465 softlockup_panic=
3466 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3467 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3468
ed235875
AT
3469 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3470 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3471 backtraces on all cpus.
3472 Format: <integer>
3473
1da177e4 3474 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3475 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3476
1da177e4
LT
3477 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3478 spia_fio_base=
3479 spia_pedr=
3480 spia_peddr=
3481
f38f1d2a
SR
3482 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3483 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3484
762e1207
SR
3485 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3486 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3487 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3488 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3489 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3490 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3491 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3492
1da177e4
LT
3493 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3494 Format: <num>
3495 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3496 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3497 as the initial boot-console.
3498 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3499
3500 sti_font= [HW]
3501 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3502
3503 stifb= [HW]
3504 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3505
cbf11071
TM
3506 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3507 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3508 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3509 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3510 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3511 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3512 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3513 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3514 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3515 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3516 maximum port values.
3517
42a7fc4a
GB
3518 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3519 [NFS]
3520 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3521 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3522 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3523 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3524 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3525 NFS server is running.
3526
3527 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3528 automatically using heuristics
3529 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3530 percpu one pool for each CPU
3531 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3532 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3533
cbf11071
TM
3534 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3535 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3536 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3537 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3538 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3539 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3540 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3541 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3542
1d4a9c17
BN
3543 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3544 [SUSPEND]
3545 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3546 mode before resuming the system (see
3547 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3548 is set. Default value is 5.
3549
07555ac1 3550 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3551 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3552 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3553 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
3554
91fec0f5
JK
3555 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3556 Format: { <int> | force }
3557 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3558 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3559 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
a9913044 3560
1da177e4
LT
3561 switches= [HW,M68k]
3562
e52eec13
AK
3563 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3564 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3565 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3566 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3567 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3568 in older udev will not work anymore.
3569 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3570 the kernel configuration.
3571
5d6f647f
IM
3572 sysrq_always_enabled
3573 [KNL]
3574 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3575 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3576 Useful for debugging.
3577
747029a5
FF
3578 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3579 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3580 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3581 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3582 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3583 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3584
1da177e4
LT
3585 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3586
acc82342 3587 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 3588 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
3589 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3590 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3591 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3592 The system is woken from this state using a
3593 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 3594
1da177e4
LT
3595 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3596 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3597
f8707ec9
LB
3598 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3599 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3600 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3601
c52a7419
LB
3602 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3603 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 3604 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 3605
f5487145
LB
3606 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3607 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3608 critical and hot trip points.
3609
72b33ef8
LB
3610 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3611 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3612
a70cdc52
LB
3613 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3614 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
3615 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3616 value
a70cdc52 3617
730ff34d
LB
3618 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3619 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3620 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3621 0: no polling (default)
3622
8d32a307
TG
3623 threadirqs [KNL]
3624 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 3625 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 3626
2ca62b04
KRW
3627 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3628 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3629
3630 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3631 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3632 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3633
3634 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3635 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
3636 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3637 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
3638
3639 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3640 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3641 to the hypervisor.
3642
3643 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3644 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3645 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3646 kernel based on different criteria.
3647
2b1a61f0
HC
3648 topology= [S390]
3649 Format: {off | on}
3650 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
3651 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3652 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 3653 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 3654 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 3655
2d73bae1
NA
3656 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3657 Format: {off}
3658 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3659 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3660 LPAR.
3661
1da177e4
LT
3662 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3663
225a9be2
RA
3664 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3665 Format: integer pcr id
3666 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3667 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3668 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3669 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3670 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3671 are saved.
3672
9d612bef 3673 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 3674 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 3675
020e5f85
LZ
3676 trace_event=[event-list]
3677 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
3678 to facilitate early boot debugging.
3679 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
3680
7bcfaf54
SR
3681 trace_options=[option-list]
3682 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3683 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3684 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3685 to echo the option name into
3686
3687 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3688
3689 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3690 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3691
3692 trace_options=stacktrace
3693
3694 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3695 section.
3696
0daa2302
SRRH
3697 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3698 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3699 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3700 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3701 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3702 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3703
3704 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3705 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3706 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3707 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3708
3709 ** CAUTION **
3710
3711 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3712 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3713 the system to live lock.
3714
de7edd31
SRRH
3715 traceoff_on_warning
3716 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3717 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3718 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3719 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3720
3721 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3722 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3723 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3724
3725 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3726 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3727
fcf4d821
JK
3728 transparent_hugepage=
3729 [KNL]
3730 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3731 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3732 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3733 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3734
d3b8f889 3735 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
3736 Format: <string>
3737 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889 3738 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3739 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
3740 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3741 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
3742 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3743 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3744 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
3745 can add overhead.
395628ef 3746
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3747 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
3748 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
3749 Format:
3750 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
3751 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
3752
b6935f8c
CK
3753 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
3754 happen after console_init() and before a proper
3755 console driver takes over, this boot options might
3756 help "seeing" what's going on.
3757
f86dcc5a
ED
3758 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3759 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
3760
5f8364b7
AS
3761 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
3762 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
3763 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
3764 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
3765 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
3766 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
3767 reported either.
3768
e3a61b0a 3769 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 3770 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 3771
c4fc2342
CDH
3772 usbcore.authorized_default=
3773 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
3774 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
3775 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
3776
b5e795f8
AS
3777 usbcore.autosuspend=
3778 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
3779 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
3780 is the time required before an idle device will be
3781 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 3782 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 3783
fd7c519d
JK
3784 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
3785 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
3786
3787 usbcore.blinkenlights=
3788 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
3789
3790 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
3791 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3792 scheme (default 0 = off).
3793
3f5eb8d5
AS
3794 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
3795 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
3796 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
3797
fd7c519d
JK
3798 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
3799 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
3800 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
3801
3802 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
3803 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
3804 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
3805 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
3806
1da177e4
LT
3807 usbhid.mousepoll=
3808 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 3809
d4f373e5
AS
3810 usb-storage.delay_use=
3811 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 3812 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
3813
3814 usb-storage.quirks=
3815 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
3816 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
3817 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
3818 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
3819 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
3820 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
3821 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
3822 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
3823 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
3824 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
3825 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
3826 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
3827 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
3828 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
3829 READ_DISC_INFO command);
3830 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
3831 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
3832 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
3833 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
3834 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
3835 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
3836 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
3837 reported device capacity by one
3838 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
3839 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
3840 device);
3841 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
3842 unlock ejectable media);
3843 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
3844 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
3845 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
3846 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
3847 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
3848 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
3849 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
3850 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
3851 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
3852 bogus residue values);
3853 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
3854 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
3855 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
3856 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 3857 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
3858 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
3859 medium is write-protected).
3860 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
3861
ac1667db
SB
3862 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
3863 Format: <int>
3864 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
3865 1 - undefined instruction events
3866 2 - system calls
3867 4 - invalid data aborts
3868 8 - SIGSEGV faults
3869 16 - SIGBUS faults
3870 Example: user_debug=31
3871
14315592
IC
3872 userpte=
3873 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
3874
3875 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
3876 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
3877 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
3878
6cececfc 3879 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
3880 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
3881
3882 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
3883 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
3884
b0b49f26
AL
3885 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
3886 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
3887 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
3888
3889 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
3890 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
3891 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
3892
3893 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
3894 alias for vdso32=0.
3895
3896 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
3897 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 3898
d080d397
YI
3899 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
3900 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
3901
1da177e4
LT
3902 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
3903 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
3904
3afe6dab
AL
3905 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
3906 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
3907 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
3908 level and then send out the event to user space through
3909 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
3910 will only send out the event without touching backlight
3911 brightness level.
2843768b 3912 default: 1
3afe6dab 3913
81a054ce
PM
3914 virtio_mmio.device=
3915 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
3916
3917 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
3918 where:
3919 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
3920 like K, M and G)
3921 <baseaddr> := physical base address
3922 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
3923 request_irq())
3924 <id> := (optional) platform device id
3925 example:
3926 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
3927
3928 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
3929
cd4f0ef7 3930 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 3931 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 3932 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
3933 Use vga=ask for menu.
3934 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
3935 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
3936
a9913044 3937 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
3938 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
3939 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
3940 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
3941 mapped kernel RAM.
3942
585c3047
PO
3943 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
3944 Format: <command>
1da177e4 3945
585c3047
PO
3946 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
3947 Format: <command>
3948
3949 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
3950 Format: <command>
a9913044 3951
3ae36655
AL
3952 vsyscall= [X86-64]
3953 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
3954 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
3955 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
3956 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
3957 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
3958 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
3959
2e57ae05
AL
3960 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
3961 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 3962
2e57ae05 3963 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
3964 This is a little bit faster than trapping
3965 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
3966 better than they would in emulation mode.
3967 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
3968
3969 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
3970 them quite hard to use for exploits but
3971 might break your system.
3972
3855ae1c
CL
3973 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
3974 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
3975 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
3976
9ea9a886
CL
3977 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
3978 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
3979 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
3980 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
3981
0cb55ad2
RD
3982 vt.default_blu= [VT]
3983 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
3984 Change the default blue palette of the console.
3985 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3986 ranging from 0-255.
3987
3988 vt.default_grn= [VT]
3989 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
3990 Change the default green palette of the console.
3991 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3992 ranging from 0-255.
3993
3994 vt.default_red= [VT]
3995 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
3996 Change the default red palette of the console.
3997 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3998 ranging from 0-255.
3999
4000 vt.default_utf8=
4001 [VT]
4002 Format=<0|1>
4003 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4004 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4005 newly opened terminals.
4006
f6c06b68
MG
4007 vt.global_cursor_default=
4008 [VT]
4009 Format=<-1|0|1>
4010 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4011 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4012 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4013 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4014 cursors, 1 will display them.
4015
3855ae1c
CL
4016 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4017 Default: 2 = green.
4018
4019 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4020 Default: 3 = cyan.
4021
4724ba57
RD
4022 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4023 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4024 or other driver-specific files in the
4025 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4026
d55262c4
TH
4027 workqueue.disable_numa
4028 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4029 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4030 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4031 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4032 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4033 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4034 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4035
cee22a15
VK
4036 workqueue.power_efficient
4037 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4038 they show better performance thanks to cache
4039 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4040 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4041
4042 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4043 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4044 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4045 power usage at the cost of small performance
4046 overhead.
4047
4048 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4049 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4050
0cb55ad2
RD
4051 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4052 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4053 supporting x2apic.
4054
712b6aa8
KS
4055 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4056 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
4057 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4058 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4059 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4060
c1c5413a
SS
4061 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4062 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4063 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4064 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4065 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4066 nics -- unplug network devices
4067 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
4068 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4069 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4070 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4071 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4072
15a3eac0
KRW
4073 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4074 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4075 optimizations.
4076
8d693b91
KRW
4077 xen_nopv [X86]
4078 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4079 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4080
1da177e4 4081 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
4082 Format:
4083 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
1da177e4 4084
a9913044 4085______________________________________________________________________
1da177e4
LT
4086
4087TODO:
4088
1da177e4 4089 Add more DRM drivers.
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