1e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2e52347bdSJani Nikula			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4e52347bdSJani Nikula				  copy_dsdt }
5e52347bdSJani Nikula			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6e52347bdSJani Nikula			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7e52347bdSJani Nikula			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8e52347bdSJani Nikula			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9e52347bdSJani Nikula			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10e52347bdSJani Nikula				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11e52347bdSJani Nikula			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12e52347bdSJani Nikula			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13e52347bdSJani Nikula			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14e52347bdSJani Nikula			are available
15e52347bdSJani Nikula
16151f4e2bSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17e52347bdSJani Nikula
18e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
20e52347bdSJani Nikula			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21e52347bdSJani Nikula			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: 0
23e52347bdSJani Nikula
24e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
255fd769c2SRandy Dunlap			{ vendor | video | native | none }
265fd769c2SRandy Dunlap			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27e52347bdSJani Nikula			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28e52347bdSJani Nikula			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
295fd769c2SRandy Dunlap			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
305fd769c2SRandy Dunlap			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
315fd769c2SRandy Dunlap			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32e52347bdSJani Nikula
33e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34e52347bdSJani Nikula			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35e52347bdSJani Nikula			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36e52347bdSJani Nikula			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37e52347bdSJani Nikula			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38e52347bdSJani Nikula
39e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41e52347bdSJani Nikula			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42e52347bdSJani Nikula			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44e52347bdSJani Nikula			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45e52347bdSJani Nikula			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46e52347bdSJani Nikula
47e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
50e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51e52347bdSJani Nikula			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52e52347bdSJani Nikula			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53866d6cdfSRafael J. Wysocki			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54e52347bdSJani Nikula			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55e52347bdSJani Nikula			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56e52347bdSJani Nikula			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57e52347bdSJani Nikula			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59e52347bdSJani Nikula			debug layers and levels.
60e52347bdSJani Nikula
61e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable processor driver info messages:
62e52347bdSJani Nikula			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64e52347bdSJani Nikula			object while interpreting AML:
65e52347bdSJani Nikula			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67e52347bdSJani Nikula			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68e52347bdSJani Nikula
69e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70e52347bdSJani Nikula			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71e52347bdSJani Nikula			if you need to capture more output.
72e52347bdSJani Nikula
73e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74e52347bdSJani Nikula			{ strict | lax | no }
75e52347bdSJani Nikula			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76e52347bdSJani Nikula			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77e52347bdSJani Nikula			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78e52347bdSJani Nikula			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79e52347bdSJani Nikula			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80e52347bdSJani Nikula			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81e52347bdSJani Nikula			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82e52347bdSJani Nikula			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83e52347bdSJani Nikula			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85e52347bdSJani Nikula			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86e52347bdSJani Nikula			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87e52347bdSJani Nikula			no further checks are performed.
88e52347bdSJani Nikula
89e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92e52347bdSJani Nikula			size limitation.
93e52347bdSJani Nikula
94e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95e52347bdSJani Nikula			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96e52347bdSJani Nikula			default in APIC mode
97e52347bdSJani Nikula
98e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99e52347bdSJani Nikula			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100e52347bdSJani Nikula			default in PIC mode
101e52347bdSJani Nikula
102e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104e52347bdSJani Nikula
105e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106e52347bdSJani Nikula			use by PCI
107e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108e52347bdSJani Nikula
1099c4aa1eeSLv Zheng	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
1109c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
1119c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
1129c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
1139c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			the GPE dispatcher.
1149c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
1159c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			GPE floodings.
116d3121e64SAndy Shevchenko			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
1179c4aa1eeSLv Zheng
118e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120e52347bdSJani Nikula			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121e52347bdSJani Nikula			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122e52347bdSJani Nikula			auto-serialization feature.
123e52347bdSJani Nikula			This feature is enabled by default.
124e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125e52347bdSJani Nikula
126e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127e52347bdSJani Nikula			   kernels.
128e52347bdSJani Nikula
129e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132e52347bdSJani Nikula			installed automatically and they will appear under
133e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option turns off this feature.
135e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136e52347bdSJani Nikula			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137e52347bdSJani Nikula			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138e52347bdSJani Nikula
1393f9e12e0SJean Delvare	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
1403f9e12e0SJean Delvare			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
1413f9e12e0SJean Delvare			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
1423f9e12e0SJean Delvare
143e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144e52347bdSJani Nikula			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145e52347bdSJani Nikula			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146e52347bdSJani Nikula			second kernel for kdump.
147e52347bdSJani Nikula
148e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150e52347bdSJani Nikula
151e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152e52347bdSJani Nikula			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153e52347bdSJani Nikula			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154e52347bdSJani Nikula			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155e52347bdSJani Nikula			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156e52347bdSJani Nikula
157e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162e52347bdSJani Nikula						  strings
163e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164e52347bdSJani Nikula						  strings
165e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166e52347bdSJani Nikula
167e52347bdSJani Nikula			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168e52347bdSJani Nikula			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169e52347bdSJani Nikula			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170e52347bdSJani Nikula			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171e52347bdSJani Nikula			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172e52347bdSJani Nikula			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173e52347bdSJani Nikula			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174e52347bdSJani Nikula			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175e52347bdSJani Nikula			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176e52347bdSJani Nikula			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177e52347bdSJani Nikula			Examples:
178e52347bdSJani Nikula			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179e52347bdSJani Nikula			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180e52347bdSJani Nikula			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181e52347bdSJani Nikula
182e52347bdSJani Nikula			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183e52347bdSJani Nikula			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184e52347bdSJani Nikula			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185e52347bdSJani Nikula			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186e52347bdSJani Nikula			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187e52347bdSJani Nikula			meaningless.
188e52347bdSJani Nikula			Examples:
189e52347bdSJani Nikula			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190e52347bdSJani Nikula			     FALSE.
191e52347bdSJani Nikula
192e52347bdSJani Nikula			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193e52347bdSJani Nikula			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194e52347bdSJani Nikula			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195e52347bdSJani Nikula			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196e52347bdSJani Nikula			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197e52347bdSJani Nikula			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198e52347bdSJani Nikula			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199e52347bdSJani Nikula			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200e52347bdSJani Nikula			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201e52347bdSJani Nikula			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202e52347bdSJani Nikula			the OSPM features.
203e52347bdSJani Nikula			Examples:
204e52347bdSJani Nikula			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205e52347bdSJani Nikula			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206e52347bdSJani Nikula			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207e52347bdSJani Nikula			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208e52347bdSJani Nikula			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209e52347bdSJani Nikula			     equivalent to
210e52347bdSJani Nikula			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211e52347bdSJani Nikula			     and
212e52347bdSJani Nikula			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213e52347bdSJani Nikula			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214e52347bdSJani Nikula
215e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216e52347bdSJani Nikula			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217e52347bdSJani Nikula			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218e52347bdSJani Nikula			and always returns good values.
219e52347bdSJani Nikula
220e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222e52347bdSJani Nikula
223e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224e52347bdSJani Nikula			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225e52347bdSJani Nikula			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226e52347bdSJani Nikula
227e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
22957044031SRafael J. Wysocki				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
230151f4e2bSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
231e52347bdSJani Nikula			s3_bios and s3_mode.
232e52347bdSJani Nikula			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233e52347bdSJani Nikula			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234e52347bdSJani Nikula			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235e52347bdSJani Nikula			used during resume from hibernation.
236e52347bdSJani Nikula			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237e52347bdSJani Nikula			control method, with respect to putting devices into
238e52347bdSJani Nikula			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239e52347bdSJani Nikula			of _PTS is used by default).
240e52347bdSJani Nikula			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241e52347bdSJani Nikula			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242e52347bdSJani Nikula			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243e52347bdSJani Nikula			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244e52347bdSJani Nikula			but some broken systems don't work without it).
24557044031SRafael J. Wysocki			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
24657044031SRafael J. Wysocki			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
24757044031SRafael J. Wysocki			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248e52347bdSJani Nikula
249e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251e52347bdSJani Nikula			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252e52347bdSJani Nikula
253e52347bdSJani Nikula	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255e52347bdSJani Nikula
256e52347bdSJani Nikula	agp=		[AGP]
257e52347bdSJani Nikula			{ off | try_unsupported }
258e52347bdSJani Nikula			off: disable AGP support
259e52347bdSJani Nikula			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260e52347bdSJani Nikula				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261e52347bdSJani Nikula
262e52347bdSJani Nikula	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
2631ca2c806SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264e52347bdSJani Nikula
265e52347bdSJani Nikula	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
266e52347bdSJani Nikula			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267e52347bdSJani Nikula			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
268e52347bdSJani Nikula			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269e52347bdSJani Nikula
270e52347bdSJani Nikula	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
271e52347bdSJani Nikula			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272e52347bdSJani Nikula			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273e52347bdSJani Nikula			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274e52347bdSJani Nikula			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275e52347bdSJani Nikula			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276e52347bdSJani Nikula			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277e52347bdSJani Nikula
278e52347bdSJani Nikula			32: only for 32-bit processes
279e52347bdSJani Nikula			64: only for 64-bit processes
280e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281e52347bdSJani Nikula			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282e52347bdSJani Nikula
283e52347bdSJani Nikula	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
284e52347bdSJani Nikula			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285e52347bdSJani Nikula			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286e52347bdSJani Nikula			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287e52347bdSJani Nikula			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288e52347bdSJani Nikula			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289e52347bdSJani Nikula
290ead7de46SWill Deacon	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
291ead7de46SWill Deacon			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
292ead7de46SWill Deacon			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
293ead7de46SWill Deacon			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
294ead7de46SWill Deacon			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
295ead7de46SWill Deacon			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
296ead7de46SWill Deacon			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
297ead7de46SWill Deacon
298702f4387SWill Deacon			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
299702f4387SWill Deacon			information.
300702f4387SWill Deacon
301e52347bdSJani Nikula	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
302e52347bdSJani Nikula			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
303e52347bdSJani Nikula			Possible values are:
3041d479f16SJohn Garry			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
305e52347bdSJani Nikula			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
306e52347bdSJani Nikula				    the system
307e52347bdSJani Nikula			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
308e52347bdSJani Nikula					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
309e52347bdSJani Nikula					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
310e52347bdSJani Nikula					  requirements as needed. This option
311e52347bdSJani Nikula					  does not override iommu=pt
312b1e650dbSJoerg Roedel			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
313b1e650dbSJoerg Roedel				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
314b1e650dbSJoerg Roedel				       option with care.
315e52347bdSJani Nikula
316e52347bdSJani Nikula	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
317e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
318e52347bdSJani Nikula			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
319e52347bdSJani Nikula			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
320e52347bdSJani Nikula			IOMMU initialization.
321e52347bdSJani Nikula
322e52347bdSJani Nikula	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
323e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
324e52347bdSJani Nikula			remapping modes:
325e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
326e52347bdSJani Nikula			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
327e52347bdSJani Nikula			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
328e52347bdSJani Nikula			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
329e52347bdSJani Nikula			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
330e52347bdSJani Nikula
331e52347bdSJani Nikula	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
332e52347bdSJani Nikula			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
333e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <a>,<b>
3341752118dSTom Saeger			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
335e52347bdSJani Nikula
336e52347bdSJani Nikula	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
337e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
338e52347bdSJani Nikula			connected to one of 16 gameports
339e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
340e52347bdSJani Nikula
341e52347bdSJani Nikula	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
342e52347bdSJani Nikula			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
343e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: noidle
344e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
345e52347bdSJani Nikula			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
346e52347bdSJani Nikula			APC and your system crashes randomly.
347e52347bdSJani Nikula
34864e05d11SDou Liyang	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
349806654a9SWill Deacon			Change the output verbosity while booting
350e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
351e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the amount of debugging information output
352e52347bdSJani Nikula			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
35364e05d11SDou Liyang			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
35464e05d11SDou Liyang			driver name.
35564e05d11SDou Liyang			Format: apic=driver_name
35664e05d11SDou Liyang			Examples: apic=bigsmp
357e52347bdSJani Nikula
358e52347bdSJani Nikula	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
359e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
360e52347bdSJani Nikula			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
361e52347bdSJani Nikula			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
362e52347bdSJani Nikula			      backup of CPU 0
363e52347bdSJani Nikula			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
364e52347bdSJani Nikula			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
365e52347bdSJani Nikula			      shot down by NMI
366e52347bdSJani Nikula
367e52347bdSJani Nikula	autoconf=	[IPV6]
36819093313SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
369e52347bdSJani Nikula
370e52347bdSJani Nikula	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
371e52347bdSJani Nikula			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
372e52347bdSJani Nikula			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
373e52347bdSJani Nikula			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
374e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
375e52347bdSJani Nikula			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
376e52347bdSJani Nikula			apic=verbose is specified.
377e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
378e52347bdSJani Nikula
379e52347bdSJani Nikula	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
380e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
381e52347bdSJani Nikula
382e52347bdSJani Nikula	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
383e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
384e52347bdSJani Nikula
38593ad55b7SMarc Zyngier	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
38693ad55b7SMarc Zyngier			Identification support
38793ad55b7SMarc Zyngier
388f8da5752SMarc Zyngier	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
389f8da5752SMarc Zyngier			support
390f8da5752SMarc Zyngier
3917a062ce3SYee Lee	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
3927a062ce3SYee Lee			support
3937a062ce3SYee Lee
394e52347bdSJani Nikula	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
395e52347bdSJani Nikula
396e52347bdSJani Nikula	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
397e52347bdSJani Nikula
398e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
399e52347bdSJani Nikula			EzKey and similar keyboards
400e52347bdSJani Nikula
401e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
402e52347bdSJani Nikula
403e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
404e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
405e52347bdSJani Nikula
406e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
407e52347bdSJani Nikula			keyboards
408e52347bdSJani Nikula
409e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
410e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
411e52347bdSJani Nikula
412e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
413e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use software keyboard repeat
414e52347bdSJani Nikula
415e52347bdSJani Nikula	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
41611dd2666SGreg Edwards			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
41711dd2666SGreg Edwards			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
41811dd2666SGreg Edwards			    enabled until the next reboot
419e52347bdSJani Nikula			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
420e52347bdSJani Nikula			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
42111dd2666SGreg Edwards			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
42211dd2666SGreg Edwards			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
42311dd2666SGreg Edwards			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
42411dd2666SGreg Edwards			    userspace auditd.
425e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: unset
426e52347bdSJani Nikula
427e52347bdSJani Nikula	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
428e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
429e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 64
430e52347bdSJani Nikula
431e52347bdSJani Nikula	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
432e52347bdSJani Nikula			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
433e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
434e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 - Disable the BAU.
435e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 - Enable the BAU.
436e52347bdSJani Nikula			unset - Disable the BAU.
437e52347bdSJani Nikula
438e52347bdSJani Nikula	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
439e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<mode>
440e52347bdSJani Nikula
441e52347bdSJani Nikula	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
442e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<mode>
443e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
444e52347bdSJani Nikula
445e52347bdSJani Nikula	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
446e52347bdSJani Nikula			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
447e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
448e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
449e52347bdSJani Nikula
450e52347bdSJani Nikula	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
451e52347bdSJani Nikula			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
452e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
453e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
454e52347bdSJani Nikula
455e52347bdSJani Nikula	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
456e52347bdSJani Nikula			embedded devices based on command line input.
457898bd37aSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
458e52347bdSJani Nikula
459e52347bdSJani Nikula	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
460e52347bdSJani Nikula			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
461e52347bdSJani Nikula			no delay (0).
462e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: integer
463e52347bdSJani Nikula
4647495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bootconfig	[KNL]
4657495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
4667495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
4677495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
4687495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
4697495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
470e52347bdSJani Nikula	bert_disable	[ACPI]
471e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472e52347bdSJani Nikula
4731ffb8d03SAlex Hung	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
4741ffb8d03SAlex Hung			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
4751ffb8d03SAlex Hung
476e52347bdSJani Nikula	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
477e52347bdSJani Nikula	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
478e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel args too.
47932e2eae2SMauro Carvalho Chehab	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
480e52347bdSJani Nikula	bttv.tuner=
481e52347bdSJani Nikula
482e52347bdSJani Nikula	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
483e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
484e52347bdSJani Nikula			at a time.
485e52347bdSJani Nikula
486e52347bdSJani Nikula	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
487e52347bdSJani Nikula
488e52347bdSJani Nikula	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
489e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
490e52347bdSJani Nikula			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
491e52347bdSJani Nikula			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
492e52347bdSJani Nikula			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
493e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option provides an override for these situations.
494e52347bdSJani Nikula
4953fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger	carrier_timeout=
4963fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
4973fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
4983fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger			it waits 120 seconds.
4993fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger
500e52347bdSJani Nikula	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
501e52347bdSJani Nikula			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
502e52347bdSJani Nikula			trust validation.
503e52347bdSJani Nikula			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
504e52347bdSJani Nikula
505e52347bdSJani Nikula	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
506e52347bdSJani Nikula			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
507e52347bdSJani Nikula			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
508e52347bdSJani Nikula			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
509e52347bdSJani Nikula			others).
510e52347bdSJani Nikula
511e52347bdSJani Nikula	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
5128b4a503dSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
513e52347bdSJani Nikula
5143958e2d0SSuren Baghdasaryan	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
5153958e2d0SSuren Baghdasaryan			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
516e52347bdSJani Nikula			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
517e52347bdSJani Nikula			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
518e52347bdSJani Nikula			  a single hierarchy
519e52347bdSJani Nikula			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
520e52347bdSJani Nikula			  subsystem
5213958e2d0SSuren Baghdasaryan			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
5223958e2d0SSuren Baghdasaryan			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
5233958e2d0SSuren Baghdasaryan			  created
524e52347bdSJani Nikula			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
525e52347bdSJani Nikula			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
526e52347bdSJani Nikula			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
5273958e2d0SSuren Baghdasaryan			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
5283958e2d0SSuren Baghdasaryan			stall information accounting feature
529e52347bdSJani Nikula
5303fc9c12dSTejun Heo	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
5313fc9c12dSTejun Heo			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
5323fc9c12dSTejun Heo			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
533e52347bdSJani Nikula			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
534e52347bdSJani Nikula			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
5353fc9c12dSTejun Heo			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
5363fc9c12dSTejun Heo			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
5373fc9c12dSTejun Heo			all v1 hierarchies.
538e52347bdSJani Nikula
539e52347bdSJani Nikula	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
540e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <string>
541e52347bdSJani Nikula			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
542e52347bdSJani Nikula			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
543e52347bdSJani Nikula
544e52347bdSJani Nikula	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
545e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
546e52347bdSJani Nikula			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
547e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
548e52347bdSJani Nikula				any implied execute protection).
549e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- check protection requested by application.
550e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
551e52347bdSJani Nikula			Value can be changed at runtime via
552d41415ebSStephen Smalley				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
553e9c38f9fSStephen Smalley			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
554e52347bdSJani Nikula
555e52347bdSJani Nikula	cio_ignore=	[S390]
5568b4a503dSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
557e52347bdSJani Nikula	clk_ignore_unused
558e52347bdSJani Nikula			[CLK]
559e52347bdSJani Nikula			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
560e52347bdSJani Nikula			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
561e52347bdSJani Nikula			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
562e52347bdSJani Nikula			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
563e52347bdSJani Nikula			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
564e52347bdSJani Nikula			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
565e52347bdSJani Nikula			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
566e52347bdSJani Nikula			platform with proper driver support.  For more
56718bcaa4eSMauro Carvalho Chehab			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
568e52347bdSJani Nikula
569e52347bdSJani Nikula	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
570e52347bdSJani Nikula			[Deprecated]
571e52347bdSJani Nikula			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
572e52347bdSJani Nikula			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
573e52347bdSJani Nikula			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
574e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
575e52347bdSJani Nikula
576e52347bdSJani Nikula	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
577e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <string>
578e52347bdSJani Nikula			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
579e52347bdSJani Nikula			with the name specified.
580e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
581e52347bdSJani Nikula			the platform:
582e52347bdSJani Nikula			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
583e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ACPI] acpi_pm
584e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
585e52347bdSJani Nikula				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
586e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
587e52347bdSJani Nikula				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
588e52347bdSJani Nikula			[MIPS] MIPS
589e52347bdSJani Nikula			[PARISC] cr16
590e52347bdSJani Nikula			[S390] tod
591e52347bdSJani Nikula			[SH] SuperH
592e52347bdSJani Nikula			[SPARC64] tick
593e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
594e52347bdSJani Nikula
595e52347bdSJani Nikula	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
596e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ARM,ARM64]
597e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bool>
598e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
599e52347bdSJani Nikula			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
600e52347bdSJani Nikula			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
601e52347bdSJani Nikula			systems.
602e52347bdSJani Nikula
603db3a34e1SPaul E. McKenney	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
604db3a34e1SPaul E. McKenney			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
605db3a34e1SPaul E. McKenney			external delays before the clock will be marked
606db3a34e1SPaul E. McKenney			unstable.  Defaults to three retries, that is,
607db3a34e1SPaul E. McKenney			four attempts to read the clock under test.
608db3a34e1SPaul E. McKenney
609fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
610fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
611fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
612fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
613fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
614fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
615fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
616fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
617fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
618fa218f1cSPaul E. McKenney
6191253b9b8SPaul E. McKenney	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
6201253b9b8SPaul E. McKenney			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
6211253b9b8SPaul E. McKenney			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
6221253b9b8SPaul E. McKenney			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
6231253b9b8SPaul E. McKenney			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
6241253b9b8SPaul E. McKenney
6250a4bb5e5SArvind Sankar	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
626e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
627e52347bdSJani Nikula			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
628e52347bdSJani Nikula			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
629e52347bdSJani Nikula			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
630e52347bdSJani Nikula			ones should be.
631e52347bdSJani Nikula			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
632e52347bdSJani Nikula			or using the feature without checking anything
633e52347bdSJani Nikula			will still see it. This just prevents it from
634e52347bdSJani Nikula			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
635e52347bdSJani Nikula			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
636e52347bdSJani Nikula			some critical bits.
637e52347bdSJani Nikula
638e52347bdSJani Nikula	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
639c372e741STian Tao			[KNL,CMA]
640e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
641e52347bdSJani Nikula			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
642e52347bdSJani Nikula			placement constraint by the physical address range of
643e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
644e52347bdSJani Nikula			altogether. For more information, see
6450b1abd1fSChristoph Hellwig			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
646e52347bdSJani Nikula
647b7176c26SBarry Song	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
648bc47190dSRandy Dunlap			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
649b7176c26SBarry Song			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
650b7176c26SBarry Song			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
651b7176c26SBarry Song			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
652b7176c26SBarry Song			specificed, the default value is 0.
653b7176c26SBarry Song			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
654b7176c26SBarry Song			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
655b7176c26SBarry Song			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
656b7176c26SBarry Song			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
657e52347bdSJani Nikula
658e52347bdSJani Nikula	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
659e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
660e52347bdSJani Nikula			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
661e52347bdSJani Nikula			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
662e52347bdSJani Nikula			a hypervisor.
663e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: yes
664e52347bdSJani Nikula
665e52347bdSJani Nikula	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
666e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
667e52347bdSJani Nikula			allocations, by default set to 256K.
668e52347bdSJani Nikula
669e52347bdSJani Nikula	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
670e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
671e52347bdSJani Nikula			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
672e52347bdSJani Nikula
673e52347bdSJani Nikula	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
674e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
675e52347bdSJani Nikula
676e52347bdSJani Nikula	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
677e52347bdSJani Nikula			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
678e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
679e52347bdSJani Nikula
680e52347bdSJani Nikula	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
681e52347bdSJani Nikula	conmode=
682e52347bdSJani Nikula
683e52347bdSJani Nikula	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
684e52347bdSJani Nikula
685e52347bdSJani Nikula		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
686e52347bdSJani Nikula
687e52347bdSJani Nikula		ttyS<n>[,options]
688e52347bdSJani Nikula		ttyUSB0[,options]
689e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
690e52347bdSJani Nikula			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
691e52347bdSJani Nikula			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
692e52347bdSJani Nikula			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
693e52347bdSJani Nikula			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
694e52347bdSJani Nikula
695e52347bdSJani Nikula			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
696e52347bdSJani Nikula			information.  See
697d9d6ef25SMauro Carvalho Chehab			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
698e52347bdSJani Nikula			alternative.
699e52347bdSJani Nikula
700e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
701e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
702e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
703e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
704e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
705e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
706e52347bdSJani Nikula			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
707e52347bdSJani Nikula			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
708e52347bdSJani Nikula			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
709e52347bdSJani Nikula			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
710e52347bdSJani Nikula			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
711e52347bdSJani Nikula			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
712e52347bdSJani Nikula			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
713e52347bdSJani Nikula			the h/w is not re-initialized.
714e52347bdSJani Nikula
715e52347bdSJani Nikula		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
716e52347bdSJani Nikula			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
717e52347bdSJani Nikula
718e52347bdSJani Nikula		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
719e52347bdSJani Nikula		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
720e52347bdSJani Nikula			console=brl,ttyS0
721e52347bdSJani Nikula		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
722e52347bdSJani Nikula
723cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky	console_msg_format=
724cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			[KNL] Change console messages format
725cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky		default
726cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			By default we print messages on consoles in
727cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
728cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
729cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			`printk_time' param).
730cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky		syslog
731cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
732cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
733cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
734cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
735cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			from /proc/kmsg.
736cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky
737e52347bdSJani Nikula	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
738ac0a314cSDaniel Xu			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
739ac0a314cSDaniel Xu			Defaults to 0.
740e52347bdSJani Nikula
741e52347bdSJani Nikula	coredump_filter=
742e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Change the default value for
743e52347bdSJani Nikula			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
744cd4ca341SJimmy Assarsson			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
745e52347bdSJani Nikula
74662a31ce1SLeo Yan	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
74762a31ce1SLeo Yan			[ARM,ARM64]
74862a31ce1SLeo Yan			Format: <bool>
74962a31ce1SLeo Yan			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
75062a31ce1SLeo Yan			0: default value, disable debugging
75162a31ce1SLeo Yan			1: enable debugging at boot time
75262a31ce1SLeo Yan
753e52347bdSJani Nikula	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
754e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable the cpuidle sub-system
755e52347bdSJani Nikula
75661cb5758SRafael J. Wysocki	cpuidle.governor=
75761cb5758SRafael J. Wysocki			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
75861cb5758SRafael J. Wysocki
759d82f2692SLen Brown	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
760d82f2692SLen Brown			disable the cpufreq sub-system
761d82f2692SLen Brown
7628412b456SQuentin Perret	cpufreq.default_governor=
7638412b456SQuentin Perret			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
7648412b456SQuentin Perret			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
7658412b456SQuentin Perret			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
7668412b456SQuentin Perret
767e52347bdSJani Nikula	cpu_init_udelay=N
768e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
769e52347bdSJani Nikula			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
770e52347bdSJani Nikula			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
771e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 10000
772e52347bdSJani Nikula
773e52347bdSJani Nikula	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
774e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
775e52347bdSJani Nikula			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
776e52347bdSJani Nikula
777e52347bdSJani Nikula	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
778e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
779e52347bdSJani Nikula			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
780e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
781e52347bdSJani Nikula			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
782b9ac3849SDave Young			is selected automatically.
783be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
784b9ac3849SDave Young			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
785b9ac3849SDave Young			hasn't been specified.
786330d4810SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
787e52347bdSJani Nikula
788e52347bdSJani Nikula	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
789e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
790e52347bdSJani Nikula			in the running system. The syntax of range is
791e52347bdSJani Nikula			start-[end] where start and end are both
792e52347bdSJani Nikula			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
793330d4810SMauro Carvalho Chehab			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
794e52347bdSJani Nikula
795e52347bdSJani Nikula	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
796be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
797e52347bdSJani Nikula			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
798e52347bdSJani Nikula			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
799e52347bdSJani Nikula			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
800e52347bdSJani Nikula			available.
801e52347bdSJani Nikula			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
802e52347bdSJani Nikula	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
803be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
804e52347bdSJani Nikula			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
805e52347bdSJani Nikula			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
806e52347bdSJani Nikula			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
807e52347bdSJani Nikula			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
808e52347bdSJani Nikula			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
809e52347bdSJani Nikula			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
810e52347bdSJani Nikula			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
811e52347bdSJani Nikula			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
812e52347bdSJani Nikula			for second kernel instead.
813e52347bdSJani Nikula			0: to disable low allocation.
814e52347bdSJani Nikula			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
815e52347bdSJani Nikula			or memory reserved is below 4G.
816e52347bdSJani Nikula
817e52347bdSJani Nikula	cryptomgr.notests
818e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
819e52347bdSJani Nikula
820e52347bdSJani Nikula	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
821e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <dma>
822e52347bdSJani Nikula
823e52347bdSJani Nikula	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
824e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
825e52347bdSJani Nikula
8268d0968ccSJuergen Gross	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
8278d0968ccSJuergen Gross			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
8288d0968ccSJuergen Gross			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
8298d0968ccSJuergen Gross			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
8308d0968ccSJuergen Gross			to resolve the hang situation.
831a5aabaceSJuergen Gross			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
832a5aabaceSJuergen Gross			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
833a5aabaceSJuergen Gross			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
834a5aabaceSJuergen Gross			     but more data)
8358d0968ccSJuergen Gross
836e52347bdSJani Nikula	dasd=		[HW,NET]
837e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
838e52347bdSJani Nikula
839e52347bdSJani Nikula	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
840e52347bdSJani Nikula			(one device per port)
841e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <port#>,<type>
8421752118dSTom Saeger			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
843e52347bdSJani Nikula
844e52347bdSJani Nikula	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
845787e3075SSteffen Maier			time. See
846787e3075SSteffen Maier			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
847e52347bdSJani Nikula			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
848e52347bdSJani Nikula
849e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
850e52347bdSJani Nikula
8513672476eSTobin C. Harding	debug_boot_weak_hash
8523672476eSTobin C. Harding			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
8533672476eSTobin C. Harding			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
8543672476eSTobin C. Harding			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
8553672476eSTobin C. Harding			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
8563672476eSTobin C. Harding			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
8573672476eSTobin C. Harding			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
8583672476eSTobin C. Harding
859e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug_locks_verbose=
8605831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
8615831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			Format: <int>
862e52347bdSJani Nikula			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
863e52347bdSJani Nikula			self-tests.
8645831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
8655831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
8665831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
8675831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			useful to lockdep developers.
868e52347bdSJani Nikula
869e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
870e52347bdSJani Nikula
871e52347bdSJani Nikula	no_debug_objects
872e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Disable object debugging
873e52347bdSJani Nikula
874e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug_guardpage_minorder=
875e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
876e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
877e52347bdSJani Nikula			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
878e52347bdSJani Nikula			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
879e52347bdSJani Nikula			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
880e52347bdSJani Nikula			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
881e52347bdSJani Nikula			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
882e52347bdSJani Nikula			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
883e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
884e52347bdSJani Nikula			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
885e52347bdSJani Nikula			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
886e52347bdSJani Nikula			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
887e52347bdSJani Nikula			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
888e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
889e52347bdSJani Nikula			bypassed) which are not detectable by
890e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
891e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracking down these problems.
892e52347bdSJani Nikula
893e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug_pagealloc=
8943972f6bbSVlastimil Babka			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
8953972f6bbSVlastimil Babka			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
8963972f6bbSVlastimil Babka			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
8973972f6bbSVlastimil Babka			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
8988974558fSVlastimil Babka			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
8998974558fSVlastimil Babka			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
900e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: enable the feature
901e52347bdSJani Nikula
902a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
903a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			and debugfs internal clients.
904a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
905a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			on: 	All functions are enabled.
906a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			no-mount:
907a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
908a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
909a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				its content. There is nothing to mount.
910a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
911a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
912a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				or directories within debugfs.
913a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
914a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
915a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
916a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg
917e52347bdSJani Nikula	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
918e52347bdSJani Nikula
919e52347bdSJani Nikula	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
920e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <area>[,<node>]
9219a69fb9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
922e52347bdSJani Nikula
923e52347bdSJani Nikula	default_hugepagesz=
924282f4214SMike Kravetz			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
925282f4214SMike Kravetz			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
926282f4214SMike Kravetz			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
927282f4214SMike Kravetz			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
928282f4214SMike Kravetz			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
929282f4214SMike Kravetz			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
930282f4214SMike Kravetz			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
931282f4214SMike Kravetz			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
932282f4214SMike Kravetz			Format: size[KMG]
933e52347bdSJani Nikula
93425b4e70dSRob Herring	deferred_probe_timeout=
93525b4e70dSRob Herring			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
93625b4e70dSRob Herring			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
93725b4e70dSRob Herring			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
93825b4e70dSRob Herring			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
93925b4e70dSRob Herring			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
94025b4e70dSRob Herring			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
94125b4e70dSRob Herring			retrying.
94225b4e70dSRob Herring
943c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
944c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
945c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
946c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			          level 1 and decompression (default)
947c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
948c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
949c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			          only (compression on level 1)
950c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
951c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			          only (decompression)
952c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
953c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
954c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko
955e52347bdSJani Nikula	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
956e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
957e52347bdSJani Nikula
958e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
959e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
960e52347bdSJani Nikula			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
961e52347bdSJani Nikula			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
962e52347bdSJani Nikula			miss to occur.
963e52347bdSJani Nikula
96482a1b8edSNicholas Piggin	stress_slb	[PPC]
96582a1b8edSNicholas Piggin			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
96682a1b8edSNicholas Piggin			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
96782a1b8edSNicholas Piggin			on kernel addresses.
96882a1b8edSNicholas Piggin
969e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable=	[IPV6]
97019093313SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
971e52347bdSJani Nikula
972b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen	hardened_usercopy=
973b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
974b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
975b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
976b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
977b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
978b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
979b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
980b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
981b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
982b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen
983e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_radix	[PPC]
984e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
985e52347bdSJani Nikula
986bf6b7661SAneesh Kumar K.V	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
987bf6b7661SAneesh Kumar K.V			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
988bf6b7661SAneesh Kumar K.V			invalidate.
989bf6b7661SAneesh Kumar K.V
9902275d7b5SNicholas Piggin	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
9912275d7b5SNicholas Piggin			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
9922275d7b5SNicholas Piggin			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
9932275d7b5SNicholas Piggin
994e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
995e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
996e52347bdSJani Nikula			The number of initial APIC ID for the
997e52347bdSJani Nikula			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
998e52347bdSJani Nikula			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
999e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1000e52347bdSJani Nikula			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1001e52347bdSJani Nikula			INIT from AP to BSP.
1002e52347bdSJani Nikula
1003e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1004255bf90fSRandy Dunlap			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1005e52347bdSJani Nikula			to workaround buggy firmware.
1006e52347bdSJani Nikula
1007e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
100819093313SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1009e52347bdSJani Nikula
1010e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1011e52347bdSJani Nikula			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1012e52347bdSJani Nikula			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1013e52347bdSJani Nikula			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1014e52347bdSJani Nikula
1015e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1016e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1017e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1018e52347bdSJani Nikula			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1019e52347bdSJani Nikula			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1020e52347bdSJani Nikula
1021e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1022e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1023e52347bdSJani Nikula			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1024e52347bdSJani Nikula
1025e52347bdSJani Nikula	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1026e52347bdSJani Nikula
1027e52347bdSJani Nikula	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1028e52347bdSJani Nikula			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1029e52347bdSJani Nikula
1030e52347bdSJani Nikula	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1031e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1032e52347bdSJani Nikula			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1033e52347bdSJani Nikula			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1034e52347bdSJani Nikula			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1035e52347bdSJani Nikula			architectural default is too low.
1036e52347bdSJani Nikula
1037e52347bdSJani Nikula	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1038e52347bdSJani Nikula			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1039e52347bdSJani Nikula			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1040e52347bdSJani Nikula			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1041e52347bdSJani Nikula			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1042e52347bdSJani Nikula			driver later using sysfs.
1043e52347bdSJani Nikula
10441ea61b68SFeng Tang	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
10451ea61b68SFeng Tang			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
10461ea61b68SFeng Tang			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
10471ea61b68SFeng Tang
104853fd40a9SJani Nikula	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1049e52347bdSJani Nikula			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1050e52347bdSJani Nikula			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1051e52347bdSJani Nikula			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1052e52347bdSJani Nikula			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1053e52347bdSJani Nikula			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1054e52347bdSJani Nikula			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1055e52347bdSJani Nikula			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1056e52347bdSJani Nikula			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1057e52347bdSJani Nikula			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1058cd4ca341SJimmy Assarsson			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1059e52347bdSJani Nikula			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1060e52347bdSJani Nikula			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1061e52347bdSJani Nikula			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1062e52347bdSJani Nikula			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1063e52347bdSJani Nikula			data set with no connector name will be used for
1064e52347bdSJani Nikula			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1065e52347bdSJani Nikula
1066e52347bdSJani Nikula	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1067e52347bdSJani Nikula
1068a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1069a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1070a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1071a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1072a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			exists).
1073a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1074a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1075a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1076a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin
1077e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1078e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1079e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1080e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1081e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds
1082e52347bdSJani Nikula	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1083307e3ee9SRandy Dunlap	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1084e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1085787e3075SSteffen Maier			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1086787e3075SSteffen Maier			for details.
1087e52347bdSJani Nikula
1088e52347bdSJani Nikula	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1089e52347bdSJani Nikula			in some Intel CPUs.
1090e52347bdSJani Nikula
1091307e3ee9SRandy Dunlap	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1092e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1093e52347bdSJani Nikula
1094e52347bdSJani Nikula	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1095e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1096e52347bdSJani Nikula			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1097e52347bdSJani Nikula			which are not unmapped.
1098e52347bdSJani Nikula
1099e52347bdSJani Nikula	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1100e52347bdSJani Nikula
1101e18409c0SChristoph Hellwig			When used with no options, the early console is
1102e18409c0SChristoph Hellwig			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1103e18409c0SChristoph Hellwig			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1104e18409c0SChristoph Hellwig			the platform.
1105e52347bdSJani Nikula
1106e52347bdSJani Nikula		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1107e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1108e52347bdSJani Nikula			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1109e52347bdSJani Nikula			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1110e52347bdSJani Nikula			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1111e52347bdSJani Nikula			configured.
1112e52347bdSJani Nikula
1113e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1114e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1115e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1116e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1117e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1118e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1119e52347bdSJani Nikula			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1120e52347bdSJani Nikula			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1121e52347bdSJani Nikula			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1122e52347bdSJani Nikula			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1123e52347bdSJani Nikula			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1124e52347bdSJani Nikula			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1125e52347bdSJani Nikula			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1126e52347bdSJani Nikula
1127e52347bdSJani Nikula		pl011,<addr>
1128e52347bdSJani Nikula		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1129e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1130e52347bdSJani Nikula			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1131e52347bdSJani Nikula			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1132e52347bdSJani Nikula			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1133e52347bdSJani Nikula			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1134e52347bdSJani Nikula			the device registers.
1135e52347bdSJani Nikula
11364bc2bd5aSStafford Horne		liteuart,<addr>
11374bc2bd5aSStafford Horne			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
11384bc2bd5aSStafford Horne			specified address. The serial port must already be
11394bc2bd5aSStafford Horne			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
11404bc2bd5aSStafford Horne
1141e52347bdSJani Nikula		meson,<addr>
1142e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1143e52347bdSJani Nikula			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1144e52347bdSJani Nikula			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1145e52347bdSJani Nikula			supported.
1146e52347bdSJani Nikula
1147e52347bdSJani Nikula		msm_serial,<addr>
1148e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1149e52347bdSJani Nikula			port at the specified address. The serial port
1150e52347bdSJani Nikula			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1151e52347bdSJani Nikula			yet supported.
1152e52347bdSJani Nikula
1153e52347bdSJani Nikula		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1154e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1155e52347bdSJani Nikula			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1156e52347bdSJani Nikula			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1157e52347bdSJani Nikula			yet supported.
1158e52347bdSJani Nikula
1159e36361d7SAndreas Färber		owl,<addr>
1160e36361d7SAndreas Färber			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1161e36361d7SAndreas Färber			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1162e36361d7SAndreas Färber			specified address. The serial port must already be
1163e36361d7SAndreas Färber			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1164e36361d7SAndreas Färber
1165c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam		rda,<addr>
1166c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1167c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1168c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam			specified address. The serial port must already be
1169c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1170c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam
117182f12ab3SPalmer Dabbelt		sbi
117282f12ab3SPalmer Dabbelt			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
117382f12ab3SPalmer Dabbelt			console.
117482f12ab3SPalmer Dabbelt
1175e52347bdSJani Nikula		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1176e52347bdSJani Nikula
1177e52347bdSJani Nikula		s3c2410,<addr>
1178e52347bdSJani Nikula		s3c2412,<addr>
1179e52347bdSJani Nikula		s3c2440,<addr>
1180e52347bdSJani Nikula		s3c6400,<addr>
1181e52347bdSJani Nikula		s5pv210,<addr>
1182e52347bdSJani Nikula		exynos4210,<addr>
1183e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1184e52347bdSJani Nikula			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1185e52347bdSJani Nikula			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1186e52347bdSJani Nikula			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1187e52347bdSJani Nikula			Options are not yet supported.
1188e52347bdSJani Nikula
1189ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl		lantiq,<addr>
1190ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1191ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1192ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1193ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl			yet supported.
1194ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl
1195e52347bdSJani Nikula		lpuart,<addr>
1196e52347bdSJani Nikula		lpuart32,<addr>
1197e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1198e52347bdSJani Nikula			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1199e52347bdSJani Nikula			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1200e52347bdSJani Nikula			port must already be setup and configured.
1201e52347bdSJani Nikula
12027fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer		ec_imx21,<addr>
12037fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer		ec_imx6q,<addr>
12047fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
12057fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
12067fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer			must already be setup and configured.
12077fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer
1208f7c864e7SAndre Przywara		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1209e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1210e52347bdSJani Nikula			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1211e52347bdSJani Nikula			address. The serial port must already be setup
1212e52347bdSJani Nikula			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1213e52347bdSJani Nikula
121443f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian		qcom_geni,<addr>
121543f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
121643f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
121743f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian			specified address. The serial port must already be
121843f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
121943f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian
122069c1f396SArd Biesheuvel		efifb,[options]
122169c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
122269c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
122369c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
122469c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
122569c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			mapped with the correct attributes.
122669c1f396SArd Biesheuvel
122709864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea		linflex,<addr>
12289905f32aSStefan-Gabriel Mirea			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
122909864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
123009864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea			address must be provided, and the serial port must
123109864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea			already be setup and configured.
123209864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea
12334ba66a97SArnd Bergmann	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1234e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=vga
123589175cf7SHeiko Carstens			earlyprintk=sclp
1236e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=xen
1237e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1238e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1239e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1240e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1241d2266bbfSFeng Tang			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
12421b5aeebfSLu Baolu			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1243e52347bdSJani Nikula
1244e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1245e52347bdSJani Nikula			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1246e52347bdSJani Nikula			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1247e52347bdSJani Nikula
1248e52347bdSJani Nikula			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1249e52347bdSJani Nikula			takes over.
1250e52347bdSJani Nikula
1251e52347bdSJani Nikula			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1252e52347bdSJani Nikula			be used at a time.
1253e52347bdSJani Nikula
1254e52347bdSJani Nikula			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1255e52347bdSJani Nikula			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1256e52347bdSJani Nikula			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1257e52347bdSJani Nikula			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1258e52347bdSJani Nikula				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1259e52347bdSJani Nikula			You can find the port for a given device in
1260e52347bdSJani Nikula			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1261e52347bdSJani Nikula				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1262e52347bdSJani Nikula
1263e52347bdSJani Nikula			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1264e52347bdSJani Nikula			very good.
1265e52347bdSJani Nikula
1266e52347bdSJani Nikula			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1267e52347bdSJani Nikula			the real console.
1268e52347bdSJani Nikula
126942bc9716SJan Beulich			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1270e52347bdSJani Nikula
127189175cf7SHeiko Carstens			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
127289175cf7SHeiko Carstens
1273d2266bbfSFeng Tang			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1274d2266bbfSFeng Tang			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1275d2266bbfSFeng Tang			UART class.
1276d2266bbfSFeng Tang
1277e52347bdSJani Nikula	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1278e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1279e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1280e52347bdSJani Nikula			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1281e52347bdSJani Nikula			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1282e52347bdSJani Nikula			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1283e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: on.
1284e52347bdSJani Nikula
1285e52347bdSJani Nikula	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1286e52347bdSJani Nikula			ekgdboc=kbd
1287e52347bdSJani Nikula
1288e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1289e52347bdSJani Nikula			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1290e52347bdSJani Nikula
1291f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1292f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1293f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1294f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1295f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson
1296e52347bdSJani Nikula	edd=		[EDD]
1297e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1298e52347bdSJani Nikula
1299e52347bdSJani Nikula	efi=		[EFI]
1300c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1301c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1302fb1201aeSArd Biesheuvel				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1303c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			debug: enable misc debug output.
1304c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1305c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1306e52347bdSJani Nikula			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1307e52347bdSJani Nikula			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1308e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware implementations.
1309e52347bdSJani Nikula			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1310b617c526SDan Williams			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1311b617c526SDan Williams			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1312b617c526SDan Williams			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1313b617c526SDan Williams			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1314b617c526SDan Williams			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1315b617c526SDan Williams			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1316c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
13174444f854SMatthew Garrett			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
13184444f854SMatthew Garrett			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1319e52347bdSJani Nikula
1320e52347bdSJani Nikula	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1321e52347bdSJani Nikula			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1322e52347bdSJani Nikula			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1323e52347bdSJani Nikula			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1324e52347bdSJani Nikula			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1325e52347bdSJani Nikula
1326e52347bdSJani Nikula	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1327e52347bdSJani Nikula			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1328e52347bdSJani Nikula			updating original EFI memory map.
1329e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1330e52347bdSJani Nikula			from ss to ss+nn.
1331199c8471SDan Williams
1332e52347bdSJani Nikula			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1333e52347bdSJani Nikula			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1334e52347bdSJani Nikula			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1335e52347bdSJani Nikula			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1336e52347bdSJani Nikula
1337199c8471SDan Williams			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1338199c8471SDan Williams			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1339199c8471SDan Williams			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1340199c8471SDan Williams
1341e52347bdSJani Nikula			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1342199c8471SDan Williams			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1343e52347bdSJani Nikula			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1344199c8471SDan Williams			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1345199c8471SDan Williams			"soft reserved".
1346e52347bdSJani Nikula
1347e52347bdSJani Nikula	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1348e52347bdSJani Nikula			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1349e52347bdSJani Nikula			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1350e52347bdSJani Nikula			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1351cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1352e52347bdSJani Nikula
1353e52347bdSJani Nikula
1354e52347bdSJani Nikula	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1355e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1356e52347bdSJani Nikula
1357e52347bdSJani Nikula	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1358e52347bdSJani Nikula			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1359e52347bdSJani Nikula			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1360e52347bdSJani Nikula
1361e52347bdSJani Nikula	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1362e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1363e52347bdSJani Nikula			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1364e52347bdSJani Nikula			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1365330d4810SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1366e52347bdSJani Nikula
1367e52347bdSJani Nikula	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1368e52347bdSJani Nikula			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1369e52347bdSJani Nikula			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1370e52347bdSJani Nikula			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1371e52347bdSJani Nikula
1372e52347bdSJani Nikula	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1373e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1374e52347bdSJani Nikula			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1375e52347bdSJani Nikula			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1376e52347bdSJani Nikula			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1377e52347bdSJani Nikula
1378e52347bdSJani Nikula	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1379e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1380e52347bdSJani Nikula			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1381e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1382e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1383e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is 0.
1384d41415ebSStephen Smalley			Value can be changed at runtime via
1385d41415ebSStephen Smalley			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1386e52347bdSJani Nikula
1387e52347bdSJani Nikula	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1388e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1389e52347bdSJani Nikula			support.
1390e52347bdSJani Nikula
1391e52347bdSJani Nikula	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1392e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1393e52347bdSJani Nikula			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1394e52347bdSJani Nikula
1395e52347bdSJani Nikula	evm=		[EVM]
1396e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "fix" }
1397e52347bdSJani Nikula			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1398e52347bdSJani Nikula			current integrity status.
1399e52347bdSJani Nikula
1400e52347bdSJani Nikula	failslab=
14012c739cedSAlbert van der Linde	fail_usercopy=
1402e52347bdSJani Nikula	fail_page_alloc=
1403e52347bdSJani Nikula	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1404e52347bdSJani Nikula			General fault injection mechanism.
1405e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1406e52347bdSJani Nikula			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1407e52347bdSJani Nikula
1408316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1409316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar			Format: { initns | none }
1410316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1411316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1412316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar
1413e52347bdSJani Nikula	floppy=		[HW]
1414e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1415e52347bdSJani Nikula
1416e52347bdSJani Nikula	force_pal_cache_flush
1417e52347bdSJani Nikula			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1418e52347bdSJani Nikula			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1419e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1420e52347bdSJani Nikula			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1421e52347bdSJani Nikula
1422e52347bdSJani Nikula	forcepae	[X86-32]
1423e52347bdSJani Nikula			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1424e52347bdSJani Nikula			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1425e52347bdSJani Nikula			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1426e52347bdSJani Nikula			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1427e52347bdSJani Nikula			and may cause unknown problems.
1428e52347bdSJani Nikula
1429e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace=[tracer]
1430e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1431e52347bdSJani Nikula			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1432e52347bdSJani Nikula			boot debugging.
1433e52347bdSJani Nikula
1434e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1435e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1436e52347bdSJani Nikula			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1437e52347bdSJani Nikula			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1438e52347bdSJani Nikula			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1439e52347bdSJani Nikula			oops.
1440e52347bdSJani Nikula
1441e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1442e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
144325942e5eSRandy Dunlap			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1444e52347bdSJani Nikula			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1445e52347bdSJani Nikula			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1446e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracing directory.
1447e52347bdSJani Nikula
1448e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1449e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1450e52347bdSJani Nikula			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1451e52347bdSJani Nikula			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1452e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracing directory.
1453e52347bdSJani Nikula
1454e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1455e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1456e52347bdSJani Nikula			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
145725942e5eSRandy Dunlap			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1458e52347bdSJani Nikula			that can be changed at run time by the
1459e52347bdSJani Nikula			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1460e52347bdSJani Nikula
1461e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1462e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
146325942e5eSRandy Dunlap			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1464e52347bdSJani Nikula			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1465e52347bdSJani Nikula			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1466e52347bdSJani Nikula
146765a50c65STodd Brandt	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
146865a50c65STodd Brandt			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
146965a50c65STodd Brandt			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
147065a50c65STodd Brandt			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
147165a50c65STodd Brandt			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
147265a50c65STodd Brandt
14738375e74fSSaravana Kannan	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
14748375e74fSSaravana Kannan			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
14758375e74fSSaravana Kannan			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
14768375e74fSSaravana Kannan			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
14778375e74fSSaravana Kannan			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
14788375e74fSSaravana Kannan			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
14798375e74fSSaravana Kannan			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
14808375e74fSSaravana Kannan			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
14818375e74fSSaravana Kannan			suppliers).
14828375e74fSSaravana Kannan			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
14838375e74fSSaravana Kannan			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
14848375e74fSSaravana Kannan			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
14858375e74fSSaravana Kannan				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
14868375e74fSSaravana Kannan				up (sync_state() calls).
14878375e74fSSaravana Kannan			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
14888375e74fSSaravana Kannan				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
14898375e74fSSaravana Kannan			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
14908375e74fSSaravana Kannan
149119d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
149219d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
149319d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
149419d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan			Format: <bool>
149519d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan
1496e52347bdSJani Nikula	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1497e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1498e52347bdSJani Nikula			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1499e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
15001752118dSTom Saeger			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1501e52347bdSJani Nikula
1502e52347bdSJani Nikula	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1503e52347bdSJani Nikula
1504be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1505e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: off | on
1506e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: on
1507e52347bdSJani Nikula
1508e52347bdSJani Nikula	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1509e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1510e52347bdSJani Nikula			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1511e52347bdSJani Nikula			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1512e52347bdSJani Nikula			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1513e52347bdSJani Nikula
151447512cfdSThomas Gleixner	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
151547512cfdSThomas Gleixner			Don't use this when you are not running on the
151647512cfdSThomas Gleixner			android emulator
151747512cfdSThomas Gleixner
15183eb52226SAlexander Dahl	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
15193eb52226SAlexander Dahl			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
15203eb52226SAlexander Dahl			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
15216984a320SAlexander Dahl	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
15226984a320SAlexander Dahl			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
15233eb52226SAlexander Dahl
1524e52347bdSJani Nikula	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1525e52347bdSJani Nikula			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1526e52347bdSJani Nikula			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1527e52347bdSJani Nikula			GPT to be used instead.
1528e52347bdSJani Nikula
1529e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1530e52347bdSJani Nikula			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1531e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0 | 1
1532e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 0
1533e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1534e52347bdSJani Nikula			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1535e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0 | 1
1536e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 0
1537e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1538e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0 | 1
1539e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 0
1540e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1541e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1542e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 1024
1543e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1544e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1545e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 1024
1546e52347bdSJani Nikula
1547e52347bdSJani Nikula	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1548e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1549e52347bdSJani Nikula			backtraces on all cpus.
1550f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			Format: 0 | 1
1551e52347bdSJani Nikula
1552e52347bdSJani Nikula	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1553e52347bdSJani Nikula			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1554e52347bdSJani Nikula			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1555e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1556e52347bdSJani Nikula
1557e52347bdSJani Nikula	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1558e52347bdSJani Nikula
1559e52347bdSJani Nikula	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1560e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1561e52347bdSJani Nikula
1562e52347bdSJani Nikula	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1563e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1564e52347bdSJani Nikula			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1565e52347bdSJani Nikula			logic will be disabled.
1566e52347bdSJani Nikula
1567e52347bdSJani Nikula	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1568e52347bdSJani Nikula			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1569e52347bdSJani Nikula			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1570e52347bdSJani Nikula			size on bigger boxes.
1571e52347bdSJani Nikula
1572e52347bdSJani Nikula	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1573e52347bdSJani Nikula			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1574e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: "on"
1575e52347bdSJani Nikula
1576e52347bdSJani Nikula	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1577e52347bdSJani Nikula
1578e52347bdSJani Nikula	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1579e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1580e52347bdSJani Nikula				verbose }
1581e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1582e52347bdSJani Nikula			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1583e52347bdSJani Nikula				VIA, nVidia)
1584e52347bdSJani Nikula			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1585e52347bdSJani Nikula
1586e52347bdSJani Nikula	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1587e52347bdSJani Nikula			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1588e52347bdSJani Nikula
1589bc47190dSRandy Dunlap	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1590*38e719abSBaolin Wang			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1591*38e719abSBaolin Wang			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1592*38e719abSBaolin Wang			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1593*38e719abSBaolin Wang				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1594cf11e85fSRoman Gushchin
1595bc47190dSRandy Dunlap			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1596bc47190dSRandy Dunlap			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1597cf11e85fSRoman Gushchin			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1598cf11e85fSRoman Gushchin
1599282f4214SMike Kravetz	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1600282f4214SMike Kravetz			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1601282f4214SMike Kravetz			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1602282f4214SMike Kravetz			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1603282f4214SMike Kravetz			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1604282f4214SMike Kravetz			the default huge page size.  See also
1605282f4214SMike Kravetz			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1606282f4214SMike Kravetz			Format: <integer>
1607282f4214SMike Kravetz
1608282f4214SMike Kravetz	hugepagesz=
1609282f4214SMike Kravetz			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1610282f4214SMike Kravetz			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1611282f4214SMike Kravetz			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1612282f4214SMike Kravetz			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1613282f4214SMike Kravetz			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1614282f4214SMike Kravetz			architecture dependent.  See also
1615282f4214SMike Kravetz			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1616282f4214SMike Kravetz			Format: size[KMG]
1617e52347bdSJani Nikula
1618e9fdff87SMuchun Song	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1619e9fdff87SMuchun Song			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
1620e9fdff87SMuchun Song			enabled.
1621e9fdff87SMuchun Song			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1622e9fdff87SMuchun Song			memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1623e9fdff87SMuchun Song			Format: { on | off (default) }
1624e9fdff87SMuchun Song
1625e9fdff87SMuchun Song			on:  enable the feature
1626e9fdff87SMuchun Song			off: disable the feature
1627e9fdff87SMuchun Song
1628e6d41f12SMuchun Song			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1629e6d41f12SMuchun Song			the default is on.
1630e6d41f12SMuchun Song
16314bab4964SMuchun Song			This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
16324bab4964SMuchun Song			If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
16334bab4964SMuchun Song			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
16344bab4964SMuchun Song
1635a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval	hung_task_panic=
1636a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1637f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			Format: 0 | 1
1638a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval
1639b467f3efSVlastimil Babka			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1640a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1641a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1642a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1643a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1644a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval
1645e52347bdSJani Nikula	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1646e52347bdSJani Nikula				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1647e52347bdSJani Nikula	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1648e52347bdSJani Nikula				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1649e52347bdSJani Nikula				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
16503a025de6SYi Sun
16513a025de6SYi Sun	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
16523a025de6SYi Sun				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
16533a025de6SYi Sun				      guest on lock contention.
16543a025de6SYi Sun
1655e52347bdSJani Nikula	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1656e52347bdSJani Nikula			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1657e52347bdSJani Nikula			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1658e52347bdSJani Nikula			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1659e52347bdSJani Nikula			the real console.
1660e52347bdSJani Nikula
1661e52347bdSJani Nikula	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1662e52347bdSJani Nikula				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1663e52347bdSJani Nikula				registered from board initialization code.
1664e52347bdSJani Nikula				Format:
1665e52347bdSJani Nikula				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1666e52347bdSJani Nikula
1667e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1668e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1669e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1670e52347bdSJani Nikula			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1671e52347bdSJani Nikula			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1672e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1673e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1674e52347bdSJani Nikula			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1675e52347bdSJani Nikula			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1676e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1677e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1678e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1679e52347bdSJani Nikula			     for the AUX port
1680e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1681e52347bdSJani Nikula			     controller
1682e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1683e52347bdSJani Nikula			     controllers
1684e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1685e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1686e52347bdSJani Nikula			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1687e52347bdSJani Nikula			     transitions, or never reset
1688e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1689e52347bdSJani Nikula			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1690e52347bdSJani Nikula			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1691e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1692e52347bdSJani Nikula			architectures force reset to be always executed
1693e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1694e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1695e52347bdSJani Nikula
1696e52347bdSJani Nikula	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1697e52347bdSJani Nikula
1698e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1699e52347bdSJani Nikula			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1700e52347bdSJani Nikula			hardware.
1701e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1702e52347bdSJani Nikula			does not match list of supported models.
1703e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8k.power_status
1704e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1705e52347bdSJani Nikula			(disabled by default)
1706e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1707e52347bdSJani Nikula			capability is set.
1708e52347bdSJani Nikula
1709e52347bdSJani Nikula	i915.invert_brightness=
1710e52347bdSJani Nikula			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1711e52347bdSJani Nikula			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1712e52347bdSJani Nikula			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1713e52347bdSJani Nikula			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1714e52347bdSJani Nikula			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1715e52347bdSJani Nikula			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1716e52347bdSJani Nikula			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1717e52347bdSJani Nikula			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1718e52347bdSJani Nikula			value switches the backlight off.
1719e52347bdSJani Nikula			-1 -- never invert brightness
1720e52347bdSJani Nikula			 0 -- machine default
1721e52347bdSJani Nikula			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1722e52347bdSJani Nikula
1723e52347bdSJani Nikula	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1724e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1725e52347bdSJani Nikula
1726e52347bdSJani Nikula	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1727e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1728e52347bdSJani Nikula			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1729e52347bdSJani Nikula			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1730d7b461c5SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1731e52347bdSJani Nikula
1732e52347bdSJani Nikula	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1733e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
1734e52347bdSJani Nikula			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1735e52347bdSJani Nikula			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1736e52347bdSJani Nikula			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1737e52347bdSJani Nikula			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1738e52347bdSJani Nikula			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1739e52347bdSJani Nikula			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1740e52347bdSJani Nikula			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1741e52347bdSJani Nikula			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1742e52347bdSJani Nikula			was 0x3.
1743e52347bdSJani Nikula
1744e52347bdSJani Nikula	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1745e52347bdSJani Nikula			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1746e52347bdSJani Nikula
1747e52347bdSJani Nikula	idle=		[X86]
1748e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1749e52347bdSJani Nikula			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1750e52347bdSJani Nikula			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1751e52347bdSJani Nikula			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1752e52347bdSJani Nikula			Not recommended.
1753e52347bdSJani Nikula			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1754e52347bdSJani Nikula			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1755e52347bdSJani Nikula			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1756e52347bdSJani Nikula
175703d939c7SDave Jiang	idxd.sva=	[HW]
175803d939c7SDave Jiang			Format: <bool>
175903d939c7SDave Jiang			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
176003d939c7SDave Jiang			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
176103d939c7SDave Jiang			true (1).
176203d939c7SDave Jiang
1763ade8a86bSDave Jiang	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1764ade8a86bSDave Jiang			Format: <bool>
1765ade8a86bSDave Jiang			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1766ade8a86bSDave Jiang			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1767ade8a86bSDave Jiang
1768e52347bdSJani Nikula	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1769e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1770e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: strict
1771e52347bdSJani Nikula
1772e52347bdSJani Nikula			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1773e52347bdSJani Nikula			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1774e52347bdSJani Nikula			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1775e52347bdSJani Nikula			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1776e52347bdSJani Nikula			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1777e52347bdSJani Nikula			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1778e52347bdSJani Nikula			encoding mode.
1779e52347bdSJani Nikula
1780e52347bdSJani Nikula			Available settings are as follows:
1781e52347bdSJani Nikula			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1782e52347bdSJani Nikula				supported by the FPU
1783e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1784e52347bdSJani Nikula				by the FPU
1785e52347bdSJani Nikula			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1786e52347bdSJani Nikula				by the FPU
1787e52347bdSJani Nikula			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1788e52347bdSJani Nikula				supported by the FPU
1789e52347bdSJani Nikula
1790e52347bdSJani Nikula			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1791e52347bdSJani Nikula			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1792e52347bdSJani Nikula			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1793e52347bdSJani Nikula			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1794e52347bdSJani Nikula			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1795e52347bdSJani Nikula			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1796e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1797e52347bdSJani Nikula			MIPS64 CPUs.
1798e52347bdSJani Nikula
1799e52347bdSJani Nikula			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1800e52347bdSJani Nikula			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1801e52347bdSJani Nikula			except where unsupported by hardware.
1802e52347bdSJani Nikula
1803e52347bdSJani Nikula	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1804e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1805e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1806e52347bdSJani Nikula			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1807e52347bdSJani Nikula			could change it dynamically, usually by
1808e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1809e52347bdSJani Nikula
1810e52347bdSJani Nikula	ignore_rlimit_data
1811e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1812e52347bdSJani Nikula			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1813e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1814e52347bdSJani Nikula
1815e52347bdSJani Nikula	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1816e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1817e52347bdSJani Nikula
1818e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1819e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1820e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: "enforce"
1821e52347bdSJani Nikula
182241475a3eSPetr Vorel	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1823e52347bdSJani Nikula			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1824e52347bdSJani Nikula			owned by uid=0.
1825e52347bdSJani Nikula
1826d68a6fe9SMimi Zohar	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1827d68a6fe9SMimi Zohar			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1828d68a6fe9SMimi Zohar			measurements, instead of host native format.
1829d68a6fe9SMimi Zohar
1830e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1831e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1832e52347bdSJani Nikula				   | sha512 | ... }
1833e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: "sha1"
1834e52347bdSJani Nikula
1835e52347bdSJani Nikula			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1836e52347bdSJani Nikula			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1837e52347bdSJani Nikula
1838e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_policy=	[IMA]
183933ce9549SMimi Zohar			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
18409e67028eSMimi Zohar			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
184103cee168SLakshmi Ramasubramanian				 fail_securely | critical_data"
184233ce9549SMimi Zohar
184333ce9549SMimi Zohar			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
184433ce9549SMimi Zohar			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
184533ce9549SMimi Zohar			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
184633ce9549SMimi Zohar			uid=0.
184733ce9549SMimi Zohar
184833ce9549SMimi Zohar			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
184941475a3eSPetr Vorel			all files owned by root.
1850e52347bdSJani Nikula
1851503ceaefSMimi Zohar			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1852503ceaefSMimi Zohar			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1853503ceaefSMimi Zohar			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1854e52347bdSJani Nikula
18559e67028eSMimi Zohar			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
18569e67028eSMimi Zohar			verification failure also on privileged mounted
18579e67028eSMimi Zohar			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
18589e67028eSMimi Zohar			flag.
18599e67028eSMimi Zohar
186003cee168SLakshmi Ramasubramanian			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
186103cee168SLakshmi Ramasubramanian			critical data.
186203cee168SLakshmi Ramasubramanian
1863e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1864e52347bdSJani Nikula			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1865e52347bdSJani Nikula			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1866e52347bdSJani Nikula			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1867e52347bdSJani Nikula			opened for read by uid=0.
1868e52347bdSJani Nikula
1869e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_template=	[IMA]
1870e52347bdSJani Nikula			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1871e52347bdSJani Nikula			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1872e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: "ima-ng"
1873e52347bdSJani Nikula
1874e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_template_fmt=
1875e52347bdSJani Nikula			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1876e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1877e52347bdSJani Nikula
1878e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1879e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <min_file_size>
1880e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1881e52347bdSJani Nikula			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1882e52347bdSJani Nikula
1883e52347bdSJani Nikula			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1884e52347bdSJani Nikula			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1885e52347bdSJani Nikula			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1886e52347bdSJani Nikula
1887e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1888e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bufsize>
1889e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1890e52347bdSJani Nikula
1891e52347bdSJani Nikula			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1892e52347bdSJani Nikula			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1893e52347bdSJani Nikula			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1894e52347bdSJani Nikula
1895e52347bdSJani Nikula	init=		[KNL]
1896e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <full_path>
1897e52347bdSJani Nikula			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1898e52347bdSJani Nikula			process.
1899e52347bdSJani Nikula
1900e52347bdSJani Nikula	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1901e52347bdSJani Nikula			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1902e52347bdSJani Nikula			startup.
1903e52347bdSJani Nikula
1904e52347bdSJani Nikula	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1905e52347bdSJani Nikula			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1906e52347bdSJani Nikula			modules and initcalls.
1907e52347bdSJani Nikula
1908e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1909e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			Format: <bool>
1910e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			Default: 1
1911e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1912e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1913e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			with devices being probed and
1914e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			initialized. This should normally just work,
1915e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1916e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			historical behaviour of the initramfs
1917e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			unpacking being completed before device_ and
1918e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes			late_ initcalls.
1919e7cb072eSRasmus Villemoes
1920e52347bdSJani Nikula	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1921e52347bdSJani Nikula
1922694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1923694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1924694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1925694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			setting.
1926694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1927694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			Default is 0, 0
1928694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich
19296471384aSAlexander Potapenko	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
19306471384aSAlexander Potapenko			zeroes.
19316471384aSAlexander Potapenko			Format: 0 | 1
19326471384aSAlexander Potapenko			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
19336471384aSAlexander Potapenko
19346471384aSAlexander Potapenko	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
19356471384aSAlexander Potapenko			Format: 0 | 1
19366471384aSAlexander Potapenko			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
19376471384aSAlexander Potapenko
1938be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1939e52347bdSJani Nikula			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1940e52347bdSJani Nikula			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1941e52347bdSJani Nikula			override in debugfs after boot.
1942e52347bdSJani Nikula
1943e52347bdSJani Nikula	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1944e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>
1945e52347bdSJani Nikula
1946be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1947e52347bdSJani Nikula
1948e52347bdSJani Nikula	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1949e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1950e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1951e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1952e52347bdSJani Nikula
1953e52347bdSJani Nikula	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1954e52347bdSJani Nikula		on
1955e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable intel iommu driver.
1956e52347bdSJani Nikula		off
1957e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable intel iommu driver.
1958e52347bdSJani Nikula		igfx_off [Default Off]
1959e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1960e52347bdSJani Nikula			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1961e52347bdSJani Nikula			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1962e52347bdSJani Nikula			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1963e52347bdSJani Nikula			DMA.
1964e52347bdSJani Nikula		strict [Default Off]
19651d479f16SJohn Garry			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
1966e52347bdSJani Nikula		sp_off [Default Off]
1967e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1968e52347bdSJani Nikula			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1969e52347bdSJani Nikula			not be supported.
1970792fb43cSLu Baolu		sm_on
1971792fb43cSLu Baolu			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
1972792fb43cSLu Baolu			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
1973792fb43cSLu Baolu			translation.
1974792fb43cSLu Baolu		sm_off
1975792fb43cSLu Baolu			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
1976bfd20f1cSShaohua Li		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1977bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1978bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1979bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1980bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1981bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			mapping is enabled.
1982bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			Note that using this option lowers the security
1983bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1984bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1985e52347bdSJani Nikula
1986e52347bdSJani Nikula	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1987e52347bdSJani Nikula			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1988e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1989e52347bdSJani Nikula
1990e52347bdSJani Nikula	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1991e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable
1992e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1993e52347bdSJani Nikula			  scaling driver for the supported processors
19947b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			passive
19957b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
19967b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
19977b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
19987b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
19997b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  feature.
2000e52347bdSJani Nikula			force
2001e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2002e52347bdSJani Nikula			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2003e52347bdSJani Nikula			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2004e52347bdSJani Nikula			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2005e52347bdSJani Nikula			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2006e52347bdSJani Nikula			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2007e52347bdSJani Nikula			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2008e52347bdSJani Nikula			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2009e52347bdSJani Nikula			no_hwp
2010e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2011e52347bdSJani Nikula			  if available.
2012e52347bdSJani Nikula			hwp_only
2013e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2014e52347bdSJani Nikula			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2015e52347bdSJani Nikula			support_acpi_ppc
2016e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2017e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2018e52347bdSJani Nikula			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2019e52347bdSJani Nikula			  then this feature is turned on by default.
20207b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			per_cpu_perf_limits
20217b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
20227b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2023e52347bdSJani Nikula
2024e52347bdSJani Nikula	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2025e52347bdSJani Nikula			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2026e52347bdSJani Nikula			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2027e52347bdSJani Nikula			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2028e52347bdSJani Nikula			no_x2apic_optout
2029e52347bdSJani Nikula				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2030e52347bdSJani Nikula			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2031e52347bdSJani Nikula
2032e52347bdSJani Nikula	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2033e52347bdSJani Nikula		strict	regions from userspace.
2034e52347bdSJani Nikula		relaxed
2035e52347bdSJani Nikula
2036be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	iommu=		[X86]
2037e52347bdSJani Nikula		off
2038e52347bdSJani Nikula		force
2039e52347bdSJani Nikula		noforce
2040e52347bdSJani Nikula		biomerge
2041e52347bdSJani Nikula		panic
2042e52347bdSJani Nikula		nopanic
2043e52347bdSJani Nikula		merge
2044e52347bdSJani Nikula		nomerge
2045e52347bdSJani Nikula		soft
2046be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap		pt		[X86]
2047be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap		nopt		[X86]
2048e52347bdSJani Nikula		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2049e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2050e52347bdSJani Nikula
20513542dcb1SRobin Murphy	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
20523542dcb1SRobin Murphy			Format: { "0" | "1" }
20533542dcb1SRobin Murphy			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
20543542dcb1SRobin Murphy			  falling back to the full range if needed.
20553542dcb1SRobin Murphy			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
20563542dcb1SRobin Murphy			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
20573542dcb1SRobin Murphy			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
20583542dcb1SRobin Murphy
2059531353e6SRobin Murphy	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
206068a6efe8SZhen Lei			Format: { "0" | "1" }
206168a6efe8SZhen Lei			0 - Lazy mode.
206268a6efe8SZhen Lei			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
206368a6efe8SZhen Lei			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
206468a6efe8SZhen Lei			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
206568a6efe8SZhen Lei			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
206668a6efe8SZhen Lei			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2067712d8f20SZhen Lei			1 - Strict mode.
206868a6efe8SZhen Lei			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
206968a6efe8SZhen Lei			  synchronously.
2070e96763ecSRobin Murphy			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2071e96763ecSRobin Murphy			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2072e96763ecSRobin Murphy			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
207368a6efe8SZhen Lei
2074fccb4e3bSWill Deacon	iommu.passthrough=
2075c8fb436bSJoerg Roedel			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2076fccb4e3bSWill Deacon			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2077fccb4e3bSWill Deacon			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2078fccb4e3bSWill Deacon			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
20799d723b4cSRobin Murphy			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2080e52347bdSJani Nikula
20817c42376eSRandy Dunlap	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2082e52347bdSJani Nikula			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2083e52347bdSJani Nikula			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2084e52347bdSJani Nikula
2085e52347bdSJani Nikula	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2086e52347bdSJani Nikula		0x80
2087e52347bdSJani Nikula			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2088e52347bdSJani Nikula		0xed
2089e52347bdSJani Nikula			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2090e52347bdSJani Nikula		udelay
2091e52347bdSJani Nikula			Simple two microseconds delay
2092e52347bdSJani Nikula		none
2093e52347bdSJani Nikula			No delay
2094e52347bdSJani Nikula
2095e52347bdSJani Nikula	ip=		[IP_PNP]
20963eb30c51SNiklas Söderlund			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2097e52347bdSJani Nikula
20985ac893b8SWaiman Long	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
20995ac893b8SWaiman Long			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
21005ac893b8SWaiman Long
2101e52347bdSJani Nikula	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2102e52347bdSJani Nikula			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2103e52347bdSJani Nikula
21040962289bSMarc Zyngier	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
21050962289bSMarc Zyngier			[ARM, ARM64]
21060962289bSMarc Zyngier			Format: <bool>
21070962289bSMarc Zyngier			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
21080962289bSMarc Zyngier			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
21090962289bSMarc Zyngier			exposed by the device tree is too small.
21100962289bSMarc Zyngier
2111f736d65dSMarc Zyngier	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2112f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			[ARM, ARM64]
2113f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2114f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2115f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2116f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2117f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			LPIs.
2118f736d65dSMarc Zyngier
2119bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2120bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2121bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry			requires the kernel to be built with
2122bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2123bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry
2124e52347bdSJani Nikula	irqfixup	[HW]
2125e52347bdSJani Nikula			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2126e52347bdSJani Nikula			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2127e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware running.
2128e52347bdSJani Nikula
2129e52347bdSJani Nikula	irqpoll		[HW]
2130e52347bdSJani Nikula			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2131e52347bdSJani Nikula			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2132e52347bdSJani Nikula			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2133e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware running.
2134e52347bdSJani Nikula
2135e52347bdSJani Nikula	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2136e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2137e52347bdSJani Nikula
2138d94d1053SFrederic Weisbecker	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2139b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2140b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2141e52347bdSJani Nikula
2142b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2143b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2144b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker
2145b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			nohz
2146b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2147083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker
2148083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2149083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2150083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2151083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2152083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2153083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker
2154083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2155083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2156083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  be configured manually after bootup.
2157083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker
2158b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			domain
2159b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2160b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2161b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2162b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2163b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2164b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2165b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2166b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2167b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker
2168b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2169b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2170e52347bdSJani Nikula			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2171e52347bdSJani Nikula			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2172e52347bdSJani Nikula
217311ea68f5SMing Lei			managed_irq
217411ea68f5SMing Lei
217511ea68f5SMing Lei			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
217611ea68f5SMing Lei			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
217711ea68f5SMing Lei			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
217811ea68f5SMing Lei			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
217911ea68f5SMing Lei			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
218011ea68f5SMing Lei
218111ea68f5SMing Lei			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
218211ea68f5SMing Lei			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
218311ea68f5SMing Lei			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
218411ea68f5SMing Lei			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
218511ea68f5SMing Lei			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
218611ea68f5SMing Lei			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
218711ea68f5SMing Lei			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
218811ea68f5SMing Lei
218911ea68f5SMing Lei			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
219011ea68f5SMing Lei			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
219111ea68f5SMing Lei			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
219211ea68f5SMing Lei			  only delivered when tasks running on those
219311ea68f5SMing Lei			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
219411ea68f5SMing Lei			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
219511ea68f5SMing Lei			  queues.
219611ea68f5SMing Lei
2197b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2198b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker
2199e52347bdSJani Nikula	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2200e52347bdSJani Nikula
2201be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2202e52347bdSJani Nikula			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2203e52347bdSJani Nikula			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2204e52347bdSJani Nikula			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2205e52347bdSJani Nikula			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2206e52347bdSJani Nikula				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2207e52347bdSJani Nikula
2208be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2209e52347bdSJani Nikula			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2210e52347bdSJani Nikula			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2211e52347bdSJani Nikula			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2212e52347bdSJani Nikula			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2213e52347bdSJani Nikula				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2214e52347bdSJani Nikula
2215be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2216e52347bdSJani Nikula			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2217e52347bdSJani Nikula			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2218e52347bdSJani Nikula			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2219e52347bdSJani Nikula			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2220e52347bdSJani Nikula				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2221e52347bdSJani Nikula
2222e52347bdSJani Nikula	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
22231752118dSTom Saeger			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2224e52347bdSJani Nikula
2225e52347bdSJani Nikula	nokaslr		[KNL]
2226e52347bdSJani Nikula			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2227e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2228e52347bdSJani Nikula			Layout Randomization).
2229e52347bdSJani Nikula
2230b0845ce5SMark Rutland	kasan_multi_shot
2231b0845ce5SMark Rutland			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2232b0845ce5SMark Rutland			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2233b0845ce5SMark Rutland			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2234b0845ce5SMark Rutland			invalid access.
2235b0845ce5SMark Rutland
2236e52347bdSJani Nikula	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2237e52347bdSJani Nikula
2238e52347bdSJani Nikula	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2239a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2240a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2241a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2242a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2243a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2244a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2245a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2246a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2247a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2248a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes
2249a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2250a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2251a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2252a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2253e52347bdSJani Nikula			zone if it does not.
2254e52347bdSJani Nikula
2255a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2256a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2257a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2258e52347bdSJani Nikula			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2259e52347bdSJani Nikula			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2260a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2261a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2262e52347bdSJani Nikula
2263e52347bdSJani Nikula	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2264e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2265e52347bdSJani Nikula			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2266e52347bdSJani Nikula			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2267e52347bdSJani Nikula			optional and is the number seconds in between
2268e52347bdSJani Nikula			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2269e52347bdSJani Nikula			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2270e52347bdSJani Nikula			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2271e52347bdSJani Nikula			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2272e52347bdSJani Nikula			the kernel debugger.
2273e52347bdSJani Nikula
2274e52347bdSJani Nikula	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2275e52347bdSJani Nikula			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2276e52347bdSJani Nikula			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2277e52347bdSJani Nikula			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2278e52347bdSJani Nikula			 keyboard only format: kbd
2279e52347bdSJani Nikula			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2280e52347bdSJani Nikula			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2281e52347bdSJani Nikula			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2282e52347bdSJani Nikula			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2283e52347bdSJani Nikula
2284f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2285f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2286f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2287f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2288f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2289f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2290f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2291f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson
2292f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			The name of the early console should be specified
2293f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2294f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			the early console might be different than the tty
2295f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2296f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			blank and the first boot console that implements
2297f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			read() will be picked.
2298f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson
2299e52347bdSJani Nikula	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2300e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2301e52347bdSJani Nikula
2302497de97eSRandy Dunlap	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2303e52347bdSJani Nikula			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2304e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2305e52347bdSJani Nikula
2306e52347bdSJani Nikula	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2307e52347bdSJani Nikula			Valid arguments: on, off
2308e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: on
2309e52347bdSJani Nikula			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2310e52347bdSJani Nikula			the default is off.
2311e52347bdSJani Nikula
2312970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2313970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2314970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2315970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2316970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2317970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2318970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2319970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu
2320970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2321970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu
2322970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2323970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			Boot Parameter" section.
2324970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu
2325de190555SJeremy Linton	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2326de190555SJeremy Linton			and kernel address spaces.
2327de190555SJeremy Linton			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2328de190555SJeremy Linton			0: force disabled
2329de190555SJeremy Linton			1: force enabled
2330de190555SJeremy Linton
2331e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2332e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2333e52347bdSJani Nikula
2334c4ae60e4SLiran Alon	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2335c4ae60e4SLiran Alon				   Default is false (don't support).
2336c4ae60e4SLiran Alon
2337e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2338e52347bdSJani Nikula			KVM MMU at runtime.
2339e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 0 (off)
2340e52347bdSJani Nikula
2341b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2342b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2343b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2344b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2345b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2346b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2347b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2348b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini
2349b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			Default is 'auto'.
2350b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini
2351b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2352b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2353b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini
23541aa9b957SJunaid Shahid	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
23551aa9b957SJunaid Shahid			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
23561aa9b957SJunaid Shahid			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
23571aa9b957SJunaid Shahid			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
23581aa9b957SJunaid Shahid			minute.  The default is 60.
23591aa9b957SJunaid Shahid
2360e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2361e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled)
2362e52347bdSJani Nikula
2363e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2364e52347bdSJani Nikula			for all guests.
2365e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2366e52347bdSJani Nikula
2367d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil	kvm-arm.mode=
2368d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2369d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil
23701945a067SMarc Zyngier			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
23711945a067SMarc Zyngier			      protected guests.
23721945a067SMarc Zyngier
2373d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2374d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil				   state is kept private from the host.
2375d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2376d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil
23772d726d0dSMarc Zyngier			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support.
2378d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil
2379e23f62f7SMarc Zyngier	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2380e23f62f7SMarc Zyngier			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2381e23f62f7SMarc Zyngier			system registers
2382e23f62f7SMarc Zyngier
2383182936eeSMarc Zyngier	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2384182936eeSMarc Zyngier			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2385182936eeSMarc Zyngier			system registers
2386182936eeSMarc Zyngier
2387ff89511eSMarc Zyngier	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2388ff89511eSMarc Zyngier			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2389ff89511eSMarc Zyngier			system registers
2390ff89511eSMarc Zyngier
2391a7546054SMarc Zyngier	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2392a7546054SMarc Zyngier			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2393a7546054SMarc Zyngier			LPIs.
2394a7546054SMarc Zyngier
2395aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2396aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2397aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2398aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			allocation.
2399aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2400aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			Format: <integer>
2401aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			Default: 5
2402aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran
2403e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2404e52347bdSJani Nikula			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2405e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled)
2406e52347bdSJani Nikula
2407e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2408e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2409e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 0 (disabled)
2410e52347bdSJani Nikula
2411e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2412e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2413e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled)
2414e52347bdSJani Nikula
2415e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.nested=
2416e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2417e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 0 (disabled)
2418e52347bdSJani Nikula
2419e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2420e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2421e52347bdSJani Nikula			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2422e52347bdSJani Nikula			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2423e52347bdSJani Nikula
2424a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2425a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			CVE-2018-3620.
2426a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2427a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2428a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2429a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2430a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2431a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2432a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			never:	Disables the mitigation
2433a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2434a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2435a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2436e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2437e52347bdSJani Nikula			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2438e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled)
2439e52347bdSJani Nikula
2440b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2441b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2442b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh
2443b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2444b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2445b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2446b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh
2447b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2448b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2449b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2450b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			not have direct access.
2451b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh
2452b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2453b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			options are:
2454b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh
2455b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2456b7fe54f6SBalbir Singh
2457d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2458d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			      affected CPUs
2459d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2460d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2461d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2462d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2463d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			full
2464d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Provides all available mitigations for the
2465d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2466d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				enables all mitigations in the
2467d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2468d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2469d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2470d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				sysfs interface is still possible after
2471d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2472d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				when the first VM is started in a
2473d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				potentially insecure configuration,
2474d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2475d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2476d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			full,force
2477d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2478d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				flush runtime control. Implies the
2479d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2480d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2481d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2482d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			flush
2483d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2484d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2485d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				L1D flush.
2486d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2487d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2488d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				sysfs interface is still possible after
2489d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2490d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				when the first VM is started in a
2491d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				potentially insecure configuration,
2492d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2493d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2494d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			flush,nosmt
2495d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2496d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Disables SMT and enables the default
2497d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				hypervisor mitigation.
2498d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2499d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2500d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				sysfs interface is still possible after
2501d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2502d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				when the first VM is started in a
2503d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				potentially insecure configuration,
2504d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2505d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2506d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			flush,nowarn
2507d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2508d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2509d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				insecure configuration.
2510d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2511d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			off
2512d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2513d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				emit any warnings.
25145b5e4d62SMichal Hocko				It also drops the swap size and available
25155b5e4d62SMichal Hocko				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
25165b5e4d62SMichal Hocko				bare metal.
2517d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2518d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			Default is 'flush'.
2519d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
252065fd4cb6SThomas Gleixner			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2521d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2522e52347bdSJani Nikula	l2cr=		[PPC]
2523e52347bdSJani Nikula
2524e52347bdSJani Nikula	l3cr=		[PPC]
2525e52347bdSJani Nikula
2526e52347bdSJani Nikula	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2527e52347bdSJani Nikula			disabled it.
2528e52347bdSJani Nikula
2529622381e6SRandy Dunlap	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2530e52347bdSJani Nikula			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2531e52347bdSJani Nikula			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2532622381e6SRandy Dunlap			Format: notscdeadline
2533e52347bdSJani Nikula
2534e52347bdSJani Nikula	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2535e52347bdSJani Nikula			in C2 power state.
2536e52347bdSJani Nikula
2537e52347bdSJani Nikula	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2538e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2539e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2540e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2541e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2542e52347bdSJani Nikula			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2543e52347bdSJani Nikula			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2544e52347bdSJani Nikula
2545e52347bdSJani Nikula	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2546e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2547e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2548e52347bdSJani Nikula
2549e52347bdSJani Nikula	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2550e52347bdSJani Nikula			when set.
2551e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
2552e52347bdSJani Nikula
255325942e5eSRandy Dunlap	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma-
2554e52347bdSJani Nikula			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2555e52347bdSJani Nikula			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2556e52347bdSJani Nikula			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2557e52347bdSJani Nikula			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2558e52347bdSJani Nikula			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2559e52347bdSJani Nikula			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2560e52347bdSJani Nikula			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2561e52347bdSJani Nikula
2562e52347bdSJani Nikula			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2563e52347bdSJani Nikula			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2564e52347bdSJani Nikula			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2565e52347bdSJani Nikula			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2566e52347bdSJani Nikula			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2567e52347bdSJani Nikula			host link and device attached to it.
2568e52347bdSJani Nikula
2569e52347bdSJani Nikula			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2570e52347bdSJani Nikula			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2571e52347bdSJani Nikula			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2572e52347bdSJani Nikula			The following configurations can be forced.
2573e52347bdSJani Nikula
2574e52347bdSJani Nikula			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2575e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2576e52347bdSJani Nikula
2577e52347bdSJani Nikula			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2578e52347bdSJani Nikula
2579e52347bdSJani Nikula			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2580e52347bdSJani Nikula			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2581e52347bdSJani Nikula			  allowed.
2582e52347bdSJani Nikula
2583e52347bdSJani Nikula			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2584e52347bdSJani Nikula
2585e52347bdSJani Nikula			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2586e52347bdSJani Nikula
2587e52347bdSJani Nikula			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2588e52347bdSJani Nikula			  and both resets.
2589e52347bdSJani Nikula
2590e52347bdSJani Nikula			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2591e52347bdSJani Nikula			  hot-unplug link recovery
2592e52347bdSJani Nikula
2593e52347bdSJani Nikula			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2594e52347bdSJani Nikula
2595e52347bdSJani Nikula			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2596e52347bdSJani Nikula
2597e52347bdSJani Nikula			* disable: Disable this device.
2598e52347bdSJani Nikula
2599e52347bdSJani Nikula			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2600e52347bdSJani Nikula			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2601e52347bdSJani Nikula
2602e52347bdSJani Nikula	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2603e52347bdSJani Nikula
26046b99e6e6SRandy Dunlap	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2605e52347bdSJani Nikula
2606e52347bdSJani Nikula	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2607e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2608e52347bdSJani Nikula
2609e52347bdSJani Nikula	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2610e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2611e52347bdSJani Nikula
2612e52347bdSJani Nikula	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2613e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2614e52347bdSJani Nikula
2615e52347bdSJani Nikula	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2616e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2617e52347bdSJani Nikula
2618000d388eSMatthew Garrett	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2619000d388eSMatthew Garrett			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2620000d388eSMatthew Garrett			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2621000d388eSMatthew Garrett			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2622000d388eSMatthew Garrett			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2623000d388eSMatthew Garrett			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2624000d388eSMatthew Garrett			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2625000d388eSMatthew Garrett			are also disabled.
2626000d388eSMatthew Garrett
2627e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2628e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2629e52347bdSJani Nikula			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2630e52347bdSJani Nikula			number of online CPUs.
2631e52347bdSJani Nikula
2632e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2633e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2634e52347bdSJani Nikula
2635e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2636e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2637e52347bdSJani Nikula
2638e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2639e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2640e52347bdSJani Nikula			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2641e52347bdSJani Nikula
2642e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2643e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2644e52347bdSJani Nikula			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2645e52347bdSJani Nikula			mode during the locktorture test.
2646e52347bdSJani Nikula
2647e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2648e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2649e52347bdSJani Nikula			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2650e52347bdSJani Nikula
2651e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2652e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2653e52347bdSJani Nikula
2654e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2655e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2656e52347bdSJani Nikula			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2657e52347bdSJani Nikula			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2658e52347bdSJani Nikula			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2659e52347bdSJani Nikula			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2660e52347bdSJani Nikula
2661e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2662e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2663e52347bdSJani Nikula
2664e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2665e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable additional printk() statements.
2666e52347bdSJani Nikula
2667e52347bdSJani Nikula	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2668e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>
2669e52347bdSJani Nikula
2670e52347bdSJani Nikula	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2671e52347bdSJani Nikula			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2672e52347bdSJani Nikula			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2673e52347bdSJani Nikula			loglevels are defined as follows:
2674e52347bdSJani Nikula
2675e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2676e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2677e52347bdSJani Nikula			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2678e52347bdSJani Nikula			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2679e52347bdSJani Nikula			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2680e52347bdSJani Nikula			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2681e52347bdSJani Nikula			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2682e52347bdSJani Nikula			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2683e52347bdSJani Nikula
2684e52347bdSJani Nikula	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2685e52347bdSJani Nikula			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2686e52347bdSJani Nikula			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2687e52347bdSJani Nikula			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2688e52347bdSJani Nikula			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2689e52347bdSJani Nikula			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2690e52347bdSJani Nikula			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2691e52347bdSJani Nikula
2692e52347bdSJani Nikula	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2693e52347bdSJani Nikula			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2694e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2695e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel boot problems.
2696e52347bdSJani Nikula
2697e52347bdSJani Nikula	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2698e52347bdSJani Nikula	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2699e52347bdSJani Nikula	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2700e52347bdSJani Nikula	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2701e52347bdSJani Nikula				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2702e52347bdSJani Nikula				attached printers to be reset. Using
2703e52347bdSJani Nikula				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2704e52347bdSJani Nikula				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2705e52347bdSJani Nikula				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2706e52347bdSJani Nikula				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2707e52347bdSJani Nikula				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2708e52347bdSJani Nikula				port specification list means that device IDs
2709e52347bdSJani Nikula				from each port should be examined, to see if
2710e52347bdSJani Nikula				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2711e52347bdSJani Nikula				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2712e52347bdSJani Nikula				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2713e52347bdSJani Nikula
2714e52347bdSJani Nikula	lpj=n		[KNL]
2715e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2716e52347bdSJani Nikula			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2717e52347bdSJani Nikula			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2718e52347bdSJani Nikula			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2719e52347bdSJani Nikula			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2720e52347bdSJani Nikula			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2721e52347bdSJani Nikula			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2722e52347bdSJani Nikula			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2723e52347bdSJani Nikula			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2724e52347bdSJani Nikula			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2725e52347bdSJani Nikula			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2726e52347bdSJani Nikula			hardware.
2727e52347bdSJani Nikula
2728e52347bdSJani Nikula	ltpc=		[NET]
2729e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2730e52347bdSJani Nikula
27319b8c7c14SKees Cook	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
27329b8c7c14SKees Cook
273379f7865dSKees Cook	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
273479f7865dSKees Cook			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
273589a9684eSKees Cook			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
273679f7865dSKees Cook
2737e52347bdSJani Nikula	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2738e52347bdSJani Nikula			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2739df43acacSChristoph Hellwig			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2740e52347bdSJani Nikula
274142769488SRandy Dunlap	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
274242769488SRandy Dunlap			different yeeloong laptops.
2743e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2744e52347bdSJani Nikula
2745e52347bdSJani Nikula	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2746e52347bdSJani Nikula			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2747e52347bdSJani Nikula
2748e52347bdSJani Nikula	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2749e52347bdSJani Nikula			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2750e52347bdSJani Nikula			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2751e52347bdSJani Nikula			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2752e52347bdSJani Nikula			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2753e52347bdSJani Nikula			only takes effect during system bootup.
2754e52347bdSJani Nikula			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2755e52347bdSJani Nikula			which also disables the IO APIC.
2756e52347bdSJani Nikula
2757e52347bdSJani Nikula	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2758e52347bdSJani Nikula	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2759e52347bdSJani Nikula			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2760e52347bdSJani Nikula			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2761e52347bdSJani Nikula			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2762e52347bdSJani Nikula			/dev/loop-control interface.
2763e52347bdSJani Nikula
2764e52347bdSJani Nikula	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2765e52347bdSJani Nikula
2766cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2767e52347bdSJani Nikula
2768e52347bdSJani Nikula	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2769e52347bdSJani Nikula			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2770e52347bdSJani Nikula
2771e52347bdSJani Nikula	mdacon=		[MDA]
2772e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <first>,<last>
2773e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2774e52347bdSJani Nikula
2775bc124170SThomas Gleixner	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2776bc124170SThomas Gleixner			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2777bc124170SThomas Gleixner			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2778bc124170SThomas Gleixner
2779bc124170SThomas Gleixner			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2780bc124170SThomas Gleixner			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2781bc124170SThomas Gleixner			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2782bc124170SThomas Gleixner
2783bc124170SThomas Gleixner			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2784bc124170SThomas Gleixner			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2785bc124170SThomas Gleixner			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2786bc124170SThomas Gleixner			not have direct access.
2787bc124170SThomas Gleixner
2788bc124170SThomas Gleixner			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2789bc124170SThomas Gleixner			options are:
2790bc124170SThomas Gleixner
2791bc124170SThomas Gleixner			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2792d71eb0ceSJosh Poimboeuf			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2793d71eb0ceSJosh Poimboeuf				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2794bc124170SThomas Gleixner			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2795bc124170SThomas Gleixner
279664870ed1SWaiman Long			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
279764870ed1SWaiman Long			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
279864870ed1SWaiman Long			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
279964870ed1SWaiman Long			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
280064870ed1SWaiman Long			too.
280164870ed1SWaiman Long
2802bc124170SThomas Gleixner			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2803bc124170SThomas Gleixner			mds=full.
2804bc124170SThomas Gleixner
28055999bbe7SThomas Gleixner			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
28065999bbe7SThomas Gleixner
2807e52347bdSJani Nikula	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2808f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2809f3cd4c86SBaoquan He
2810f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			1 for test;
2811f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2812f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2813f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2814f3cd4c86SBaoquan He
2815e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2816e52347bdSJani Nikula			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2817e52347bdSJani Nikula			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2818e52347bdSJani Nikula			belonging to unused RAM.
2819e52347bdSJani Nikula
2820f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2821f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2822f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2823f3cd4c86SBaoquan He
2824e52347bdSJani Nikula	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2825e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory.
2826e52347bdSJani Nikula
2827e52347bdSJani Nikula	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2828e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2829e52347bdSJani Nikula			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2830e52347bdSJani Nikula
2831e52347bdSJani Nikula	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2832e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2833e52347bdSJani Nikula			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2834e52347bdSJani Nikula			set according to the
2835e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2836e52347bdSJani Nikula			option.
2837cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2838e52347bdSJani Nikula
2839e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2840e52347bdSJani Nikula			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2841e52347bdSJani Nikula			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2842e52347bdSJani Nikula			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2843e52347bdSJani Nikula			option description.
2844e52347bdSJani Nikula
2845e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
28464c8e3de4SBarry Song			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2847e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
28488fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
28498fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
28508fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			Multiple different regions can be specified,
28518fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			comma delimited.
28528fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			Example:
28538fcc9bc3SBaoquan He				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2854e52347bdSJani Nikula
2855e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2856e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2857e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2858e52347bdSJani Nikula
2859e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2860e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2861e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2862e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2863e52347bdSJani Nikula			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2864e52347bdSJani Nikula			         or
2865e52347bdSJani Nikula			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
28668fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
28678fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
28688fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			will be eaten.
2869e52347bdSJani Nikula
2870e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2871e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2872e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2873e52347bdSJani Nikula			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2874e52347bdSJani Nikula			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2875e52347bdSJani Nikula
2876ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2877ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2878ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2879ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2880ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2881ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2882ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2883ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2884ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr
2885e52347bdSJani Nikula	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2886e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2887e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2888e52347bdSJani Nikula			Setting this option will scan the memory
2889e52347bdSJani Nikula			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2890e52347bdSJani Nikula			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2891e52347bdSJani Nikula			from using the memory being corrupted.
2892e52347bdSJani Nikula			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2893e52347bdSJani Nikula			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2894e52347bdSJani Nikula			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2895e52347bdSJani Nikula			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2896e52347bdSJani Nikula
2897e52347bdSJani Nikula	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2898e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2899e52347bdSJani Nikula			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2900e52347bdSJani Nikula			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2901e52347bdSJani Nikula			corruption in more or less memory.
2902e52347bdSJani Nikula
2903e52347bdSJani Nikula	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2904e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2905e52347bdSJani Nikula			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2906e52347bdSJani Nikula			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2907e52347bdSJani Nikula
2908e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
2909e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
2910e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			Format: {on | off (default)}
2911e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
2912e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
2913e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			from the hotadded memory which will allow to
2914e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
2915e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			additional memory to do so.
2916e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			This feature is disabled by default because it
2917e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
2918e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
2919e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			memory blocks).
2920e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			The state of the flag can be read in
2921e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
2922e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
2923e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador			the feature is not effective.
2924e3a9d9fcSOscar Salvador
29254bab4964SMuchun Song			This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
29264bab4964SMuchun Song			both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
29274bab4964SMuchun Song			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
29284bab4964SMuchun Song
2929f6e5aedfSKefeng Wang	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
2930e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2931e52347bdSJani Nikula			default : 0 <disable>
2932e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2933e52347bdSJani Nikula			performed. Each pass selects another test
2934e52347bdSJani Nikula			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2935e52347bdSJani Nikula			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2936e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2937e52347bdSJani Nikula			regions that are detected.
2938e52347bdSJani Nikula
2939c262f3b9STom Lendacky	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2940c262f3b9STom Lendacky			Valid arguments: on, off
2941c262f3b9STom Lendacky			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2942c262f3b9STom Lendacky			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2943c262f3b9STom Lendacky			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2944c262f3b9STom Lendacky			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2945c262f3b9STom Lendacky			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2946c262f3b9STom Lendacky
29472f5947dfSChristoph Hellwig			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2948c262f3b9STom Lendacky			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2949c262f3b9STom Lendacky
29507b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
29517b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
29527b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
29537b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
295458e7cb9eSRafael J. Wysocki			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
29557b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds
2956e52347bdSJani Nikula	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
295732e2eae2SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2958e52347bdSJani Nikula
2959e52347bdSJani Nikula	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2960e52347bdSJani Nikula			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2961e52347bdSJani Nikula			platforms.
2962e52347bdSJani Nikula
2963e52347bdSJani Nikula	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2964e52347bdSJani Nikula			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2965e52347bdSJani Nikula			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2966e52347bdSJani Nikula			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2967e52347bdSJani Nikula
2968e52347bdSJani Nikula	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2969e52347bdSJani Nikula
2970e52347bdSJani Nikula	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2971e52347bdSJani Nikula			physical address is ignored.
2972e52347bdSJani Nikula
2973e52347bdSJani Nikula	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2974e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2975e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: "0tb"
2976e52347bdSJani Nikula			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2977e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2978e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2979e52347bdSJani Nikula			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2980e52347bdSJani Nikula			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2981e52347bdSJani Nikula			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2982e52347bdSJani Nikula			unconfigured.
2983e52347bdSJani Nikula			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2984e52347bdSJani Nikula			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2985e52347bdSJani Nikula			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2986e52347bdSJani Nikula			VGA shield.
2987e52347bdSJani Nikula			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2988e52347bdSJani Nikula			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2989e52347bdSJani Nikula			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2990e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2991e52347bdSJani Nikula			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
29926b2484e1SAlexander A. Klimov			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2993e52347bdSJani Nikula
299498af8452SJosh Poimboeuf	mitigations=
2995a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2996a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2997d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2998d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
299998af8452SJosh Poimboeuf
300098af8452SJosh Poimboeuf			off
300198af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
300298af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				improves system performance, but it may also
300398af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3004782e69efSJosh Poimboeuf				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3005a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
3006a2059825SJosh Poimboeuf					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
30070336e04aSJosh Poimboeuf					       nobp=0 [S390]
3008a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3009d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3010782e69efSJosh Poimboeuf					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3011a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3012d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf					       l1tf=off [X86]
30135c14068fSJosh Poimboeuf					       mds=off [X86]
3014a7a248c5SPawan Gupta					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3015b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3016f7964378SNicholas Piggin					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
30179a32a7e7SNicholas Piggin					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3018b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini
3019b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini				Exceptions:
3020b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini					       This does not have any effect on
3021b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3022b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
302398af8452SJosh Poimboeuf
302498af8452SJosh Poimboeuf			auto (default)
302598af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
302698af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
302798af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
302898af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
302998af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3030d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
303198af8452SJosh Poimboeuf
303298af8452SJosh Poimboeuf			auto,nosmt
303398af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
303498af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
303598af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3036d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
30375c14068fSJosh Poimboeuf					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3038a7a248c5SPawan Gupta					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
303998af8452SJosh Poimboeuf
3040e52347bdSJani Nikula	mminit_loglevel=
3041e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3042e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3043e52347bdSJani Nikula			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3044e52347bdSJani Nikula			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3045e52347bdSJani Nikula			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3046e52347bdSJani Nikula			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3047e52347bdSJani Nikula
3048e52347bdSJani Nikula	module.sig_enforce
3049e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3050e52347bdSJani Nikula			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3051e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3052e52347bdSJani Nikula			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3053e52347bdSJani Nikula
3054e52347bdSJani Nikula	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3055e52347bdSJani Nikula			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3056e52347bdSJani Nikula
3057e52347bdSJani Nikula	mousedev.tap_time=
3058e52347bdSJani Nikula			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3059e52347bdSJani Nikula			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3060e52347bdSJani Nikula			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3061e52347bdSJani Nikula			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3062e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <msecs>
3063e52347bdSJani Nikula	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3064e52347bdSJani Nikula			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3065e52347bdSJani Nikula	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3066e52347bdSJani Nikula			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3067e52347bdSJani Nikula
3068a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3069a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3070a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3071a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3072a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3073a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3074a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3075a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3076e52347bdSJani Nikula			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3077e52347bdSJani Nikula			is not too small.
3078e52347bdSJani Nikula
3079f70029bbSMichal Hocko	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3080f70029bbSMichal Hocko			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3081f70029bbSMichal Hocko			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3082f70029bbSMichal Hocko			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3083f70029bbSMichal Hocko			allocations. Use with caution!
3084e52347bdSJani Nikula
3085e52347bdSJani Nikula	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3086e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3087e52347bdSJani Nikula
3088e52347bdSJani Nikula	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3089e52347bdSJani Nikula			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3090e52347bdSJani Nikula
3091e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3092fb251124SJonathan Neuschäfer			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3093e52347bdSJani Nikula
3094e52347bdSJani Nikula	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3095e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3096e52347bdSJani Nikula			at a time.
3097e52347bdSJani Nikula
3098e52347bdSJani Nikula	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3099e52347bdSJani Nikula
3100e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3101e52347bdSJani Nikula
3102e52347bdSJani Nikula			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3103e52347bdSJani Nikula				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3104e52347bdSJani Nikula			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3105e52347bdSJani Nikula				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3106e52347bdSJani Nikula				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3107e52347bdSJani Nikula
3108e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtdset=		[ARM]
3109e52347bdSJani Nikula			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3110e52347bdSJani Nikula
31110f12999eSKrzysztof Kozlowski			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3112e52347bdSJani Nikula
3113e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3114e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3115e52347bdSJani Nikula			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3116e52347bdSJani Nikula
3117e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3118e52347bdSJani Nikula			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3119e52347bdSJani Nikula			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3120e52347bdSJani Nikula
3121e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3122e52347bdSJani Nikula			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3123e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1.
3124e52347bdSJani Nikula			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3125e52347bdSJani Nikula			using up MTRRs.
3126e52347bdSJani Nikula
3127e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3128e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
3129e52347bdSJani Nikula			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3130e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default : 1
3131e52347bdSJani Nikula			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3132e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3133e52347bdSJani Nikula
3134e52347bdSJani Nikula	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3135e52347bdSJani Nikula
3136e52347bdSJani Nikula	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3137e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3138e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3139e52347bdSJani Nikula			something different and driver-specific.
3140e52347bdSJani Nikula			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3141e52347bdSJani Nikula			file if at all.
3142e52347bdSJani Nikula
3143e52347bdSJani Nikula	nf_conntrack.acct=
3144e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3145e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 to disable accounting
3146e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 to enable accounting
3147e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is 0.
3148e52347bdSJani Nikula
3149e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
31503eb30c51SNiklas Söderlund			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3151e52347bdSJani Nikula
3152e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
31533eb30c51SNiklas Söderlund			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3154e52347bdSJani Nikula
3155e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
31563eb30c51SNiklas Söderlund			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3157e52347bdSJani Nikula
3158e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3159e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3160e52347bdSJani Nikula			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3161e52347bdSJani Nikula			requests.
3162e52347bdSJani Nikula
3163e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3164e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3165e52347bdSJani Nikula			channel should listen.
3166e52347bdSJani Nikula
3167e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.cache_getent=
3168e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3169e52347bdSJani Nikula			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3170e52347bdSJani Nikula
3171e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3172e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3173e52347bdSJani Nikula			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3174e52347bdSJani Nikula
3175e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3176e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3177e52347bdSJani Nikula			entries.
3178e52347bdSJani Nikula
3179e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.enable_ino64=
3180e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3181e52347bdSJani Nikula			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3182e52347bdSJani Nikula			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3183e52347bdSJani Nikula			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3184e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3185e52347bdSJani Nikula
3186e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3187e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3188e52347bdSJani Nikula			slots the client will assign to the callback
3189e52347bdSJani Nikula			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3190e52347bdSJani Nikula			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3191e52347bdSJani Nikula			a particular server.
3192e52347bdSJani Nikula
3193e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.max_session_slots=
3194e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3195e52347bdSJani Nikula			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3196e52347bdSJani Nikula			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3197e52347bdSJani Nikula			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3198e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that there is little point in setting this
3199e52347bdSJani Nikula			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3200e52347bdSJani Nikula
3201e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3202e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3203e52347bdSJani Nikula			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3204e52347bdSJani Nikula			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3205e52347bdSJani Nikula			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3206e52347bdSJani Nikula			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3207e52347bdSJani Nikula			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3208e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3209e52347bdSJani Nikula			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3210e52347bdSJani Nikula			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3211e52347bdSJani Nikula			back to using the idmapper.
3212e52347bdSJani Nikula			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3213e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3214e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3215e52347bdSJani Nikula			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3216e52347bdSJani Nikula			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3217e52347bdSJani Nikula			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3218e52347bdSJani Nikula
3219e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3220e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3221e52347bdSJani Nikula			information in exchange_id requests.
3222e52347bdSJani Nikula			If zero, no implementation identification information
3223e52347bdSJani Nikula			will be sent.
3224e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default is to send the implementation identification
3225e52347bdSJani Nikula			information.
3226e52347bdSJani Nikula
3227e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3228e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3229e52347bdSJani Nikula			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3230e52347bdSJani Nikula			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3231e52347bdSJani Nikula			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3232e52347bdSJani Nikula			after the locks are lost.
3233e52347bdSJani Nikula			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3234e52347bdSJani Nikula			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3235e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter to '1'.
3236e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3237e52347bdSJani Nikula			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3238e52347bdSJani Nikula
3239e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3240e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3241e52347bdSJani Nikula			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3242e52347bdSJani Nikula
3243e52347bdSJani Nikula			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3244e52347bdSJani Nikula			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3245e52347bdSJani Nikula			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3246e52347bdSJani Nikula			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3247e52347bdSJani Nikula
3248e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3249e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3250e52347bdSJani Nikula			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3251e52347bdSJani Nikula			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3252e52347bdSJani Nikula			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3253e52347bdSJani Nikula			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3254e52347bdSJani Nikula
3255160c7ba3SPaul E. McKenney	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3256160c7ba3SPaul E. McKenney			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3257160c7ba3SPaul E. McKenney			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3258160c7ba3SPaul E. McKenney
3259c0c74acbSHans-Christian Noren Egtvedt	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3260e52347bdSJani Nikula			when a NMI is triggered.
3261e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3262e52347bdSJani Nikula
3263e52347bdSJani Nikula	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3264e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3265e52347bdSJani Nikula			Valid num: 0 or 1
3266e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3267e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3268e52347bdSJani Nikula			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
326993285c01SZhenzhong Duan			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
327093285c01SZhenzhong Duan			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
327193285c01SZhenzhong Duan			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3272e52347bdSJani Nikula			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3273e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3274e52347bdSJani Nikula			need the box quickly up again.
3275e52347bdSJani Nikula
3276d22881dcSScott Wood			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3277d22881dcSScott Wood			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3278d22881dcSScott Wood
3279e52347bdSJani Nikula	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3280e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3281e52347bdSJani Nikula			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3282e52347bdSJani Nikula			waits 4 seconds.
3283e52347bdSJani Nikula
3284e52347bdSJani Nikula	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3285e52347bdSJani Nikula			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3286e52347bdSJani Nikula			is present.
3287e52347bdSJani Nikula
3288372fddf7SKirill A. Shutemov	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3289372fddf7SKirill A. Shutemov			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3290372fddf7SKirill A. Shutemov
3291b745cfbaSAndy Lutomirski	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3292dd649bd0SAndy Lutomirski
3293e52347bdSJani Nikula	no_console_suspend
3294e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW] Never suspend the console
3295e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3296e52347bdSJani Nikula			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3297e52347bdSJani Nikula			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3298e52347bdSJani Nikula			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3299e52347bdSJani Nikula			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3300e52347bdSJani Nikula			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3301e52347bdSJani Nikula			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3302e52347bdSJani Nikula			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3303e52347bdSJani Nikula			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3304e52347bdSJani Nikula			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3305e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3306e52347bdSJani Nikula			turn on/off it dynamically.
3307e52347bdSJani Nikula
3308c6c40533SKairui Song	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3309c6c40533SKairui Song			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3310c6c40533SKairui Song			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3311c6c40533SKairui Song			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3312c6c40533SKairui Song			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3313c6c40533SKairui Song			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3314c6c40533SKairui Song			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3315c6c40533SKairui Song			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3316c6c40533SKairui Song			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3317c6c40533SKairui Song			is set.
3318c6c40533SKairui Song
3319e52347bdSJani Nikula	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3320e52347bdSJani Nikula			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3321e52347bdSJani Nikula			but will impact performance.
3322e52347bdSJani Nikula
3323e52347bdSJani Nikula	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3324e52347bdSJani Nikula
3325686140a1SVasily Gorbik	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3326686140a1SVasily Gorbik			(CPU alternatives feature).
3327686140a1SVasily Gorbik
3328e52347bdSJani Nikula	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3329e52347bdSJani Nikula			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3330e52347bdSJani Nikula
3331e52347bdSJani Nikula	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3332e52347bdSJani Nikula
3333e52347bdSJani Nikula	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3334e52347bdSJani Nikula			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3335e52347bdSJani Nikula
3336e52347bdSJani Nikula	nocache		[ARM]
3337e52347bdSJani Nikula
3338e52347bdSJani Nikula	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3339e52347bdSJani Nikula
3340e4042ad4SPeter Zijlstra	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
3341e52347bdSJani Nikula
3342e52347bdSJani Nikula	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3343e52347bdSJani Nikula
3344e52347bdSJani Nikula	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3345e52347bdSJani Nikula
3346f7964378SNicholas Piggin	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3347f7964378SNicholas Piggin
3348e52347bdSJani Nikula	noexec		[IA-64]
3349e52347bdSJani Nikula
3350e52347bdSJani Nikula	noexec		[X86]
3351e52347bdSJani Nikula			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3352e52347bdSJani Nikula			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3353e52347bdSJani Nikula			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3354e52347bdSJani Nikula
3355de78a9c4SChristophe Leroy	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3356e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3357e52347bdSJani Nikula			even if it is supported by processor.
3358e52347bdSJani Nikula
33590fb1c25aSChristophe Leroy	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3360e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3361e52347bdSJani Nikula			even if it is supported by processor.
3362e52347bdSJani Nikula
3363e52347bdSJani Nikula	noexec32	[X86-64]
3364e52347bdSJani Nikula			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3365e52347bdSJani Nikula			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3366e52347bdSJani Nikula				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3367e52347bdSJani Nikula			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3368e52347bdSJani Nikula				read implies executable mappings
3369e52347bdSJani Nikula
3370e52347bdSJani Nikula	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3371e52347bdSJani Nikula
3372e52347bdSJani Nikula	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3373e52347bdSJani Nikula			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3374e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3375e52347bdSJani Nikula
33765b280ed4STian Tao	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3377e52347bdSJani Nikula
33788abddd96SNicholas Piggin	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
33798abddd96SNicholas Piggin
3380e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3381e52347bdSJani Nikula			Equivalent to smt=1.
3382e52347bdSJani Nikula
3383be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3384506a66f3SThomas Gleixner			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3385506a66f3SThomas Gleixner				     via the sysfs control file.
338605736e4aSThomas Gleixner
3387a2059825SJosh Poimboeuf	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3388a2059825SJosh Poimboeuf			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3389a2059825SJosh Poimboeuf			possible in the system.
339026cb1f36SDiana Craciun
3391e5ce5e72SJeremy Linton	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3392e5ce5e72SJeremy Linton			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3393e5ce5e72SJeremy Linton			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3394e5ce5e72SJeremy Linton			option.
3395da285121SDavid Woodhouse
339624f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk	nospec_store_bypass_disable
339724f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
339824f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
33999a32a7e7SNicholas Piggin	no_uaccess_flush
34009a32a7e7SNicholas Piggin	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
34019a32a7e7SNicholas Piggin
3402e52347bdSJani Nikula	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3403e52347bdSJani Nikula			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3404e52347bdSJani Nikula			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3405e52347bdSJani Nikula
3406e52347bdSJani Nikula	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3407e52347bdSJani Nikula			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3408e52347bdSJani Nikula			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3409e52347bdSJani Nikula			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3410e52347bdSJani Nikula			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3411e52347bdSJani Nikula			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3412e52347bdSJani Nikula
3413e52347bdSJani Nikula	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3414e52347bdSJani Nikula			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3415e52347bdSJani Nikula			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3416e52347bdSJani Nikula			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3417e52347bdSJani Nikula			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3418e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3419e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3420e52347bdSJani Nikula
34213cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
34223cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
34233cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
34243cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
34253cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
34263cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
34273cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
34283cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3429e52347bdSJani Nikula
3430e52347bdSJani Nikula	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3431e52347bdSJani Nikula			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3432e52347bdSJani Nikula			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3433e52347bdSJani Nikula
3434e52347bdSJani Nikula	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3435e52347bdSJani Nikula			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3436e52347bdSJani Nikula			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3437e52347bdSJani Nikula			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3438e52347bdSJani Nikula			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3439e52347bdSJani Nikula			real-time systems.
3440e52347bdSJani Nikula
34415ead723aSTimur Tabi	no_hash_pointers
34425ead723aSTimur Tabi			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
34435ead723aSTimur Tabi			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
34445ead723aSTimur Tabi			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
34455ead723aSTimur Tabi			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
34465ead723aSTimur Tabi			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
34475ead723aSTimur Tabi			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
34485ead723aSTimur Tabi			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
34495ead723aSTimur Tabi			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
34505ead723aSTimur Tabi			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
34515ead723aSTimur Tabi			value printed.  Pointers printed via %pK may still be
34525ead723aSTimur Tabi			hashed.  This option should only be specified when
34535ead723aSTimur Tabi			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
34545ead723aSTimur Tabi			kernels.
34555ead723aSTimur Tabi
3456e52347bdSJani Nikula	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3457e52347bdSJani Nikula
3458e52347bdSJani Nikula	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3459e52347bdSJani Nikula			Valid arguments: on, off
3460e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: on
3461e52347bdSJani Nikula
3462d94d1053SFrederic Weisbecker	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3463e52347bdSJani Nikula			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3464e52347bdSJani Nikula			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3465e52347bdSJani Nikula			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3466e52347bdSJani Nikula			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3467f99bcb2cSPaul E. McKenney			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3468f99bcb2cSPaul E. McKenney			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3469f99bcb2cSPaul E. McKenney			just as if they had also been called out in the
3470f99bcb2cSPaul E. McKenney			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3471e52347bdSJani Nikula
3472e52347bdSJani Nikula	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3473e52347bdSJani Nikula
3474e52347bdSJani Nikula	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3475e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3476e52347bdSJani Nikula
3477e52347bdSJani Nikula	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3478e52347bdSJani Nikula			broken timer IRQ sources.
3479e52347bdSJani Nikula
3480e52347bdSJani Nikula	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3481e52347bdSJani Nikula
3482e52347bdSJani Nikula	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3483e52347bdSJani Nikula			initial RAM disk.
3484e52347bdSJani Nikula
3485e52347bdSJani Nikula	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3486e52347bdSJani Nikula			remapping.
3487e52347bdSJani Nikula			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3488e52347bdSJani Nikula
3489e52347bdSJani Nikula	nointroute	[IA-64]
3490e52347bdSJani Nikula
3491e52347bdSJani Nikula	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3492e52347bdSJani Nikula
3493e52347bdSJani Nikula	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3494e52347bdSJani Nikula
3495e52347bdSJani Nikula	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3496e52347bdSJani Nikula
3497e52347bdSJani Nikula	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3498e52347bdSJani Nikula			fault handling.
3499e52347bdSJani Nikula
3500e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds	no-vmw-sched-clock
3501e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3502e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			clock and use the default one.
3503e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds
3504e73a8f38SAlexey Makhalov	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3505e0685fa2SSteven Price			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3506e0685fa2SSteven Price			influence scheduler behaviour
3507e52347bdSJani Nikula
3508e52347bdSJani Nikula	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3509e52347bdSJani Nikula
3510e52347bdSJani Nikula	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3511e52347bdSJani Nikula
3512e52347bdSJani Nikula	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3513e52347bdSJani Nikula			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3514e52347bdSJani Nikula
3515e52347bdSJani Nikula	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3516e52347bdSJani Nikula
3517e52347bdSJani Nikula	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3518e52347bdSJani Nikula
3519e52347bdSJani Nikula	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3520e52347bdSJani Nikula			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3521e52347bdSJani Nikula
3522e52347bdSJani Nikula	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3523e52347bdSJani Nikula			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3524e52347bdSJani Nikula			irq.
3525e52347bdSJani Nikula
3526e52347bdSJani Nikula	nomodule	Disable module load
3527e52347bdSJani Nikula
3528e52347bdSJani Nikula	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3529e52347bdSJani Nikula			pagetables) support.
3530e52347bdSJani Nikula
35310790c9aaSAndy Lutomirski	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
35320790c9aaSAndy Lutomirski
3533e52347bdSJani Nikula	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3534e52347bdSJani Nikula			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3535e52347bdSJani Nikula
3536e52347bdSJani Nikula	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3537e52347bdSJani Nikula			with UP alternatives
3538e52347bdSJani Nikula
3539e52347bdSJani Nikula	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3540e52347bdSJani Nikula			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3541e52347bdSJani Nikula			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3542e52347bdSJani Nikula			available to user space applications.
3543e52347bdSJani Nikula
3544e52347bdSJani Nikula	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3545e52347bdSJani Nikula			space.
3546e52347bdSJani Nikula
3547e52347bdSJani Nikula	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3548e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3549e52347bdSJani Nikula			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3550e52347bdSJani Nikula
3551e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3552e52347bdSJani Nikula
3553e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3554e52347bdSJani Nikula
355538853a30SJarkko Sakkinen	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
355638853a30SJarkko Sakkinen
3557e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3558e52347bdSJani Nikula			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3559e52347bdSJani Nikula
3560e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3561e52347bdSJani Nikula
3562e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3563e52347bdSJani Nikula
3564e52347bdSJani Nikula	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3565e52347bdSJani Nikula			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3566e52347bdSJani Nikula
3567e52347bdSJani Nikula	nowb		[ARM]
3568e52347bdSJani Nikula
3569e52347bdSJani Nikula	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3570e52347bdSJani Nikula
3571e52347bdSJani Nikula	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3572e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3573e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3574e52347bdSJani Nikula			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3575e52347bdSJani Nikula			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3576e52347bdSJani Nikula			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3577e52347bdSJani Nikula			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3578e52347bdSJani Nikula			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3579e52347bdSJani Nikula			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3580e52347bdSJani Nikula			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3581e52347bdSJani Nikula			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3582e52347bdSJani Nikula			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3583e52347bdSJani Nikula			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3584e52347bdSJani Nikula
358535b55ef2SNoam Camus	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
358635b55ef2SNoam Camus			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
358735b55ef2SNoam Camus			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
358835b55ef2SNoam Camus			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
358935b55ef2SNoam Camus			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
359035b55ef2SNoam Camus			parameter's value.
359135b55ef2SNoam Camus			Format: integer between 1 and 255
359235b55ef2SNoam Camus			Default: 255
359335b55ef2SNoam Camus
3594e52347bdSJani Nikula	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3595e52347bdSJani Nikula			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3596e52347bdSJani Nikula			SAL PALO.
3597e52347bdSJani Nikula
3598e52347bdSJani Nikula	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3599e52347bdSJani Nikula			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3600e52347bdSJani Nikula			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3601e52347bdSJani Nikula			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3602e52347bdSJani Nikula			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3603e52347bdSJani Nikula			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3604e52347bdSJani Nikula			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3605e52347bdSJani Nikula			hot plugging.
3606e52347bdSJani Nikula
3607e52347bdSJani Nikula	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3608e52347bdSJani Nikula
3609544ef682SBarry Song	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3610544ef682SBarry Song			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3611544ef682SBarry Song
361200b072c0SBarry Song	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
361300b072c0SBarry Song			NUMA balancing.
3614e52347bdSJani Nikula			Allowed values are enable and disable
3615e52347bdSJani Nikula
3616e52347bdSJani Nikula	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3617c9bff3eeSMichal Hocko			'node', 'default' can be specified
3618e52347bdSJani Nikula			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
361957043247SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3620e52347bdSJani Nikula
3621e52347bdSJani Nikula	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3622a74e2a22SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3623e52347bdSJani Nikula			info.
3624e52347bdSJani Nikula
3625e52347bdSJani Nikula	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3626e52347bdSJani Nikula			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3627e52347bdSJani Nikula			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3628e52347bdSJani Nikula			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3629e52347bdSJani Nikula			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3630e52347bdSJani Nikula			interrupts *may* be lost!
3631e52347bdSJani Nikula
3632e52347bdSJani Nikula	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3633e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3634e52347bdSJani Nikula			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3635e52347bdSJani Nikula			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3636e52347bdSJani Nikula
3637e52347bdSJani Nikula	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3638e52347bdSJani Nikula			process, but there is a small probability of
3639e52347bdSJani Nikula			deadlocking the machine.
3640e52347bdSJani Nikula			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3641e52347bdSJani Nikula			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3642e52347bdSJani Nikula
3643e900a918SDan Williams	page_alloc.shuffle=
3644e900a918SDan Williams			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3645e900a918SDan Williams			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3646e900a918SDan Williams			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3647e900a918SDan Williams			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3648e900a918SDan Williams			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3649e900a918SDan Williams			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3650e900a918SDan Williams			can be read from sysfs at:
3651e900a918SDan Williams			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3652e900a918SDan Williams
3653e52347bdSJani Nikula	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3654e52347bdSJani Nikula			Storage of the information about who allocated
3655e52347bdSJani Nikula			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3656e52347bdSJani Nikula			we can turn it on.
3657e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: enable the feature
3658e52347bdSJani Nikula
3659e52347bdSJani Nikula	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
36608c9a134cSKees Cook			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
36618c9a134cSKees Cook			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
36628c9a134cSKees Cook			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3663e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: turn on poisoning
3664e52347bdSJani Nikula
3665f58780a8SGavin Shan	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3666f58780a8SGavin Shan			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3667f58780a8SGavin Shan			Format: <integer>
3668f58780a8SGavin Shan			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3669f58780a8SGavin Shan			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3670f58780a8SGavin Shan
3671e52347bdSJani Nikula	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3672e52347bdSJani Nikula			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3673e52347bdSJani Nikula			timeout = 0: wait forever
3674e52347bdSJani Nikula			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3675e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <timeout>
3676e52347bdSJani Nikula
3677d999bd93SFeng Tang	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3678d999bd93SFeng Tang			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3679d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 0: print all tasks info
3680d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 1: print system memory info
3681d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 2: print timer info
3682d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3683d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3684de6da1e8SFeng Tang			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3685d999bd93SFeng Tang
3686db38d5c1SRafael Aquini	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3687db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3688db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3689db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3690db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			called with any of the flags in this set.
3691db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3692db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3693db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3694db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3695db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3696db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3697db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3698db38d5c1SRafael Aquini
3699e52347bdSJani Nikula	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3700e52347bdSJani Nikula			on a WARN().
3701e52347bdSJani Nikula
3702e52347bdSJani Nikula	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3703e52347bdSJani Nikula			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3704e52347bdSJani Nikula			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3705e52347bdSJani Nikula			succeeds in any situation.
3706e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3707e52347bdSJani Nikula			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3708e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel more unstable.
3709e52347bdSJani Nikula
3710e52347bdSJani Nikula	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3711e52347bdSJani Nikula			connected to, default is 0.
3712e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <parport#>
3713e52347bdSJani Nikula	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3714e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3715e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <mode>
3716e52347bdSJani Nikula
3717e52347bdSJani Nikula	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3718e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3719e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3720e52347bdSJani Nikula			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3721e52347bdSJani Nikula			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3722e52347bdSJani Nikula			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3723e52347bdSJani Nikula			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3724e52347bdSJani Nikula			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3725e52347bdSJani Nikula			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3726e52347bdSJani Nikula			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3727e52347bdSJani Nikula			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3728e52347bdSJani Nikula			are specified on the command line, starting
3729e52347bdSJani Nikula			with parport0.
3730e52347bdSJani Nikula
3731e52347bdSJani Nikula	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3732e52347bdSJani Nikula			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3733e52347bdSJani Nikula			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3734e52347bdSJani Nikula			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3735e52347bdSJani Nikula			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3736e52347bdSJani Nikula			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3737e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3738e52347bdSJani Nikula
3739426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3740426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3741426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3742426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3743426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3744426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
3745426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3746426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3747426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3748426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			changes.  Disabled by default.
3749426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
3750426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3751426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3752426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3753426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3754426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Disabled by default.
3755426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
3756426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3757426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3758426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3759426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3760426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Disabled by default.
3761426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
3762426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3763426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3764426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3765426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3766426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3767426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3768426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3769426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3770426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3771426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3772426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			all channels.
3773426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
3774426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3775426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3776426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3777426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3778426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3779426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
3780426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3781426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3782426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3783426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3784426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3785426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
3786426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3787426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3788426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3789426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3790426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3791426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			All modes allowed by default.
3792426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
3793426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3794426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3795426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3796426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
3797426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
37987d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
37997d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
38007d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
38017d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki			platform configuration and the use of other driver
38027d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
38037d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
38047d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
38057d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
38067d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
38077d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki			By default all supported ports are probed.
38087d33004dSMaciej W. Rozycki
3809426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
3810426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3811426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
3812426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3813426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
3814426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
3815426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
3816426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
3817426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3818426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3819426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3820426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki			0 otherwise.
3821426e2c6aSMaciej W. Rozycki
38226ddcec95SMaciej W. Rozycki	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
38236ddcec95SMaciej W. Rozycki			Format: <int>
38246ddcec95SMaciej W. Rozycki			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
38256ddcec95SMaciej W. Rozycki			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
38266ddcec95SMaciej W. Rozycki			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
38276ddcec95SMaciej W. Rozycki			allowed by default.
38286ddcec95SMaciej W. Rozycki
3829e52347bdSJani Nikula	pause_on_oops=
3830e52347bdSJani Nikula			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3831e52347bdSJani Nikula			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3832e52347bdSJani Nikula			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3833e52347bdSJani Nikula
3834e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3835e52347bdSJani Nikula
3836e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3837e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3838e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3839e52347bdSJani Nikula
384007d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
384107d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe
384207d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				Some options herein operate on a specific device
384307d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
384407d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				specified in one of the following formats:
384507d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe
384645db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
384707d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
384807d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe
384907d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
385007d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				bus/device/function address which may change
385107d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
385207d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
385307d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				by other kernel parameters. If the
385407d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				domain is left unspecified, it is
385545db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
385645db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				to a device through multiple device/function
385745db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				addresses can be specified after the base
385845db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				address (this is more robust against
385945db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				renumbering issues).  The second format
386007d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				selects devices using IDs from the
386107d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				configuration space which may match multiple
386207d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				devices in the system.
386307d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe
386411eb0e0eSSinan Kaya		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3865e52347bdSJani Nikula				changes anything
3866e52347bdSJani Nikula		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3867e52347bdSJani Nikula		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3868e52347bdSJani Nikula				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3869e52347bdSJani Nikula				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3870e52347bdSJani Nikula		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3871e52347bdSJani Nikula				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3872e52347bdSJani Nikula				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3873e52347bdSJani Nikula				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3874e52347bdSJani Nikula		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3875e52347bdSJani Nikula				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3876e52347bdSJani Nikula				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3877e52347bdSJani Nikula		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3878e52347bdSJani Nikula				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3879e52347bdSJani Nikula				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3880e52347bdSJani Nikula				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3881e52347bdSJani Nikula				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3882e52347bdSJani Nikula				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3883e52347bdSJani Nikula				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3884e52347bdSJani Nikula		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3885e52347bdSJani Nikula				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3886e52347bdSJani Nikula				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3887e52347bdSJani Nikula		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3888e52347bdSJani Nikula				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3889e52347bdSJani Nikula		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3890e52347bdSJani Nikula				Configuration
3891e52347bdSJani Nikula		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3892e52347bdSJani Nikula				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3893e52347bdSJani Nikula				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3894e52347bdSJani Nikula		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3895e52347bdSJani Nikula				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3896e52347bdSJani Nikula				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3897e52347bdSJani Nikula		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3898e52347bdSJani Nikula				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3899e52347bdSJani Nikula				should never be necessary.
3900e52347bdSJani Nikula		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3901e52347bdSJani Nikula				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3902e52347bdSJani Nikula				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3903e52347bdSJani Nikula				when the system masks IRQs.
3904e52347bdSJani Nikula		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3905e52347bdSJani Nikula				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3906e52347bdSJani Nikula				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3907e52347bdSJani Nikula				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3908e52347bdSJani Nikula		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3909e52347bdSJani Nikula				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3910e52347bdSJani Nikula				on several machines and they hang the machine
3911e52347bdSJani Nikula				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3912e52347bdSJani Nikula				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3913e52347bdSJani Nikula				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3914e52347bdSJani Nikula				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3915e52347bdSJani Nikula				motherboard.
3916e52347bdSJani Nikula		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3917e52347bdSJani Nikula				Use with caution as certain devices share
3918e52347bdSJani Nikula				address decoders between ROMs and other
3919e52347bdSJani Nikula				resources.
3920e52347bdSJani Nikula		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3921e52347bdSJani Nikula				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3922e52347bdSJani Nikula				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3923e52347bdSJani Nikula		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3924e52347bdSJani Nikula				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3925e52347bdSJani Nikula		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3926e52347bdSJani Nikula				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3927e52347bdSJani Nikula				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3928e52347bdSJani Nikula				this way.
3929e52347bdSJani Nikula		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3930e52347bdSJani Nikula				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3931e52347bdSJani Nikula				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3932e52347bdSJani Nikula				F0000h-100000h range.
3933e52347bdSJani Nikula		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3934e52347bdSJani Nikula				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3935e52347bdSJani Nikula				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3936e52347bdSJani Nikula				explicitly which ones they are.
3937e52347bdSJani Nikula		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3938e52347bdSJani Nikula				numbers ourselves, overriding
3939e52347bdSJani Nikula				whatever the firmware may have done.
3940e52347bdSJani Nikula		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3941e52347bdSJani Nikula				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3942e52347bdSJani Nikula				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3943e52347bdSJani Nikula				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3944e52347bdSJani Nikula				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3945e52347bdSJani Nikula				IRQ routing is enabled.
3946e52347bdSJani Nikula		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3947e52347bdSJani Nikula				or for PCI scanning.
3948e52347bdSJani Nikula		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3949e52347bdSJani Nikula				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3950e52347bdSJani Nikula				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3951e52347bdSJani Nikula				please report a bug.
3952e52347bdSJani Nikula		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3953e52347bdSJani Nikula				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3954e52347bdSJani Nikula		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3955e52347bdSJani Nikula				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3956e52347bdSJani Nikula				so this option is a temporary workaround
3957e52347bdSJani Nikula				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3958e52347bdSJani Nikula		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3959e52347bdSJani Nikula				handle more pci cards
3960e52347bdSJani Nikula		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3961e52347bdSJani Nikula				This might help on some broken boards which
3962e52347bdSJani Nikula				machine check when some devices' config space
3963e52347bdSJani Nikula				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3964e52347bdSJani Nikula				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3965e52347bdSJani Nikula		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3966e52347bdSJani Nikula				This sorting is done to get a device
3967e52347bdSJani Nikula				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3968e52347bdSJani Nikula		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3969e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3970e52347bdSJani Nikula				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3971e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3972e52347bdSJani Nikula				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3973e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3974e52347bdSJani Nikula				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3975e52347bdSJani Nikula				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3976e52347bdSJani Nikula				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3977e52347bdSJani Nikula				or bus can support) for best performance.
3978e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3979e52347bdSJani Nikula				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3980e52347bdSJani Nikula				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3981e52347bdSJani Nikula				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3982e52347bdSJani Nikula				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3983e52347bdSJani Nikula				that hot-added devices will work.
3984e52347bdSJani Nikula		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3985e52347bdSJani Nikula				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3986e52347bdSJani Nikula				The default value is 256 bytes.
3987e52347bdSJani Nikula		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3988e52347bdSJani Nikula				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3989e52347bdSJani Nikula				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3990e52347bdSJani Nikula		resource_alignment=
3991e52347bdSJani Nikula				Format:
399207d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3993e52347bdSJani Nikula				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
399407d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				aligned memory resources. How to
399507d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				specify the device is described above.
3996e52347bdSJani Nikula				If <order of align> is not specified,
3997e52347bdSJani Nikula				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
39983b1b1ce3SAlexey Kardashevskiy				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3999e52347bdSJani Nikula				windows need to be expanded.
4000e52347bdSJani Nikula				To specify the alignment for several
4001e52347bdSJani Nikula				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4002e52347bdSJani Nikula				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
40033b1b1ce3SAlexey Kardashevskiy				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
40043b1b1ce3SAlexey Kardashevskiy				for 4096-byte alignment.
4005e52347bdSJani Nikula		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4006e52347bdSJani Nikula				end-to-end CRC checking).
4007e52347bdSJani Nikula				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4008e52347bdSJani Nikula				the default.
4009e52347bdSJani Nikula				off: Turn ECRC off
4010e52347bdSJani Nikula				on: Turn ECRC on.
4011e52347bdSJani Nikula		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4012e52347bdSJani Nikula				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4013e52347bdSJani Nikula				Default size is 256 bytes.
4014d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4015d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4016d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4017d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4018d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4019d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4020e52347bdSJani Nikula		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4021d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4022d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				MMIO_PREF window.
4023e52347bdSJani Nikula				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4024e52347bdSJani Nikula		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4025e52347bdSJani Nikula				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4026e52347bdSJani Nikula				Default is 1.
4027e52347bdSJani Nikula		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4028e52347bdSJani Nikula				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4029e52347bdSJani Nikula				accommodate resources required by all child
4030e52347bdSJani Nikula				devices.
4031e52347bdSJani Nikula				off: Turn realloc off
4032e52347bdSJani Nikula				on: Turn realloc on
4033e52347bdSJani Nikula		realloc		same as realloc=on
4034e52347bdSJani Nikula		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4035cef74409SGil Kupfer		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4036cef74409SGil Kupfer				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4037e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4038e52347bdSJani Nikula				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4039e52347bdSJani Nikula				port.
4040f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4041f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4042f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4043f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4044f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4045f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				taints the kernel.
4046aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4047aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4048aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4049aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4050aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4051aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4052aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4053aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				this removes isolation between devices and
4054aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4055fbfe07d4SSebastian Ott		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
405656271303SSebastian Ott		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4057de267a7cSPierre Morel		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4058de267a7cSPierre Morel				one PCI domain per PCI function
4059e52347bdSJani Nikula
4060e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4061e52347bdSJani Nikula			Management.
4062e52347bdSJani Nikula		off	Disable ASPM.
4063e52347bdSJani Nikula		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4064e52347bdSJani Nikula			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4065e52347bdSJani Nikula
40664c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
40674c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
40684c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
40694c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
40704c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas			also tries to use these services.
407135a0b237SOlof Johansson		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
407235a0b237SOlof Johansson				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
40734c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
40744c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas			hotplug).
4075e52347bdSJani Nikula
4076e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4077e52347bdSJani Nikula		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4078e52347bdSJani Nikula		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4079e52347bdSJani Nikula
4080e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4081e52347bdSJani Nikula		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4082e52347bdSJani Nikula			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4083e52347bdSJani Nikula
4084e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4085e52347bdSJani Nikula
4086e52347bdSJani Nikula	pd_ignore_unused
4087e52347bdSJani Nikula			[PM]
4088e52347bdSJani Nikula			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4089e52347bdSJani Nikula			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4090e52347bdSJani Nikula			for debug and development, but should not be
4091e52347bdSJani Nikula			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4092e52347bdSJani Nikula
4093e52347bdSJani Nikula	pd.		[PARIDE]
4094e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4095e52347bdSJani Nikula
4096e52347bdSJani Nikula	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4097e52347bdSJani Nikula			boot time.
4098e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4099e52347bdSJani Nikula			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4100e52347bdSJani Nikula
4101e52347bdSJani Nikula	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4102e52347bdSJani Nikula			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4103e52347bdSJani Nikula			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4104e52347bdSJani Nikula			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4105e52347bdSJani Nikula			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4106e52347bdSJani Nikula			and performance comparison.
4107e52347bdSJani Nikula
4108e52347bdSJani Nikula	pf.		[PARIDE]
4109e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4110e52347bdSJani Nikula
4111e52347bdSJani Nikula	pg.		[PARIDE]
4112e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4113e52347bdSJani Nikula
4114e52347bdSJani Nikula	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4115cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4116e52347bdSJani Nikula
4117e52347bdSJani Nikula	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4118e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
41193ba9b1b8STom Saeger			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4120e52347bdSJani Nikula
4121e52347bdSJani Nikula	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4122e52347bdSJani Nikula			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4123e52347bdSJani Nikula			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4124e52347bdSJani Nikula
4125db96a759SChen Yu	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4126db96a759SChen Yu			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4127db96a759SChen Yu
4128e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4129e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4130e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4131e52347bdSJani Nikula			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4132e52347bdSJani Nikula			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4133e52347bdSJani Nikula			possible settings and some assignment information.
4134e52347bdSJani Nikula
4135e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4136e52347bdSJani Nikula			{ off }
4137e52347bdSJani Nikula
4138e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4139e52347bdSJani Nikula			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4140e52347bdSJani Nikula
4141e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp_reserve_irq=
4142e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4143e52347bdSJani Nikula
4144e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp_reserve_dma=
4145e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4146e52347bdSJani Nikula
4147e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4148e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4149e52347bdSJani Nikula
4150e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp_reserve_mem=
4151e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4152e52347bdSJani Nikula			autoconfiguration.
4153e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4154e52347bdSJani Nikula
4155e52347bdSJani Nikula	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4156e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 21.
4157e52347bdSJani Nikula			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4158e52347bdSJani Nikula			may be specified.
4159e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <port>,<port>....
4160e52347bdSJani Nikula
4161c3cbd075SBalbir Singh	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4162c3cbd075SBalbir Singh			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4163c3cbd075SBalbir Singh			platform machine description specific power_save
4164c3cbd075SBalbir Singh			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4165c3cbd075SBalbir Singh			execution priority.
4166c3cbd075SBalbir Singh
4167e52347bdSJani Nikula	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4168e52347bdSJani Nikula			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4169e52347bdSJani Nikula			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4170e52347bdSJani Nikula			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4171e52347bdSJani Nikula			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4172e52347bdSJani Nikula
417307fd1761SCyril Bur	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
417407fd1761SCyril Bur			Format: {"off"}
417507fd1761SCyril Bur			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
417607fd1761SCyril Bur
41776ef869e0SMichal Hocko	preempt=	[KNL]
41786ef869e0SMichal Hocko			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
41796ef869e0SMichal Hocko			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
41806ef869e0SMichal Hocko			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
41816ef869e0SMichal Hocko			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
41826ef869e0SMichal Hocko			       can be preempted anytime.
41836ef869e0SMichal Hocko
4184e52347bdSJani Nikula	print-fatal-signals=
4185e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4186e52347bdSJani Nikula
4187e52347bdSJani Nikula			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4188e52347bdSJani Nikula			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4189e52347bdSJani Nikula			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4190e52347bdSJani Nikula			coredump - etc.
4191e52347bdSJani Nikula
4192e52347bdSJani Nikula			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4193e52347bdSJani Nikula			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4194e52347bdSJani Nikula
4195e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: off.
4196e52347bdSJani Nikula
4197e52347bdSJani Nikula	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4198e52347bdSJani Nikula			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4199e52347bdSJani Nikula			panics
4200e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4201e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: disabled
4202e52347bdSJani Nikula
420310102a89SDmitry Safonov	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
420410102a89SDmitry Safonov			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
420510102a89SDmitry Safonov			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
420610102a89SDmitry Safonov			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
420710102a89SDmitry Safonov			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
420810102a89SDmitry Safonov			in order to provide more debug information.
420910102a89SDmitry Safonov			Format: <bool>
421010102a89SDmitry Safonov			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
421110102a89SDmitry Safonov
4212e52347bdSJani Nikula	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4213e52347bdSJani Nikula			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4214e52347bdSJani Nikula			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4215e52347bdSJani Nikula			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4216e52347bdSJani Nikula			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4217e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: ratelimit
4218e52347bdSJani Nikula
4219e52347bdSJani Nikula	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4220e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4221e52347bdSJani Nikula
4222e52347bdSJani Nikula	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4223e52347bdSJani Nikula			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4224e52347bdSJani Nikula			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4225e52347bdSJani Nikula
4226e52347bdSJani Nikula	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4227e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4228e52347bdSJani Nikula			instead using the legacy FADT method
4229e52347bdSJani Nikula
4230e52347bdSJani Nikula	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4231e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4232e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4233e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4234e52347bdSJani Nikula			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4235e52347bdSJani Nikula			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4236e52347bdSJani Nikula				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4237e52347bdSJani Nikula			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4238e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4239e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap				statistical time based profiling.
4240e52347bdSJani Nikula
42416b99e6e6SRandy Dunlap	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4242e52347bdSJani Nikula
4243ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4244ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4245ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik			that).
4246ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik			Format: <bool>
4247ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik
4248e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4249e0c27447SJohannes Weiner			tracking.
4250e0c27447SJohannes Weiner			Format: <bool>
4251e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
4252e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4253e52347bdSJani Nikula			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4254e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4255e52347bdSJani Nikula			per second.
4256e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4257e52347bdSJani Nikula			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4258e52347bdSJani Nikula			(0 = never).
4259e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.resolution=
4260e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4261e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.smartscroll=
4262e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4263e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4264e52347bdSJani Nikula
4265e52347bdSJani Nikula	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4266e52347bdSJani Nikula
4267e52347bdSJani Nikula	pt.		[PARIDE]
4268e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4269e52347bdSJani Nikula
4270be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
427101c9b17bSDave Hansen			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
427201c9b17bSDave Hansen			removes hardening, but improves performance of
427301c9b17bSDave Hansen			system calls and interrupts.
427401c9b17bSDave Hansen
427501c9b17bSDave Hansen			on   - unconditionally enable
427601c9b17bSDave Hansen			off  - unconditionally disable
427701c9b17bSDave Hansen			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
427801c9b17bSDave Hansen			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
427901c9b17bSDave Hansen
428001c9b17bSDave Hansen			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
428101c9b17bSDave Hansen
4282be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	nopti		[X86-64]
428301c9b17bSDave Hansen			Equivalent to pti=off
428441f4c20bSBorislav Petkov
4285e52347bdSJani Nikula	pty.legacy_count=
4286e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4287e52347bdSJani Nikula			default number.
4288e52347bdSJani Nikula
4289e52347bdSJani Nikula	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4290e52347bdSJani Nikula
4291e52347bdSJani Nikula	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4292e52347bdSJani Nikula
4293e52347bdSJani Nikula	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4294e52347bdSJani Nikula			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4295e52347bdSJani Nikula
4296e52347bdSJani Nikula	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4297e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4298e52347bdSJani Nikula
42996b99e6e6SRandy Dunlap	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
43006b99e6e6SRandy Dunlap
43019b254366SKees Cook	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
43029b254366SKees Cook			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
43039b254366SKees Cook			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
43049b254366SKees Cook			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
43059b254366SKees Cook			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
43069b254366SKees Cook
430739218ff4SKees Cook	randomize_kstack_offset=
430839218ff4SKees Cook			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
430939218ff4SKees Cook			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
431039218ff4SKees Cook			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
431139218ff4SKees Cook			that depend on stack address determinism or
431239218ff4SKees Cook			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
431339218ff4SKees Cook			available on architectures that have defined
431439218ff4SKees Cook			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
431539218ff4SKees Cook			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
431639218ff4SKees Cook			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
431739218ff4SKees Cook
4318011d8261SBorislav Petkov	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4319011d8261SBorislav Petkov
4320011d8261SBorislav Petkov		cec_disable	[X86]
4321011d8261SBorislav Petkov				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4322011d8261SBorislav Petkov				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4323011d8261SBorislav Petkov
4324e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
43253e70df91SPaul Gortmaker			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4326e52347bdSJani Nikula
4327e52347bdSJani Nikula			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4328e52347bdSJani Nikula			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
432977095901SPaul E. McKenney			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
433077095901SPaul E. McKenney			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
433177095901SPaul E. McKenney			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
433277095901SPaul E. McKenney			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
433377095901SPaul E. McKenney			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
433477095901SPaul E. McKenney			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
433577095901SPaul E. McKenney			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
433677095901SPaul E. McKenney			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4337e52347bdSJani Nikula
4338e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4339e52347bdSJani Nikula			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4340e52347bdSJani Nikula			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4341e52347bdSJani Nikula			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4342e52347bdSJani Nikula			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4343e52347bdSJani Nikula			This improves the real-time response for the
4344e52347bdSJani Nikula			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4345e52347bdSJani Nikula			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4346e52347bdSJani Nikula			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4347e52347bdSJani Nikula			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4348e52347bdSJani Nikula
4349e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4350e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4351e52347bdSJani Nikula			process in one batch.
4352e52347bdSJani Nikula
4353e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4354e52347bdSJani Nikula			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4355e52347bdSJani Nikula			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4356e52347bdSJani Nikula			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4357e52347bdSJani Nikula
4358e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4359e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
436090040c9eSPaul E. McKenney			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4361e52347bdSJani Nikula
4362e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4363e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
436490040c9eSPaul E. McKenney			RCU grace-period initialization.
4365e52347bdSJani Nikula
4366e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4367e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4368e52347bdSJani Nikula			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4369e52347bdSJani Nikula			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
437090040c9eSPaul E. McKenney			the rcu_node combining tree.
4371e52347bdSJani Nikula
437248d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
437348d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
437448d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
437548d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
437648d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
437748d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior
43788b9a0eccSScott Wood			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
43798b9a0eccSScott Wood			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
43808b9a0eccSScott Wood			to zero.
43818b9a0eccSScott Wood
4382e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4383e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4384e52347bdSJani Nikula			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4385e52347bdSJani Nikula			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4386e52347bdSJani Nikula			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4387e52347bdSJani Nikula
4388e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4389e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4390e52347bdSJani Nikula			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4391e52347bdSJani Nikula			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4392e52347bdSJani Nikula			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4393e52347bdSJani Nikula			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4394e52347bdSJani Nikula			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4395e52347bdSJani Nikula
439653c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
439753c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
439853c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
439953c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
440053c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
440153c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
440253c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			condition.
440353c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
4404d0bfa8b3SZhang Qiang	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4405d0bfa8b3SZhang Qiang			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4406d0bfa8b3SZhang Qiang			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4407d0bfa8b3SZhang Qiang			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4408d0bfa8b3SZhang Qiang
4409e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4410e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4411e52347bdSJani Nikula			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4412e52347bdSJani Nikula			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4413e52347bdSJani Nikula			and maximum value is HZ.
4414e52347bdSJani Nikula
4415e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4416e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4417e52347bdSJani Nikula			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4418e52347bdSJani Nikula			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4419e52347bdSJani Nikula
44201a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
44211a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			Set required age in jiffies for a
44221a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			given grace period before RCU starts
44231a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			soliciting quiescent-state help from
44241a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
44251a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
44261a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			a value based on the most recent settings
44271a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
44281a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
44291a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			This calculated value may be viewed in
44301a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
44311a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
44321a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			overwritten.
44331a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney
4434e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4435e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4436e52347bdSJani Nikula			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4437e52347bdSJani Nikula			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4438e52347bdSJani Nikula			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4439e52347bdSJani Nikula			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4440e52347bdSJani Nikula			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4441e52347bdSJani Nikula			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4442e52347bdSJani Nikula			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4443e52347bdSJani Nikula			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4444e52347bdSJani Nikula
4445f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4446f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4447f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			each group, which defaults to the square root
4448f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4449f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4450f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4451f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4452e52347bdSJani Nikula
4453e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4454e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4455e52347bdSJani Nikula			batch limiting is disabled.
4456e52347bdSJani Nikula
4457e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4458e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4459e52347bdSJani Nikula			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4460e52347bdSJani Nikula
4461b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4462b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4463b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4464b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4465b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4466b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4467b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4468b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4469b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney
4470e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4471e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4472e52347bdSJani Nikula			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4473e52347bdSJani Nikula
4474e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4475e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4476e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4477e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4478e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4479e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4480e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney
44813d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
44823d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
44833d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
44843d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
44853d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			Larger delays increase the probability of
44863d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
44873d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
44883d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
44893d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney
44902ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
44912ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
44922ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
44932ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney			why a new grace period has not yet started.
44942ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney
44954e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4496881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			Measure performance of asynchronous
4497881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4498881ed593SPaul E. McKenney
44994e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4500881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4501881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4502881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4503881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4504881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4505881ed593SPaul E. McKenney
45064e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4507e52347bdSJani Nikula			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4508e52347bdSJani Nikula			grace-period primitives.
4509e52347bdSJani Nikula
45104e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4511e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4512e52347bdSJani Nikula			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4513e52347bdSJani Nikula			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4514e52347bdSJani Nikula			interference.
4515e52347bdSJani Nikula
45164e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4517e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4518e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)
4519686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4520686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4521686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			If this parameter has the same value as
4522686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4523686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			and double-argument variants are tested.
4524686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
4525686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4526686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4527686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			If this parameter has the same value as
4528686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4529686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			and double-argument variants are tested.
4530686fe1bfSUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
45314e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4532e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4533e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)
45344e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4535e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4536e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)
45374e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
45384e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4539e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)			of allocations and frees.
4540e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)
45414e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4542e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4543e52347bdSJani Nikula			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4544e52347bdSJani Nikula			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4545e52347bdSJani Nikula			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4546e52347bdSJani Nikula			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4547e52347bdSJani Nikula			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4548e52347bdSJani Nikula			a single reader.
4549e52347bdSJani Nikula
45504e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4551e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
45524e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4553e52347bdSJani Nikula			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4554e52347bdSJani Nikula
45554e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4556820687a7SPaul E. McKenney			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4557820687a7SPaul E. McKenney
45584e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4559e52347bdSJani Nikula			Shut the system down after performance tests
4560e52347bdSJani Nikula			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4561e52347bdSJani Nikula			testing.
4562e52347bdSJani Nikula
45634e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4564e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable additional printk() statements.
4565e52347bdSJani Nikula
45664e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4567820687a7SPaul E. McKenney			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4568820687a7SPaul E. McKenney			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4569820687a7SPaul E. McKenney			no holdoff.
4570820687a7SPaul E. McKenney
4571e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4572e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4573e52347bdSJani Nikula			in microseconds.
4574e52347bdSJani Nikula
4575e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4576e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4577e52347bdSJani Nikula			in microseconds.
4578e52347bdSJani Nikula
4579e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4580e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4581e52347bdSJani Nikula			in seconds.
4582e52347bdSJani Nikula
4583ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4584ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4585ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4586ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney
4587ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4588ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4589ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4590ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney
4591ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4592ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4593ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			forward-progress tests.
4594ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney
4595ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4596ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4597ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4598ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			testing.
4599ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney
4600e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4601e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4602e52347bdSJani Nikula			primitives, if available.
4603e52347bdSJani Nikula
4604e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4605e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4606e52347bdSJani Nikula
4607e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4608e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4609e52347bdSJani Nikula			update-side primitives, if available.
4610e52347bdSJani Nikula
4611e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4612e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4613e52347bdSJani Nikula			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4614e52347bdSJani Nikula			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4615e52347bdSJani Nikula			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4616e52347bdSJani Nikula			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4617e52347bdSJani Nikula			they are all non-zero.
4618e52347bdSJani Nikula
4619d6855142SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4620d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4621d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4622d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4623d6855142SPaul E. McKenney
4624d6855142SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4625d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4626d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			This can of course result in splats, and is
4627d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			intended to test the ability of things like
4628d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4629d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			such leaks.
4630d6855142SPaul E. McKenney
4631e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4632e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4633e52347bdSJani Nikula
4634e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4635e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4636e52347bdSJani Nikula			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4637e52347bdSJani Nikula			test, hence the "fake".
4638e52347bdSJani Nikula
46392c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
46402c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
46412c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
46422c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney
46432c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
46442c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
46452c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney			callback-offload toggling attempts.
46462c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney
4647e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4648e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4649e52347bdSJani Nikula			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4650e52347bdSJani Nikula			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4651e52347bdSJani Nikula			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4652e52347bdSJani Nikula			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4653e52347bdSJani Nikula
4654e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4655e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4656e52347bdSJani Nikula
4657e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4658e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4659e52347bdSJani Nikula
4660e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4661028be12bSPaul E. McKenney			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4662028be12bSPaul E. McKenney			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4663e52347bdSJani Nikula
46644a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
46654a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
46664a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
46674a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			task-exit processing.
46684a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney
46694a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
46704a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
46714a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
46724a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			is spawned.
46734a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney
46744a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
46754a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			The delay, in seconds, between successive
46764a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			read-then-exit testing episodes.
46774a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney
4678e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4679e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4680e52347bdSJani Nikula			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4681e52347bdSJani Nikula			during the rcutorture test.
4682e52347bdSJani Nikula
4683e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4684e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4685e52347bdSJani Nikula			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4686e52347bdSJani Nikula
4687e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4688e52347bdSJani Nikula			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4689e52347bdSJani Nikula			warnings, zero to disable.
4690e52347bdSJani Nikula
469119a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
469219a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
469319a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
469419a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney			to any other stall-related activity.
469519a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney
4696e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4697e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4698e52347bdSJani Nikula
46992b1516e5SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
47002b1516e5SPaul E. McKenney			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
47012b1516e5SPaul E. McKenney
470255b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
470355b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
470455b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
470555b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
470655b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
470755b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
470855b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney
4709e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4710e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4711e52347bdSJani Nikula
4712e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4713e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4714e52347bdSJani Nikula			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4715e52347bdSJani Nikula			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4716e52347bdSJani Nikula			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4717e52347bdSJani Nikula
4718e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4719e52347bdSJani Nikula			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4720e52347bdSJani Nikula			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4721e52347bdSJani Nikula			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4722e52347bdSJani Nikula
4723e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4724e52347bdSJani Nikula			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4725e52347bdSJani Nikula
4726e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4727e52347bdSJani Nikula			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4728e52347bdSJani Nikula
4729e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4730e52347bdSJani Nikula			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4731e52347bdSJani Nikula			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4732e52347bdSJani Nikula
4733e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4734e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4735e52347bdSJani Nikula
4736e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4737e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable additional printk() statements.
4738e52347bdSJani Nikula
4739cdc694b2SPaul E. McKenney	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4740cdc694b2SPaul E. McKenney			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4741cdc694b2SPaul E. McKenney			stall warning.
4742cdc694b2SPaul E. McKenney
4743e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4744e52347bdSJani Nikula			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4745e52347bdSJani Nikula
474658c53360SPaul E. McKenney	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
474758c53360SPaul E. McKenney			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
474858c53360SPaul E. McKenney			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
474958c53360SPaul E. McKenney			during early boot, that is, during the time
475058c53360SPaul E. McKenney			before the init task is spawned.
475158c53360SPaul E. McKenney
4752e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4753e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4754e52347bdSJani Nikula
4755e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4756e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4757e52347bdSJani Nikula			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4758e52347bdSJani Nikula			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4759e52347bdSJani Nikula			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4760e52347bdSJani Nikula			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4761e52347bdSJani Nikula			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4762e52347bdSJani Nikula
4763e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4764e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4765e52347bdSJani Nikula			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4766e52347bdSJani Nikula			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4767e52347bdSJani Nikula			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4768e52347bdSJani Nikula			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4769e52347bdSJani Nikula			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4770e52347bdSJani Nikula			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4771e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4772e52347bdSJani Nikula
4773e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4774e52347bdSJani Nikula			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4775e52347bdSJani Nikula			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4776e52347bdSJani Nikula			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4777e52347bdSJani Nikula			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4778e52347bdSJani Nikula
477936221e10SJulia Cartwright			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
478036221e10SJulia Cartwright			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
478136221e10SJulia Cartwright			it to the value one, that is, converting any
478236221e10SJulia Cartwright			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
478336221e10SJulia Cartwright			period to instead use normal non-expedited
478436221e10SJulia Cartwright			grace-period processing.
478536221e10SJulia Cartwright
4786b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4787b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4788b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4789b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4790b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4791b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			but lengthens grace periods.
4792b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney
4793e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4794e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4795e52347bdSJani Nikula			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4796e52347bdSJani Nikula			to zero.
4797e52347bdSJani Nikula
4798e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4799e52347bdSJani Nikula			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4800e52347bdSJani Nikula
4801e52347bdSJani Nikula	rdinit=		[KNL]
4802e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <full_path>
4803e52347bdSJani Nikula			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4804e52347bdSJani Nikula			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4805e52347bdSJani Nikula
4806c49a0a80STom Lendacky	rdrand=		[X86]
4807c49a0a80STom Lendacky			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4808c49a0a80STom Lendacky				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4809c49a0a80STom Lendacky				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4810c49a0a80STom Lendacky				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4811c49a0a80STom Lendacky				path).
4812c49a0a80STom Lendacky
48131d9807fcSTony Luck	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
48141d9807fcSTony Luck			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
481531516de3SFenghua Yu			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
481631516de3SFenghua Yu			mba.
48171d9807fcSTony Luck			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
48181d9807fcSTony Luck				rdt=cmt,!mba
48191d9807fcSTony Luck
4820e52347bdSJani Nikula	reboot=		[KNL]
4821e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format (x86 or x86_64):
482212febc18SPaul Gortmaker				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
4823e52347bdSJani Nikula				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4824e52347bdSJani Nikula				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4825e52347bdSJani Nikula				[[,]f[orce]
4826b287a25aSAaro Koskinen			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4827b287a25aSAaro Koskinen					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4828b287a25aSAaro Koskinen					reboot only),
4829e52347bdSJani Nikula			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4830e52347bdSJani Nikula			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4831e52347bdSJani Nikula			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4832e52347bdSJani Nikula					to be used for rebooting.
4833e52347bdSJani Nikula
48341fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4835847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4836847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4837847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4838847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			interference.
4839847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
48401fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.loops= [KNL]
4841847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4842847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
4843847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4844847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4845847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4846847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			x86 laptops.
4847847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
48481fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4849847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
4850847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4851847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4852847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
48531fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4854847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4855847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			the console log.
4856847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
48571fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4858847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4859847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			measured in microseconds.
4860847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
48611fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
48621fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
48631fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney
48641fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4865847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4866847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
48674e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
48684e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4869847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
48701fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4871847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Enable additional printk() statements.
4872847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
4873e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4874e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
4875e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
4876e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4877e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney			specified.
4878e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney
4879e52347bdSJani Nikula	relax_domain_level=
4880e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4881da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4882e52347bdSJani Nikula
4883ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4884ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4885ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4886ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4887ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4888e52347bdSJani Nikula
4889e52347bdSJani Nikula	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4890e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: nn[KMG]
4891e52347bdSJani Nikula			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4892e52347bdSJani Nikula			address space.
4893e52347bdSJani Nikula
4894e52347bdSJani Nikula	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4895e52347bdSJani Nikula			during initialization.
4896e52347bdSJani Nikula
4897e52347bdSJani Nikula	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4898e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4899e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
4900e52347bdSJani Nikula			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4901e52347bdSJani Nikula
4902e52347bdSJani Nikula	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4903e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4904e52347bdSJani Nikula			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4905e52347bdSJani Nikula			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4906151f4e2bSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4907e52347bdSJani Nikula
4908e52347bdSJani Nikula	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4909e52347bdSJani Nikula			read the resume files
4910e52347bdSJani Nikula
4911e52347bdSJani Nikula	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4912e52347bdSJani Nikula			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4913e52347bdSJani Nikula			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4914e52347bdSJani Nikula
4915e52347bdSJani Nikula	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4916e52347bdSJani Nikula		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4917e52347bdSJani Nikula				present during boot.
4918e52347bdSJani Nikula		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4919e52347bdSJani Nikula		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4920e52347bdSJani Nikula		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4921e52347bdSJani Nikula				(that will set all pages holding image data
4922e52347bdSJani Nikula				during restoration read-only).
4923e52347bdSJani Nikula
4924e52347bdSJani Nikula	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4925e52347bdSJani Nikula
4926e52347bdSJani Nikula	rfkill.default_state=
4927e52347bdSJani Nikula		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4928e52347bdSJani Nikula			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4929e52347bdSJani Nikula		1	Unblocked.
4930e52347bdSJani Nikula
4931e52347bdSJani Nikula	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4932e52347bdSJani Nikula		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4933e52347bdSJani Nikula		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4934e52347bdSJani Nikula			blocked and the previous configuration.
4935e52347bdSJani Nikula		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4936e52347bdSJani Nikula			blocked and everything unblocked.
4937e52347bdSJani Nikula
4938e52347bdSJani Nikula	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4939e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4940e52347bdSJani Nikula
4941e16fd002SGrzegorz Andrejczuk	ring3mwait=disable
4942e16fd002SGrzegorz Andrejczuk			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4943e16fd002SGrzegorz Andrejczuk			CPUs.
4944e16fd002SGrzegorz Andrejczuk
4945e52347bdSJani Nikula	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4946e52347bdSJani Nikula
4947e52347bdSJani Nikula	rodata=		[KNL]
4948e52347bdSJani Nikula		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4949e52347bdSJani Nikula		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4950e52347bdSJani Nikula
4951e52347bdSJani Nikula	rockchip.usb_uart
4952e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4953e52347bdSJani Nikula			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4954e52347bdSJani Nikula			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4955e52347bdSJani Nikula			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4956e52347bdSJani Nikula
4957e52347bdSJani Nikula	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4958e52347bdSJani Nikula			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4959e52347bdSJani Nikula
4960e52347bdSJani Nikula	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4961e52347bdSJani Nikula			mount the root filesystem
4962e52347bdSJani Nikula
4963e52347bdSJani Nikula	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4964e52347bdSJani Nikula
4965e52347bdSJani Nikula	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4966e52347bdSJani Nikula
4967e52347bdSJani Nikula	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4968e52347bdSJani Nikula			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4969e52347bdSJani Nikula			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4970e52347bdSJani Nikula
4971e52347bdSJani Nikula	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4972e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4973e52347bdSJani Nikula			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4974e52347bdSJani Nikula			managed by CMA.
4975e52347bdSJani Nikula
4976e52347bdSJani Nikula	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4977e52347bdSJani Nikula
4978e52347bdSJani Nikula	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4979e52347bdSJani Nikula
4980e52347bdSJani Nikula	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4981e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4982e52347bdSJani Nikula		strict
4983e52347bdSJani Nikula			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4984e52347bdSJani Nikula			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4985e52347bdSJani Nikula			which is faster.
4986e52347bdSJani Nikula
4987e52347bdSJani Nikula	sa1100ir	[NET]
4988e52347bdSJani Nikula			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4989e52347bdSJani Nikula
49909406415fSPeter Zijlstra	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4991e52347bdSJani Nikula
4992e52347bdSJani Nikula	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4993e52347bdSJani Nikula			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4994e52347bdSJani Nikula			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4995e52347bdSJani Nikula			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4996e52347bdSJani Nikula
499705289b90SThara Gopinath	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
499805289b90SThara Gopinath			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
499905289b90SThara Gopinath			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
500005289b90SThara Gopinath			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
500105289b90SThara Gopinath			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
500205289b90SThara Gopinath			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
500305289b90SThara Gopinath			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
500405289b90SThara Gopinath			value.
500505289b90SThara Gopinath			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
500605289b90SThara Gopinath			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
500705289b90SThara Gopinath				1			64 ms
500805289b90SThara Gopinath				2			128 ms
500905289b90SThara Gopinath			and so on.
501005289b90SThara Gopinath			Format: integer between 0 and 10
501105289b90SThara Gopinath			Default is 0.
501205289b90SThara Gopinath
5013e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5014e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5015e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5016e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5017e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			tests.
5018e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5019e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5020e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5021e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5022e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5023e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5024e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5025e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5026e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5027e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5028e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5029e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5030e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5031e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			equal to the number of CPUs.
5032e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5033e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5034e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5035e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5036e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5037e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5038e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Number seconds to wait between successive
5039e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5040e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5041e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5042e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5043e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The number of seconds following the start of the
5044e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5045e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5046e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5047e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5048e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5049e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The number of seconds between outputting the
5050e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5051e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			of zero disables statistics output.
5052e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5053e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5054e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5055e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			to the set of CPUs under test.
5056e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5057e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5058e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5059e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5060e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5061e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			functions.
5062e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5063e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5064e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Enable additional printk() statements.
5065e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5066e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5067e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
5068e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5069e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5070e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5071e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5072e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5073e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5074e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5075e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
5076e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5077e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5078e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5079e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5080e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
5081e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5082e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5083e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Note well that setting a high probability for
5084e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5085e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			on the system.
5086e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5087e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5088e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
5089e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5090e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5091e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			and weight_many.
5092e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5093e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5094e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
5095e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5096e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5097e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			weight_many.
5098e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5099e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5100e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
5101e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5102e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5103e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			and weight_many.
5104e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
5105e52347bdSJani Nikula	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5106e52347bdSJani Nikula			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5107e52347bdSJani Nikula			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5108e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5109e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5110e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- enable.
5111e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5112e52347bdSJani Nikula			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5113e52347bdSJani Nikula
511489a9684eSKees Cook	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
511589a9684eSKees Cook			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
511689a9684eSKees Cook			"lsm=" parameter.
5117e52347bdSJani Nikula
5118e52347bdSJani Nikula	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5119e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5120e52347bdSJani Nikula			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5121e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- disable.
5122e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- enable.
5123d41415ebSStephen Smalley			Default value is 1.
5124e52347bdSJani Nikula
5125e52347bdSJani Nikula	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5126e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5127e52347bdSJani Nikula			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5128e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- disable.
5129e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- enable.
5130e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5131e52347bdSJani Nikula
5132e52347bdSJani Nikula	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5133e52347bdSJani Nikula
5134e52347bdSJani Nikula	shapers=	[NET]
5135e52347bdSJani Nikula			Maximal number of shapers.
5136e52347bdSJani Nikula
5137e52347bdSJani Nikula	simeth=		[IA-64]
5138e52347bdSJani Nikula	simscsi=
5139e52347bdSJani Nikula
5140e52347bdSJani Nikula	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5141e52347bdSJani Nikula
514282edd9d5SRafael Aquini	slab_merge	[MM]
514382edd9d5SRafael Aquini			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
514482edd9d5SRafael Aquini			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
514582edd9d5SRafael Aquini
5146e52347bdSJani Nikula	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5147e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5148e52347bdSJani Nikula			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
51497660a6fdSKees Cook			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
51507660a6fdSKees Cook			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
51517660a6fdSKees Cook			layout control by attackers can usually be
51527660a6fdSKees Cook			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
51537660a6fdSKees Cook			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
51547660a6fdSKees Cook			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
51557660a6fdSKees Cook			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
51567660a6fdSKees Cook			own.
5157ad56b738SMike Rapoport			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5158e52347bdSJani Nikula
5159e52347bdSJani Nikula	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5160e52347bdSJani Nikula			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5161e52347bdSJani Nikula			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5162e52347bdSJani Nikula			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5163e52347bdSJani Nikula			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5164e52347bdSJani Nikula
5165e17f1dfbSVlastimil Babka	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5166e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5167e52347bdSJani Nikula			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5168e52347bdSJani Nikula			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5169e52347bdSJani Nikula			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5170e52347bdSJani Nikula			last alloc / free. For more information see
5171ad56b738SMike Rapoport			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5172e52347bdSJani Nikula
5173e52347bdSJani Nikula	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5174e52347bdSJani Nikula			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5175e52347bdSJani Nikula			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5176e52347bdSJani Nikula			fragmentation. For more information see
5177ad56b738SMike Rapoport			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5178e52347bdSJani Nikula
5179e52347bdSJani Nikula	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5180e52347bdSJani Nikula			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5181e52347bdSJani Nikula			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5182e52347bdSJani Nikula			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5183e52347bdSJani Nikula			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5184e52347bdSJani Nikula			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5185e52347bdSJani Nikula			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5186ad56b738SMike Rapoport			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5187e52347bdSJani Nikula
5188e52347bdSJani Nikula	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5189e52347bdSJani Nikula			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5190e52347bdSJani Nikula			lower than slub_max_order.
5191ad56b738SMike Rapoport			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5192e52347bdSJani Nikula
519382edd9d5SRafael Aquini	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
519482edd9d5SRafael Aquini			Same with slab_merge.
519582edd9d5SRafael Aquini
5196e52347bdSJani Nikula	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5197e52347bdSJani Nikula			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5198e52347bdSJani Nikula			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5199e52347bdSJani Nikula
5200e52347bdSJani Nikula	smart2=		[HW]
5201e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5202e52347bdSJani Nikula
5203e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5204e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5205e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5206e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5207e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5208e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5209e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5210e52347bdSJani Nikula				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5211e52347bdSJani Nikula				1: Fast pin select (default)
5212e52347bdSJani Nikula				2: ATC IRMode
5213e52347bdSJani Nikula
5214e52347bdSJani Nikula	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5215e52347bdSJani Nikula			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5216e52347bdSJani Nikula			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5217e52347bdSJani Nikula			actual hardware limit.
5218e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
5219e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: -1 (no limit)
5220e52347bdSJani Nikula
5221e52347bdSJani Nikula	softlockup_panic=
5222e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5223f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			Format: 0 | 1
5224e52347bdSJani Nikula
5225f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
52260a07bef6SGuilherme G. Piccoli			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
52270a07bef6SGuilherme G. Piccoli			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
52280a07bef6SGuilherme G. Piccoli			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
52290a07bef6SGuilherme G. Piccoli			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
52303ce62385SBorislav Petkov
5231e52347bdSJani Nikula	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5232e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5233e52347bdSJani Nikula			backtraces on all cpus.
5234f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			Format: 0 | 1
5235e52347bdSJani Nikula
5236e52347bdSJani Nikula	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
52379e1cbedeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5238e52347bdSJani Nikula
5239da285121SDavid Woodhouse	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5240da285121SDavid Woodhouse			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5241fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			The default operation protects the kernel from
5242fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			user space attacks.
5243da285121SDavid Woodhouse
5244fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5245fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			       spectre_v2_user=on
5246fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5247fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			       spectre_v2_user=off
5248da285121SDavid Woodhouse			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5249da285121SDavid Woodhouse			       vulnerable
5250da285121SDavid Woodhouse
5251da285121SDavid Woodhouse			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5252da285121SDavid Woodhouse			mitigation method at run time according to the
5253da285121SDavid Woodhouse			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5254da285121SDavid Woodhouse			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5255da285121SDavid Woodhouse			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5256da285121SDavid Woodhouse
5257fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5258fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			against user space to user space task attacks.
5259fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
5260fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5261fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			the user space protections.
5262fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
5263da285121SDavid Woodhouse			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5264da285121SDavid Woodhouse
5265da285121SDavid Woodhouse			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5266da285121SDavid Woodhouse			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
5267da285121SDavid Woodhouse			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
5268da285121SDavid Woodhouse
5269da285121SDavid Woodhouse			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5270da285121SDavid Woodhouse			spectre_v2=auto.
5271da285121SDavid Woodhouse
5272fa1202efSThomas Gleixner	spectre_v2_user=
5273fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5274fa1202efSThomas Gleixner		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5275fa1202efSThomas Gleixner		        user space tasks
5276fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
5277fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5278fa1202efSThomas Gleixner				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5279fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
5280fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5281fa1202efSThomas Gleixner				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5282fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
52837cc765a6SThomas Gleixner			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
52847cc765a6SThomas Gleixner				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
52857cc765a6SThomas Gleixner				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
52867cc765a6SThomas Gleixner				  is inherited on fork.
52877cc765a6SThomas Gleixner
528855a97402SThomas Gleixner			prctl,ibpb
528955a97402SThomas Gleixner				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
529055a97402SThomas Gleixner				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
529155a97402SThomas Gleixner				  always when switching between different user
529255a97402SThomas Gleixner				  space processes.
529355a97402SThomas Gleixner
52946b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner			seccomp
52956b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
52966b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
52976b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner				  they explicitly opt out.
52986b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner
529955a97402SThomas Gleixner			seccomp,ibpb
530055a97402SThomas Gleixner				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
530155a97402SThomas Gleixner				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
530255a97402SThomas Gleixner				  always when switching between different
530355a97402SThomas Gleixner				  user space processes.
530455a97402SThomas Gleixner
5305fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5306fa1202efSThomas Gleixner				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
53076b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner
53086b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner			Default mitigation:
53096b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5310fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
5311fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5312fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5313fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
531424f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk	spec_store_bypass_disable=
531524f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
531624f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
531724f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
531824f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
531924f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			a common industry wide performance optimization known
532024f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
532124f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			to the same memory location may not be observed by
532224f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
532324f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
532424f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
532524f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			end of a particular speculation execution window.
532624f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
532724f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
532824f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
532924f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
533024f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
533124f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
533224f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
533324f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			Bypass optimization is used.
533424f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
53356b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			On x86 the options are:
53366b4c1360SMichael Ellerman
533724f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
533824f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
533924f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
534024f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5341f21b53b2SKees Cook				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5342f21b53b2SKees Cook				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5343f21b53b2SKees Cook				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5344f21b53b2SKees Cook				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5345a73ec77eSThomas Gleixner			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5346a73ec77eSThomas Gleixner				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5347a73ec77eSThomas Gleixner				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5348a73ec77eSThomas Gleixner				  is inherited on fork.
5349f21b53b2SKees Cook			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5350f21b53b2SKees Cook				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
535124f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
5352f21b53b2SKees Cook			Default mitigations:
5353f21b53b2SKees Cook			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5354f21b53b2SKees Cook
53556b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			On powerpc the options are:
53566b4c1360SMichael Ellerman
53576b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
53586b4c1360SMichael Ellerman				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
53596b4c1360SMichael Ellerman				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
53606b4c1360SMichael Ellerman				  exit.
53616b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			off	- No action.
53626b4c1360SMichael Ellerman
53636b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
53646b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
53656b4c1360SMichael Ellerman
5366e52347bdSJani Nikula	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5367e52347bdSJani Nikula	spia_fio_base=
5368e52347bdSJani Nikula	spia_pedr=
5369e52347bdSJani Nikula	spia_peddr=
5370e52347bdSJani Nikula
53716650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	split_lock_detect=
5372ebca1770SFenghua Yu			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
53736650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
53746650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
53756650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			instructions that access data across cache line
5376ebca1770SFenghua Yu			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5377ebca1770SFenghua Yu			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5378ebca1770SFenghua Yu			bus lock detection.
53796650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
53806650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			off	- not enabled
53816650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
5382ebca1770SFenghua Yu			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
53836650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)				  about applications triggering the #AC
5384ebca1770SFenghua Yu				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5385ebca1770SFenghua Yu				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5386ebca1770SFenghua Yu				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5387ebca1770SFenghua Yu				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5388ebca1770SFenghua Yu				  enabled in hardware.
53896650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
53906650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5391ebca1770SFenghua Yu				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5392ebca1770SFenghua Yu				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5393ebca1770SFenghua Yu				  both features are enabled in hardware.
53946650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
53959d839c28SFenghua Yu			ratelimit:N -
53969d839c28SFenghua Yu				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
53979d839c28SFenghua Yu				  per second for bus lock detection.
53989d839c28SFenghua Yu				  0 < N <= 1000.
53999d839c28SFenghua Yu
54009d839c28SFenghua Yu				  N/A for split lock detection.
54019d839c28SFenghua Yu
54029d839c28SFenghua Yu
54036650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
54046650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
54056650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
54066650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			mode.
54076650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
5408ebca1770SFenghua Yu			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5409ebca1770SFenghua Yu			CPL > 0.
5410ebca1770SFenghua Yu
54117e5b3c26SMark Gross	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
54127e5b3c26SMark Gross			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
54137e5b3c26SMark Gross			(SRBDS) mitigation.
54147e5b3c26SMark Gross
54157e5b3c26SMark Gross			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
54167e5b3c26SMark Gross			exploit which can leak bits from the random
54177e5b3c26SMark Gross			number generator.
54187e5b3c26SMark Gross
54197e5b3c26SMark Gross			By default, this issue is mitigated by
54207e5b3c26SMark Gross			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
54217e5b3c26SMark Gross			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
54227e5b3c26SMark Gross			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
54237e5b3c26SMark Gross			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
54247e5b3c26SMark Gross
54257e5b3c26SMark Gross			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
54267e5b3c26SMark Gross			the following option:
54277e5b3c26SMark Gross
54287e5b3c26SMark Gross			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
54297e5b3c26SMark Gross				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
54307e5b3c26SMark Gross
5431c350c008SPaul E. McKenney	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5432c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			Specifies how frequently to check for
5433c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5434c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5435c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5436c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5437c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5438c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			are ignored.
5439c350c008SPaul E. McKenney
544022607d66SPaul E. McKenney	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
544122607d66SPaul E. McKenney			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
544222607d66SPaul E. McKenney			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
544322607d66SPaul E. McKenney			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
544422607d66SPaul E. McKenney			grace period will be considered for automatic
544522607d66SPaul E. McKenney			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
544622607d66SPaul E. McKenney			expediting.
544722607d66SPaul E. McKenney
5448a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5449a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5450a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier
5451a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5452a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5453a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5454a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5455a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier
5456a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5457a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   for both kernel and userspace
5458a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5459a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   for both kernel and userspace
5460a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5461a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5462a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   to allow userspace to register its
5463a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   interest in being mitigated too.
5464a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier
54651be7107fSHugh Dickins	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
54661be7107fSHugh Dickins			override the default stack gap protection. The value
54671be7107fSHugh Dickins			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
54681be7107fSHugh Dickins			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
54691be7107fSHugh Dickins			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
54701be7107fSHugh Dickins			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
54711be7107fSHugh Dickins
5472e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5473e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5474e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5475e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5476e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta			to false.
5477e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta
5478e52347bdSJani Nikula	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5479e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5480e52347bdSJani Nikula
5481e52347bdSJani Nikula	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5482e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
548325942e5eSRandy Dunlap			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5484e52347bdSJani Nikula			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5485e52347bdSJani Nikula			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5486e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5487e52347bdSJani Nikula			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5488e52347bdSJani Nikula
5489e52347bdSJani Nikula	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5490e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <num>
5491e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5492e52347bdSJani Nikula			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5493e52347bdSJani Nikula			as the initial boot-console.
5494e52347bdSJani Nikula			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5495e52347bdSJani Nikula
5496e52347bdSJani Nikula	sti_font=	[HW]
5497e52347bdSJani Nikula			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5498e52347bdSJani Nikula
5499e52347bdSJani Nikula	stifb=		[HW]
5500e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5501e52347bdSJani Nikula
5502e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5503e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5504e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5505e52347bdSJani Nikula			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5506e52347bdSJani Nikula			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5507e52347bdSJani Nikula			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5508e52347bdSJani Nikula			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5509e52347bdSJani Nikula			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5510e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5511e52347bdSJani Nikula			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5512e52347bdSJani Nikula			maximum port values.
5513e52347bdSJani Nikula
5514e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5515e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5516e52347bdSJani Nikula			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5517e52347bdSJani Nikula			process in parallel from a single connection.
5518e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5519e52347bdSJani Nikula
5520e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5521e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS]
5522e52347bdSJani Nikula			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5523e52347bdSJani Nikula			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5524e52347bdSJani Nikula			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5525e52347bdSJani Nikula			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5526e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5527e52347bdSJani Nikula			NFS server is running.
5528e52347bdSJani Nikula
5529e52347bdSJani Nikula			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5530e52347bdSJani Nikula				    automatically using heuristics
5531e52347bdSJani Nikula			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5532e52347bdSJani Nikula			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5533e52347bdSJani Nikula			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5534e52347bdSJani Nikula				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5535e52347bdSJani Nikula
5536e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5537e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5538e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5539e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5540e52347bdSJani Nikula			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5541e52347bdSJani Nikula			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5542e52347bdSJani Nikula			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5543e52347bdSJani Nikula			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5544e52347bdSJani Nikula
5545e52347bdSJani Nikula	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5546e52347bdSJani Nikula			[SUSPEND]
5547e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5548e52347bdSJani Nikula			mode before resuming the system (see
5549e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5550e52347bdSJani Nikula			is set. Default value is 5.
5551e52347bdSJani Nikula
55526a9c930bSRam Pai	svm=		[PPC]
55536a9c930bSRam Pai			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
55546a9c930bSRam Pai			This parameter controls use of the Protected
55556a9c930bSRam Pai			Execution Facility on pSeries.
55566a9c930bSRam Pai
5557e52347bdSJani Nikula	swapaccount=[0|1]
5558e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5559e52347bdSJani Nikula			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5560da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5561e52347bdSJani Nikula
5562e52347bdSJani Nikula	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5563fff5d992SGeert Uytterhoeven			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5564e52347bdSJani Nikula			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5565e52347bdSJani Nikula			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5566e52347bdSJani Nikula			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5567fff5d992SGeert Uytterhoeven			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5568e52347bdSJani Nikula
5569e52347bdSJani Nikula	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5570e52347bdSJani Nikula
55713db978d4SVlastimil Babka	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
55723db978d4SVlastimil Babka			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
55733db978d4SVlastimil Babka			process, as if the value was written to the respective
55743db978d4SVlastimil Babka			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
55753db978d4SVlastimil Babka			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
55763db978d4SVlastimil Babka			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
55773db978d4SVlastimil Babka			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
55783db978d4SVlastimil Babka			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
55793db978d4SVlastimil Babka
5580e52347bdSJani Nikula	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5581e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5582e52347bdSJani Nikula			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5583e52347bdSJani Nikula			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5584e52347bdSJani Nikula			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5585e52347bdSJani Nikula			in older udev will not work anymore.
5586e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5587e52347bdSJani Nikula			the kernel configuration.
5588e52347bdSJani Nikula
5589e52347bdSJani Nikula	sysrq_always_enabled
5590e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL]
5591e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5592e52347bdSJani Nikula			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5593e52347bdSJani Nikula			Useful for debugging.
5594e52347bdSJani Nikula
5595e52347bdSJani Nikula	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5596e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5597e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5598e52347bdSJani Nikula			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
55991cec2cacSMauro Carvalho Chehab			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5600e52347bdSJani Nikula			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5601e52347bdSJani Nikula
5602e52347bdSJani Nikula	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5603e52347bdSJani Nikula
5604e52347bdSJani Nikula	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5605e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5606e52347bdSJani Nikula			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5607e52347bdSJani Nikula			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5608e52347bdSJani Nikula			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5609e52347bdSJani Nikula			The system is woken from this state using a
5610e52347bdSJani Nikula			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5611e52347bdSJani Nikula
5612e52347bdSJani Nikula	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5613e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5614e52347bdSJani Nikula
5615e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5616e52347bdSJani Nikula			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5617e52347bdSJani Nikula			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5618e52347bdSJani Nikula
5619e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5620e52347bdSJani Nikula			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5621e52347bdSJani Nikula			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5622e52347bdSJani Nikula
5623e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5624e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5625e52347bdSJani Nikula			critical and hot trip points.
5626e52347bdSJani Nikula
5627e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5628e52347bdSJani Nikula			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5629e52347bdSJani Nikula
5630e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5631e52347bdSJani Nikula			-1: disable all passive trip points
5632e52347bdSJani Nikula			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5633e52347bdSJani Nikula			value
5634e52347bdSJani Nikula
5635e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5636e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5637e52347bdSJani Nikula			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5638e52347bdSJani Nikula			0: no polling (default)
5639e52347bdSJani Nikula
5640e52347bdSJani Nikula	threadirqs	[KNL]
5641e52347bdSJani Nikula			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5642e52347bdSJani Nikula			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5643e52347bdSJani Nikula
5644e52347bdSJani Nikula	topology=	[S390]
5645e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {off | on}
5646e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5647e52347bdSJani Nikula			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5648e52347bdSJani Nikula			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5649e52347bdSJani Nikula			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5650e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is on.
5651e52347bdSJani Nikula
5652e52347bdSJani Nikula	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5653e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {off}
5654e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5655e52347bdSJani Nikula			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5656e52347bdSJani Nikula			LPAR.
5657e52347bdSJani Nikula
56588171d3e0SPaul E. McKenney	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
56598171d3e0SPaul E. McKenney			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
56608171d3e0SPaul E. McKenney			until after init has spawned.
56618171d3e0SPaul E. McKenney
56622102ad29SPaul E. McKenney	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
56632102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
56642102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
56652102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			very costly operation when many torture tests
56662102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			are running concurrently, especially on systems
56672102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			with rotating-rust storage.
56682102ad29SPaul E. McKenney
56698a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
56708a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
56718a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
56728a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
56738a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney
56748a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
56758a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
56768a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney
5677e52347bdSJani Nikula	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5678e52347bdSJani Nikula
5679e52347bdSJani Nikula	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5680e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: integer pcr id
5681e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5682e52347bdSJani Nikula			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5683e52347bdSJani Nikula			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5684e52347bdSJani Nikula			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5685e52347bdSJani Nikula			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5686e52347bdSJani Nikula			are saved.
5687e52347bdSJani Nikula
5688e52347bdSJani Nikula	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5689e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5690e52347bdSJani Nikula
5691e52347bdSJani Nikula	trace_event=[event-list]
5692e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5693e52347bdSJani Nikula			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
569425942e5eSRandy Dunlap			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
56955fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5696e52347bdSJani Nikula
5697e52347bdSJani Nikula	trace_options=[option-list]
5698e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5699e52347bdSJani Nikula			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5700e52347bdSJani Nikula			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5701e52347bdSJani Nikula			to echo the option name into
5702e52347bdSJani Nikula
5703e52347bdSJani Nikula			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5704e52347bdSJani Nikula
5705e52347bdSJani Nikula			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5706e52347bdSJani Nikula			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5707e52347bdSJani Nikula
5708e52347bdSJani Nikula			      trace_options=stacktrace
5709e52347bdSJani Nikula
57105fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5711e52347bdSJani Nikula			section.
5712e52347bdSJani Nikula
5713e52347bdSJani Nikula	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5714e52347bdSJani Nikula			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5715e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5716e52347bdSJani Nikula			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5717e52347bdSJani Nikula			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5718e52347bdSJani Nikula			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5719e52347bdSJani Nikula
5720e52347bdSJani Nikula			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5721e52347bdSJani Nikula			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5722e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5723e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5724e52347bdSJani Nikula
5725f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
5726f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			to stop the printing of events to console at
5727f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			late_initcall_sync.
5728f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
5729e52347bdSJani Nikula			** CAUTION **
5730e52347bdSJani Nikula
5731e52347bdSJani Nikula			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5732e52347bdSJani Nikula			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5733e52347bdSJani Nikula			the system to live lock.
5734e52347bdSJani Nikula
5735f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE]
5736f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
5737f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
5738f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
5739f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			make the system inoperable.
5740f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
5741f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			This command line option will stop the printing of events
5742f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
5743f3860136SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
5744e52347bdSJani Nikula	traceoff_on_warning
5745e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5746e52347bdSJani Nikula			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5747e52347bdSJani Nikula			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5748e52347bdSJani Nikula			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5749e52347bdSJani Nikula
5750e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5751e52347bdSJani Nikula			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5752e52347bdSJani Nikula			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5753e52347bdSJani Nikula
5754e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5755e52347bdSJani Nikula			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5756e52347bdSJani Nikula
5757e52347bdSJani Nikula	transparent_hugepage=
5758e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL]
5759e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5760e52347bdSJani Nikula			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5761e52347bdSJani Nikula			with respect to transparent hugepages.
576245c9a74fSMike Rapoport			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
576345c9a74fSMike Rapoport			for more details.
5764e52347bdSJani Nikula
57655d0682beSSumit Garg	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
57665d0682beSSumit Garg			Format: <string>
57675d0682beSSumit Garg			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
57685d0682beSSumit Garg			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
57695d0682beSSumit Garg			sources:
57705d0682beSSumit Garg			- "tpm"
57715d0682beSSumit Garg			- "tee"
57725d0682beSSumit Garg			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
57735d0682beSSumit Garg			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
57745d0682beSSumit Garg			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
57755d0682beSSumit Garg			successfully during iteration.
57765d0682beSSumit Garg
5777e52347bdSJani Nikula	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5778e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <string>
5779e52347bdSJani Nikula			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5780e52347bdSJani Nikula			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5781e52347bdSJani Nikula			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5782e52347bdSJani Nikula			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5783e52347bdSJani Nikula			virtualized environment.
5784e52347bdSJani Nikula			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5785e52347bdSJani Nikula			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5786e52347bdSJani Nikula			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5787e52347bdSJani Nikula			can add overhead.
57886be53520SDou Liyang			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
57896be53520SDou Liyang			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
57906be53520SDou Liyang			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
57910f0b7e1cSJuri Lelli			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
57920f0b7e1cSJuri Lelli			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
57930f0b7e1cSJuri Lelli			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
57940f0b7e1cSJuri Lelli			acceptable).
5795e52347bdSJani Nikula
5796bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5797bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5798bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5799bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5800bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch			Format: <unsigned int>
5801bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch
580295c5824fSPawan Gupta	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
580395c5824fSPawan Gupta			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
580495c5824fSPawan Gupta			support TSX control.
580595c5824fSPawan Gupta
580695c5824fSPawan Gupta			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
580795c5824fSPawan Gupta
580895c5824fSPawan Gupta			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
580995c5824fSPawan Gupta				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
581095c5824fSPawan Gupta				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
581195c5824fSPawan Gupta				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
581295c5824fSPawan Gupta				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
581395c5824fSPawan Gupta				with leaving it enabled.
581495c5824fSPawan Gupta
581595c5824fSPawan Gupta			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
581695c5824fSPawan Gupta				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
581795c5824fSPawan Gupta				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
581895c5824fSPawan Gupta				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
581995c5824fSPawan Gupta				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
582095c5824fSPawan Gupta				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
582195c5824fSPawan Gupta				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
582295c5824fSPawan Gupta
58237531a359SPawan Gupta			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
58247531a359SPawan Gupta				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
58257531a359SPawan Gupta
582695c5824fSPawan Gupta			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
582795c5824fSPawan Gupta
582895c5824fSPawan Gupta			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
582995c5824fSPawan Gupta			for more details.
583095c5824fSPawan Gupta
5831a7a248c5SPawan Gupta	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5832a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5833a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5834a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5835a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5836a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5837a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5838a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5839a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			conditions.
5840a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5841a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5842a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5843a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5844a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			access.
5845a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5846a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5847a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			options are:
5848a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5849a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5850a7a248c5SPawan Gupta				     if TSX is enabled.
5851a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5852a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5853a7a248c5SPawan Gupta				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5854a7a248c5SPawan Gupta				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5855a7a248c5SPawan Gupta				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5856a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5857a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
585864870ed1SWaiman Long			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
585964870ed1SWaiman Long			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
586064870ed1SWaiman Long			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
586164870ed1SWaiman Long			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
586264870ed1SWaiman Long
5863a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5864a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5865a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5866a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			required and doesn't provide any additional
5867a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			mitigation.
5868a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5869a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			For details see:
5870a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5871a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5872e52347bdSJani Nikula	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5873e52347bdSJani Nikula			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5874e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
5875e52347bdSJani Nikula			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
58761752118dSTom Saeger			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5877e52347bdSJani Nikula
5878e52347bdSJani Nikula	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5879e52347bdSJani Nikula			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5880e52347bdSJani Nikula			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5881e52347bdSJani Nikula			help "seeing" what's going on.
5882e52347bdSJani Nikula
5883e52347bdSJani Nikula	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5884e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5885e52347bdSJani Nikula
5886e52347bdSJani Nikula	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5887e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5888e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5889e52347bdSJani Nikula			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5890e52347bdSJani Nikula			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5891e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5892e52347bdSJani Nikula			reported either.
5893e52347bdSJani Nikula
5894e52347bdSJani Nikula	unknown_nmi_panic
5895e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5896e52347bdSJani Nikula
5897e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.authorized_default=
5898e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5899e52347bdSJani Nikula			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
59007bae0432SDmitry Torokhov			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
59017bae0432SDmitry Torokhov			if device connected to internal port)
5902e52347bdSJani Nikula
5903e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.autosuspend=
5904e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5905e52347bdSJani Nikula			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5906e52347bdSJani Nikula			is the time required before an idle device will be
5907e52347bdSJani Nikula			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5908e52347bdSJani Nikula			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5909e52347bdSJani Nikula
5910e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5911e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5912e52347bdSJani Nikula
5913e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5914e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5915e52347bdSJani Nikula			(default = 65536).
5916e52347bdSJani Nikula
5917e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5918e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5919e52347bdSJani Nikula
5920e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5921e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
59223155f4f4SAlan Stern			scheme (default 0 = off).
5923e52347bdSJani Nikula
5924e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5925e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5926e52347bdSJani Nikula			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5927e52347bdSJani Nikula
5928e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5929e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5930e52347bdSJani Nikula			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5931e52347bdSJani Nikula
5932e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5933e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5934e52347bdSJani Nikula			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5935e52347bdSJani Nikula			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5936e52347bdSJani Nikula
5937e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5938e52347bdSJani Nikula
5939027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng	usbcore.quirks=
5940027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5941027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5942027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			commas. Each entry has the form
5943027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5944027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5945027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5946027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5947027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			the following meanings:
5948027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5949027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					descriptors must not be fetched using
5950027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					a 255-byte read);
5951027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5952027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					correctly so reset it instead);
5953027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5954027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					Set-Interface requests);
5955027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5956027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					handle its Configuration or Interface
5957027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					strings);
5958027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5959027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5960027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5961027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					more interface descriptions than the
5962027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5963027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					talking to these interfaces);
5964027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5965027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					during initialization, after we read
5966027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					the device descriptor);
5967027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5968027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					high speed and super speed interrupt
5969027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5970027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					require the interval in microframes (1
5971027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5972027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5973027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					(bInterval-1).
5974027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					Devices with this quirk report their
5975027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					bInterval as the result of this
5976027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					calculation instead of the exponent
5977027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					variable used in the calculation);
5978027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5979027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5980027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					requests);
5981027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5982027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5983027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					remote wakeup capability);
5984027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5985027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					Power Management);
5986027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5987027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5988027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5989027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					calculation);
5990027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5991027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					to be disconnected before suspend to
59924d8d5a39SKai-Heng Feng					prevent spurious wakeup);
59934d8d5a39SKai-Heng Feng				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
59944d8d5a39SKai-Heng Feng					pause after every control message);
5995781f0766SKai-Heng Feng				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5996781f0766SKai-Heng Feng					delay after resetting its port);
5997027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5998027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng
5999e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbhid.mousepoll=
6000e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6001e52347bdSJani Nikula
6002933bfe4dSTobias Jakobi	usbhid.jspoll=
6003933bfe4dSTobias Jakobi			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6004933bfe4dSTobias Jakobi
60052ddc8e2dSFilip Alac	usbhid.kbpoll=
60062ddc8e2dSFilip Alac			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
60072ddc8e2dSFilip Alac
6008e52347bdSJani Nikula	usb-storage.delay_use=
6009e52347bdSJani Nikula			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6010e52347bdSJani Nikula			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6011e52347bdSJani Nikula
6012e52347bdSJani Nikula	usb-storage.quirks=
6013e52347bdSJani Nikula			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6014e52347bdSJani Nikula			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6015e52347bdSJani Nikula			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6016e52347bdSJani Nikula			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6017e52347bdSJani Nikula			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6018e52347bdSJani Nikula			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6019e52347bdSJani Nikula			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6020e52347bdSJani Nikula				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
602165cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					of sense data, not on uas);
6022e52347bdSJani Nikula				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
602365cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6024e52347bdSJani Nikula				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6025e52347bdSJani Nikula					device capacity by one sector);
6026e52347bdSJani Nikula				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
602765cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6028e52347bdSJani Nikula				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6029e52347bdSJani Nikula					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6030e52347bdSJani Nikula				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6031e52347bdSJani Nikula					command, uas only);
6032e52347bdSJani Nikula				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6033e52347bdSJani Nikula					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6034e52347bdSJani Nikula				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6035e52347bdSJani Nikula					reported device capacity by one
6036e52347bdSJani Nikula					sector if the number is odd);
6037e52347bdSJani Nikula				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6038e52347bdSJani Nikula					device);
6039e52347bdSJani Nikula				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6040e52347bdSJani Nikula					command, uas only);
60418010622cSOliver Neukum				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6042e52347bdSJani Nikula				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
604365cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6044e52347bdSJani Nikula				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
604565cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
604665cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					not on uas);
6047e52347bdSJani Nikula				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
604865cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6049e52347bdSJani Nikula				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
605065cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					reported by the device, not on uas);
6051e52347bdSJani Nikula				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
605265cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					by default, not on uas);
6053e52347bdSJani Nikula				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
605465cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6055e52347bdSJani Nikula				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6056e52347bdSJani Nikula					Logical Unit);
6057e52347bdSJani Nikula				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6058e52347bdSJani Nikula					commands, uas only);
6059e52347bdSJani Nikula				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6060e52347bdSJani Nikula				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6061e52347bdSJani Nikula					medium is write-protected).
6062e52347bdSJani Nikula				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
606365cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					even if the device claims no cache,
606465cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					not on uas)
6065e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6066e52347bdSJani Nikula
6067e52347bdSJani Nikula	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6068e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
6069e52347bdSJani Nikula			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6070e52347bdSJani Nikula				 1 - undefined instruction events
6071e52347bdSJani Nikula				 2 - system calls
6072e52347bdSJani Nikula				 4 - invalid data aborts
6073e52347bdSJani Nikula				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6074e52347bdSJani Nikula				16 - SIGBUS faults
6075e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: user_debug=31
6076e52347bdSJani Nikula
6077e52347bdSJani Nikula	userpte=
6078e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6079e52347bdSJani Nikula
6080e52347bdSJani Nikula				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6081e52347bdSJani Nikula					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6082e52347bdSJani Nikula					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6083e52347bdSJani Nikula
6084e52347bdSJani Nikula	vdso=		[X86,SH]
6085e52347bdSJani Nikula			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6086e52347bdSJani Nikula
6087e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6088e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6089e52347bdSJani Nikula
6090e52347bdSJani Nikula	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6091e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6092e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6093e52347bdSJani Nikula
6094e52347bdSJani Nikula			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6095e52347bdSJani Nikula			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6096e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6097e52347bdSJani Nikula
6098e52347bdSJani Nikula			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6099e52347bdSJani Nikula			alias for vdso32=0.
6100e52347bdSJani Nikula
6101e52347bdSJani Nikula			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6102e52347bdSJani Nikula			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6103e52347bdSJani Nikula
6104e52347bdSJani Nikula	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6105e52347bdSJani Nikula			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6106e52347bdSJani Nikula
6107e52347bdSJani Nikula	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6108ab42b818SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6109e52347bdSJani Nikula
6110e52347bdSJani Nikula	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
6111e52347bdSJani Nikula			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6112e52347bdSJani Nikula			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6113e52347bdSJani Nikula			level and then send out the event to user space through
6114e52347bdSJani Nikula			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
6115e52347bdSJani Nikula			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6116e52347bdSJani Nikula			brightness level.
6117e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: 1
6118e52347bdSJani Nikula
6119e52347bdSJani Nikula	virtio_mmio.device=
6120e52347bdSJani Nikula			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6121e52347bdSJani Nikula
6122e52347bdSJani Nikula				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6123e52347bdSJani Nikula			where:
6124e52347bdSJani Nikula				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6125e52347bdSJani Nikula						like K, M and G)
6126e52347bdSJani Nikula				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6127e52347bdSJani Nikula				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6128e52347bdSJani Nikula						request_irq())
6129e52347bdSJani Nikula				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6130e52347bdSJani Nikula			example:
6131e52347bdSJani Nikula				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6132e52347bdSJani Nikula
6133e52347bdSJani Nikula			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6134e52347bdSJani Nikula
6135e52347bdSJani Nikula	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6136cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
61374f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6138e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use vga=ask for menu.
6139e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6140e52347bdSJani Nikula			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6141e52347bdSJani Nikula
6142f682a97aSAlexander Duyck	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6143f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6144f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6145f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			All options are enabled by default, and this
6146f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6147f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6148f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			debugging features.
6149f682a97aSAlexander Duyck
6150f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			Available options are:
6151f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6152f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			  -	Disable all of the above options
6153f682a97aSAlexander Duyck
6154e52347bdSJani Nikula	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6155e52347bdSJani Nikula			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6156e52347bdSJani Nikula			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6157e52347bdSJani Nikula			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6158e52347bdSJani Nikula			mapped kernel RAM.
6159e52347bdSJani Nikula
61603f429842SHeiko Carstens	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
61613f429842SHeiko Carstens			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
61623f429842SHeiko Carstens			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
61633f429842SHeiko Carstens
6164e52347bdSJani Nikula	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6165e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <command>
6166e52347bdSJani Nikula
6167e52347bdSJani Nikula	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6168e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <command>
6169e52347bdSJani Nikula
6170e52347bdSJani Nikula	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6171e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <command>
6172e52347bdSJani Nikula
6173e52347bdSJani Nikula	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6174e52347bdSJani Nikula			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6175e52347bdSJani Nikula			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6176e52347bdSJani Nikula			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6177e52347bdSJani Nikula			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6178e52347bdSJani Nikula			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6179e52347bdSJani Nikula			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6180e52347bdSJani Nikula
6181e52347bdSJani Nikula			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6182bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6183bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski				    page is readable.
6184e52347bdSJani Nikula
6185bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6186bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6187bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski				    page is not readable.
6188e52347bdSJani Nikula
6189e52347bdSJani Nikula			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6190e52347bdSJani Nikula			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6191e52347bdSJani Nikula			            might break your system.
6192e52347bdSJani Nikula
6193e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6194e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6195e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6196e52347bdSJani Nikula
6197e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6198e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6199e52347bdSJani Nikula			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6200e52347bdSJani Nikula			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6201e52347bdSJani Nikula
6202e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6203e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6204e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6205e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6206e52347bdSJani Nikula			ranging from 0-255.
6207e52347bdSJani Nikula
6208e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6209e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6210e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the default green palette of the console.
6211e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6212e52347bdSJani Nikula			ranging from 0-255.
6213e52347bdSJani Nikula
6214e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6215e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6216e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the default red palette of the console.
6217e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6218e52347bdSJani Nikula			ranging from 0-255.
6219e52347bdSJani Nikula
6220e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.default_utf8=
6221e52347bdSJani Nikula			[VT]
6222e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format=<0|1>
6223e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6224e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6225e52347bdSJani Nikula			newly opened terminals.
6226e52347bdSJani Nikula
6227e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.global_cursor_default=
6228e52347bdSJani Nikula			[VT]
6229e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format=<-1|0|1>
6230e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6231e52347bdSJani Nikula			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6232e52347bdSJani Nikula			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6233e52347bdSJani Nikula			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6234e52347bdSJani Nikula			cursors, 1 will display them.
6235e52347bdSJani Nikula
6236e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6237e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 2 = green.
6238e52347bdSJani Nikula
6239e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6240e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 3 = cyan.
6241e52347bdSJani Nikula
6242e52347bdSJani Nikula	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6243cc2a2d19SMauro Carvalho Chehab			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6244e52347bdSJani Nikula			or other driver-specific files in the
6245e52347bdSJani Nikula			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6246e52347bdSJani Nikula
624711295055SLaurence Oberman	watchdog_thresh=
624811295055SLaurence Oberman			[KNL]
624911295055SLaurence Oberman			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
625011295055SLaurence Oberman			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
625111295055SLaurence Oberman			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
625211295055SLaurence Oberman			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
625311295055SLaurence Oberman			seconds.
625411295055SLaurence Oberman
6255e52347bdSJani Nikula	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6256e52347bdSJani Nikula			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6257e52347bdSJani Nikula			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6258e52347bdSJani Nikula			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6259e52347bdSJani Nikula			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6260e52347bdSJani Nikula			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6261e52347bdSJani Nikula			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6262e52347bdSJani Nikula			corresponding sysfs file.
6263e52347bdSJani Nikula
6264e52347bdSJani Nikula	workqueue.disable_numa
6265e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6266e52347bdSJani Nikula			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6267e52347bdSJani Nikula			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6268e52347bdSJani Nikula			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6269e52347bdSJani Nikula			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6270e52347bdSJani Nikula			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6271e52347bdSJani Nikula			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6272e52347bdSJani Nikula
6273e52347bdSJani Nikula	workqueue.power_efficient
6274e52347bdSJani Nikula			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6275e52347bdSJani Nikula			they show better performance thanks to cache
6276e52347bdSJani Nikula			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6277e52347bdSJani Nikula			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6278e52347bdSJani Nikula
6279e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6280e52347bdSJani Nikula			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6281e52347bdSJani Nikula			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6282e52347bdSJani Nikula			power usage at the cost of small performance
6283e52347bdSJani Nikula			overhead.
6284e52347bdSJani Nikula
6285e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6286e52347bdSJani Nikula			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6287e52347bdSJani Nikula
6288e52347bdSJani Nikula	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6289e52347bdSJani Nikula			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6290e52347bdSJani Nikula			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6291e52347bdSJani Nikula			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6292e52347bdSJani Nikula			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6293e52347bdSJani Nikula			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6294e52347bdSJani Nikula			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6295e52347bdSJani Nikula			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6296e52347bdSJani Nikula			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6297e52347bdSJani Nikula			impacted.
6298e52347bdSJani Nikula
6299e52347bdSJani Nikula	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6300e52347bdSJani Nikula			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6301e52347bdSJani Nikula			supporting x2apic.
6302e52347bdSJani Nikula
6303e52347bdSJani Nikula	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6304e52347bdSJani Nikula			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6305e52347bdSJani Nikula			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6306e52347bdSJani Nikula			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6307e52347bdSJani Nikula			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6308e52347bdSJani Nikula			domains.
6309e52347bdSJani Nikula
6310e52347bdSJani Nikula	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6311e52347bdSJani Nikula			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6312e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6313e52347bdSJani Nikula			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6314e52347bdSJani Nikula			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6315e52347bdSJani Nikula			nics -- unplug network devices
6316e52347bdSJani Nikula			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6317e52347bdSJani Nikula			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6318e52347bdSJani Nikula				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6319e52347bdSJani Nikula				the unplug protocol
6320e52347bdSJani Nikula			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6321e52347bdSJani Nikula
6322c6875f3aSBoris Ostrovsky	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6323c6875f3aSBoris Ostrovsky			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6324c6875f3aSBoris Ostrovsky			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6325c6875f3aSBoris Ostrovsky
6326e52347bdSJani Nikula	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
63279a3c05e6SZhenzhong Duan			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
63289a3c05e6SZhenzhong Duan			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
63299a3c05e6SZhenzhong Duan			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6330e52347bdSJani Nikula
6331e52347bdSJani Nikula	xen_nopv	[X86]
6332e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6333e52347bdSJani Nikula			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6334b39b0497SZhenzhong Duan			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6335b39b0497SZhenzhong Duan			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6336e52347bdSJani Nikula
6337b36b0fe9SDavid Woodhouse	xen_no_vector_callback
6338b36b0fe9SDavid Woodhouse			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6339b36b0fe9SDavid Woodhouse			event channel interrupts.
6340b36b0fe9SDavid Woodhouse
6341197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6342197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6343197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6344197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6345197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6346197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki
63472ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
63482ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
63492ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
63502ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
63512ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
63522ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			more timer interrupts.
63532ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux
6354e99502f7SJuergen Gross	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6355e99502f7SJuergen Gross			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6356e99502f7SJuergen Gross			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6357e99502f7SJuergen Gross
6358e99502f7SJuergen Gross	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6359e99502f7SJuergen Gross			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6360e99502f7SJuergen Gross			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6361e99502f7SJuergen Gross
63621a89c1dcSJuergen Gross	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
63631a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
63641a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
63651a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
63661a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
63671a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
63681a89c1dcSJuergen Gross
636930978346SZhenzhong Duan	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
637030978346SZhenzhong Duan			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
637130978346SZhenzhong Duan			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
637230978346SZhenzhong Duan			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
637330978346SZhenzhong Duan
63749a3c05e6SZhenzhong Duan	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
637505eee619SZhenzhong Duan			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
637605eee619SZhenzhong Duan			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
637705eee619SZhenzhong Duan			contention.
637805eee619SZhenzhong Duan
6379e52347bdSJani Nikula	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6380e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
6381e52347bdSJani Nikula			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6382c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor
6383ba45cff6SMichael Neuling	xive=		[PPC]
6384ba45cff6SMichael Neuling			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6385ba45cff6SMichael Neuling			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6386ba45cff6SMichael Neuling			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6387ba45cff6SMichael Neuling
6388ba45cff6SMichael Neuling			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6389ba45cff6SMichael Neuling				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6390ba45cff6SMichael Neuling				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6391ba45cff6SMichael Neuling
6392c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6393c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6394c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6395c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
63966278f55bSGustavo Romero
63976278f55bSGustavo Romero	xmon		[PPC]
63986278f55bSGustavo Romero			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
63996278f55bSGustavo Romero			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
64006278f55bSGustavo Romero			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
64016278f55bSGustavo Romero			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
64026278f55bSGustavo Romero				debugger is called from setup_arch().
64036278f55bSGustavo Romero			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
64046278f55bSGustavo Romero				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
64056278f55bSGustavo Romero				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
64066278f55bSGustavo Romero				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
64076278f55bSGustavo Romero			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
64086278f55bSGustavo Romero				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
64096278f55bSGustavo Romero				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
64106278f55bSGustavo Romero				can be written using xmon commands.
64116278f55bSGustavo Romero			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
64126278f55bSGustavo Romero				memory, and other data can't be written using
64136278f55bSGustavo Romero				xmon commands.
64146278f55bSGustavo Romero			off	xmon is disabled.
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