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.,
53e52347bdSJani Nikula			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
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 PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
64e52347bdSJani Nikula			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
65e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
66e52347bdSJani Nikula			object while interpreting AML:
67e52347bdSJani Nikula			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
68e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
69e52347bdSJani Nikula			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
70e52347bdSJani Nikula
71e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some values produce so much output that the system is
72e52347bdSJani Nikula			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
73e52347bdSJani Nikula			if you need to capture more output.
74e52347bdSJani Nikula
75e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
76e52347bdSJani Nikula			{ strict | lax | no }
77e52347bdSJani Nikula			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
78e52347bdSJani Nikula			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
79e52347bdSJani Nikula			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
80e52347bdSJani Nikula			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
81e52347bdSJani Nikula			can interfere with legacy drivers.
82e52347bdSJani Nikula			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
83e52347bdSJani Nikula			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
84e52347bdSJani Nikula			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
85e52347bdSJani Nikula			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
86e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
87e52347bdSJani Nikula			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
88e52347bdSJani Nikula			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
89e52347bdSJani Nikula			no further checks are performed.
90e52347bdSJani Nikula
91e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
92e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
93e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
94e52347bdSJani Nikula			size limitation.
95e52347bdSJani Nikula
96e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
97e52347bdSJani Nikula			ACPI will balance active IRQs
98e52347bdSJani Nikula			default in APIC mode
99e52347bdSJani Nikula
100e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
101e52347bdSJani Nikula			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
102e52347bdSJani Nikula			default in PIC mode
103e52347bdSJani Nikula
104e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
105e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
106e52347bdSJani Nikula
107e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
108e52347bdSJani Nikula			use by PCI
109e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
110e52347bdSJani Nikula
1119c4aa1eeSLv Zheng	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
1129c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
1139c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
1149c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
1159c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			the GPE dispatcher.
1169c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
1179c4aa1eeSLv Zheng			GPE floodings.
118a7583e72SYunfeng Ye			Format: <byte>
1199c4aa1eeSLv Zheng
120e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
121e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
122e52347bdSJani Nikula			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
123e52347bdSJani Nikula			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
124e52347bdSJani Nikula			auto-serialization feature.
125e52347bdSJani Nikula			This feature is enabled by default.
126e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option allows to turn off the feature.
127e52347bdSJani Nikula
128e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
129e52347bdSJani Nikula			   kernels.
130e52347bdSJani Nikula
131e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
132e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
133e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
134e52347bdSJani Nikula			installed automatically and they will appear under
135e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
136e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option turns off this feature.
137e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that specifying this option does not affect
138e52347bdSJani Nikula			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
139e52347bdSJani Nikula			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
140e52347bdSJani Nikula
1413f9e12e0SJean Delvare	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
1423f9e12e0SJean Delvare			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
1433f9e12e0SJean Delvare			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
1443f9e12e0SJean Delvare
145e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
146e52347bdSJani Nikula			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
147e52347bdSJani Nikula			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
148e52347bdSJani Nikula			second kernel for kdump.
149e52347bdSJani Nikula
150e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
151e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
152e52347bdSJani Nikula
153e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
154e52347bdSJani Nikula			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
155e52347bdSJani Nikula			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
156e52347bdSJani Nikula			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
157e52347bdSJani Nikula			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
158e52347bdSJani Nikula
159e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
160e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
161e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
162e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
163e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
164e52347bdSJani Nikula						  strings
165e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
166e52347bdSJani Nikula						  strings
167e52347bdSJani Nikula			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
168e52347bdSJani Nikula
169e52347bdSJani Nikula			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
170e52347bdSJani Nikula			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
171e52347bdSJani Nikula			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
172e52347bdSJani Nikula			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
173e52347bdSJani Nikula			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
174e52347bdSJani Nikula			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
175e52347bdSJani Nikula			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
176e52347bdSJani Nikula			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
177e52347bdSJani Nikula			care about the state of the feature group strings which
178e52347bdSJani Nikula			should be controlled by the OSPM.
179e52347bdSJani Nikula			Examples:
180e52347bdSJani Nikula			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
181e52347bdSJani Nikula			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
182e52347bdSJani Nikula			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
183e52347bdSJani Nikula
184e52347bdSJani Nikula			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
185e52347bdSJani Nikula			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
186e52347bdSJani Nikula			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
187e52347bdSJani Nikula			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
188e52347bdSJani Nikula			multiple times through kernel command line is also
189e52347bdSJani Nikula			meaningless.
190e52347bdSJani Nikula			Examples:
191e52347bdSJani Nikula			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
192e52347bdSJani Nikula			     FALSE.
193e52347bdSJani Nikula
194e52347bdSJani Nikula			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
195e52347bdSJani Nikula			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
196e52347bdSJani Nikula			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
197e52347bdSJani Nikula			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
198e52347bdSJani Nikula			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
199e52347bdSJani Nikula			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
200e52347bdSJani Nikula			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
201e52347bdSJani Nikula			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
202e52347bdSJani Nikula			is useful when one want to control the state of the
203e52347bdSJani Nikula			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
204e52347bdSJani Nikula			the OSPM features.
205e52347bdSJani Nikula			Examples:
206e52347bdSJani Nikula			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
207e52347bdSJani Nikula			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
208e52347bdSJani Nikula			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
209e52347bdSJani Nikula			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
210e52347bdSJani Nikula			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
211e52347bdSJani Nikula			     equivalent to
212e52347bdSJani Nikula			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
213e52347bdSJani Nikula			     and
214e52347bdSJani Nikula			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
215e52347bdSJani Nikula			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
216e52347bdSJani Nikula
217e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
218e52347bdSJani Nikula			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
219e52347bdSJani Nikula			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
220e52347bdSJani Nikula			and always returns good values.
221e52347bdSJani Nikula
222e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
223e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
224e52347bdSJani Nikula
225e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
226e52347bdSJani Nikula			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
227e52347bdSJani Nikula			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
228e52347bdSJani Nikula
229e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
230e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
23157044031SRafael J. Wysocki				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
232151f4e2bSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
233e52347bdSJani Nikula			s3_bios and s3_mode.
234e52347bdSJani Nikula			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
235e52347bdSJani Nikula			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
236e52347bdSJani Nikula			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
237e52347bdSJani Nikula			used during resume from hibernation.
238e52347bdSJani Nikula			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
239e52347bdSJani Nikula			control method, with respect to putting devices into
240e52347bdSJani Nikula			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
241e52347bdSJani Nikula			of _PTS is used by default).
242e52347bdSJani Nikula			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
243e52347bdSJani Nikula			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
244e52347bdSJani Nikula			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
245e52347bdSJani Nikula			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
246e52347bdSJani Nikula			but some broken systems don't work without it).
24757044031SRafael J. Wysocki			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
24857044031SRafael J. Wysocki			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
24957044031SRafael J. Wysocki			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
250e52347bdSJani Nikula
251e52347bdSJani Nikula	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
252e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
253e52347bdSJani Nikula			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
254e52347bdSJani Nikula
255e52347bdSJani Nikula	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
256e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
257e52347bdSJani Nikula
258e52347bdSJani Nikula	agp=		[AGP]
259e52347bdSJani Nikula			{ off | try_unsupported }
260e52347bdSJani Nikula			off: disable AGP support
261e52347bdSJani Nikula			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
262e52347bdSJani Nikula				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
263e52347bdSJani Nikula
264e52347bdSJani Nikula	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
2651ca2c806SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
266e52347bdSJani Nikula
267e52347bdSJani Nikula	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
268e52347bdSJani Nikula			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
269e52347bdSJani Nikula			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
270e52347bdSJani Nikula			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
271e52347bdSJani Nikula
272e52347bdSJani Nikula	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
273e52347bdSJani Nikula			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
274e52347bdSJani Nikula			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
275e52347bdSJani Nikula			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
276e52347bdSJani Nikula			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
277e52347bdSJani Nikula			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
278e52347bdSJani Nikula			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
279e52347bdSJani Nikula
280e52347bdSJani Nikula			32: only for 32-bit processes
281e52347bdSJani Nikula			64: only for 64-bit processes
282e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
283e52347bdSJani Nikula			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
284e52347bdSJani Nikula
285e52347bdSJani Nikula	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
286e52347bdSJani Nikula			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
287e52347bdSJani Nikula			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
288e52347bdSJani Nikula			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
289e52347bdSJani Nikula			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
290e52347bdSJani Nikula			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
291e52347bdSJani Nikula
292e52347bdSJani Nikula	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
293e52347bdSJani Nikula			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
294e52347bdSJani Nikula			Possible values are:
295e52347bdSJani Nikula			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
296e52347bdSJani Nikula				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
297e52347bdSJani Nikula				    flushed before they will be reused, which
298e52347bdSJani Nikula				    is a lot of faster
299e52347bdSJani Nikula			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
300e52347bdSJani Nikula				    the system
301e52347bdSJani Nikula			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
302e52347bdSJani Nikula					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
303e52347bdSJani Nikula					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
304e52347bdSJani Nikula					  requirements as needed. This option
305e52347bdSJani Nikula					  does not override iommu=pt
306e52347bdSJani Nikula
307e52347bdSJani Nikula	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
308e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
309e52347bdSJani Nikula			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
310e52347bdSJani Nikula			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
311e52347bdSJani Nikula			IOMMU initialization.
312e52347bdSJani Nikula
313e52347bdSJani Nikula	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
314e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
315e52347bdSJani Nikula			remapping modes:
316e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
317e52347bdSJani Nikula			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
318e52347bdSJani Nikula			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
319e52347bdSJani Nikula			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
320e52347bdSJani Nikula			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
321e52347bdSJani Nikula
322e52347bdSJani Nikula	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
323e52347bdSJani Nikula			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
324e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <a>,<b>
3251752118dSTom Saeger			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
326e52347bdSJani Nikula
327e52347bdSJani Nikula	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
328e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
329e52347bdSJani Nikula			connected to one of 16 gameports
330e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
331e52347bdSJani Nikula
332e52347bdSJani Nikula	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
333e52347bdSJani Nikula			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
334e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: noidle
335e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
336e52347bdSJani Nikula			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
337e52347bdSJani Nikula			APC and your system crashes randomly.
338e52347bdSJani Nikula
33964e05d11SDou Liyang	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
340806654a9SWill Deacon			Change the output verbosity while booting
341e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
342e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the amount of debugging information output
343e52347bdSJani Nikula			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
34464e05d11SDou Liyang			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
34564e05d11SDou Liyang			driver name.
34664e05d11SDou Liyang			Format: apic=driver_name
34764e05d11SDou Liyang			Examples: apic=bigsmp
348e52347bdSJani Nikula
349e52347bdSJani Nikula	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
350e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
351e52347bdSJani Nikula			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
352e52347bdSJani Nikula			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
353e52347bdSJani Nikula			      backup of CPU 0
354e52347bdSJani Nikula			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
355e52347bdSJani Nikula			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
356e52347bdSJani Nikula			      shot down by NMI
357e52347bdSJani Nikula
358e52347bdSJani Nikula	autoconf=	[IPV6]
35919093313SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
360e52347bdSJani Nikula
361e52347bdSJani Nikula	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
362e52347bdSJani Nikula			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
363e52347bdSJani Nikula			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
364e52347bdSJani Nikula			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
365e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
366e52347bdSJani Nikula			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
367e52347bdSJani Nikula			apic=verbose is specified.
368e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
369e52347bdSJani Nikula
370e52347bdSJani Nikula	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
371e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
372e52347bdSJani Nikula
373e52347bdSJani Nikula	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
374e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
375e52347bdSJani Nikula
37693ad55b7SMarc Zyngier	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
37793ad55b7SMarc Zyngier			Identification support
37893ad55b7SMarc Zyngier
379f8da5752SMarc Zyngier	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
380f8da5752SMarc Zyngier			support
381f8da5752SMarc Zyngier
382e52347bdSJani Nikula	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
383e52347bdSJani Nikula
384e52347bdSJani Nikula	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
385e52347bdSJani Nikula
386e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
387e52347bdSJani Nikula			EzKey and similar keyboards
388e52347bdSJani Nikula
389e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
390e52347bdSJani Nikula
391e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
392e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
393e52347bdSJani Nikula
394e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
395e52347bdSJani Nikula			keyboards
396e52347bdSJani Nikula
397e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
398e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
399e52347bdSJani Nikula
400e52347bdSJani Nikula	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
401e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use software keyboard repeat
402e52347bdSJani Nikula
403e52347bdSJani Nikula	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
40411dd2666SGreg Edwards			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
40511dd2666SGreg Edwards			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
40611dd2666SGreg Edwards			    enabled until the next reboot
407e52347bdSJani Nikula			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
408e52347bdSJani Nikula			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
40911dd2666SGreg Edwards			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
41011dd2666SGreg Edwards			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
41111dd2666SGreg Edwards			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
41211dd2666SGreg Edwards			    userspace auditd.
413e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: unset
414e52347bdSJani Nikula
415e52347bdSJani Nikula	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
416e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
417e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 64
418e52347bdSJani Nikula
419e52347bdSJani Nikula	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
420e52347bdSJani Nikula			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
421e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
422e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 - Disable the BAU.
423e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 - Enable the BAU.
424e52347bdSJani Nikula			unset - Disable the BAU.
425e52347bdSJani Nikula
426e52347bdSJani Nikula	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
427e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<mode>
428e52347bdSJani Nikula
429e52347bdSJani Nikula	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
430e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<mode>
431e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
432e52347bdSJani Nikula
433e52347bdSJani Nikula	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
434e52347bdSJani Nikula			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
435e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
436e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
437e52347bdSJani Nikula
438e52347bdSJani Nikula	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
439e52347bdSJani Nikula			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
440e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
441e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
442e52347bdSJani Nikula
443e52347bdSJani Nikula	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
444e52347bdSJani Nikula			embedded devices based on command line input.
445898bd37aSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
446e52347bdSJani Nikula
447e52347bdSJani Nikula	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
448e52347bdSJani Nikula			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
449e52347bdSJani Nikula			no delay (0).
450e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: integer
451e52347bdSJani Nikula
4527495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)	bootconfig	[KNL]
4537495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
4547495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
4557495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
4567495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
4577495e092SSteven Rostedt (VMware)
458e52347bdSJani Nikula	bert_disable	[ACPI]
459e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
460e52347bdSJani Nikula
4611ffb8d03SAlex Hung	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
4621ffb8d03SAlex Hung			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
4631ffb8d03SAlex Hung
464e52347bdSJani Nikula	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
465e52347bdSJani Nikula	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
466e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel args too.
46732e2eae2SMauro Carvalho Chehab	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
468e52347bdSJani Nikula	bttv.tuner=
469e52347bdSJani Nikula
470e52347bdSJani Nikula	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
471e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
472e52347bdSJani Nikula			at a time.
473e52347bdSJani Nikula
474e52347bdSJani Nikula	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
475e52347bdSJani Nikula
476e52347bdSJani Nikula	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
477e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
478e52347bdSJani Nikula			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
479e52347bdSJani Nikula			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
480e52347bdSJani Nikula			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
481e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option provides an override for these situations.
482e52347bdSJani Nikula
4833fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger	carrier_timeout=
4843fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
4853fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
4863fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger			it waits 120 seconds.
4873fc46fc9SMartin Kepplinger
488e52347bdSJani Nikula	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
489e52347bdSJani Nikula			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
490e52347bdSJani Nikula			trust validation.
491e52347bdSJani Nikula			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
492e52347bdSJani Nikula
493e52347bdSJani Nikula	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
494e52347bdSJani Nikula			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
495e52347bdSJani Nikula			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
496e52347bdSJani Nikula			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
497e52347bdSJani Nikula			others).
498e52347bdSJani Nikula
499e52347bdSJani Nikula	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
5008b4a503dSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
501e52347bdSJani Nikula
502e52347bdSJani Nikula	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
503e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
504e52347bdSJani Nikula			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
505e52347bdSJani Nikula			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
506e52347bdSJani Nikula			  a single hierarchy
507e52347bdSJani Nikula			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
508e52347bdSJani Nikula			  subsystem
509e52347bdSJani Nikula			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
510e52347bdSJani Nikula			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
511e52347bdSJani Nikula			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
512e52347bdSJani Nikula
5133fc9c12dSTejun Heo	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
5143fc9c12dSTejun Heo			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
5153fc9c12dSTejun Heo			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
516e52347bdSJani Nikula			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
517e52347bdSJani Nikula			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
5183fc9c12dSTejun Heo			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
5193fc9c12dSTejun Heo			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
5203fc9c12dSTejun Heo			all v1 hierarchies.
521e52347bdSJani Nikula
522e52347bdSJani Nikula	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
523e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <string>
524e52347bdSJani Nikula			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
525e52347bdSJani Nikula			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
526e52347bdSJani Nikula
527e52347bdSJani Nikula	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
528e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
529e52347bdSJani Nikula			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
530e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
531e52347bdSJani Nikula				any implied execute protection).
532e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- check protection requested by application.
533e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
534e52347bdSJani Nikula			Value can be changed at runtime via
535d41415ebSStephen Smalley				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
536e9c38f9fSStephen Smalley			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
537e52347bdSJani Nikula
538e52347bdSJani Nikula	cio_ignore=	[S390]
5398b4a503dSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
540e52347bdSJani Nikula	clk_ignore_unused
541e52347bdSJani Nikula			[CLK]
542e52347bdSJani Nikula			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
543e52347bdSJani Nikula			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
544e52347bdSJani Nikula			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
545e52347bdSJani Nikula			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
546e52347bdSJani Nikula			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
547e52347bdSJani Nikula			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
548e52347bdSJani Nikula			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
549e52347bdSJani Nikula			platform with proper driver support.  For more
55018bcaa4eSMauro Carvalho Chehab			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
551e52347bdSJani Nikula
552e52347bdSJani Nikula	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
553e52347bdSJani Nikula			[Deprecated]
554e52347bdSJani Nikula			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
555e52347bdSJani Nikula			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
556e52347bdSJani Nikula			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
557e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
558e52347bdSJani Nikula
559e52347bdSJani Nikula	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
560e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <string>
561e52347bdSJani Nikula			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
562e52347bdSJani Nikula			with the name specified.
563e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
564e52347bdSJani Nikula			the platform:
565e52347bdSJani Nikula			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
566e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ACPI] acpi_pm
567e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
568e52347bdSJani Nikula				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
569e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
570e52347bdSJani Nikula				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
571e52347bdSJani Nikula			[MIPS] MIPS
572e52347bdSJani Nikula			[PARISC] cr16
573e52347bdSJani Nikula			[S390] tod
574e52347bdSJani Nikula			[SH] SuperH
575e52347bdSJani Nikula			[SPARC64] tick
576e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
577e52347bdSJani Nikula
578e52347bdSJani Nikula	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
579e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ARM,ARM64]
580e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bool>
581e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
582e52347bdSJani Nikula			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
583e52347bdSJani Nikula			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
584e52347bdSJani Nikula			systems.
585e52347bdSJani Nikula
5860a4bb5e5SArvind Sankar	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
587e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
588e52347bdSJani Nikula			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
589e52347bdSJani Nikula			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
590e52347bdSJani Nikula			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
591e52347bdSJani Nikula			ones should be.
592e52347bdSJani Nikula			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
593e52347bdSJani Nikula			or using the feature without checking anything
594e52347bdSJani Nikula			will still see it. This just prevents it from
595e52347bdSJani Nikula			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
596e52347bdSJani Nikula			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
597e52347bdSJani Nikula			some critical bits.
598e52347bdSJani Nikula
599e52347bdSJani Nikula	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
600c372e741STian Tao			[KNL,CMA]
601e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
602e52347bdSJani Nikula			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
603e52347bdSJani Nikula			placement constraint by the physical address range of
604e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
605e52347bdSJani Nikula			altogether. For more information, see
6060b1abd1fSChristoph Hellwig			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
607e52347bdSJani Nikula
608b7176c26SBarry Song	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
609bc47190dSRandy Dunlap			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
610b7176c26SBarry Song			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
611b7176c26SBarry Song			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
612b7176c26SBarry Song			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
613b7176c26SBarry Song			specificed, the default value is 0.
614b7176c26SBarry Song			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
615b7176c26SBarry Song			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
616b7176c26SBarry Song			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
617b7176c26SBarry Song			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
618e52347bdSJani Nikula
619e52347bdSJani Nikula	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
620e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
621e52347bdSJani Nikula			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
622e52347bdSJani Nikula			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
623e52347bdSJani Nikula			a hypervisor.
624e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: yes
625e52347bdSJani Nikula
626e52347bdSJani Nikula	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
627e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
628e52347bdSJani Nikula			allocations, by default set to 256K.
629e52347bdSJani Nikula
630e52347bdSJani Nikula	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
631e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
632e52347bdSJani Nikula			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
633e52347bdSJani Nikula
634e52347bdSJani Nikula	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
635e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
636e52347bdSJani Nikula
637e52347bdSJani Nikula	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
638e52347bdSJani Nikula			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
639e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
640e52347bdSJani Nikula
641e52347bdSJani Nikula	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
642e52347bdSJani Nikula	conmode=
643e52347bdSJani Nikula
644e52347bdSJani Nikula	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
645e52347bdSJani Nikula
646e52347bdSJani Nikula		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
647e52347bdSJani Nikula
648e52347bdSJani Nikula		ttyS<n>[,options]
649e52347bdSJani Nikula		ttyUSB0[,options]
650e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
651e52347bdSJani Nikula			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
652e52347bdSJani Nikula			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
653e52347bdSJani Nikula			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
654e52347bdSJani Nikula			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
655e52347bdSJani Nikula
656e52347bdSJani Nikula			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
657e52347bdSJani Nikula			information.  See
658d9d6ef25SMauro Carvalho Chehab			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
659e52347bdSJani Nikula			alternative.
660e52347bdSJani Nikula
661e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
662e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
663e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
664e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
665e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
666e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
667e52347bdSJani Nikula			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
668e52347bdSJani Nikula			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
669e52347bdSJani Nikula			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
670e52347bdSJani Nikula			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
671e52347bdSJani Nikula			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
672e52347bdSJani Nikula			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
673e52347bdSJani Nikula			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
674e52347bdSJani Nikula			the h/w is not re-initialized.
675e52347bdSJani Nikula
676e52347bdSJani Nikula		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
677e52347bdSJani Nikula			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
678e52347bdSJani Nikula
679e52347bdSJani Nikula		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
680e52347bdSJani Nikula		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
681e52347bdSJani Nikula			console=brl,ttyS0
682e52347bdSJani Nikula		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
683e52347bdSJani Nikula
684cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky	console_msg_format=
685cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			[KNL] Change console messages format
686cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky		default
687cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			By default we print messages on consoles in
688cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
689cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
690cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			`printk_time' param).
691cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky		syslog
692cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
693cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
694cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
695cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
696cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky			from /proc/kmsg.
697cca10d58SSergey Senozhatsky
698e52347bdSJani Nikula	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
699ac0a314cSDaniel Xu			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
700ac0a314cSDaniel Xu			Defaults to 0.
701e52347bdSJani Nikula
702e52347bdSJani Nikula	coredump_filter=
703e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Change the default value for
704e52347bdSJani Nikula			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
705cd4ca341SJimmy Assarsson			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
706e52347bdSJani Nikula
70762a31ce1SLeo Yan	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
70862a31ce1SLeo Yan			[ARM,ARM64]
70962a31ce1SLeo Yan			Format: <bool>
71062a31ce1SLeo Yan			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
71162a31ce1SLeo Yan			0: default value, disable debugging
71262a31ce1SLeo Yan			1: enable debugging at boot time
71362a31ce1SLeo Yan
714e52347bdSJani Nikula	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
715e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable the cpuidle sub-system
716e52347bdSJani Nikula
71761cb5758SRafael J. Wysocki	cpuidle.governor=
71861cb5758SRafael J. Wysocki			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
71961cb5758SRafael J. Wysocki
720d82f2692SLen Brown	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
721d82f2692SLen Brown			disable the cpufreq sub-system
722d82f2692SLen Brown
7238412b456SQuentin Perret	cpufreq.default_governor=
7248412b456SQuentin Perret			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
7258412b456SQuentin Perret			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
7268412b456SQuentin Perret			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
7278412b456SQuentin Perret
728e52347bdSJani Nikula	cpu_init_udelay=N
729e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
730e52347bdSJani Nikula			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
731e52347bdSJani Nikula			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
732e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 10000
733e52347bdSJani Nikula
734e52347bdSJani Nikula	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
735e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
736e52347bdSJani Nikula			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
737e52347bdSJani Nikula
738e52347bdSJani Nikula	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
739e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
740e52347bdSJani Nikula			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
741e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
742e52347bdSJani Nikula			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
743b9ac3849SDave Young			is selected automatically.
744be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
745b9ac3849SDave Young			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
746b9ac3849SDave Young			hasn't been specified.
747330d4810SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
748e52347bdSJani Nikula
749e52347bdSJani Nikula	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
750e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
751e52347bdSJani Nikula			in the running system. The syntax of range is
752e52347bdSJani Nikula			start-[end] where start and end are both
753e52347bdSJani Nikula			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
754330d4810SMauro Carvalho Chehab			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
755e52347bdSJani Nikula
756e52347bdSJani Nikula	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
757be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
758e52347bdSJani Nikula			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
759e52347bdSJani Nikula			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
760e52347bdSJani Nikula			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
761e52347bdSJani Nikula			available.
762e52347bdSJani Nikula			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
763e52347bdSJani Nikula	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
764be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
765e52347bdSJani Nikula			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
766e52347bdSJani Nikula			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
767e52347bdSJani Nikula			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
768e52347bdSJani Nikula			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
769e52347bdSJani Nikula			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
770e52347bdSJani Nikula			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
771e52347bdSJani Nikula			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
772e52347bdSJani Nikula			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
773e52347bdSJani Nikula			for second kernel instead.
774e52347bdSJani Nikula			0: to disable low allocation.
775e52347bdSJani Nikula			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
776e52347bdSJani Nikula			or memory reserved is below 4G.
777e52347bdSJani Nikula
778e52347bdSJani Nikula	cryptomgr.notests
779e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
780e52347bdSJani Nikula
781e52347bdSJani Nikula	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
782e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <dma>
783e52347bdSJani Nikula
784e52347bdSJani Nikula	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
785e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
786e52347bdSJani Nikula
787e52347bdSJani Nikula	dasd=		[HW,NET]
788e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
789e52347bdSJani Nikula
790e52347bdSJani Nikula	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
791e52347bdSJani Nikula			(one device per port)
792e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <port#>,<type>
7931752118dSTom Saeger			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
794e52347bdSJani Nikula
795e52347bdSJani Nikula	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
796787e3075SSteffen Maier			time. See
797787e3075SSteffen Maier			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
798e52347bdSJani Nikula			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
799e52347bdSJani Nikula
800e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
801e52347bdSJani Nikula
8023672476eSTobin C. Harding	debug_boot_weak_hash
8033672476eSTobin C. Harding			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
8043672476eSTobin C. Harding			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
8053672476eSTobin C. Harding			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
8063672476eSTobin C. Harding			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
8073672476eSTobin C. Harding			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
8083672476eSTobin C. Harding			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
8093672476eSTobin C. Harding
810e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug_locks_verbose=
8115831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
8125831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			Format: <int>
813e52347bdSJani Nikula			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
814e52347bdSJani Nikula			self-tests.
8155831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
8165831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
8175831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
8185831c0f7SPeter Zijlstra			useful to lockdep developers.
819e52347bdSJani Nikula
820e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
821e52347bdSJani Nikula
822e52347bdSJani Nikula	no_debug_objects
823e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Disable object debugging
824e52347bdSJani Nikula
825e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug_guardpage_minorder=
826e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
827e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
828e52347bdSJani Nikula			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
829e52347bdSJani Nikula			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
830e52347bdSJani Nikula			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
831e52347bdSJani Nikula			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
832e52347bdSJani Nikula			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
833e52347bdSJani Nikula			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
834e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
835e52347bdSJani Nikula			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
836e52347bdSJani Nikula			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
837e52347bdSJani Nikula			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
838e52347bdSJani Nikula			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
839e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
840e52347bdSJani Nikula			bypassed) which are not detectable by
841e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
842e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracking down these problems.
843e52347bdSJani Nikula
844e52347bdSJani Nikula	debug_pagealloc=
8453972f6bbSVlastimil Babka			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
8463972f6bbSVlastimil Babka			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
8473972f6bbSVlastimil Babka			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
8483972f6bbSVlastimil Babka			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
8498974558fSVlastimil Babka			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
8508974558fSVlastimil Babka			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
851e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: enable the feature
852e52347bdSJani Nikula
853a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
854a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			and debugfs internal clients.
855a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
856a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			on: 	All functions are enabled.
857a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			no-mount:
858a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
859a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
860a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				its content. There is nothing to mount.
861a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
862a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
863a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				or directories within debugfs.
864a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
865a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
866a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
867a24c6f7bSPeter Enderborg
868e52347bdSJani Nikula	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
869e52347bdSJani Nikula
870e52347bdSJani Nikula	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
871e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <area>[,<node>]
8729a69fb9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
873e52347bdSJani Nikula
874e52347bdSJani Nikula	default_hugepagesz=
875282f4214SMike Kravetz			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
876282f4214SMike Kravetz			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
877282f4214SMike Kravetz			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
878282f4214SMike Kravetz			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
879282f4214SMike Kravetz			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
880282f4214SMike Kravetz			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
881282f4214SMike Kravetz			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
882282f4214SMike Kravetz			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
883282f4214SMike Kravetz			Format: size[KMG]
884e52347bdSJani Nikula
88525b4e70dSRob Herring	deferred_probe_timeout=
88625b4e70dSRob Herring			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
88725b4e70dSRob Herring			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
88825b4e70dSRob Herring			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
88925b4e70dSRob Herring			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
89025b4e70dSRob Herring			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
89125b4e70dSRob Herring			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
89225b4e70dSRob Herring			retrying.
89325b4e70dSRob Herring
894c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
895c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
896c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
897c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			          level 1 and decompression (default)
898c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
899c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
900c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			          only (compression on level 1)
901c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
902c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			          only (decompression)
903c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
904c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
905c65e6815SMikhail Zaslonko
906e52347bdSJani Nikula	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
907e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
908e52347bdSJani Nikula
909e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
910e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
911e52347bdSJani Nikula			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
912e52347bdSJani Nikula			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
913e52347bdSJani Nikula			miss to occur.
914e52347bdSJani Nikula
91582a1b8edSNicholas Piggin	stress_slb	[PPC]
91682a1b8edSNicholas Piggin			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
91782a1b8edSNicholas Piggin			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
91882a1b8edSNicholas Piggin			on kernel addresses.
91982a1b8edSNicholas Piggin
920e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable=	[IPV6]
92119093313SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
922e52347bdSJani Nikula
923b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen	hardened_usercopy=
924b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
925b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
926b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
927b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
928b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
929b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
930b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
931b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
932b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
933b5cb15d9SChris von Recklinghausen
934e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_radix	[PPC]
935e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
936e52347bdSJani Nikula
937bf6b7661SAneesh Kumar K.V	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
938bf6b7661SAneesh Kumar K.V			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
939bf6b7661SAneesh Kumar K.V			invalidate.
940bf6b7661SAneesh Kumar K.V
9412275d7b5SNicholas Piggin	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
9422275d7b5SNicholas Piggin			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
9432275d7b5SNicholas Piggin			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
9442275d7b5SNicholas Piggin
945e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
946e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
947e52347bdSJani Nikula			The number of initial APIC ID for the
948e52347bdSJani Nikula			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
949e52347bdSJani Nikula			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
950e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
951e52347bdSJani Nikula			causing system reset or hang due to sending
952e52347bdSJani Nikula			INIT from AP to BSP.
953e52347bdSJani Nikula
954e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
955255bf90fSRandy Dunlap			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
956e52347bdSJani Nikula			to workaround buggy firmware.
957e52347bdSJani Nikula
958e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
95919093313SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
960e52347bdSJani Nikula
961e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
962e52347bdSJani Nikula			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
963e52347bdSJani Nikula			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
964e52347bdSJani Nikula			entry later. This parameter disables that.
965e52347bdSJani Nikula
966e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
967e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
968e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory out of your available memory pool based on
969e52347bdSJani Nikula			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
970e52347bdSJani Nikula			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
971e52347bdSJani Nikula
972e52347bdSJani Nikula	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
973e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
974e52347bdSJani Nikula			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
975e52347bdSJani Nikula
976e52347bdSJani Nikula	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
977e52347bdSJani Nikula
978e52347bdSJani Nikula	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
979e52347bdSJani Nikula			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
980e52347bdSJani Nikula
981e52347bdSJani Nikula	dma_debug_entries=<number>
982e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
983e52347bdSJani Nikula			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
984e52347bdSJani Nikula			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
985e52347bdSJani Nikula			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
986e52347bdSJani Nikula			architectural default is too low.
987e52347bdSJani Nikula
988e52347bdSJani Nikula	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
989e52347bdSJani Nikula			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
990e52347bdSJani Nikula			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
991e52347bdSJani Nikula			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
992e52347bdSJani Nikula			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
993e52347bdSJani Nikula			driver later using sysfs.
994e52347bdSJani Nikula
9951ea61b68SFeng Tang	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
9961ea61b68SFeng Tang			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
9971ea61b68SFeng Tang			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
9981ea61b68SFeng Tang
99953fd40a9SJani Nikula	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1000e52347bdSJani Nikula			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1001e52347bdSJani Nikula			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1002e52347bdSJani Nikula			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1003e52347bdSJani Nikula			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1004e52347bdSJani Nikula			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1005e52347bdSJani Nikula			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1006e52347bdSJani Nikula			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1007e52347bdSJani Nikula			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1008e52347bdSJani Nikula			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1009cd4ca341SJimmy Assarsson			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1010e52347bdSJani Nikula			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1011e52347bdSJani Nikula			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1012e52347bdSJani Nikula			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1013e52347bdSJani Nikula			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1014e52347bdSJani Nikula			data set with no connector name will be used for
1015e52347bdSJani Nikula			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1016e52347bdSJani Nikula
1017e52347bdSJani Nikula	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1018e52347bdSJani Nikula
1019a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1020a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1021a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1022a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1023a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			exists).
1024a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1025a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1026a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1027a2b05b7aSNicholas Piggin
1028e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1029e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1030e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1031e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1032e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds
1033e52347bdSJani Nikula	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1034307e3ee9SRandy Dunlap	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1035e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1036787e3075SSteffen Maier			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1037787e3075SSteffen Maier			for details.
1038e52347bdSJani Nikula
1039e52347bdSJani Nikula	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1040e52347bdSJani Nikula			in some Intel CPUs.
1041e52347bdSJani Nikula
1042307e3ee9SRandy Dunlap	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1043e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1044e52347bdSJani Nikula
1045e52347bdSJani Nikula	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1046e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1047e52347bdSJani Nikula			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1048e52347bdSJani Nikula			which are not unmapped.
1049e52347bdSJani Nikula
1050e52347bdSJani Nikula	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1051e52347bdSJani Nikula
1052e18409c0SChristoph Hellwig			When used with no options, the early console is
1053e18409c0SChristoph Hellwig			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1054e18409c0SChristoph Hellwig			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1055e18409c0SChristoph Hellwig			the platform.
1056e52347bdSJani Nikula
1057e52347bdSJani Nikula		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1058e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1059e52347bdSJani Nikula			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1060e52347bdSJani Nikula			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1061e52347bdSJani Nikula			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1062e52347bdSJani Nikula			configured.
1063e52347bdSJani Nikula
1064e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1065e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1066e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1067e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1068e52347bdSJani Nikula		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1069e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1070e52347bdSJani Nikula			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1071e52347bdSJani Nikula			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1072e52347bdSJani Nikula			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1073e52347bdSJani Nikula			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1074e52347bdSJani Nikula			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1075e52347bdSJani Nikula			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1076e52347bdSJani Nikula			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1077e52347bdSJani Nikula
1078e52347bdSJani Nikula		pl011,<addr>
1079e52347bdSJani Nikula		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1080e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1081e52347bdSJani Nikula			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1082e52347bdSJani Nikula			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1083e52347bdSJani Nikula			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1084e52347bdSJani Nikula			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1085e52347bdSJani Nikula			the device registers.
1086e52347bdSJani Nikula
1087e52347bdSJani Nikula		meson,<addr>
1088e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1089e52347bdSJani Nikula			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1090e52347bdSJani Nikula			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1091e52347bdSJani Nikula			supported.
1092e52347bdSJani Nikula
1093e52347bdSJani Nikula		msm_serial,<addr>
1094e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1095e52347bdSJani Nikula			port at the specified address. The serial port
1096e52347bdSJani Nikula			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1097e52347bdSJani Nikula			yet supported.
1098e52347bdSJani Nikula
1099e52347bdSJani Nikula		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1100e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1101e52347bdSJani Nikula			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1102e52347bdSJani Nikula			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1103e52347bdSJani Nikula			yet supported.
1104e52347bdSJani Nikula
1105e36361d7SAndreas Färber		owl,<addr>
1106e36361d7SAndreas Färber			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1107e36361d7SAndreas Färber			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1108e36361d7SAndreas Färber			specified address. The serial port must already be
1109e36361d7SAndreas Färber			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1110e36361d7SAndreas Färber
1111c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam		rda,<addr>
1112c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1113c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1114c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam			specified address. The serial port must already be
1115c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1116c10b1332SManivannan Sadhasivam
111782f12ab3SPalmer Dabbelt		sbi
111882f12ab3SPalmer Dabbelt			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
111982f12ab3SPalmer Dabbelt			console.
112082f12ab3SPalmer Dabbelt
1121e52347bdSJani Nikula		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1122e52347bdSJani Nikula
1123e52347bdSJani Nikula		s3c2410,<addr>
1124e52347bdSJani Nikula		s3c2412,<addr>
1125e52347bdSJani Nikula		s3c2440,<addr>
1126e52347bdSJani Nikula		s3c6400,<addr>
1127e52347bdSJani Nikula		s5pv210,<addr>
1128e52347bdSJani Nikula		exynos4210,<addr>
1129e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1130e52347bdSJani Nikula			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1131e52347bdSJani Nikula			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1132e52347bdSJani Nikula			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1133e52347bdSJani Nikula			Options are not yet supported.
1134e52347bdSJani Nikula
1135ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl		lantiq,<addr>
1136ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1137ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1138ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1139ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl			yet supported.
1140ec84aa0aSMartin Blumenstingl
1141e52347bdSJani Nikula		lpuart,<addr>
1142e52347bdSJani Nikula		lpuart32,<addr>
1143e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1144e52347bdSJani Nikula			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1145e52347bdSJani Nikula			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1146e52347bdSJani Nikula			port must already be setup and configured.
1147e52347bdSJani Nikula
11487fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer		ec_imx21,<addr>
11497fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer		ec_imx6q,<addr>
11507fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
11517fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
11527fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer			must already be setup and configured.
11537fe068dbSJonathan Neuschäfer
1154f7c864e7SAndre Przywara		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1155e52347bdSJani Nikula			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1156e52347bdSJani Nikula			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1157e52347bdSJani Nikula			address. The serial port must already be setup
1158e52347bdSJani Nikula			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1159e52347bdSJani Nikula
116043f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian		qcom_geni,<addr>
116143f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
116243f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
116343f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian			specified address. The serial port must already be
116443f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
116543f1831bSKarthikeyan Ramasubramanian
116669c1f396SArd Biesheuvel		efifb,[options]
116769c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
116869c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
116969c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
117069c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
117169c1f396SArd Biesheuvel			mapped with the correct attributes.
117269c1f396SArd Biesheuvel
117309864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea		linflex,<addr>
11749905f32aSStefan-Gabriel Mirea			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
117509864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
117609864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea			address must be provided, and the serial port must
117709864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea			already be setup and configured.
117809864c1cSStefan-gabriel Mirea
11794ba66a97SArnd Bergmann	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1180e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=vga
118189175cf7SHeiko Carstens			earlyprintk=sclp
1182e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=xen
1183e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1184e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1185e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1186e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1187d2266bbfSFeng Tang			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
11881b5aeebfSLu Baolu			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1189e52347bdSJani Nikula
1190e52347bdSJani Nikula			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1191e52347bdSJani Nikula			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1192e52347bdSJani Nikula			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1193e52347bdSJani Nikula
1194e52347bdSJani Nikula			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1195e52347bdSJani Nikula			takes over.
1196e52347bdSJani Nikula
1197e52347bdSJani Nikula			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1198e52347bdSJani Nikula			be used at a time.
1199e52347bdSJani Nikula
1200e52347bdSJani Nikula			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1201e52347bdSJani Nikula			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1202e52347bdSJani Nikula			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1203e52347bdSJani Nikula			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1204e52347bdSJani Nikula				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1205e52347bdSJani Nikula			You can find the port for a given device in
1206e52347bdSJani Nikula			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1207e52347bdSJani Nikula				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1208e52347bdSJani Nikula
1209e52347bdSJani Nikula			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1210e52347bdSJani Nikula			very good.
1211e52347bdSJani Nikula
1212e52347bdSJani Nikula			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1213e52347bdSJani Nikula			the real console.
1214e52347bdSJani Nikula
1215e52347bdSJani Nikula			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1216e52347bdSJani Nikula
121789175cf7SHeiko Carstens			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
121889175cf7SHeiko Carstens
1219d2266bbfSFeng Tang			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1220d2266bbfSFeng Tang			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1221d2266bbfSFeng Tang			UART class.
1222d2266bbfSFeng Tang
1223e52347bdSJani Nikula	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1224e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1225e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1226e52347bdSJani Nikula			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1227e52347bdSJani Nikula			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1228e52347bdSJani Nikula			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1229e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: on.
1230e52347bdSJani Nikula
1231e52347bdSJani Nikula	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1232e52347bdSJani Nikula			ekgdboc=kbd
1233e52347bdSJani Nikula
1234e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1235e52347bdSJani Nikula			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1236e52347bdSJani Nikula
1237f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1238f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1239f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1240f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1241f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson
1242e52347bdSJani Nikula	edd=		[EDD]
1243e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1244e52347bdSJani Nikula
1245e52347bdSJani Nikula	efi=		[EFI]
1246c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1247c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1248fb1201aeSArd Biesheuvel				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1249c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			debug: enable misc debug output.
1250c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1251c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1252e52347bdSJani Nikula			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1253e52347bdSJani Nikula			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1254e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware implementations.
1255e52347bdSJani Nikula			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1256b617c526SDan Williams			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1257b617c526SDan Williams			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1258b617c526SDan Williams			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1259b617c526SDan Williams			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1260b617c526SDan Williams			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1261b617c526SDan Williams			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1262c03f739fSHeinrich Schuchardt			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
12634444f854SMatthew Garrett			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
12644444f854SMatthew Garrett			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1265e52347bdSJani Nikula
1266e52347bdSJani Nikula	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1267e52347bdSJani Nikula			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1268e52347bdSJani Nikula			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1269e52347bdSJani Nikula			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1270e52347bdSJani Nikula			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1271e52347bdSJani Nikula
1272e52347bdSJani Nikula	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1273e52347bdSJani Nikula			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1274e52347bdSJani Nikula			updating original EFI memory map.
1275e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1276e52347bdSJani Nikula			from ss to ss+nn.
1277199c8471SDan Williams
1278e52347bdSJani Nikula			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1279e52347bdSJani Nikula			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1280e52347bdSJani Nikula			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1281e52347bdSJani Nikula			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1282e52347bdSJani Nikula
1283199c8471SDan Williams			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1284199c8471SDan Williams			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1285199c8471SDan Williams			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1286199c8471SDan Williams
1287e52347bdSJani Nikula			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1288199c8471SDan Williams			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1289e52347bdSJani Nikula			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1290199c8471SDan Williams			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1291199c8471SDan Williams			"soft reserved".
1292e52347bdSJani Nikula
1293e52347bdSJani Nikula	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1294e52347bdSJani Nikula			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1295e52347bdSJani Nikula			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1296e52347bdSJani Nikula			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1297cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1298e52347bdSJani Nikula
1299e52347bdSJani Nikula
1300e52347bdSJani Nikula	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1301e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1302e52347bdSJani Nikula
1303e52347bdSJani Nikula	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1304e52347bdSJani Nikula			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1305e52347bdSJani Nikula			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1306e52347bdSJani Nikula
1307e52347bdSJani Nikula	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1308e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1309e52347bdSJani Nikula			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1310e52347bdSJani Nikula			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1311330d4810SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1312e52347bdSJani Nikula
1313e52347bdSJani Nikula	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1314e52347bdSJani Nikula			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1315e52347bdSJani Nikula			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1316e52347bdSJani Nikula			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1317e52347bdSJani Nikula
1318e52347bdSJani Nikula	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1319e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1320e52347bdSJani Nikula			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1321e52347bdSJani Nikula			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1322e52347bdSJani Nikula			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1323e52347bdSJani Nikula
1324e52347bdSJani Nikula	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1325e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1326e52347bdSJani Nikula			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1327e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1328e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1329e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is 0.
1330d41415ebSStephen Smalley			Value can be changed at runtime via
1331d41415ebSStephen Smalley			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1332e52347bdSJani Nikula
1333e52347bdSJani Nikula	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1334e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1335e52347bdSJani Nikula			support.
1336e52347bdSJani Nikula
1337e52347bdSJani Nikula	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1338e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1339e52347bdSJani Nikula			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1340e52347bdSJani Nikula
1341e52347bdSJani Nikula	evm=		[EVM]
1342e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "fix" }
1343e52347bdSJani Nikula			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1344e52347bdSJani Nikula			current integrity status.
1345e52347bdSJani Nikula
1346e52347bdSJani Nikula	failslab=
13472c739cedSAlbert van der Linde	fail_usercopy=
1348e52347bdSJani Nikula	fail_page_alloc=
1349e52347bdSJani Nikula	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1350e52347bdSJani Nikula			General fault injection mechanism.
1351e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1352e52347bdSJani Nikula			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1353e52347bdSJani Nikula
1354316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1355316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar			Format: { initns | none }
1356316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1357316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1358316cdaa1SMahesh Bandewar
1359e52347bdSJani Nikula	floppy=		[HW]
1360e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1361e52347bdSJani Nikula
1362e52347bdSJani Nikula	force_pal_cache_flush
1363e52347bdSJani Nikula			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1364e52347bdSJani Nikula			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1365e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1366e52347bdSJani Nikula			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1367e52347bdSJani Nikula
1368e52347bdSJani Nikula	forcepae	[X86-32]
1369e52347bdSJani Nikula			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1370e52347bdSJani Nikula			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1371e52347bdSJani Nikula			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1372e52347bdSJani Nikula			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1373e52347bdSJani Nikula			and may cause unknown problems.
1374e52347bdSJani Nikula
1375e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace=[tracer]
1376e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1377e52347bdSJani Nikula			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1378e52347bdSJani Nikula			boot debugging.
1379e52347bdSJani Nikula
1380e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1381e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1382e52347bdSJani Nikula			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1383e52347bdSJani Nikula			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1384e52347bdSJani Nikula			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1385e52347bdSJani Nikula			oops.
1386e52347bdSJani Nikula
1387e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1388e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
138925942e5eSRandy Dunlap			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1390e52347bdSJani Nikula			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1391e52347bdSJani Nikula			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1392e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracing directory.
1393e52347bdSJani Nikula
1394e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1395e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1396e52347bdSJani Nikula			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1397e52347bdSJani Nikula			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1398e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracing directory.
1399e52347bdSJani Nikula
1400e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1401e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1402e52347bdSJani Nikula			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
140325942e5eSRandy Dunlap			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1404e52347bdSJani Nikula			that can be changed at run time by the
1405e52347bdSJani Nikula			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1406e52347bdSJani Nikula
1407e52347bdSJani Nikula	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1408e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
140925942e5eSRandy Dunlap			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1410e52347bdSJani Nikula			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1411e52347bdSJani Nikula			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1412e52347bdSJani Nikula
141365a50c65STodd Brandt	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
141465a50c65STodd Brandt			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
141565a50c65STodd Brandt			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
141665a50c65STodd Brandt			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
141765a50c65STodd Brandt			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
141865a50c65STodd Brandt
14198375e74fSSaravana Kannan	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
14208375e74fSSaravana Kannan			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
14218375e74fSSaravana Kannan			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
14228375e74fSSaravana Kannan			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
14238375e74fSSaravana Kannan			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
14248375e74fSSaravana Kannan			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
14258375e74fSSaravana Kannan			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
14268375e74fSSaravana Kannan			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
14278375e74fSSaravana Kannan			suppliers).
14288375e74fSSaravana Kannan			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
14298375e74fSSaravana Kannan			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
14308375e74fSSaravana Kannan			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
14318375e74fSSaravana Kannan				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
14328375e74fSSaravana Kannan				up (sync_state() calls).
14338375e74fSSaravana Kannan			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
14348375e74fSSaravana Kannan				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
14358375e74fSSaravana Kannan			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
14368375e74fSSaravana Kannan
143719d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
143819d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
143919d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
144019d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan			Format: <bool>
144119d0f5f6SSaravana Kannan
1442e52347bdSJani Nikula	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1443e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1444e52347bdSJani Nikula			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1445e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
14461752118dSTom Saeger			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1447e52347bdSJani Nikula
1448e52347bdSJani Nikula	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1449e52347bdSJani Nikula
1450be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1451e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: off | on
1452e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: on
1453e52347bdSJani Nikula
1454e52347bdSJani Nikula	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1455e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1456e52347bdSJani Nikula			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1457e52347bdSJani Nikula			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1458e52347bdSJani Nikula			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1459e52347bdSJani Nikula
146047512cfdSThomas Gleixner	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
146147512cfdSThomas Gleixner			Don't use this when you are not running on the
146247512cfdSThomas Gleixner			android emulator
146347512cfdSThomas Gleixner
1464e52347bdSJani Nikula	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1465e52347bdSJani Nikula			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1466e52347bdSJani Nikula			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1467e52347bdSJani Nikula			GPT to be used instead.
1468e52347bdSJani Nikula
1469e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1470e52347bdSJani Nikula			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1471e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0 | 1
1472e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 0
1473e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1474e52347bdSJani Nikula			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1475e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0 | 1
1476e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 0
1477e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1478e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0 | 1
1479e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 0
1480e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1481e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1482e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 1024
1483e52347bdSJani Nikula	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1484e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1485e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 1024
1486e52347bdSJani Nikula
1487e52347bdSJani Nikula	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1488e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1489e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1490e52347bdSJani Nikula
1491e52347bdSJani Nikula	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1492e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1493e52347bdSJani Nikula			backtraces on all cpus.
1494f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			Format: 0 | 1
1495e52347bdSJani Nikula
1496e52347bdSJani Nikula	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1497e52347bdSJani Nikula			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1498e52347bdSJani Nikula			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1499e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1500e52347bdSJani Nikula
1501e52347bdSJani Nikula	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1502e52347bdSJani Nikula
1503e52347bdSJani Nikula	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1504e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1505e52347bdSJani Nikula
1506e52347bdSJani Nikula	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1507e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1508e52347bdSJani Nikula			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1509e52347bdSJani Nikula			logic will be disabled.
1510e52347bdSJani Nikula
1511e52347bdSJani Nikula	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1512e52347bdSJani Nikula			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1513e52347bdSJani Nikula			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1514e52347bdSJani Nikula			size on bigger boxes.
1515e52347bdSJani Nikula
1516e52347bdSJani Nikula	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1517e52347bdSJani Nikula			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1518e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: "on"
1519e52347bdSJani Nikula
1520e52347bdSJani Nikula	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1521e52347bdSJani Nikula
1522e52347bdSJani Nikula	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1523e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1524e52347bdSJani Nikula				verbose }
1525e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1526e52347bdSJani Nikula			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1527e52347bdSJani Nikula				VIA, nVidia)
1528e52347bdSJani Nikula			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1529e52347bdSJani Nikula
1530e52347bdSJani Nikula	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1531e52347bdSJani Nikula			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1532e52347bdSJani Nikula
1533bc47190dSRandy Dunlap	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1534cf11e85fSRoman Gushchin			of gigantic hugepages.
1535cf11e85fSRoman Gushchin			Format: nn[KMGTPE]
1536cf11e85fSRoman Gushchin
1537bc47190dSRandy Dunlap			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1538bc47190dSRandy Dunlap			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1539cf11e85fSRoman Gushchin			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1540cf11e85fSRoman Gushchin
1541282f4214SMike Kravetz	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1542282f4214SMike Kravetz			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1543282f4214SMike Kravetz			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1544282f4214SMike Kravetz			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1545282f4214SMike Kravetz			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1546282f4214SMike Kravetz			the default huge page size.  See also
1547282f4214SMike Kravetz			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1548282f4214SMike Kravetz			Format: <integer>
1549282f4214SMike Kravetz
1550282f4214SMike Kravetz	hugepagesz=
1551282f4214SMike Kravetz			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1552282f4214SMike Kravetz			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1553282f4214SMike Kravetz			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1554282f4214SMike Kravetz			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1555282f4214SMike Kravetz			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1556282f4214SMike Kravetz			architecture dependent.  See also
1557282f4214SMike Kravetz			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1558282f4214SMike Kravetz			Format: size[KMG]
1559e52347bdSJani Nikula
1560a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval	hung_task_panic=
1561a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1562f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			Format: 0 | 1
1563a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval
1564b467f3efSVlastimil Babka			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1565a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1566a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1567a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1568a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1569a49d9c0aSOmar Sandoval
1570e52347bdSJani Nikula	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1571e52347bdSJani Nikula				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1572e52347bdSJani Nikula	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1573e52347bdSJani Nikula				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1574e52347bdSJani Nikula				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
15753a025de6SYi Sun
15763a025de6SYi Sun	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
15773a025de6SYi Sun				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
15783a025de6SYi Sun				      guest on lock contention.
15793a025de6SYi Sun
1580e52347bdSJani Nikula	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1581e52347bdSJani Nikula			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1582e52347bdSJani Nikula			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1583e52347bdSJani Nikula			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1584e52347bdSJani Nikula			the real console.
1585e52347bdSJani Nikula
1586e52347bdSJani Nikula	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1587e52347bdSJani Nikula				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1588e52347bdSJani Nikula				registered from board initialization code.
1589e52347bdSJani Nikula				Format:
1590e52347bdSJani Nikula				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1591e52347bdSJani Nikula
1592e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1593e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1594e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1595e52347bdSJani Nikula			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1596e52347bdSJani Nikula			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1597e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1598e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1599e52347bdSJani Nikula			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1600e52347bdSJani Nikula			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1601e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1602e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1603e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1604e52347bdSJani Nikula			     for the AUX port
1605e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1606e52347bdSJani Nikula			     controller
1607e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1608e52347bdSJani Nikula			     controllers
1609e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1610e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1611e52347bdSJani Nikula			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1612e52347bdSJani Nikula			     transitions, or never reset
1613e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1614e52347bdSJani Nikula			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1615e52347bdSJani Nikula			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1616e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1617e52347bdSJani Nikula			architectures force reset to be always executed
1618e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1619e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1620e52347bdSJani Nikula
1621e52347bdSJani Nikula	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1622e52347bdSJani Nikula
1623e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1624e52347bdSJani Nikula			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1625e52347bdSJani Nikula			hardware.
1626e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1627e52347bdSJani Nikula			does not match list of supported models.
1628e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8k.power_status
1629e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1630e52347bdSJani Nikula			(disabled by default)
1631e52347bdSJani Nikula	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1632e52347bdSJani Nikula			capability is set.
1633e52347bdSJani Nikula
1634e52347bdSJani Nikula	i915.invert_brightness=
1635e52347bdSJani Nikula			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1636e52347bdSJani Nikula			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1637e52347bdSJani Nikula			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1638e52347bdSJani Nikula			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1639e52347bdSJani Nikula			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1640e52347bdSJani Nikula			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1641e52347bdSJani Nikula			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1642e52347bdSJani Nikula			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1643e52347bdSJani Nikula			value switches the backlight off.
1644e52347bdSJani Nikula			-1 -- never invert brightness
1645e52347bdSJani Nikula			 0 -- machine default
1646e52347bdSJani Nikula			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1647e52347bdSJani Nikula
1648e52347bdSJani Nikula	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1649e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1650e52347bdSJani Nikula
1651e52347bdSJani Nikula	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1652e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1653e52347bdSJani Nikula			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1654e52347bdSJani Nikula			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1655d7b461c5SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1656e52347bdSJani Nikula
1657e52347bdSJani Nikula	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1658e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
1659e52347bdSJani Nikula			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1660e52347bdSJani Nikula			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1661e52347bdSJani Nikula			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1662e52347bdSJani Nikula			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1663e52347bdSJani Nikula			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1664e52347bdSJani Nikula			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1665e52347bdSJani Nikula			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1666e52347bdSJani Nikula			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1667e52347bdSJani Nikula			was 0x3.
1668e52347bdSJani Nikula
1669e52347bdSJani Nikula	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1670e52347bdSJani Nikula			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1671e52347bdSJani Nikula
1672e52347bdSJani Nikula	idle=		[X86]
1673e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1674e52347bdSJani Nikula			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1675e52347bdSJani Nikula			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1676e52347bdSJani Nikula			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1677e52347bdSJani Nikula			Not recommended.
1678e52347bdSJani Nikula			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1679e52347bdSJani Nikula			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1680e52347bdSJani Nikula			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1681e52347bdSJani Nikula
168203d939c7SDave Jiang	idxd.sva=	[HW]
168303d939c7SDave Jiang			Format: <bool>
168403d939c7SDave Jiang			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
168503d939c7SDave Jiang			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
168603d939c7SDave Jiang			true (1).
168703d939c7SDave Jiang
1688e52347bdSJani Nikula	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1689e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1690e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: strict
1691e52347bdSJani Nikula
1692e52347bdSJani Nikula			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1693e52347bdSJani Nikula			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1694e52347bdSJani Nikula			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1695e52347bdSJani Nikula			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1696e52347bdSJani Nikula			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1697e52347bdSJani Nikula			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1698e52347bdSJani Nikula			encoding mode.
1699e52347bdSJani Nikula
1700e52347bdSJani Nikula			Available settings are as follows:
1701e52347bdSJani Nikula			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1702e52347bdSJani Nikula				supported by the FPU
1703e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1704e52347bdSJani Nikula				by the FPU
1705e52347bdSJani Nikula			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1706e52347bdSJani Nikula				by the FPU
1707e52347bdSJani Nikula			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1708e52347bdSJani Nikula				supported by the FPU
1709e52347bdSJani Nikula
1710e52347bdSJani Nikula			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1711e52347bdSJani Nikula			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1712e52347bdSJani Nikula			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1713e52347bdSJani Nikula			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1714e52347bdSJani Nikula			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1715e52347bdSJani Nikula			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1716e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1717e52347bdSJani Nikula			MIPS64 CPUs.
1718e52347bdSJani Nikula
1719e52347bdSJani Nikula			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1720e52347bdSJani Nikula			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1721e52347bdSJani Nikula			except where unsupported by hardware.
1722e52347bdSJani Nikula
1723e52347bdSJani Nikula	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1724e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1725e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1726e52347bdSJani Nikula			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1727e52347bdSJani Nikula			could change it dynamically, usually by
1728e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1729e52347bdSJani Nikula
1730e52347bdSJani Nikula	ignore_rlimit_data
1731e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1732e52347bdSJani Nikula			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1733e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1734e52347bdSJani Nikula
1735e52347bdSJani Nikula	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1736e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1737e52347bdSJani Nikula
1738e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1739e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1740e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: "enforce"
1741e52347bdSJani Nikula
174241475a3eSPetr Vorel	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1743e52347bdSJani Nikula			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1744e52347bdSJani Nikula			owned by uid=0.
1745e52347bdSJani Nikula
1746d68a6fe9SMimi Zohar	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1747d68a6fe9SMimi Zohar			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1748d68a6fe9SMimi Zohar			measurements, instead of host native format.
1749d68a6fe9SMimi Zohar
1750e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1751e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1752e52347bdSJani Nikula				   | sha512 | ... }
1753e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: "sha1"
1754e52347bdSJani Nikula
1755e52347bdSJani Nikula			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1756e52347bdSJani Nikula			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1757e52347bdSJani Nikula
1758e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_policy=	[IMA]
175933ce9549SMimi Zohar			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
17609e67028eSMimi Zohar			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
176103cee168SLakshmi Ramasubramanian				 fail_securely | critical_data"
176233ce9549SMimi Zohar
176333ce9549SMimi Zohar			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
176433ce9549SMimi Zohar			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
176533ce9549SMimi Zohar			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
176633ce9549SMimi Zohar			uid=0.
176733ce9549SMimi Zohar
176833ce9549SMimi Zohar			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
176941475a3eSPetr Vorel			all files owned by root.
1770e52347bdSJani Nikula
1771503ceaefSMimi Zohar			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1772503ceaefSMimi Zohar			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1773503ceaefSMimi Zohar			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1774e52347bdSJani Nikula
17759e67028eSMimi Zohar			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
17769e67028eSMimi Zohar			verification failure also on privileged mounted
17779e67028eSMimi Zohar			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
17789e67028eSMimi Zohar			flag.
17799e67028eSMimi Zohar
178003cee168SLakshmi Ramasubramanian			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
178103cee168SLakshmi Ramasubramanian			critical data.
178203cee168SLakshmi Ramasubramanian
1783e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1784e52347bdSJani Nikula			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1785e52347bdSJani Nikula			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1786e52347bdSJani Nikula			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1787e52347bdSJani Nikula			opened for read by uid=0.
1788e52347bdSJani Nikula
1789e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_template=	[IMA]
1790e52347bdSJani Nikula			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1791e52347bdSJani Nikula			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1792e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: "ima-ng"
1793e52347bdSJani Nikula
1794e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima_template_fmt=
1795e52347bdSJani Nikula			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1796e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1797e52347bdSJani Nikula
1798e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1799e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <min_file_size>
1800e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1801e52347bdSJani Nikula			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1802e52347bdSJani Nikula
1803e52347bdSJani Nikula			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1804e52347bdSJani Nikula			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1805e52347bdSJani Nikula			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1806e52347bdSJani Nikula
1807e52347bdSJani Nikula	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1808e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bufsize>
1809e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1810e52347bdSJani Nikula
1811e52347bdSJani Nikula			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1812e52347bdSJani Nikula			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1813e52347bdSJani Nikula			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1814e52347bdSJani Nikula
1815e52347bdSJani Nikula	init=		[KNL]
1816e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <full_path>
1817e52347bdSJani Nikula			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1818e52347bdSJani Nikula			process.
1819e52347bdSJani Nikula
1820e52347bdSJani Nikula	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1821e52347bdSJani Nikula			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1822e52347bdSJani Nikula			startup.
1823e52347bdSJani Nikula
1824e52347bdSJani Nikula	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1825e52347bdSJani Nikula			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1826e52347bdSJani Nikula			modules and initcalls.
1827e52347bdSJani Nikula
1828e52347bdSJani Nikula	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1829e52347bdSJani Nikula
1830694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1831694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1832694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1833694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			setting.
1834694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1835694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich			Default is 0, 0
1836694cfd87SRonald G. Minnich
18376471384aSAlexander Potapenko	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
18386471384aSAlexander Potapenko			zeroes.
18396471384aSAlexander Potapenko			Format: 0 | 1
18406471384aSAlexander Potapenko			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
18416471384aSAlexander Potapenko
18426471384aSAlexander Potapenko	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
18436471384aSAlexander Potapenko			Format: 0 | 1
18446471384aSAlexander Potapenko			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
18456471384aSAlexander Potapenko
1846be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1847e52347bdSJani Nikula			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1848e52347bdSJani Nikula			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1849e52347bdSJani Nikula			override in debugfs after boot.
1850e52347bdSJani Nikula
1851e52347bdSJani Nikula	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1852e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>
1853e52347bdSJani Nikula
1854be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1855e52347bdSJani Nikula
1856e52347bdSJani Nikula	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1857e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1858e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1859e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1860e52347bdSJani Nikula
1861e52347bdSJani Nikula	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1862e52347bdSJani Nikula		on
1863e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable intel iommu driver.
1864e52347bdSJani Nikula		off
1865e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable intel iommu driver.
1866e52347bdSJani Nikula		igfx_off [Default Off]
1867e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1868e52347bdSJani Nikula			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1869e52347bdSJani Nikula			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1870e52347bdSJani Nikula			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1871e52347bdSJani Nikula			DMA.
1872be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap		forcedac [X86-64]
1873e52347bdSJani Nikula			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1874e52347bdSJani Nikula			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1875e52347bdSJani Nikula			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1876e52347bdSJani Nikula			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1877e52347bdSJani Nikula			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1878e52347bdSJani Nikula			then look in the higher range.
1879e52347bdSJani Nikula		strict [Default Off]
1880e52347bdSJani Nikula			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1881e52347bdSJani Nikula			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1882e52347bdSJani Nikula			to batching them for performance.
1883e52347bdSJani Nikula		sp_off [Default Off]
1884e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1885e52347bdSJani Nikula			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1886e52347bdSJani Nikula			not be supported.
18878950dcd8SLu Baolu		sm_on [Default Off]
18888950dcd8SLu Baolu			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1889765b6a98SLu Baolu			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1890765b6a98SLu Baolu			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
18918950dcd8SLu Baolu			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1892bfd20f1cSShaohua Li		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1893bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1894bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1895bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1896bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1897bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			mapping is enabled.
1898bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			Note that using this option lowers the security
1899bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1900bfd20f1cSShaohua Li			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1901e52347bdSJani Nikula
1902e52347bdSJani Nikula	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1903e52347bdSJani Nikula			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1904e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1905e52347bdSJani Nikula
1906e52347bdSJani Nikula	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1907e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable
1908e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1909e52347bdSJani Nikula			  scaling driver for the supported processors
19107b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			passive
19117b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
19127b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
19137b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
19147b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
19157b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  feature.
1916e52347bdSJani Nikula			force
1917e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1918e52347bdSJani Nikula			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1919e52347bdSJani Nikula			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1920e52347bdSJani Nikula			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1921e52347bdSJani Nikula			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1922e52347bdSJani Nikula			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1923e52347bdSJani Nikula			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1924e52347bdSJani Nikula			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1925e52347bdSJani Nikula			no_hwp
1926e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1927e52347bdSJani Nikula			  if available.
1928e52347bdSJani Nikula			hwp_only
1929e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1930e52347bdSJani Nikula			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1931e52347bdSJani Nikula			support_acpi_ppc
1932e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1933e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1934e52347bdSJani Nikula			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1935e52347bdSJani Nikula			  then this feature is turned on by default.
19367b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			per_cpu_perf_limits
19377b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
19387b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1939e52347bdSJani Nikula
1940e52347bdSJani Nikula	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1941e52347bdSJani Nikula			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1942e52347bdSJani Nikula			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1943e52347bdSJani Nikula			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1944e52347bdSJani Nikula			no_x2apic_optout
1945e52347bdSJani Nikula				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1946e52347bdSJani Nikula			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1947e52347bdSJani Nikula
1948e52347bdSJani Nikula	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1949e52347bdSJani Nikula		strict	regions from userspace.
1950e52347bdSJani Nikula		relaxed
1951e52347bdSJani Nikula
1952be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	iommu=		[X86]
1953e52347bdSJani Nikula		off
1954e52347bdSJani Nikula		force
1955e52347bdSJani Nikula		noforce
1956e52347bdSJani Nikula		biomerge
1957e52347bdSJani Nikula		panic
1958e52347bdSJani Nikula		nopanic
1959e52347bdSJani Nikula		merge
1960e52347bdSJani Nikula		nomerge
1961e52347bdSJani Nikula		soft
1962be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap		pt		[X86]
1963be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap		nopt		[X86]
1964e52347bdSJani Nikula		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1965e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1966e52347bdSJani Nikula
196768a6efe8SZhen Lei	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
196868a6efe8SZhen Lei			Format: { "0" | "1" }
196968a6efe8SZhen Lei			0 - Lazy mode.
197068a6efe8SZhen Lei			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
197168a6efe8SZhen Lei			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
197268a6efe8SZhen Lei			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
197368a6efe8SZhen Lei			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
197468a6efe8SZhen Lei			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
197568a6efe8SZhen Lei			1 - Strict mode (default).
197668a6efe8SZhen Lei			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
197768a6efe8SZhen Lei			  synchronously.
197868a6efe8SZhen Lei
1979fccb4e3bSWill Deacon	iommu.passthrough=
1980c8fb436bSJoerg Roedel			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1981fccb4e3bSWill Deacon			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1982fccb4e3bSWill Deacon			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1983fccb4e3bSWill Deacon			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
19849d723b4cSRobin Murphy			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1985e52347bdSJani Nikula
19867c42376eSRandy Dunlap	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
1987e52347bdSJani Nikula			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1988e52347bdSJani Nikula			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1989e52347bdSJani Nikula
1990e52347bdSJani Nikula	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1991e52347bdSJani Nikula		0x80
1992e52347bdSJani Nikula			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1993e52347bdSJani Nikula		0xed
1994e52347bdSJani Nikula			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1995e52347bdSJani Nikula		udelay
1996e52347bdSJani Nikula			Simple two microseconds delay
1997e52347bdSJani Nikula		none
1998e52347bdSJani Nikula			No delay
1999e52347bdSJani Nikula
2000e52347bdSJani Nikula	ip=		[IP_PNP]
20013eb30c51SNiklas Söderlund			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2002e52347bdSJani Nikula
20035ac893b8SWaiman Long	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
20045ac893b8SWaiman Long			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
20055ac893b8SWaiman Long
2006e52347bdSJani Nikula	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2007e52347bdSJani Nikula			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2008e52347bdSJani Nikula
20090962289bSMarc Zyngier	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
20100962289bSMarc Zyngier			[ARM, ARM64]
20110962289bSMarc Zyngier			Format: <bool>
20120962289bSMarc Zyngier			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
20130962289bSMarc Zyngier			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
20140962289bSMarc Zyngier			exposed by the device tree is too small.
20150962289bSMarc Zyngier
2016f736d65dSMarc Zyngier	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2017f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			[ARM, ARM64]
2018f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2019f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2020f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2021f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2022f736d65dSMarc Zyngier			LPIs.
2023f736d65dSMarc Zyngier
2024bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2025bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2026bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry			requires the kernel to be built with
2027bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2028bc3c03ccSJulien Thierry
2029e52347bdSJani Nikula	irqfixup	[HW]
2030e52347bdSJani Nikula			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2031e52347bdSJani Nikula			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2032e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware running.
2033e52347bdSJani Nikula
2034e52347bdSJani Nikula	irqpoll		[HW]
2035e52347bdSJani Nikula			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2036e52347bdSJani Nikula			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2037e52347bdSJani Nikula			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2038e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware running.
2039e52347bdSJani Nikula
2040e52347bdSJani Nikula	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2041e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2042e52347bdSJani Nikula
2043d94d1053SFrederic Weisbecker	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2044b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2045b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2046e52347bdSJani Nikula
2047b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2048b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2049b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker
2050b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			nohz
2051b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2052083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker
2053083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2054083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2055083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2056083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2057083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2058083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker
2059083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2060083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2061083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker			  be configured manually after bootup.
2062083c6eeaSFrederic Weisbecker
2063b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			domain
2064b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2065b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2066b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2067b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2068b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2069b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2070b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2071b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2072b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker
2073b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2074b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2075e52347bdSJani Nikula			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2076e52347bdSJani Nikula			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2077e52347bdSJani Nikula
207811ea68f5SMing Lei			managed_irq
207911ea68f5SMing Lei
208011ea68f5SMing Lei			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
208111ea68f5SMing Lei			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
208211ea68f5SMing Lei			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
208311ea68f5SMing Lei			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
208411ea68f5SMing Lei			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
208511ea68f5SMing Lei
208611ea68f5SMing Lei			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
208711ea68f5SMing Lei			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
208811ea68f5SMing Lei			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
208911ea68f5SMing Lei			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
209011ea68f5SMing Lei			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
209111ea68f5SMing Lei			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
209211ea68f5SMing Lei			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
209311ea68f5SMing Lei
209411ea68f5SMing Lei			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
209511ea68f5SMing Lei			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
209611ea68f5SMing Lei			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
209711ea68f5SMing Lei			  only delivered when tasks running on those
209811ea68f5SMing Lei			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
209911ea68f5SMing Lei			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
210011ea68f5SMing Lei			  queues.
210111ea68f5SMing Lei
2102b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2103b0d40d2bSFrederic Weisbecker
2104e52347bdSJani Nikula	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2105e52347bdSJani Nikula
2106be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2107e52347bdSJani Nikula			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2108e52347bdSJani Nikula			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2109e52347bdSJani Nikula			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2110e52347bdSJani Nikula			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2111e52347bdSJani Nikula				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2112e52347bdSJani Nikula
2113be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2114e52347bdSJani Nikula			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2115e52347bdSJani Nikula			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2116e52347bdSJani Nikula			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2117e52347bdSJani Nikula			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2118e52347bdSJani Nikula				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2119e52347bdSJani Nikula
2120be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2121e52347bdSJani Nikula			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2122e52347bdSJani Nikula			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2123e52347bdSJani Nikula			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2124e52347bdSJani Nikula			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2125e52347bdSJani Nikula				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2126e52347bdSJani Nikula
2127e52347bdSJani Nikula	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
21281752118dSTom Saeger			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2129e52347bdSJani Nikula
2130e52347bdSJani Nikula	nokaslr		[KNL]
2131e52347bdSJani Nikula			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2132e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2133e52347bdSJani Nikula			Layout Randomization).
2134e52347bdSJani Nikula
2135b0845ce5SMark Rutland	kasan_multi_shot
2136b0845ce5SMark Rutland			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2137b0845ce5SMark Rutland			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2138b0845ce5SMark Rutland			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2139b0845ce5SMark Rutland			invalid access.
2140b0845ce5SMark Rutland
2141e52347bdSJani Nikula	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2142e52347bdSJani Nikula
2143e52347bdSJani Nikula	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2144a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2145a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2146a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2147a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2148a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2149a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2150a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2151a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2152a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2153a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes
2154a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2155a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2156a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2157a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2158e52347bdSJani Nikula			zone if it does not.
2159e52347bdSJani Nikula
2160a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2161a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2162a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2163e52347bdSJani Nikula			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2164e52347bdSJani Nikula			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2165a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2166a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2167e52347bdSJani Nikula
2168e52347bdSJani Nikula	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2169e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2170e52347bdSJani Nikula			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2171e52347bdSJani Nikula			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2172e52347bdSJani Nikula			optional and is the number seconds in between
2173e52347bdSJani Nikula			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2174e52347bdSJani Nikula			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2175e52347bdSJani Nikula			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2176e52347bdSJani Nikula			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2177e52347bdSJani Nikula			the kernel debugger.
2178e52347bdSJani Nikula
2179e52347bdSJani Nikula	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2180e52347bdSJani Nikula			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2181e52347bdSJani Nikula			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2182e52347bdSJani Nikula			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2183e52347bdSJani Nikula			 keyboard only format: kbd
2184e52347bdSJani Nikula			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2185e52347bdSJani Nikula			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2186e52347bdSJani Nikula			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2187e52347bdSJani Nikula			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2188e52347bdSJani Nikula
2189f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2190f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2191f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2192f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2193f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2194f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2195f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2196f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson
2197f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			The name of the early console should be specified
2198f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2199f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			the early console might be different than the tty
2200f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2201f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			blank and the first boot console that implements
2202f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson			read() will be picked.
2203f71fc3bcSDouglas Anderson
2204e52347bdSJani Nikula	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2205e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2206e52347bdSJani Nikula
2207497de97eSRandy Dunlap	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2208e52347bdSJani Nikula			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2209e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2210e52347bdSJani Nikula
2211e52347bdSJani Nikula	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2212e52347bdSJani Nikula			Valid arguments: on, off
2213e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: on
2214e52347bdSJani Nikula			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2215e52347bdSJani Nikula			the default is off.
2216e52347bdSJani Nikula
2217970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2218970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2219970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2220970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2221970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2222970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2223970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2224970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu
2225970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2226970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu
2227970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2228970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu			Boot Parameter" section.
2229970988e1SMasami Hiramatsu
2230de190555SJeremy Linton	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2231de190555SJeremy Linton			and kernel address spaces.
2232de190555SJeremy Linton			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2233de190555SJeremy Linton			0: force disabled
2234de190555SJeremy Linton			1: force enabled
2235de190555SJeremy Linton
2236e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2237e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2238e52347bdSJani Nikula
2239c4ae60e4SLiran Alon	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2240c4ae60e4SLiran Alon				   Default is false (don't support).
2241c4ae60e4SLiran Alon
2242e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2243e52347bdSJani Nikula			KVM MMU at runtime.
2244e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 0 (off)
2245e52347bdSJani Nikula
2246b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2247b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2248b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2249b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2250b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2251b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2252b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2253b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini
2254b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			Default is 'auto'.
2255b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini
2256b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2257b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2258b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini
22591aa9b957SJunaid Shahid	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
22601aa9b957SJunaid Shahid			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
22611aa9b957SJunaid Shahid			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
22621aa9b957SJunaid Shahid			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
22631aa9b957SJunaid Shahid			minute.  The default is 60.
22641aa9b957SJunaid Shahid
2265e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2266e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled)
2267e52347bdSJani Nikula
2268e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2269e52347bdSJani Nikula			for all guests.
2270e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2271e52347bdSJani Nikula
2272d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil	kvm-arm.mode=
2273d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2274d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil
22751945a067SMarc Zyngier			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
22761945a067SMarc Zyngier			      protected guests.
22771945a067SMarc Zyngier
2278d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2279d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil				   state is kept private from the host.
2280d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2281d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil
2282d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support and
2283d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil			the value of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE.
2284d8b369c4SDavid Brazdil
2285e23f62f7SMarc Zyngier	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2286e23f62f7SMarc Zyngier			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2287e23f62f7SMarc Zyngier			system registers
2288e23f62f7SMarc Zyngier
2289182936eeSMarc Zyngier	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2290182936eeSMarc Zyngier			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2291182936eeSMarc Zyngier			system registers
2292182936eeSMarc Zyngier
2293ff89511eSMarc Zyngier	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2294ff89511eSMarc Zyngier			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2295ff89511eSMarc Zyngier			system registers
2296ff89511eSMarc Zyngier
2297a7546054SMarc Zyngier	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2298a7546054SMarc Zyngier			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2299a7546054SMarc Zyngier			LPIs.
2300a7546054SMarc Zyngier
2301aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2302aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2303aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2304aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			allocation.
2305aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2306aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			Format: <integer>
2307aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran			Default: 5
2308aed26eebSSatheesh Rajendran
2309e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2310e52347bdSJani Nikula			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2311e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled)
2312e52347bdSJani Nikula
2313e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2314e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2315e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 0 (disabled)
2316e52347bdSJani Nikula
2317e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2318e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2319e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled)
2320e52347bdSJani Nikula
2321e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.nested=
2322e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2323e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 0 (disabled)
2324e52347bdSJani Nikula
2325e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2326e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2327e52347bdSJani Nikula			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2328e52347bdSJani Nikula			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2329e52347bdSJani Nikula
2330a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2331a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			CVE-2018-3620.
2332a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2333a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2334a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2335a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2336a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2337a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2338a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			never:	Disables the mitigation
2339a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2340a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2341a399477eSKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2342e52347bdSJani Nikula	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2343e52347bdSJani Nikula			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2344e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1 (enabled)
2345e52347bdSJani Nikula
2346d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2347d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			      affected CPUs
2348d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2349d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2350d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2351d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2352d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			full
2353d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Provides all available mitigations for the
2354d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2355d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				enables all mitigations in the
2356d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2357d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2358d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2359d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				sysfs interface is still possible after
2360d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2361d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				when the first VM is started in a
2362d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				potentially insecure configuration,
2363d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2364d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2365d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			full,force
2366d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2367d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				flush runtime control. Implies the
2368d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2369d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2370d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2371d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			flush
2372d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2373d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2374d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				L1D flush.
2375d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2376d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2377d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				sysfs interface is still possible after
2378d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2379d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				when the first VM is started in a
2380d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				potentially insecure configuration,
2381d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2382d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2383d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			flush,nosmt
2384d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2385d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Disables SMT and enables the default
2386d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				hypervisor mitigation.
2387d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2388d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2389d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				sysfs interface is still possible after
2390d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2391d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				when the first VM is started in a
2392d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				potentially insecure configuration,
2393d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2394d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2395d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			flush,nowarn
2396d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2397d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2398d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				insecure configuration.
2399d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2400d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			off
2401d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2402d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina				emit any warnings.
24035b5e4d62SMichal Hocko				It also drops the swap size and available
24045b5e4d62SMichal Hocko				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
24055b5e4d62SMichal Hocko				bare metal.
2406d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2407d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina			Default is 'flush'.
2408d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
240965fd4cb6SThomas Gleixner			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2410d90a7a0eSJiri Kosina
2411e52347bdSJani Nikula	l2cr=		[PPC]
2412e52347bdSJani Nikula
2413e52347bdSJani Nikula	l3cr=		[PPC]
2414e52347bdSJani Nikula
2415e52347bdSJani Nikula	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2416e52347bdSJani Nikula			disabled it.
2417e52347bdSJani Nikula
2418622381e6SRandy Dunlap	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2419e52347bdSJani Nikula			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2420e52347bdSJani Nikula			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2421622381e6SRandy Dunlap			Format: notscdeadline
2422e52347bdSJani Nikula
2423e52347bdSJani Nikula	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2424e52347bdSJani Nikula			in C2 power state.
2425e52347bdSJani Nikula
2426e52347bdSJani Nikula	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2427e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2428e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2429e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2430e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2431e52347bdSJani Nikula			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2432e52347bdSJani Nikula			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2433e52347bdSJani Nikula
2434e52347bdSJani Nikula	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2435e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2436e52347bdSJani Nikula			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2437e52347bdSJani Nikula
2438e52347bdSJani Nikula	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2439e52347bdSJani Nikula			when set.
2440e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
2441e52347bdSJani Nikula
244225942e5eSRandy Dunlap	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma-
2443e52347bdSJani Nikula			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2444e52347bdSJani Nikula			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2445e52347bdSJani Nikula			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2446e52347bdSJani Nikula			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2447e52347bdSJani Nikula			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2448e52347bdSJani Nikula			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2449e52347bdSJani Nikula			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2450e52347bdSJani Nikula
2451e52347bdSJani Nikula			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2452e52347bdSJani Nikula			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2453e52347bdSJani Nikula			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2454e52347bdSJani Nikula			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2455e52347bdSJani Nikula			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2456e52347bdSJani Nikula			host link and device attached to it.
2457e52347bdSJani Nikula
2458e52347bdSJani Nikula			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2459e52347bdSJani Nikula			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2460e52347bdSJani Nikula			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2461e52347bdSJani Nikula			The following configurations can be forced.
2462e52347bdSJani Nikula
2463e52347bdSJani Nikula			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2464e52347bdSJani Nikula			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2465e52347bdSJani Nikula
2466e52347bdSJani Nikula			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2467e52347bdSJani Nikula
2468e52347bdSJani Nikula			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2469e52347bdSJani Nikula			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2470e52347bdSJani Nikula			  allowed.
2471e52347bdSJani Nikula
2472e52347bdSJani Nikula			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2473e52347bdSJani Nikula
2474e52347bdSJani Nikula			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2475e52347bdSJani Nikula
2476e52347bdSJani Nikula			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2477e52347bdSJani Nikula			  and both resets.
2478e52347bdSJani Nikula
2479e52347bdSJani Nikula			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2480e52347bdSJani Nikula			  hot-unplug link recovery
2481e52347bdSJani Nikula
2482e52347bdSJani Nikula			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2483e52347bdSJani Nikula
2484e52347bdSJani Nikula			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2485e52347bdSJani Nikula
2486e52347bdSJani Nikula			* disable: Disable this device.
2487e52347bdSJani Nikula
2488e52347bdSJani Nikula			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2489e52347bdSJani Nikula			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2490e52347bdSJani Nikula
2491e52347bdSJani Nikula	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2492e52347bdSJani Nikula
24936b99e6e6SRandy Dunlap	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2494e52347bdSJani Nikula
2495e52347bdSJani Nikula	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2496e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2497e52347bdSJani Nikula
2498e52347bdSJani Nikula	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2499e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2500e52347bdSJani Nikula
2501e52347bdSJani Nikula	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2502e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2503e52347bdSJani Nikula
2504e52347bdSJani Nikula	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2505e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2506e52347bdSJani Nikula
2507000d388eSMatthew Garrett	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2508000d388eSMatthew Garrett			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2509000d388eSMatthew Garrett			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2510000d388eSMatthew Garrett			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2511000d388eSMatthew Garrett			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2512000d388eSMatthew Garrett			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2513000d388eSMatthew Garrett			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2514000d388eSMatthew Garrett			are also disabled.
2515000d388eSMatthew Garrett
2516e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2517e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2518e52347bdSJani Nikula			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2519e52347bdSJani Nikula			number of online CPUs.
2520e52347bdSJani Nikula
2521e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2522e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2523e52347bdSJani Nikula
2524e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2525e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2526e52347bdSJani Nikula
2527e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2528e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2529e52347bdSJani Nikula			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2530e52347bdSJani Nikula
2531e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2532e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2533e52347bdSJani Nikula			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2534e52347bdSJani Nikula			mode during the locktorture test.
2535e52347bdSJani Nikula
2536e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2537e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2538e52347bdSJani Nikula			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2539e52347bdSJani Nikula
2540e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2541e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2542e52347bdSJani Nikula
2543e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2544e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2545e52347bdSJani Nikula			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2546e52347bdSJani Nikula			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2547e52347bdSJani Nikula			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2548e52347bdSJani Nikula			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2549e52347bdSJani Nikula
2550e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2551e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2552e52347bdSJani Nikula
2553e52347bdSJani Nikula	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2554e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable additional printk() statements.
2555e52347bdSJani Nikula
2556e52347bdSJani Nikula	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2557e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>
2558e52347bdSJani Nikula
2559e52347bdSJani Nikula	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2560e52347bdSJani Nikula			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2561e52347bdSJani Nikula			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2562e52347bdSJani Nikula			loglevels are defined as follows:
2563e52347bdSJani Nikula
2564e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2565e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2566e52347bdSJani Nikula			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2567e52347bdSJani Nikula			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2568e52347bdSJani Nikula			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2569e52347bdSJani Nikula			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2570e52347bdSJani Nikula			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2571e52347bdSJani Nikula			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2572e52347bdSJani Nikula
2573e52347bdSJani Nikula	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2574e52347bdSJani Nikula			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2575e52347bdSJani Nikula			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2576e52347bdSJani Nikula			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2577e52347bdSJani Nikula			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2578e52347bdSJani Nikula			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2579e52347bdSJani Nikula			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2580e52347bdSJani Nikula
2581e52347bdSJani Nikula	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2582e52347bdSJani Nikula			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2583e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2584e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel boot problems.
2585e52347bdSJani Nikula
2586e52347bdSJani Nikula	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2587e52347bdSJani Nikula	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2588e52347bdSJani Nikula	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2589e52347bdSJani Nikula	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2590e52347bdSJani Nikula				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2591e52347bdSJani Nikula				attached printers to be reset. Using
2592e52347bdSJani Nikula				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2593e52347bdSJani Nikula				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2594e52347bdSJani Nikula				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2595e52347bdSJani Nikula				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2596e52347bdSJani Nikula				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2597e52347bdSJani Nikula				port specification list means that device IDs
2598e52347bdSJani Nikula				from each port should be examined, to see if
2599e52347bdSJani Nikula				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2600e52347bdSJani Nikula				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2601e52347bdSJani Nikula				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2602e52347bdSJani Nikula
2603e52347bdSJani Nikula	lpj=n		[KNL]
2604e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2605e52347bdSJani Nikula			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2606e52347bdSJani Nikula			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2607e52347bdSJani Nikula			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2608e52347bdSJani Nikula			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2609e52347bdSJani Nikula			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2610e52347bdSJani Nikula			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2611e52347bdSJani Nikula			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2612e52347bdSJani Nikula			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2613e52347bdSJani Nikula			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2614e52347bdSJani Nikula			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2615e52347bdSJani Nikula			hardware.
2616e52347bdSJani Nikula
2617e52347bdSJani Nikula	ltpc=		[NET]
2618e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2619e52347bdSJani Nikula
26209b8c7c14SKees Cook	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
26219b8c7c14SKees Cook
262279f7865dSKees Cook	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
262379f7865dSKees Cook			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
262489a9684eSKees Cook			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
262579f7865dSKees Cook
2626e52347bdSJani Nikula	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2627e52347bdSJani Nikula			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2628df43acacSChristoph Hellwig			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2629e52347bdSJani Nikula
263042769488SRandy Dunlap	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
263142769488SRandy Dunlap			different yeeloong laptops.
2632e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2633e52347bdSJani Nikula
2634e52347bdSJani Nikula	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2635e52347bdSJani Nikula			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2636e52347bdSJani Nikula
2637e52347bdSJani Nikula	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2638e52347bdSJani Nikula			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2639e52347bdSJani Nikula			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2640e52347bdSJani Nikula			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2641e52347bdSJani Nikula			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2642e52347bdSJani Nikula			only takes effect during system bootup.
2643e52347bdSJani Nikula			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2644e52347bdSJani Nikula			which also disables the IO APIC.
2645e52347bdSJani Nikula
2646e52347bdSJani Nikula	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2647e52347bdSJani Nikula	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2648e52347bdSJani Nikula			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2649e52347bdSJani Nikula			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2650e52347bdSJani Nikula			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2651e52347bdSJani Nikula			/dev/loop-control interface.
2652e52347bdSJani Nikula
2653e52347bdSJani Nikula	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2654e52347bdSJani Nikula
2655cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2656e52347bdSJani Nikula
2657e52347bdSJani Nikula	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2658e52347bdSJani Nikula			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2659e52347bdSJani Nikula
2660e52347bdSJani Nikula	mdacon=		[MDA]
2661e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <first>,<last>
2662e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2663e52347bdSJani Nikula
2664bc124170SThomas Gleixner	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2665bc124170SThomas Gleixner			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2666bc124170SThomas Gleixner			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2667bc124170SThomas Gleixner
2668bc124170SThomas Gleixner			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2669bc124170SThomas Gleixner			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2670bc124170SThomas Gleixner			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2671bc124170SThomas Gleixner
2672bc124170SThomas Gleixner			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2673bc124170SThomas Gleixner			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2674bc124170SThomas Gleixner			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2675bc124170SThomas Gleixner			not have direct access.
2676bc124170SThomas Gleixner
2677bc124170SThomas Gleixner			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2678bc124170SThomas Gleixner			options are:
2679bc124170SThomas Gleixner
2680bc124170SThomas Gleixner			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2681d71eb0ceSJosh Poimboeuf			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2682d71eb0ceSJosh Poimboeuf				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2683bc124170SThomas Gleixner			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2684bc124170SThomas Gleixner
268564870ed1SWaiman Long			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
268664870ed1SWaiman Long			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
268764870ed1SWaiman Long			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
268864870ed1SWaiman Long			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
268964870ed1SWaiman Long			too.
269064870ed1SWaiman Long
2691bc124170SThomas Gleixner			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2692bc124170SThomas Gleixner			mds=full.
2693bc124170SThomas Gleixner
26945999bbe7SThomas Gleixner			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
26955999bbe7SThomas Gleixner
2696e52347bdSJani Nikula	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2697f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2698f3cd4c86SBaoquan He
2699f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			1 for test;
2700f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2701f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2702f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2703f3cd4c86SBaoquan He
2704e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2705e52347bdSJani Nikula			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2706e52347bdSJani Nikula			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2707e52347bdSJani Nikula			belonging to unused RAM.
2708e52347bdSJani Nikula
2709f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2710f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2711f3cd4c86SBaoquan He			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2712f3cd4c86SBaoquan He
2713e52347bdSJani Nikula	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2714e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory.
2715e52347bdSJani Nikula
2716e52347bdSJani Nikula	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2717e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2718e52347bdSJani Nikula			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2719e52347bdSJani Nikula
2720e52347bdSJani Nikula	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2721e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2722e52347bdSJani Nikula			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2723e52347bdSJani Nikula			set according to the
2724e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2725e52347bdSJani Nikula			option.
2726cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2727e52347bdSJani Nikula
2728e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2729e52347bdSJani Nikula			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2730e52347bdSJani Nikula			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2731e52347bdSJani Nikula			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2732e52347bdSJani Nikula			option description.
2733e52347bdSJani Nikula
2734e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
27354c8e3de4SBarry Song			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2736e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
27378fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
27388fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
27398fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			Multiple different regions can be specified,
27408fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			comma delimited.
27418fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			Example:
27428fcc9bc3SBaoquan He				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2743e52347bdSJani Nikula
2744e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2745e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2746e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2747e52347bdSJani Nikula
2748e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2749e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2750e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2751e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2752e52347bdSJani Nikula			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2753e52347bdSJani Nikula			         or
2754e52347bdSJani Nikula			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
27558fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
27568fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
27578fcc9bc3SBaoquan He			will be eaten.
2758e52347bdSJani Nikula
2759e52347bdSJani Nikula	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2760e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2761e52347bdSJani Nikula			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2762e52347bdSJani Nikula			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2763e52347bdSJani Nikula			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2764e52347bdSJani Nikula
2765ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2766ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2767ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2768ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2769ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2770ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2771ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2772ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2773ef61f8a3SJan H. Schönherr
2774e52347bdSJani Nikula	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2775e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2776e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2777e52347bdSJani Nikula			Setting this option will scan the memory
2778e52347bdSJani Nikula			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2779e52347bdSJani Nikula			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2780e52347bdSJani Nikula			from using the memory being corrupted.
2781e52347bdSJani Nikula			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2782e52347bdSJani Nikula			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2783e52347bdSJani Nikula			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2784e52347bdSJani Nikula			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2785e52347bdSJani Nikula
2786e52347bdSJani Nikula	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2787e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2788e52347bdSJani Nikula			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2789e52347bdSJani Nikula			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2790e52347bdSJani Nikula			corruption in more or less memory.
2791e52347bdSJani Nikula
2792e52347bdSJani Nikula	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2793e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2794e52347bdSJani Nikula			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2795e52347bdSJani Nikula			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2796e52347bdSJani Nikula
2797*f6e5aedfSKefeng Wang	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
2798e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2799e52347bdSJani Nikula			default : 0 <disable>
2800e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2801e52347bdSJani Nikula			performed. Each pass selects another test
2802e52347bdSJani Nikula			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2803e52347bdSJani Nikula			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2804e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2805e52347bdSJani Nikula			regions that are detected.
2806e52347bdSJani Nikula
2807c262f3b9STom Lendacky	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2808c262f3b9STom Lendacky			Valid arguments: on, off
2809c262f3b9STom Lendacky			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2810c262f3b9STom Lendacky			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2811c262f3b9STom Lendacky			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2812c262f3b9STom Lendacky			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2813c262f3b9STom Lendacky			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2814c262f3b9STom Lendacky
28152f5947dfSChristoph Hellwig			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2816c262f3b9STom Lendacky			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2817c262f3b9STom Lendacky
28187b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
28197b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
28207b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
28217b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
282258e7cb9eSRafael J. Wysocki			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
28237b9dc3f7SLinus Torvalds
2824e52347bdSJani Nikula	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
282532e2eae2SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2826e52347bdSJani Nikula
2827e52347bdSJani Nikula	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2828e52347bdSJani Nikula			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2829e52347bdSJani Nikula			platforms.
2830e52347bdSJani Nikula
2831e52347bdSJani Nikula	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2832e52347bdSJani Nikula			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2833e52347bdSJani Nikula			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2834e52347bdSJani Nikula			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2835e52347bdSJani Nikula
2836e52347bdSJani Nikula	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2837e52347bdSJani Nikula
2838e52347bdSJani Nikula	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2839e52347bdSJani Nikula			physical address is ignored.
2840e52347bdSJani Nikula
2841e52347bdSJani Nikula	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2842e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2843e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: "0tb"
2844e52347bdSJani Nikula			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2845e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2846e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2847e52347bdSJani Nikula			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2848e52347bdSJani Nikula			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2849e52347bdSJani Nikula			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2850e52347bdSJani Nikula			unconfigured.
2851e52347bdSJani Nikula			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2852e52347bdSJani Nikula			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2853e52347bdSJani Nikula			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2854e52347bdSJani Nikula			VGA shield.
2855e52347bdSJani Nikula			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2856e52347bdSJani Nikula			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2857e52347bdSJani Nikula			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2858e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2859e52347bdSJani Nikula			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
28606b2484e1SAlexander A. Klimov			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2861e52347bdSJani Nikula
286298af8452SJosh Poimboeuf	mitigations=
2863a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2864a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2865d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2866d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
286798af8452SJosh Poimboeuf
286898af8452SJosh Poimboeuf			off
286998af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
287098af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				improves system performance, but it may also
287198af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2872782e69efSJosh Poimboeuf				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2873a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2874a2059825SJosh Poimboeuf					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
28750336e04aSJosh Poimboeuf					       nobp=0 [S390]
2876a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2877d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2878782e69efSJosh Poimboeuf					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2879a111b7c0SJosh Poimboeuf					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2880d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf					       l1tf=off [X86]
28815c14068fSJosh Poimboeuf					       mds=off [X86]
2882a7a248c5SPawan Gupta					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2883b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2884f7964378SNicholas Piggin					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
28859a32a7e7SNicholas Piggin					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
2886b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini
2887b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini				Exceptions:
2888b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini					       This does not have any effect on
2889b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2890b8e8c830SPaolo Bonzini					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
289198af8452SJosh Poimboeuf
289298af8452SJosh Poimboeuf			auto (default)
289398af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
289498af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
289598af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
289698af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
289798af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2898d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
289998af8452SJosh Poimboeuf
290098af8452SJosh Poimboeuf			auto,nosmt
290198af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
290298af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
290398af8452SJosh Poimboeuf				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2904d68be4c4SJosh Poimboeuf				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
29055c14068fSJosh Poimboeuf					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2906a7a248c5SPawan Gupta					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
290798af8452SJosh Poimboeuf
2908e52347bdSJani Nikula	mminit_loglevel=
2909e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2910e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2911e52347bdSJani Nikula			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2912e52347bdSJani Nikula			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2913e52347bdSJani Nikula			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2914e52347bdSJani Nikula			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2915e52347bdSJani Nikula
2916e52347bdSJani Nikula	module.sig_enforce
2917e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2918e52347bdSJani Nikula			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2919e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2920e52347bdSJani Nikula			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2921e52347bdSJani Nikula
2922e52347bdSJani Nikula	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2923e52347bdSJani Nikula			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2924e52347bdSJani Nikula
2925e52347bdSJani Nikula	mousedev.tap_time=
2926e52347bdSJani Nikula			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2927e52347bdSJani Nikula			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2928e52347bdSJani Nikula			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2929e52347bdSJani Nikula			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2930e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <msecs>
2931e52347bdSJani Nikula	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2932e52347bdSJani Nikula			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2933e52347bdSJani Nikula	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2934e52347bdSJani Nikula			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2935e52347bdSJani Nikula
2936a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2937a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2938a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2939a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2940a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2941a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2942a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2943a5c6d650SDavid Rientjes			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2944e52347bdSJani Nikula			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2945e52347bdSJani Nikula			is not too small.
2946e52347bdSJani Nikula
2947f70029bbSMichal Hocko	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2948f70029bbSMichal Hocko			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2949f70029bbSMichal Hocko			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2950f70029bbSMichal Hocko			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2951f70029bbSMichal Hocko			allocations. Use with caution!
2952e52347bdSJani Nikula
2953e52347bdSJani Nikula	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2954e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2955e52347bdSJani Nikula
2956e52347bdSJani Nikula	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2957e52347bdSJani Nikula			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2958e52347bdSJani Nikula
2959e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2960fb251124SJonathan Neuschäfer			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
2961e52347bdSJani Nikula
2962e52347bdSJani Nikula	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2963e52347bdSJani Nikula			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2964e52347bdSJani Nikula			at a time.
2965e52347bdSJani Nikula
2966e52347bdSJani Nikula	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2967e52347bdSJani Nikula
2968e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2969e52347bdSJani Nikula
2970e52347bdSJani Nikula			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2971e52347bdSJani Nikula				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2972e52347bdSJani Nikula			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2973e52347bdSJani Nikula				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2974e52347bdSJani Nikula				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2975e52347bdSJani Nikula
2976e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtdset=		[ARM]
2977e52347bdSJani Nikula			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2978e52347bdSJani Nikula
29790f12999eSKrzysztof Kozlowski			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
2980e52347bdSJani Nikula
2981e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2982e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2983e52347bdSJani Nikula			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2984e52347bdSJani Nikula
2985e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2986e52347bdSJani Nikula			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2987e52347bdSJani Nikula			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2988e52347bdSJani Nikula
2989e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2990e52347bdSJani Nikula			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2991e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1.
2992e52347bdSJani Nikula			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2993e52347bdSJani Nikula			using up MTRRs.
2994e52347bdSJani Nikula
2995e52347bdSJani Nikula	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2996e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
2997e52347bdSJani Nikula			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2998e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default : 1
2999e52347bdSJani Nikula			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3000e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3001e52347bdSJani Nikula
3002e52347bdSJani Nikula	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3003e52347bdSJani Nikula
3004e52347bdSJani Nikula	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3005e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3006e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3007e52347bdSJani Nikula			something different and driver-specific.
3008e52347bdSJani Nikula			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3009e52347bdSJani Nikula			file if at all.
3010e52347bdSJani Nikula
3011e52347bdSJani Nikula	nf_conntrack.acct=
3012e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3013e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 to disable accounting
3014e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 to enable accounting
3015e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is 0.
3016e52347bdSJani Nikula
3017e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
30183eb30c51SNiklas Söderlund			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3019e52347bdSJani Nikula
3020e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
30213eb30c51SNiklas Söderlund			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3022e52347bdSJani Nikula
3023e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
30243eb30c51SNiklas Söderlund			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3025e52347bdSJani Nikula
3026e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3027e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3028e52347bdSJani Nikula			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3029e52347bdSJani Nikula			requests.
3030e52347bdSJani Nikula
3031e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3032e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3033e52347bdSJani Nikula			channel should listen.
3034e52347bdSJani Nikula
3035e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.cache_getent=
3036e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3037e52347bdSJani Nikula			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3038e52347bdSJani Nikula
3039e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3040e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3041e52347bdSJani Nikula			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3042e52347bdSJani Nikula
3043e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3044e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3045e52347bdSJani Nikula			entries.
3046e52347bdSJani Nikula
3047e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.enable_ino64=
3048e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3049e52347bdSJani Nikula			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3050e52347bdSJani Nikula			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3051e52347bdSJani Nikula			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3052e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3053e52347bdSJani Nikula
3054e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3055e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3056e52347bdSJani Nikula			slots the client will assign to the callback
3057e52347bdSJani Nikula			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3058e52347bdSJani Nikula			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3059e52347bdSJani Nikula			a particular server.
3060e52347bdSJani Nikula
3061e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.max_session_slots=
3062e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3063e52347bdSJani Nikula			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3064e52347bdSJani Nikula			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3065e52347bdSJani Nikula			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3066e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that there is little point in setting this
3067e52347bdSJani Nikula			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3068e52347bdSJani Nikula
3069e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3070e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3071e52347bdSJani Nikula			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3072e52347bdSJani Nikula			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3073e52347bdSJani Nikula			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3074e52347bdSJani Nikula			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3075e52347bdSJani Nikula			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3076e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3077e52347bdSJani Nikula			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3078e52347bdSJani Nikula			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3079e52347bdSJani Nikula			back to using the idmapper.
3080e52347bdSJani Nikula			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3081e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3082e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3083e52347bdSJani Nikula			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3084e52347bdSJani Nikula			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3085e52347bdSJani Nikula			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3086e52347bdSJani Nikula
3087e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3088e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3089e52347bdSJani Nikula			information in exchange_id requests.
3090e52347bdSJani Nikula			If zero, no implementation identification information
3091e52347bdSJani Nikula			will be sent.
3092e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default is to send the implementation identification
3093e52347bdSJani Nikula			information.
3094e52347bdSJani Nikula
3095e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3096e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3097e52347bdSJani Nikula			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3098e52347bdSJani Nikula			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3099e52347bdSJani Nikula			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3100e52347bdSJani Nikula			after the locks are lost.
3101e52347bdSJani Nikula			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3102e52347bdSJani Nikula			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3103e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter to '1'.
3104e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3105e52347bdSJani Nikula			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3106e52347bdSJani Nikula
3107e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3108e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3109e52347bdSJani Nikula			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3110e52347bdSJani Nikula
3111e52347bdSJani Nikula			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3112e52347bdSJani Nikula			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3113e52347bdSJani Nikula			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3114e52347bdSJani Nikula			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3115e52347bdSJani Nikula
3116e52347bdSJani Nikula	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3117e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3118e52347bdSJani Nikula			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3119e52347bdSJani Nikula			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3120e52347bdSJani Nikula			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3121e52347bdSJani Nikula			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3122e52347bdSJani Nikula
3123160c7ba3SPaul E. McKenney	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3124160c7ba3SPaul E. McKenney			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3125160c7ba3SPaul E. McKenney			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3126160c7ba3SPaul E. McKenney
3127c0c74acbSHans-Christian Noren Egtvedt	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3128e52347bdSJani Nikula			when a NMI is triggered.
3129e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3130e52347bdSJani Nikula
3131e52347bdSJani Nikula	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3132e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3133e52347bdSJani Nikula			Valid num: 0 or 1
3134e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3135e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3136e52347bdSJani Nikula			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
313793285c01SZhenzhong Duan			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
313893285c01SZhenzhong Duan			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
313993285c01SZhenzhong Duan			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3140e52347bdSJani Nikula			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3141e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3142e52347bdSJani Nikula			need the box quickly up again.
3143e52347bdSJani Nikula
3144d22881dcSScott Wood			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3145d22881dcSScott Wood			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3146d22881dcSScott Wood
3147e52347bdSJani Nikula	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3148e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3149e52347bdSJani Nikula			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3150e52347bdSJani Nikula			waits 4 seconds.
3151e52347bdSJani Nikula
3152e52347bdSJani Nikula	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3153e52347bdSJani Nikula			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3154e52347bdSJani Nikula			is present.
3155e52347bdSJani Nikula
3156372fddf7SKirill A. Shutemov	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3157372fddf7SKirill A. Shutemov			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3158372fddf7SKirill A. Shutemov
3159b745cfbaSAndy Lutomirski	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3160dd649bd0SAndy Lutomirski
3161e52347bdSJani Nikula	no_console_suspend
3162e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW] Never suspend the console
3163e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3164e52347bdSJani Nikula			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3165e52347bdSJani Nikula			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3166e52347bdSJani Nikula			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3167e52347bdSJani Nikula			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3168e52347bdSJani Nikula			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3169e52347bdSJani Nikula			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3170e52347bdSJani Nikula			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3171e52347bdSJani Nikula			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3172e52347bdSJani Nikula			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3173e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3174e52347bdSJani Nikula			turn on/off it dynamically.
3175e52347bdSJani Nikula
3176c6c40533SKairui Song	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3177c6c40533SKairui Song			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3178c6c40533SKairui Song			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3179c6c40533SKairui Song			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3180c6c40533SKairui Song			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3181c6c40533SKairui Song			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3182c6c40533SKairui Song			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3183c6c40533SKairui Song			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3184c6c40533SKairui Song			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3185c6c40533SKairui Song			is set.
3186c6c40533SKairui Song
3187e52347bdSJani Nikula	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3188e52347bdSJani Nikula			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3189e52347bdSJani Nikula			but will impact performance.
3190e52347bdSJani Nikula
3191e52347bdSJani Nikula	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3192e52347bdSJani Nikula
3193686140a1SVasily Gorbik	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3194686140a1SVasily Gorbik			(CPU alternatives feature).
3195686140a1SVasily Gorbik
3196e52347bdSJani Nikula	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3197e52347bdSJani Nikula			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3198e52347bdSJani Nikula
3199e52347bdSJani Nikula	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3200e52347bdSJani Nikula
3201e52347bdSJani Nikula	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3202e52347bdSJani Nikula			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3203e52347bdSJani Nikula
3204e52347bdSJani Nikula	nocache		[ARM]
3205e52347bdSJani Nikula
3206e52347bdSJani Nikula	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3207e52347bdSJani Nikula
3208e52347bdSJani Nikula	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3209e52347bdSJani Nikula
3210e52347bdSJani Nikula	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3211e52347bdSJani Nikula
3212e52347bdSJani Nikula	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3213e52347bdSJani Nikula
3214f7964378SNicholas Piggin	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3215f7964378SNicholas Piggin
3216e52347bdSJani Nikula	noexec		[IA-64]
3217e52347bdSJani Nikula
3218e52347bdSJani Nikula	noexec		[X86]
3219e52347bdSJani Nikula			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3220e52347bdSJani Nikula			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3221e52347bdSJani Nikula			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3222e52347bdSJani Nikula
3223de78a9c4SChristophe Leroy	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3224e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3225e52347bdSJani Nikula			even if it is supported by processor.
3226e52347bdSJani Nikula
32270fb1c25aSChristophe Leroy	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3228e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3229e52347bdSJani Nikula			even if it is supported by processor.
3230e52347bdSJani Nikula
3231e52347bdSJani Nikula	noexec32	[X86-64]
3232e52347bdSJani Nikula			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3233e52347bdSJani Nikula			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3234e52347bdSJani Nikula				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3235e52347bdSJani Nikula			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3236e52347bdSJani Nikula				read implies executable mappings
3237e52347bdSJani Nikula
3238e52347bdSJani Nikula	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3239e52347bdSJani Nikula
3240e52347bdSJani Nikula	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3241e52347bdSJani Nikula			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3242e52347bdSJani Nikula			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3243e52347bdSJani Nikula
32445b280ed4STian Tao	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3245e52347bdSJani Nikula
3246e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3247e52347bdSJani Nikula			Equivalent to smt=1.
3248e52347bdSJani Nikula
3249be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3250506a66f3SThomas Gleixner			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3251506a66f3SThomas Gleixner				     via the sysfs control file.
325205736e4aSThomas Gleixner
3253a2059825SJosh Poimboeuf	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3254a2059825SJosh Poimboeuf			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3255a2059825SJosh Poimboeuf			possible in the system.
325626cb1f36SDiana Craciun
3257e5ce5e72SJeremy Linton	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3258e5ce5e72SJeremy Linton			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3259e5ce5e72SJeremy Linton			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3260e5ce5e72SJeremy Linton			option.
3261da285121SDavid Woodhouse
326224f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk	nospec_store_bypass_disable
326324f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
326424f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
32659a32a7e7SNicholas Piggin	no_uaccess_flush
32669a32a7e7SNicholas Piggin	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
32679a32a7e7SNicholas Piggin
3268e52347bdSJani Nikula	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3269e52347bdSJani Nikula			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3270e52347bdSJani Nikula			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3271e52347bdSJani Nikula
3272e52347bdSJani Nikula	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3273e52347bdSJani Nikula			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3274e52347bdSJani Nikula			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3275e52347bdSJani Nikula			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3276e52347bdSJani Nikula			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3277e52347bdSJani Nikula			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3278e52347bdSJani Nikula
3279e52347bdSJani Nikula	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3280e52347bdSJani Nikula			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3281e52347bdSJani Nikula			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3282e52347bdSJani Nikula			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3283e52347bdSJani Nikula			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3284e52347bdSJani Nikula			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3285e52347bdSJani Nikula			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3286e52347bdSJani Nikula
32873cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
32883cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
32893cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
32903cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
32913cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
32923cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
32933cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
32943cae85f5SFlorian Fainelli			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3295e52347bdSJani Nikula
3296e52347bdSJani Nikula	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3297e52347bdSJani Nikula			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3298e52347bdSJani Nikula			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3299e52347bdSJani Nikula
3300e52347bdSJani Nikula	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3301e52347bdSJani Nikula			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3302e52347bdSJani Nikula			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3303e52347bdSJani Nikula			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3304e52347bdSJani Nikula			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3305e52347bdSJani Nikula			real-time systems.
3306e52347bdSJani Nikula
33075ead723aSTimur Tabi	no_hash_pointers
33085ead723aSTimur Tabi			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
33095ead723aSTimur Tabi			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
33105ead723aSTimur Tabi			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
33115ead723aSTimur Tabi			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
33125ead723aSTimur Tabi			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
33135ead723aSTimur Tabi			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
33145ead723aSTimur Tabi			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
33155ead723aSTimur Tabi			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
33165ead723aSTimur Tabi			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
33175ead723aSTimur Tabi			value printed.  Pointers printed via %pK may still be
33185ead723aSTimur Tabi			hashed.  This option should only be specified when
33195ead723aSTimur Tabi			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
33205ead723aSTimur Tabi			kernels.
33215ead723aSTimur Tabi
3322e52347bdSJani Nikula	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3323e52347bdSJani Nikula
3324e52347bdSJani Nikula	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3325e52347bdSJani Nikula			Valid arguments: on, off
3326e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: on
3327e52347bdSJani Nikula
3328d94d1053SFrederic Weisbecker	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3329e52347bdSJani Nikula			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3330e52347bdSJani Nikula			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3331e52347bdSJani Nikula			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3332e52347bdSJani Nikula			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3333f99bcb2cSPaul E. McKenney			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3334f99bcb2cSPaul E. McKenney			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3335f99bcb2cSPaul E. McKenney			just as if they had also been called out in the
3336f99bcb2cSPaul E. McKenney			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3337e52347bdSJani Nikula
3338e52347bdSJani Nikula	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3339e52347bdSJani Nikula
3340e52347bdSJani Nikula	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3341e52347bdSJani Nikula			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3342e52347bdSJani Nikula
3343e52347bdSJani Nikula	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3344e52347bdSJani Nikula			broken timer IRQ sources.
3345e52347bdSJani Nikula
3346e52347bdSJani Nikula	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3347e52347bdSJani Nikula
3348e52347bdSJani Nikula	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3349e52347bdSJani Nikula			initial RAM disk.
3350e52347bdSJani Nikula
3351e52347bdSJani Nikula	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3352e52347bdSJani Nikula			remapping.
3353e52347bdSJani Nikula			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3354e52347bdSJani Nikula
3355e52347bdSJani Nikula	nointroute	[IA-64]
3356e52347bdSJani Nikula
3357e52347bdSJani Nikula	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3358e52347bdSJani Nikula
3359e52347bdSJani Nikula	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3360e52347bdSJani Nikula
3361e52347bdSJani Nikula	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3362e52347bdSJani Nikula
3363e52347bdSJani Nikula	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3364e52347bdSJani Nikula			fault handling.
3365e52347bdSJani Nikula
3366e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds	no-vmw-sched-clock
3367e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3368e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds			clock and use the default one.
3369e7aa8c2eSLinus Torvalds
3370e73a8f38SAlexey Makhalov	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3371e0685fa2SSteven Price			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3372e0685fa2SSteven Price			influence scheduler behaviour
3373e52347bdSJani Nikula
3374e52347bdSJani Nikula	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3375e52347bdSJani Nikula
3376e52347bdSJani Nikula	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3377e52347bdSJani Nikula
3378e52347bdSJani Nikula	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3379e52347bdSJani Nikula			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3380e52347bdSJani Nikula
3381e52347bdSJani Nikula	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3382e52347bdSJani Nikula
3383e52347bdSJani Nikula	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3384e52347bdSJani Nikula
3385e52347bdSJani Nikula	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3386e52347bdSJani Nikula			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3387e52347bdSJani Nikula
3388e52347bdSJani Nikula	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3389e52347bdSJani Nikula			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3390e52347bdSJani Nikula			irq.
3391e52347bdSJani Nikula
3392e52347bdSJani Nikula	nomodule	Disable module load
3393e52347bdSJani Nikula
3394e52347bdSJani Nikula	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3395e52347bdSJani Nikula			pagetables) support.
3396e52347bdSJani Nikula
33970790c9aaSAndy Lutomirski	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
33980790c9aaSAndy Lutomirski
3399e52347bdSJani Nikula	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3400e52347bdSJani Nikula			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3401e52347bdSJani Nikula
3402e52347bdSJani Nikula	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3403e52347bdSJani Nikula			with UP alternatives
3404e52347bdSJani Nikula
3405e52347bdSJani Nikula	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3406e52347bdSJani Nikula			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3407e52347bdSJani Nikula			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3408e52347bdSJani Nikula			available to user space applications.
3409e52347bdSJani Nikula
3410e52347bdSJani Nikula	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3411e52347bdSJani Nikula			space.
3412e52347bdSJani Nikula
3413e52347bdSJani Nikula	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3414e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3415e52347bdSJani Nikula			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3416e52347bdSJani Nikula
3417e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3418e52347bdSJani Nikula
3419e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3420e52347bdSJani Nikula
342138853a30SJarkko Sakkinen	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
342238853a30SJarkko Sakkinen
3423e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3424e52347bdSJani Nikula			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3425e52347bdSJani Nikula
3426e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3427e52347bdSJani Nikula
3428e52347bdSJani Nikula	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3429e52347bdSJani Nikula
3430e52347bdSJani Nikula	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3431e52347bdSJani Nikula			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3432e52347bdSJani Nikula
3433e52347bdSJani Nikula	nowb		[ARM]
3434e52347bdSJani Nikula
3435e52347bdSJani Nikula	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3436e52347bdSJani Nikula
3437e52347bdSJani Nikula	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3438e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3439e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3440e52347bdSJani Nikula			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3441e52347bdSJani Nikula			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3442e52347bdSJani Nikula			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3443e52347bdSJani Nikula			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3444e52347bdSJani Nikula			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3445e52347bdSJani Nikula			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3446e52347bdSJani Nikula			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3447e52347bdSJani Nikula			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3448e52347bdSJani Nikula			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3449e52347bdSJani Nikula			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3450e52347bdSJani Nikula
345135b55ef2SNoam Camus	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
345235b55ef2SNoam Camus			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
345335b55ef2SNoam Camus			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
345435b55ef2SNoam Camus			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
345535b55ef2SNoam Camus			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
345635b55ef2SNoam Camus			parameter's value.
345735b55ef2SNoam Camus			Format: integer between 1 and 255
345835b55ef2SNoam Camus			Default: 255
345935b55ef2SNoam Camus
3460e52347bdSJani Nikula	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3461e52347bdSJani Nikula			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3462e52347bdSJani Nikula			SAL PALO.
3463e52347bdSJani Nikula
3464e52347bdSJani Nikula	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3465e52347bdSJani Nikula			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3466e52347bdSJani Nikula			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3467e52347bdSJani Nikula			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3468e52347bdSJani Nikula			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3469e52347bdSJani Nikula			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3470e52347bdSJani Nikula			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3471e52347bdSJani Nikula			hot plugging.
3472e52347bdSJani Nikula
3473e52347bdSJani Nikula	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3474e52347bdSJani Nikula
3475e52347bdSJani Nikula	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3476e52347bdSJani Nikula			Allowed values are enable and disable
3477e52347bdSJani Nikula
3478e52347bdSJani Nikula	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3479c9bff3eeSMichal Hocko			'node', 'default' can be specified
3480e52347bdSJani Nikula			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
348157043247SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3482e52347bdSJani Nikula
3483e52347bdSJani Nikula	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3484a74e2a22SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3485e52347bdSJani Nikula			info.
3486e52347bdSJani Nikula
3487e52347bdSJani Nikula	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3488e52347bdSJani Nikula			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3489e52347bdSJani Nikula			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3490e52347bdSJani Nikula			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3491e52347bdSJani Nikula			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3492e52347bdSJani Nikula			interrupts *may* be lost!
3493e52347bdSJani Nikula
3494e52347bdSJani Nikula	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3495e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3496e52347bdSJani Nikula			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3497e52347bdSJani Nikula			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3498e52347bdSJani Nikula
3499e52347bdSJani Nikula	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3500e52347bdSJani Nikula			process, but there is a small probability of
3501e52347bdSJani Nikula			deadlocking the machine.
3502e52347bdSJani Nikula			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3503e52347bdSJani Nikula			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3504e52347bdSJani Nikula
3505e900a918SDan Williams	page_alloc.shuffle=
3506e900a918SDan Williams			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3507e900a918SDan Williams			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3508e900a918SDan Williams			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3509e900a918SDan Williams			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3510e900a918SDan Williams			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3511e900a918SDan Williams			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3512e900a918SDan Williams			can be read from sysfs at:
3513e900a918SDan Williams			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3514e900a918SDan Williams
3515e52347bdSJani Nikula	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3516e52347bdSJani Nikula			Storage of the information about who allocated
3517e52347bdSJani Nikula			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3518e52347bdSJani Nikula			we can turn it on.
3519e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: enable the feature
3520e52347bdSJani Nikula
3521e52347bdSJani Nikula	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
35228c9a134cSKees Cook			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
35238c9a134cSKees Cook			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
35248c9a134cSKees Cook			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3525e52347bdSJani Nikula			on: turn on poisoning
3526e52347bdSJani Nikula
3527e52347bdSJani Nikula	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3528e52347bdSJani Nikula			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3529e52347bdSJani Nikula			timeout = 0: wait forever
3530e52347bdSJani Nikula			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3531e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <timeout>
3532e52347bdSJani Nikula
3533d999bd93SFeng Tang	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3534d999bd93SFeng Tang			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3535d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 0: print all tasks info
3536d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 1: print system memory info
3537d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 2: print timer info
3538d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3539d999bd93SFeng Tang			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3540de6da1e8SFeng Tang			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3541d999bd93SFeng Tang
3542db38d5c1SRafael Aquini	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3543db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3544db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3545db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3546db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			called with any of the flags in this set.
3547db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3548db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3549db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3550db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3551db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3552db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3553db38d5c1SRafael Aquini			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3554db38d5c1SRafael Aquini
3555e52347bdSJani Nikula	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3556e52347bdSJani Nikula			on a WARN().
3557e52347bdSJani Nikula
3558e52347bdSJani Nikula	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3559e52347bdSJani Nikula			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3560e52347bdSJani Nikula			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3561e52347bdSJani Nikula			succeeds in any situation.
3562e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3563e52347bdSJani Nikula			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3564e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel more unstable.
3565e52347bdSJani Nikula
3566e52347bdSJani Nikula	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3567e52347bdSJani Nikula			connected to, default is 0.
3568e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <parport#>
3569e52347bdSJani Nikula	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3570e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3571e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <mode>
3572e52347bdSJani Nikula
3573e52347bdSJani Nikula	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3574e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3575e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3576e52347bdSJani Nikula			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3577e52347bdSJani Nikula			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3578e52347bdSJani Nikula			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3579e52347bdSJani Nikula			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3580e52347bdSJani Nikula			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3581e52347bdSJani Nikula			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3582e52347bdSJani Nikula			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3583e52347bdSJani Nikula			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3584e52347bdSJani Nikula			are specified on the command line, starting
3585e52347bdSJani Nikula			with parport0.
3586e52347bdSJani Nikula
3587e52347bdSJani Nikula	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3588e52347bdSJani Nikula			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3589e52347bdSJani Nikula			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3590e52347bdSJani Nikula			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3591e52347bdSJani Nikula			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3592e52347bdSJani Nikula			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3593e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3594e52347bdSJani Nikula
3595e52347bdSJani Nikula	pause_on_oops=
3596e52347bdSJani Nikula			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3597e52347bdSJani Nikula			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3598e52347bdSJani Nikula			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3599e52347bdSJani Nikula
3600e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3601e52347bdSJani Nikula
3602e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3603e52347bdSJani Nikula			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3604e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3605e52347bdSJani Nikula
360607d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
360707d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe
360807d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				Some options herein operate on a specific device
360907d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
361007d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				specified in one of the following formats:
361107d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe
361245db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
361307d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
361407d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe
361507d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
361607d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				bus/device/function address which may change
361707d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
361807d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
361907d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				by other kernel parameters. If the
362007d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				domain is left unspecified, it is
362145db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
362245db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				to a device through multiple device/function
362345db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				addresses can be specified after the base
362445db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				address (this is more robust against
362545db3370SLogan Gunthorpe				renumbering issues).  The second format
362607d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				selects devices using IDs from the
362707d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				configuration space which may match multiple
362807d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				devices in the system.
362907d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe
363011eb0e0eSSinan Kaya		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3631e52347bdSJani Nikula				changes anything
3632e52347bdSJani Nikula		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3633e52347bdSJani Nikula		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3634e52347bdSJani Nikula				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3635e52347bdSJani Nikula				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3636e52347bdSJani Nikula		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3637e52347bdSJani Nikula				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3638e52347bdSJani Nikula				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3639e52347bdSJani Nikula				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3640e52347bdSJani Nikula		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3641e52347bdSJani Nikula				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3642e52347bdSJani Nikula				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3643e52347bdSJani Nikula		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3644e52347bdSJani Nikula				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3645e52347bdSJani Nikula				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3646e52347bdSJani Nikula				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3647e52347bdSJani Nikula				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3648e52347bdSJani Nikula				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3649e52347bdSJani Nikula				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3650e52347bdSJani Nikula		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3651e52347bdSJani Nikula				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3652e52347bdSJani Nikula				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3653e52347bdSJani Nikula		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3654e52347bdSJani Nikula				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3655e52347bdSJani Nikula		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3656e52347bdSJani Nikula				Configuration
3657e52347bdSJani Nikula		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3658e52347bdSJani Nikula				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3659e52347bdSJani Nikula				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3660e52347bdSJani Nikula		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3661e52347bdSJani Nikula				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3662e52347bdSJani Nikula				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3663e52347bdSJani Nikula		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3664e52347bdSJani Nikula				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3665e52347bdSJani Nikula				should never be necessary.
3666e52347bdSJani Nikula		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3667e52347bdSJani Nikula				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3668e52347bdSJani Nikula				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3669e52347bdSJani Nikula				when the system masks IRQs.
3670e52347bdSJani Nikula		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3671e52347bdSJani Nikula				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3672e52347bdSJani Nikula				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3673e52347bdSJani Nikula				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3674e52347bdSJani Nikula		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3675e52347bdSJani Nikula				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3676e52347bdSJani Nikula				on several machines and they hang the machine
3677e52347bdSJani Nikula				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3678e52347bdSJani Nikula				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3679e52347bdSJani Nikula				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3680e52347bdSJani Nikula				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3681e52347bdSJani Nikula				motherboard.
3682e52347bdSJani Nikula		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3683e52347bdSJani Nikula				Use with caution as certain devices share
3684e52347bdSJani Nikula				address decoders between ROMs and other
3685e52347bdSJani Nikula				resources.
3686e52347bdSJani Nikula		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3687e52347bdSJani Nikula				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3688e52347bdSJani Nikula				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3689e52347bdSJani Nikula		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3690e52347bdSJani Nikula				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3691e52347bdSJani Nikula		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3692e52347bdSJani Nikula				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3693e52347bdSJani Nikula				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3694e52347bdSJani Nikula				this way.
3695e52347bdSJani Nikula		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3696e52347bdSJani Nikula				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3697e52347bdSJani Nikula				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3698e52347bdSJani Nikula				F0000h-100000h range.
3699e52347bdSJani Nikula		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3700e52347bdSJani Nikula				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3701e52347bdSJani Nikula				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3702e52347bdSJani Nikula				explicitly which ones they are.
3703e52347bdSJani Nikula		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3704e52347bdSJani Nikula				numbers ourselves, overriding
3705e52347bdSJani Nikula				whatever the firmware may have done.
3706e52347bdSJani Nikula		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3707e52347bdSJani Nikula				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3708e52347bdSJani Nikula				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3709e52347bdSJani Nikula				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3710e52347bdSJani Nikula				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3711e52347bdSJani Nikula				IRQ routing is enabled.
3712e52347bdSJani Nikula		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3713e52347bdSJani Nikula				or for PCI scanning.
3714e52347bdSJani Nikula		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3715e52347bdSJani Nikula				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3716e52347bdSJani Nikula				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3717e52347bdSJani Nikula				please report a bug.
3718e52347bdSJani Nikula		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3719e52347bdSJani Nikula				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3720e52347bdSJani Nikula		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3721e52347bdSJani Nikula				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3722e52347bdSJani Nikula				so this option is a temporary workaround
3723e52347bdSJani Nikula				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3724e52347bdSJani Nikula		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3725e52347bdSJani Nikula				handle more pci cards
3726e52347bdSJani Nikula		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3727e52347bdSJani Nikula				This might help on some broken boards which
3728e52347bdSJani Nikula				machine check when some devices' config space
3729e52347bdSJani Nikula				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3730e52347bdSJani Nikula				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3731e52347bdSJani Nikula		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3732e52347bdSJani Nikula				This sorting is done to get a device
3733e52347bdSJani Nikula				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3734e52347bdSJani Nikula		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3735e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3736e52347bdSJani Nikula				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3737e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3738e52347bdSJani Nikula				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3739e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3740e52347bdSJani Nikula				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3741e52347bdSJani Nikula				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3742e52347bdSJani Nikula				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3743e52347bdSJani Nikula				or bus can support) for best performance.
3744e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3745e52347bdSJani Nikula				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3746e52347bdSJani Nikula				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3747e52347bdSJani Nikula				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3748e52347bdSJani Nikula				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3749e52347bdSJani Nikula				that hot-added devices will work.
3750e52347bdSJani Nikula		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3751e52347bdSJani Nikula				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3752e52347bdSJani Nikula				The default value is 256 bytes.
3753e52347bdSJani Nikula		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3754e52347bdSJani Nikula				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3755e52347bdSJani Nikula				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3756e52347bdSJani Nikula		resource_alignment=
3757e52347bdSJani Nikula				Format:
375807d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3759e52347bdSJani Nikula				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
376007d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				aligned memory resources. How to
376107d8d7e5SLogan Gunthorpe				specify the device is described above.
3762e52347bdSJani Nikula				If <order of align> is not specified,
3763e52347bdSJani Nikula				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
37643b1b1ce3SAlexey Kardashevskiy				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3765e52347bdSJani Nikula				windows need to be expanded.
3766e52347bdSJani Nikula				To specify the alignment for several
3767e52347bdSJani Nikula				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3768e52347bdSJani Nikula				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
37693b1b1ce3SAlexey Kardashevskiy				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
37703b1b1ce3SAlexey Kardashevskiy				for 4096-byte alignment.
3771e52347bdSJani Nikula		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3772e52347bdSJani Nikula				end-to-end CRC checking).
3773e52347bdSJani Nikula				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3774e52347bdSJani Nikula				the default.
3775e52347bdSJani Nikula				off: Turn ECRC off
3776e52347bdSJani Nikula				on: Turn ECRC on.
3777e52347bdSJani Nikula		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3778e52347bdSJani Nikula				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3779e52347bdSJani Nikula				Default size is 256 bytes.
3780d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3781d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3782d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3783d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3784d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3785d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3786e52347bdSJani Nikula		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3787d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3788d7b8a217SNicholas Johnson				MMIO_PREF window.
3789e52347bdSJani Nikula				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3790e52347bdSJani Nikula		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3791e52347bdSJani Nikula				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3792e52347bdSJani Nikula				Default is 1.
3793e52347bdSJani Nikula		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3794e52347bdSJani Nikula				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3795e52347bdSJani Nikula				accommodate resources required by all child
3796e52347bdSJani Nikula				devices.
3797e52347bdSJani Nikula				off: Turn realloc off
3798e52347bdSJani Nikula				on: Turn realloc on
3799e52347bdSJani Nikula		realloc		same as realloc=on
3800e52347bdSJani Nikula		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3801cef74409SGil Kupfer		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3802cef74409SGil Kupfer				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3803e52347bdSJani Nikula		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3804e52347bdSJani Nikula				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3805e52347bdSJani Nikula				port.
3806f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3807f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3808f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3809f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3810f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3811f32ab754S=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=				taints the kernel.
3812aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3813aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3814aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3815aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3816aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3817aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3818aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3819aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				this removes isolation between devices and
3820aaca43fdSLogan Gunthorpe				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3821fbfe07d4SSebastian Ott		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
382256271303SSebastian Ott		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3823de267a7cSPierre Morel		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
3824de267a7cSPierre Morel				one PCI domain per PCI function
3825e52347bdSJani Nikula
3826e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3827e52347bdSJani Nikula			Management.
3828e52347bdSJani Nikula		off	Disable ASPM.
3829e52347bdSJani Nikula		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3830e52347bdSJani Nikula			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3831e52347bdSJani Nikula
38324c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
38334c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
38344c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
38354c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
38364c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas			also tries to use these services.
383735a0b237SOlof Johansson		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
383835a0b237SOlof Johansson				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
38394c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
38404c0fd764SBjorn Helgaas			hotplug).
3841e52347bdSJani Nikula
3842e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3843e52347bdSJani Nikula		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3844e52347bdSJani Nikula		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3845e52347bdSJani Nikula
3846e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3847e52347bdSJani Nikula		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3848e52347bdSJani Nikula			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3849e52347bdSJani Nikula
3850e52347bdSJani Nikula	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3851e52347bdSJani Nikula
3852e52347bdSJani Nikula	pd_ignore_unused
3853e52347bdSJani Nikula			[PM]
3854e52347bdSJani Nikula			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3855e52347bdSJani Nikula			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3856e52347bdSJani Nikula			for debug and development, but should not be
3857e52347bdSJani Nikula			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3858e52347bdSJani Nikula
3859e52347bdSJani Nikula	pd.		[PARIDE]
3860e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3861e52347bdSJani Nikula
3862e52347bdSJani Nikula	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3863e52347bdSJani Nikula			boot time.
3864e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3865e52347bdSJani Nikula			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3866e52347bdSJani Nikula
3867e52347bdSJani Nikula	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3868e52347bdSJani Nikula			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3869e52347bdSJani Nikula			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3870e52347bdSJani Nikula			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3871e52347bdSJani Nikula			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3872e52347bdSJani Nikula			and performance comparison.
3873e52347bdSJani Nikula
3874e52347bdSJani Nikula	pf.		[PARIDE]
3875e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3876e52347bdSJani Nikula
3877e52347bdSJani Nikula	pg.		[PARIDE]
3878e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3879e52347bdSJani Nikula
3880e52347bdSJani Nikula	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3881cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3882e52347bdSJani Nikula
3883e52347bdSJani Nikula	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3884e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
38853ba9b1b8STom Saeger			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3886e52347bdSJani Nikula
3887e52347bdSJani Nikula	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3888e52347bdSJani Nikula			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3889e52347bdSJani Nikula			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3890e52347bdSJani Nikula
3891db96a759SChen Yu	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
3892db96a759SChen Yu			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
3893db96a759SChen Yu
3894e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3895e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3896e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3897e52347bdSJani Nikula			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3898e52347bdSJani Nikula			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3899e52347bdSJani Nikula			possible settings and some assignment information.
3900e52347bdSJani Nikula
3901e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3902e52347bdSJani Nikula			{ off }
3903e52347bdSJani Nikula
3904e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3905e52347bdSJani Nikula			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3906e52347bdSJani Nikula
3907e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp_reserve_irq=
3908e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3909e52347bdSJani Nikula
3910e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp_reserve_dma=
3911e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3912e52347bdSJani Nikula
3913e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3914e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3915e52347bdSJani Nikula
3916e52347bdSJani Nikula	pnp_reserve_mem=
3917e52347bdSJani Nikula			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3918e52347bdSJani Nikula			autoconfiguration.
3919e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3920e52347bdSJani Nikula
3921e52347bdSJani Nikula	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3922e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 21.
3923e52347bdSJani Nikula			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3924e52347bdSJani Nikula			may be specified.
3925e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <port>,<port>....
3926e52347bdSJani Nikula
3927c3cbd075SBalbir Singh	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3928c3cbd075SBalbir Singh			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3929c3cbd075SBalbir Singh			platform machine description specific power_save
3930c3cbd075SBalbir Singh			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3931c3cbd075SBalbir Singh			execution priority.
3932c3cbd075SBalbir Singh
3933e52347bdSJani Nikula	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3934e52347bdSJani Nikula			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3935e52347bdSJani Nikula			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3936e52347bdSJani Nikula			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3937e52347bdSJani Nikula			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3938e52347bdSJani Nikula
393907fd1761SCyril Bur	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
394007fd1761SCyril Bur			Format: {"off"}
394107fd1761SCyril Bur			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
394207fd1761SCyril Bur
39436ef869e0SMichal Hocko	preempt=	[KNL]
39446ef869e0SMichal Hocko			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
39456ef869e0SMichal Hocko			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
39466ef869e0SMichal Hocko			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
39476ef869e0SMichal Hocko			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
39486ef869e0SMichal Hocko			       can be preempted anytime.
39496ef869e0SMichal Hocko
3950e52347bdSJani Nikula	print-fatal-signals=
3951e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3952e52347bdSJani Nikula
3953e52347bdSJani Nikula			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3954e52347bdSJani Nikula			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3955e52347bdSJani Nikula			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3956e52347bdSJani Nikula			coredump - etc.
3957e52347bdSJani Nikula
3958e52347bdSJani Nikula			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3959e52347bdSJani Nikula			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3960e52347bdSJani Nikula
3961e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: off.
3962e52347bdSJani Nikula
3963e52347bdSJani Nikula	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3964e52347bdSJani Nikula			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3965e52347bdSJani Nikula			panics
3966e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3967e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: disabled
3968e52347bdSJani Nikula
3969e52347bdSJani Nikula	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3970e52347bdSJani Nikula			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3971e52347bdSJani Nikula			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3972e52347bdSJani Nikula			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3973e52347bdSJani Nikula			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3974e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: ratelimit
3975e52347bdSJani Nikula
3976e52347bdSJani Nikula	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3977e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3978e52347bdSJani Nikula
3979e52347bdSJani Nikula	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3980e52347bdSJani Nikula			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3981e52347bdSJani Nikula			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3982e52347bdSJani Nikula
3983e52347bdSJani Nikula	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3984e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3985e52347bdSJani Nikula			instead using the legacy FADT method
3986e52347bdSJani Nikula
3987e52347bdSJani Nikula	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3988e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3989e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3990e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3991e52347bdSJani Nikula			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3992e52347bdSJani Nikula			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3993e52347bdSJani Nikula				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3994e52347bdSJani Nikula			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3995e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3996e7e61fc0SRandy Dunlap				statistical time based profiling.
3997e52347bdSJani Nikula
39986b99e6e6SRandy Dunlap	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3999e52347bdSJani Nikula
4000ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4001ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4002ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik			that).
4003ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik			Format: <bool>
4004ecdc5d84SVasily Gorbik
4005e0c27447SJohannes Weiner	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4006e0c27447SJohannes Weiner			tracking.
4007e0c27447SJohannes Weiner			Format: <bool>
4008e0c27447SJohannes Weiner
4009e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4010e52347bdSJani Nikula			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4011e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4012e52347bdSJani Nikula			per second.
4013e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4014e52347bdSJani Nikula			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4015e52347bdSJani Nikula			(0 = never).
4016e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.resolution=
4017e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4018e52347bdSJani Nikula	psmouse.smartscroll=
4019e52347bdSJani Nikula			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4020e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4021e52347bdSJani Nikula
4022e52347bdSJani Nikula	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4023e52347bdSJani Nikula
4024e52347bdSJani Nikula	pt.		[PARIDE]
4025e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4026e52347bdSJani Nikula
4027be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
402801c9b17bSDave Hansen			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
402901c9b17bSDave Hansen			removes hardening, but improves performance of
403001c9b17bSDave Hansen			system calls and interrupts.
403101c9b17bSDave Hansen
403201c9b17bSDave Hansen			on   - unconditionally enable
403301c9b17bSDave Hansen			off  - unconditionally disable
403401c9b17bSDave Hansen			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
403501c9b17bSDave Hansen			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
403601c9b17bSDave Hansen
403701c9b17bSDave Hansen			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
403801c9b17bSDave Hansen
4039be3a5b0eSRandy Dunlap	nopti		[X86-64]
404001c9b17bSDave Hansen			Equivalent to pti=off
404141f4c20bSBorislav Petkov
4042e52347bdSJani Nikula	pty.legacy_count=
4043e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4044e52347bdSJani Nikula			default number.
4045e52347bdSJani Nikula
4046e52347bdSJani Nikula	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4047e52347bdSJani Nikula
4048e52347bdSJani Nikula	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4049e52347bdSJani Nikula
4050e52347bdSJani Nikula	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4051e52347bdSJani Nikula			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4052e52347bdSJani Nikula
4053e52347bdSJani Nikula	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4054e7751617SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4055e52347bdSJani Nikula
40566b99e6e6SRandy Dunlap	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
40576b99e6e6SRandy Dunlap
40589b254366SKees Cook	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
40599b254366SKees Cook			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
40609b254366SKees Cook			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
40619b254366SKees Cook			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
40629b254366SKees Cook			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
40639b254366SKees Cook
4064011d8261SBorislav Petkov	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4065011d8261SBorislav Petkov
4066011d8261SBorislav Petkov		cec_disable	[X86]
4067011d8261SBorislav Petkov				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4068011d8261SBorislav Petkov				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4069011d8261SBorislav Petkov
4070e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
4071da8739f2SPaul E. McKenney			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
4072da8739f2SPaul E. McKenney			except that the string "all" can be used to
4073da8739f2SPaul E. McKenney			specify every CPU on the system.
4074e52347bdSJani Nikula
4075e52347bdSJani Nikula			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4076e52347bdSJani Nikula			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
407777095901SPaul E. McKenney			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
407877095901SPaul E. McKenney			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
407977095901SPaul E. McKenney			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
408077095901SPaul E. McKenney			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
408177095901SPaul E. McKenney			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
408277095901SPaul E. McKenney			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
408377095901SPaul E. McKenney			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
408477095901SPaul E. McKenney			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4085e52347bdSJani Nikula
4086e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4087e52347bdSJani Nikula			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4088e52347bdSJani Nikula			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4089e52347bdSJani Nikula			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4090e52347bdSJani Nikula			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4091e52347bdSJani Nikula			This improves the real-time response for the
4092e52347bdSJani Nikula			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4093e52347bdSJani Nikula			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4094e52347bdSJani Nikula			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4095e52347bdSJani Nikula			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4096e52347bdSJani Nikula
4097e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4098e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4099e52347bdSJani Nikula			process in one batch.
4100e52347bdSJani Nikula
4101e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4102e52347bdSJani Nikula			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4103e52347bdSJani Nikula			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4104e52347bdSJani Nikula			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4105e52347bdSJani Nikula
4106e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4107e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
410890040c9eSPaul E. McKenney			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4109e52347bdSJani Nikula
4110e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4111e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
411290040c9eSPaul E. McKenney			RCU grace-period initialization.
4113e52347bdSJani Nikula
4114e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4115e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4116e52347bdSJani Nikula			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4117e52347bdSJani Nikula			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
411890040c9eSPaul E. McKenney			the rcu_node combining tree.
4119e52347bdSJani Nikula
412048d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
412148d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
412248d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
412348d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
412448d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
412548d07c04SSebastian Andrzej Siewior
41268b9a0eccSScott Wood			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
41278b9a0eccSScott Wood			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
41288b9a0eccSScott Wood			to zero.
41298b9a0eccSScott Wood
4130e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4131e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4132e52347bdSJani Nikula			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4133e52347bdSJani Nikula			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4134e52347bdSJani Nikula			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4135e52347bdSJani Nikula
4136e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4137e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4138e52347bdSJani Nikula			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4139e52347bdSJani Nikula			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4140e52347bdSJani Nikula			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4141e52347bdSJani Nikula			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4142e52347bdSJani Nikula			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4143e52347bdSJani Nikula
414453c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
414553c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
414653c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
414753c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
414853c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
414953c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
415053c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)			condition.
415153c72b59SUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
4152e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4153e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4154e52347bdSJani Nikula			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4155e52347bdSJani Nikula			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4156e52347bdSJani Nikula			and maximum value is HZ.
4157e52347bdSJani Nikula
4158e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4159e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4160e52347bdSJani Nikula			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4161e52347bdSJani Nikula			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4162e52347bdSJani Nikula
41631a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
41641a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			Set required age in jiffies for a
41651a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			given grace period before RCU starts
41661a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			soliciting quiescent-state help from
41671a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
41681a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
41691a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			a value based on the most recent settings
41701a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
41711a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
41721a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			This calculated value may be viewed in
41731a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
41741a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
41751a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney			overwritten.
41761a4762b9SPaul E. McKenney
4177e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4178e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4179e52347bdSJani Nikula			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4180e52347bdSJani Nikula			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4181e52347bdSJani Nikula			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4182e52347bdSJani Nikula			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4183e52347bdSJani Nikula			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4184e52347bdSJani Nikula			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4185e52347bdSJani Nikula			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4186e52347bdSJani Nikula			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4187e52347bdSJani Nikula
4188f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4189f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4190f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			each group, which defaults to the square root
4191f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4192f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4193f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4194f7c612b0SPaul E. McKenney			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4195e52347bdSJani Nikula
4196e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4197e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4198e52347bdSJani Nikula			batch limiting is disabled.
4199e52347bdSJani Nikula
4200e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4201e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4202e52347bdSJani Nikula			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4203e52347bdSJani Nikula
4204b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4205b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4206b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4207b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4208b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4209b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4210b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4211b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4212b2b00ddfSPaul E. McKenney
4213e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4214e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4215e52347bdSJani Nikula			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4216e52347bdSJani Nikula
4217e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4218e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4219e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4220e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4221e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4222e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4223e3c50dfbSPaul E. McKenney
42243d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
42253d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
42263d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
42273d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
42283d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			Larger delays increase the probability of
42293d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
42303d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
42313d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
42323d29aaf1SPaul E. McKenney
42332ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
42342ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
42352ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
42362ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney			why a new grace period has not yet started.
42372ccaff10SPaul E. McKenney
42384e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4239881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			Measure performance of asynchronous
4240881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4241881ed593SPaul E. McKenney
42424e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4243881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4244881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4245881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4246881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4247881ed593SPaul E. McKenney			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4248881ed593SPaul E. McKenney
42494e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4250e52347bdSJani Nikula			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4251e52347bdSJani Nikula			grace-period primitives.
4252e52347bdSJani Nikula
42534e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4254e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4255e52347bdSJani Nikula			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4256e52347bdSJani Nikula			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4257e52347bdSJani Nikula			interference.
4258e52347bdSJani Nikula
42594e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4260e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4261e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)
42624e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4263e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4264e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)
42654e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4266e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4267e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)
42684e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
42694e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4270e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)			of allocations and frees.
4271e6e78b00SJoel Fernandes (Google)
42724e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4273e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4274e52347bdSJani Nikula			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4275e52347bdSJani Nikula			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4276e52347bdSJani Nikula			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4277e52347bdSJani Nikula			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4278e52347bdSJani Nikula			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4279e52347bdSJani Nikula			a single reader.
4280e52347bdSJani Nikula
42814e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4282e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
42834e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4284e52347bdSJani Nikula			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4285e52347bdSJani Nikula
42864e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4287820687a7SPaul E. McKenney			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4288820687a7SPaul E. McKenney
42894e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4290e52347bdSJani Nikula			Shut the system down after performance tests
4291e52347bdSJani Nikula			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4292e52347bdSJani Nikula			testing.
4293e52347bdSJani Nikula
42944e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4295e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable additional printk() statements.
4296e52347bdSJani Nikula
42974e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4298820687a7SPaul E. McKenney			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4299820687a7SPaul E. McKenney			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4300820687a7SPaul E. McKenney			no holdoff.
4301820687a7SPaul E. McKenney
4302e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4303e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4304e52347bdSJani Nikula			in microseconds.
4305e52347bdSJani Nikula
4306e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4307e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4308e52347bdSJani Nikula			in microseconds.
4309e52347bdSJani Nikula
4310e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4311e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4312e52347bdSJani Nikula			in seconds.
4313e52347bdSJani Nikula
4314ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4315ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4316ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4317ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney
4318ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4319ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4320ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4321ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney
4322ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4323ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4324ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			forward-progress tests.
4325ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney
4326ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4327ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4328ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4329ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney			testing.
4330ed8f6fb2SPaul E. McKenney
4331e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4332e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4333e52347bdSJani Nikula			primitives, if available.
4334e52347bdSJani Nikula
4335e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4336e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4337e52347bdSJani Nikula
4338e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4339e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4340e52347bdSJani Nikula			update-side primitives, if available.
4341e52347bdSJani Nikula
4342e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4343e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4344e52347bdSJani Nikula			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4345e52347bdSJani Nikula			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4346e52347bdSJani Nikula			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4347e52347bdSJani Nikula			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4348e52347bdSJani Nikula			they are all non-zero.
4349e52347bdSJani Nikula
4350d6855142SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4351d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4352d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4353d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4354d6855142SPaul E. McKenney
4355d6855142SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4356d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4357d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			This can of course result in splats, and is
4358d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			intended to test the ability of things like
4359d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4360d6855142SPaul E. McKenney			such leaks.
4361d6855142SPaul E. McKenney
4362e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4363e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4364e52347bdSJani Nikula
4365e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4366e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4367e52347bdSJani Nikula			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4368e52347bdSJani Nikula			test, hence the "fake".
4369e52347bdSJani Nikula
43702c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
43712c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
43722c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
43732c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney
43742c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
43752c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
43762c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney			callback-offload toggling attempts.
43772c4319bdSPaul E. McKenney
4378e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4379e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4380e52347bdSJani Nikula			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4381e52347bdSJani Nikula			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4382e52347bdSJani Nikula			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4383e52347bdSJani Nikula			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4384e52347bdSJani Nikula
4385e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4386e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4387e52347bdSJani Nikula
4388e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4389e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4390e52347bdSJani Nikula
4391e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4392028be12bSPaul E. McKenney			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4393028be12bSPaul E. McKenney			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4394e52347bdSJani Nikula
43954a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
43964a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
43974a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
43984a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			task-exit processing.
43994a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney
44004a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
44014a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
44024a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
44034a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			is spawned.
44044a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney
44054a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
44064a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			The delay, in seconds, between successive
44074a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney			read-then-exit testing episodes.
44084a5f133cSPaul E. McKenney
4409e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4410e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4411e52347bdSJani Nikula			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4412e52347bdSJani Nikula			during the rcutorture test.
4413e52347bdSJani Nikula
4414e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4415e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4416e52347bdSJani Nikula			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4417e52347bdSJani Nikula
4418e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4419e52347bdSJani Nikula			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4420e52347bdSJani Nikula			warnings, zero to disable.
4421e52347bdSJani Nikula
442219a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
442319a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
442419a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
442519a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney			to any other stall-related activity.
442619a8ff95SPaul E. McKenney
4427e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4428e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4429e52347bdSJani Nikula
44302b1516e5SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
44312b1516e5SPaul E. McKenney			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
44322b1516e5SPaul E. McKenney
443355b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
443455b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
443555b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
443655b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
443755b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
443855b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
443955b2dcf5SPaul E. McKenney
4440e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4441e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4442e52347bdSJani Nikula
4443e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4444e52347bdSJani Nikula			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4445e52347bdSJani Nikula			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4446e52347bdSJani Nikula			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4447e52347bdSJani Nikula			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4448e52347bdSJani Nikula
4449e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4450e52347bdSJani Nikula			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4451e52347bdSJani Nikula			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4452e52347bdSJani Nikula			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4453e52347bdSJani Nikula
4454e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4455e52347bdSJani Nikula			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4456e52347bdSJani Nikula
4457e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4458e52347bdSJani Nikula			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4459e52347bdSJani Nikula
4460e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4461e52347bdSJani Nikula			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4462e52347bdSJani Nikula			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4463e52347bdSJani Nikula
4464e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4465e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4466e52347bdSJani Nikula
4467e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4468e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable additional printk() statements.
4469e52347bdSJani Nikula
4470cdc694b2SPaul E. McKenney	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4471cdc694b2SPaul E. McKenney			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4472cdc694b2SPaul E. McKenney			stall warning.
4473cdc694b2SPaul E. McKenney
4474e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4475e52347bdSJani Nikula			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4476e52347bdSJani Nikula
447758c53360SPaul E. McKenney	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
447858c53360SPaul E. McKenney			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
447958c53360SPaul E. McKenney			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
448058c53360SPaul E. McKenney			during early boot, that is, during the time
448158c53360SPaul E. McKenney			before the init task is spawned.
448258c53360SPaul E. McKenney
4483e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4484e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4485e52347bdSJani Nikula
4486e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4487e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4488e52347bdSJani Nikula			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4489e52347bdSJani Nikula			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4490e52347bdSJani Nikula			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4491e52347bdSJani Nikula			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4492e52347bdSJani Nikula			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4493e52347bdSJani Nikula
4494e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4495e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4496e52347bdSJani Nikula			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4497e52347bdSJani Nikula			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4498e52347bdSJani Nikula			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4499e52347bdSJani Nikula			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4500e52347bdSJani Nikula			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4501e52347bdSJani Nikula			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4502e52347bdSJani Nikula			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4503e52347bdSJani Nikula
4504e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4505e52347bdSJani Nikula			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4506e52347bdSJani Nikula			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4507e52347bdSJani Nikula			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4508e52347bdSJani Nikula			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4509e52347bdSJani Nikula
451036221e10SJulia Cartwright			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
451136221e10SJulia Cartwright			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
451236221e10SJulia Cartwright			it to the value one, that is, converting any
451336221e10SJulia Cartwright			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
451436221e10SJulia Cartwright			period to instead use normal non-expedited
451536221e10SJulia Cartwright			grace-period processing.
451636221e10SJulia Cartwright
4517b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4518b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4519b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4520b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4521b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4522b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney			but lengthens grace periods.
4523b0afa0f0SPaul E. McKenney
4524e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4525e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4526e52347bdSJani Nikula			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4527e52347bdSJani Nikula			to zero.
4528e52347bdSJani Nikula
4529e52347bdSJani Nikula	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4530e52347bdSJani Nikula			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4531e52347bdSJani Nikula
4532e52347bdSJani Nikula	rdinit=		[KNL]
4533e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <full_path>
4534e52347bdSJani Nikula			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4535e52347bdSJani Nikula			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4536e52347bdSJani Nikula
4537c49a0a80STom Lendacky	rdrand=		[X86]
4538c49a0a80STom Lendacky			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4539c49a0a80STom Lendacky				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4540c49a0a80STom Lendacky				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4541c49a0a80STom Lendacky				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4542c49a0a80STom Lendacky				path).
4543c49a0a80STom Lendacky
45441d9807fcSTony Luck	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
45451d9807fcSTony Luck			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
454631516de3SFenghua Yu			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
454731516de3SFenghua Yu			mba.
45481d9807fcSTony Luck			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
45491d9807fcSTony Luck				rdt=cmt,!mba
45501d9807fcSTony Luck
4551e52347bdSJani Nikula	reboot=		[KNL]
4552e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4553e52347bdSJani Nikula				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4554e52347bdSJani Nikula				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4555e52347bdSJani Nikula				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4556e52347bdSJani Nikula				[[,]f[orce]
4557b287a25aSAaro Koskinen			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4558b287a25aSAaro Koskinen					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4559b287a25aSAaro Koskinen					reboot only),
4560e52347bdSJani Nikula			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4561e52347bdSJani Nikula			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4562e52347bdSJani Nikula			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4563e52347bdSJani Nikula					to be used for rebooting.
4564e52347bdSJani Nikula
45651fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4566847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4567847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4568847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4569847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			interference.
4570847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
45711fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.loops= [KNL]
4572847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4573847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
4574847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4575847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4576847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4577847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			x86 laptops.
4578847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
45791fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4580847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
4581847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4582847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4583847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
45841fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4585847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4586847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			the console log.
4587847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
45881fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4589847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4590847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			measured in microseconds.
4591847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
45921fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
45931fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
45941fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney
45951fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4596847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4597847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
45984e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
45994e88ec4aSPaul E. McKenney			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4600847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
46011fbeb3a8SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4602847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney			Enable additional printk() statements.
4603847dd70aSPaul E. McKenney
4604e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4605e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
4606e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
4607e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4608e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney			specified.
4609e76506f0SPaul E. McKenney
4610e52347bdSJani Nikula	relax_domain_level=
4611e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4612da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4613e52347bdSJani Nikula
4614ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4615ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4616ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4617ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4618ffd2e8dfSBjorn Helgaas			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4619e52347bdSJani Nikula
4620e52347bdSJani Nikula	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4621e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: nn[KMG]
4622e52347bdSJani Nikula			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4623e52347bdSJani Nikula			address space.
4624e52347bdSJani Nikula
4625e52347bdSJani Nikula	reservelow=	[X86]
4626e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: nn[K]
4627e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4628e52347bdSJani Nikula			the bottom of the address space.
4629e52347bdSJani Nikula
4630e52347bdSJani Nikula	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4631e52347bdSJani Nikula			during initialization.
4632e52347bdSJani Nikula
4633e52347bdSJani Nikula	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4634e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4635e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
4636e52347bdSJani Nikula			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4637e52347bdSJani Nikula
4638e52347bdSJani Nikula	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4639e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4640e52347bdSJani Nikula			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4641e52347bdSJani Nikula			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4642151f4e2bSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4643e52347bdSJani Nikula
4644e52347bdSJani Nikula	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4645e52347bdSJani Nikula			read the resume files
4646e52347bdSJani Nikula
4647e52347bdSJani Nikula	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4648e52347bdSJani Nikula			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4649e52347bdSJani Nikula			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4650e52347bdSJani Nikula
4651e52347bdSJani Nikula	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4652e52347bdSJani Nikula		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4653e52347bdSJani Nikula				present during boot.
4654e52347bdSJani Nikula		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4655e52347bdSJani Nikula		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4656e52347bdSJani Nikula		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4657e52347bdSJani Nikula				(that will set all pages holding image data
4658e52347bdSJani Nikula				during restoration read-only).
4659e52347bdSJani Nikula
4660e52347bdSJani Nikula	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4661e52347bdSJani Nikula
4662e52347bdSJani Nikula	rfkill.default_state=
4663e52347bdSJani Nikula		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4664e52347bdSJani Nikula			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4665e52347bdSJani Nikula		1	Unblocked.
4666e52347bdSJani Nikula
4667e52347bdSJani Nikula	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4668e52347bdSJani Nikula		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4669e52347bdSJani Nikula		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4670e52347bdSJani Nikula			blocked and the previous configuration.
4671e52347bdSJani Nikula		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4672e52347bdSJani Nikula			blocked and everything unblocked.
4673e52347bdSJani Nikula
4674e52347bdSJani Nikula	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4675e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4676e52347bdSJani Nikula
4677e16fd002SGrzegorz Andrejczuk	ring3mwait=disable
4678e16fd002SGrzegorz Andrejczuk			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4679e16fd002SGrzegorz Andrejczuk			CPUs.
4680e16fd002SGrzegorz Andrejczuk
4681e52347bdSJani Nikula	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4682e52347bdSJani Nikula
4683e52347bdSJani Nikula	rodata=		[KNL]
4684e52347bdSJani Nikula		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4685e52347bdSJani Nikula		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4686e52347bdSJani Nikula
4687e52347bdSJani Nikula	rockchip.usb_uart
4688e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4689e52347bdSJani Nikula			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4690e52347bdSJani Nikula			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4691e52347bdSJani Nikula			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4692e52347bdSJani Nikula
4693e52347bdSJani Nikula	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4694e52347bdSJani Nikula			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4695e52347bdSJani Nikula
4696e52347bdSJani Nikula	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4697e52347bdSJani Nikula			mount the root filesystem
4698e52347bdSJani Nikula
4699e52347bdSJani Nikula	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4700e52347bdSJani Nikula
4701e52347bdSJani Nikula	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4702e52347bdSJani Nikula
4703e52347bdSJani Nikula	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4704e52347bdSJani Nikula			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4705e52347bdSJani Nikula			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4706e52347bdSJani Nikula
4707e52347bdSJani Nikula	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4708e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4709e52347bdSJani Nikula			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4710e52347bdSJani Nikula			managed by CMA.
4711e52347bdSJani Nikula
4712e52347bdSJani Nikula	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4713e52347bdSJani Nikula
4714e52347bdSJani Nikula	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4715e52347bdSJani Nikula
4716e52347bdSJani Nikula	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4717e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4718e52347bdSJani Nikula		strict
4719e52347bdSJani Nikula			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4720e52347bdSJani Nikula			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4721e52347bdSJani Nikula			which is faster.
4722e52347bdSJani Nikula
4723e52347bdSJani Nikula	sa1100ir	[NET]
4724e52347bdSJani Nikula			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4725e52347bdSJani Nikula
4726e52347bdSJani Nikula	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4727e52347bdSJani Nikula
4728e52347bdSJani Nikula	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4729e52347bdSJani Nikula
4730e52347bdSJani Nikula	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4731e52347bdSJani Nikula			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4732e52347bdSJani Nikula			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4733e52347bdSJani Nikula			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4734e52347bdSJani Nikula
473505289b90SThara Gopinath	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
473605289b90SThara Gopinath			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
473705289b90SThara Gopinath			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
473805289b90SThara Gopinath			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
473905289b90SThara Gopinath			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
474005289b90SThara Gopinath			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
474105289b90SThara Gopinath			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
474205289b90SThara Gopinath			value.
474305289b90SThara Gopinath			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
474405289b90SThara Gopinath			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
474505289b90SThara Gopinath				1			64 ms
474605289b90SThara Gopinath				2			128 ms
474705289b90SThara Gopinath			and so on.
474805289b90SThara Gopinath			Format: integer between 0 and 10
474905289b90SThara Gopinath			Default is 0.
475005289b90SThara Gopinath
4751e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
4752e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
4753e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
4754e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
4755e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			tests.
4756e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4757e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
4758e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
4759e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
4760e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			default) disables this feature.  Please note
4761e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
4762e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
4763e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			softlockup complaints, and so on.
4764e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4765e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
4766e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
4767e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function() family of functions.
4768e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
4769e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			equal to the number of CPUs.
4770e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4771e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4772e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
4773e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
4774e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4775e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4776e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Number seconds to wait between successive
4777e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
4778e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
4779e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4780e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4781e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The number of seconds following the start of the
4782e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			test after which to shut down the system.  The
4783e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
4784e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
4785e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4786e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4787e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The number of seconds between outputting the
4788e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			current test statistics to the console.  A value
4789e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			of zero disables statistics output.
4790e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4791e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
4792e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
4793e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			to the set of CPUs under test.
4794e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4795e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
4796e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
4797e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
4798e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
4799e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			functions.
4800e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4801e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
4802e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Enable additional printk() statements.
4803e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4804e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
4805e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
4806e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
4807e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
4808e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
4809e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			if at least one weight has some other value, a
4810e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
4811e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4812e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
4813e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
4814e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_single() function with a
4815e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4816e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4817e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
4818e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
4819e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
4820e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4821e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			Note well that setting a high probability for
4822e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			this weighting can place serious IPI load
4823e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			on the system.
4824e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4825e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
4826e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
4827e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_many() function with a
4828e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4829e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			and weight_many.
4830e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4831e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
4832e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
4833e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
4834e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
4835e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			weight_many.
4836e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4837e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
4838e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			The probability weighting to use for the
4839e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			smp_call_function_all() function with a
4840e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4841e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney			and weight_many.
4842e9d338a0SPaul E. McKenney
4843e52347bdSJani Nikula	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4844e52347bdSJani Nikula			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4845e52347bdSJani Nikula			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4846e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4847e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4848e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- enable.
4849e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4850e52347bdSJani Nikula			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4851e52347bdSJani Nikula
485289a9684eSKees Cook	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
485389a9684eSKees Cook			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
485489a9684eSKees Cook			"lsm=" parameter.
4855e52347bdSJani Nikula
4856e52347bdSJani Nikula	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4857e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4858e52347bdSJani Nikula			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4859e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- disable.
4860e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- enable.
4861d41415ebSStephen Smalley			Default value is 1.
4862e52347bdSJani Nikula
4863e52347bdSJani Nikula	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4864e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4865e52347bdSJani Nikula			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4866e52347bdSJani Nikula			0 -- disable.
4867e52347bdSJani Nikula			1 -- enable.
4868e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4869e52347bdSJani Nikula
4870e52347bdSJani Nikula	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4871e52347bdSJani Nikula
4872e52347bdSJani Nikula	shapers=	[NET]
4873e52347bdSJani Nikula			Maximal number of shapers.
4874e52347bdSJani Nikula
4875e52347bdSJani Nikula	simeth=		[IA-64]
4876e52347bdSJani Nikula	simscsi=
4877e52347bdSJani Nikula
4878e52347bdSJani Nikula	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4879e52347bdSJani Nikula
4880e52347bdSJani Nikula	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4881e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4882e52347bdSJani Nikula			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
48837660a6fdSKees Cook			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
48847660a6fdSKees Cook			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
48857660a6fdSKees Cook			layout control by attackers can usually be
48867660a6fdSKees Cook			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
48877660a6fdSKees Cook			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
48887660a6fdSKees Cook			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
48897660a6fdSKees Cook			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
48907660a6fdSKees Cook			own.
4891ad56b738SMike Rapoport			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4892e52347bdSJani Nikula
4893e52347bdSJani Nikula	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4894e52347bdSJani Nikula			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4895e52347bdSJani Nikula			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4896e52347bdSJani Nikula			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4897e52347bdSJani Nikula			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4898e52347bdSJani Nikula
4899e17f1dfbSVlastimil Babka	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
4900e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4901e52347bdSJani Nikula			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4902e52347bdSJani Nikula			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4903e52347bdSJani Nikula			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4904e52347bdSJani Nikula			last alloc / free. For more information see
4905ad56b738SMike Rapoport			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4906e52347bdSJani Nikula
4907e52347bdSJani Nikula	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4908e52347bdSJani Nikula			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4909e52347bdSJani Nikula			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4910e52347bdSJani Nikula			fragmentation. For more information see
4911ad56b738SMike Rapoport			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4912e52347bdSJani Nikula
4913e52347bdSJani Nikula	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4914e52347bdSJani Nikula			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4915e52347bdSJani Nikula			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4916e52347bdSJani Nikula			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4917e52347bdSJani Nikula			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4918e52347bdSJani Nikula			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4919e52347bdSJani Nikula			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4920ad56b738SMike Rapoport			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4921e52347bdSJani Nikula
4922e52347bdSJani Nikula	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4923e52347bdSJani Nikula			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4924e52347bdSJani Nikula			lower than slub_max_order.
4925ad56b738SMike Rapoport			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4926e52347bdSJani Nikula
4927e52347bdSJani Nikula	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4928e52347bdSJani Nikula			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4929e52347bdSJani Nikula			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4930e52347bdSJani Nikula
4931e52347bdSJani Nikula	smart2=		[HW]
4932e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4933e52347bdSJani Nikula
4934e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4935e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4936e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4937e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4938e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4939e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4940e52347bdSJani Nikula	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4941e52347bdSJani Nikula				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4942e52347bdSJani Nikula				1: Fast pin select (default)
4943e52347bdSJani Nikula				2: ATC IRMode
4944e52347bdSJani Nikula
4945e52347bdSJani Nikula	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4946e52347bdSJani Nikula			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4947e52347bdSJani Nikula			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4948e52347bdSJani Nikula			actual hardware limit.
4949e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <integer>
4950e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: -1 (no limit)
4951e52347bdSJani Nikula
4952e52347bdSJani Nikula	softlockup_panic=
4953e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4954f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			Format: 0 | 1
4955e52347bdSJani Nikula
4956f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
49570a07bef6SGuilherme G. Piccoli			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
49580a07bef6SGuilherme G. Piccoli			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
49590a07bef6SGuilherme G. Piccoli			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
49600a07bef6SGuilherme G. Piccoli			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
49613ce62385SBorislav Petkov
4962e52347bdSJani Nikula	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4963e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4964e52347bdSJani Nikula			backtraces on all cpus.
4965f117955aSGuilherme G. Piccoli			Format: 0 | 1
4966e52347bdSJani Nikula
4967e52347bdSJani Nikula	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
49689e1cbedeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4969e52347bdSJani Nikula
4970da285121SDavid Woodhouse	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4971da285121SDavid Woodhouse			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4972fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			The default operation protects the kernel from
4973fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			user space attacks.
4974da285121SDavid Woodhouse
4975fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4976fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			       spectre_v2_user=on
4977fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4978fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			       spectre_v2_user=off
4979da285121SDavid Woodhouse			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4980da285121SDavid Woodhouse			       vulnerable
4981da285121SDavid Woodhouse
4982da285121SDavid Woodhouse			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4983da285121SDavid Woodhouse			mitigation method at run time according to the
4984da285121SDavid Woodhouse			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4985da285121SDavid Woodhouse			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4986da285121SDavid Woodhouse			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4987da285121SDavid Woodhouse
4988fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4989fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			against user space to user space task attacks.
4990fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
4991fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4992fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			the user space protections.
4993fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
4994da285121SDavid Woodhouse			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4995da285121SDavid Woodhouse
4996da285121SDavid Woodhouse			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4997da285121SDavid Woodhouse			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4998da285121SDavid Woodhouse			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4999da285121SDavid Woodhouse
5000da285121SDavid Woodhouse			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5001da285121SDavid Woodhouse			spectre_v2=auto.
5002da285121SDavid Woodhouse
5003fa1202efSThomas Gleixner	spectre_v2_user=
5004fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5005fa1202efSThomas Gleixner		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5006fa1202efSThomas Gleixner		        user space tasks
5007fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
5008fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5009fa1202efSThomas Gleixner				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5010fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
5011fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5012fa1202efSThomas Gleixner				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5013fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
50147cc765a6SThomas Gleixner			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
50157cc765a6SThomas Gleixner				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
50167cc765a6SThomas Gleixner				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
50177cc765a6SThomas Gleixner				  is inherited on fork.
50187cc765a6SThomas Gleixner
501955a97402SThomas Gleixner			prctl,ibpb
502055a97402SThomas Gleixner				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
502155a97402SThomas Gleixner				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
502255a97402SThomas Gleixner				  always when switching between different user
502355a97402SThomas Gleixner				  space processes.
502455a97402SThomas Gleixner
50256b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner			seccomp
50266b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
50276b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
50286b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner				  they explicitly opt out.
50296b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner
503055a97402SThomas Gleixner			seccomp,ibpb
503155a97402SThomas Gleixner				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
503255a97402SThomas Gleixner				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
503355a97402SThomas Gleixner				  always when switching between different
503455a97402SThomas Gleixner				  user space processes.
503555a97402SThomas Gleixner
5036fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5037fa1202efSThomas Gleixner				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
50386b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner
50396b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner			Default mitigation:
50406b3e64c2SThomas Gleixner			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5041fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
5042fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5043fa1202efSThomas Gleixner			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5044fa1202efSThomas Gleixner
504524f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk	spec_store_bypass_disable=
504624f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
504724f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
504824f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
504924f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
505024f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			a common industry wide performance optimization known
505124f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
505224f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			to the same memory location may not be observed by
505324f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
505424f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
505524f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
505624f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			end of a particular speculation execution window.
505724f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
505824f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
505924f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
506024f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
506124f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
506224f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
506324f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
506424f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			Bypass optimization is used.
506524f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
50666b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			On x86 the options are:
50676b4c1360SMichael Ellerman
506824f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
506924f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
507024f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
507124f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5072f21b53b2SKees Cook				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5073f21b53b2SKees Cook				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5074f21b53b2SKees Cook				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5075f21b53b2SKees Cook				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5076a73ec77eSThomas Gleixner			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5077a73ec77eSThomas Gleixner				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5078a73ec77eSThomas Gleixner				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5079a73ec77eSThomas Gleixner				  is inherited on fork.
5080f21b53b2SKees Cook			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5081f21b53b2SKees Cook				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
508224f7fc83SKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
5083f21b53b2SKees Cook			Default mitigations:
5084f21b53b2SKees Cook			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5085f21b53b2SKees Cook
50866b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			On powerpc the options are:
50876b4c1360SMichael Ellerman
50886b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
50896b4c1360SMichael Ellerman				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
50906b4c1360SMichael Ellerman				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
50916b4c1360SMichael Ellerman				  exit.
50926b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			off	- No action.
50936b4c1360SMichael Ellerman
50946b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
50956b4c1360SMichael Ellerman			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
50966b4c1360SMichael Ellerman
5097e52347bdSJani Nikula	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5098e52347bdSJani Nikula	spia_fio_base=
5099e52347bdSJani Nikula	spia_pedr=
5100e52347bdSJani Nikula	spia_peddr=
5101e52347bdSJani Nikula
51026650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)	split_lock_detect=
51036650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			[X86] Enable split lock detection
51046650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
51056650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
51066650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			instructions that access data across cache line
51076650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception.
51086650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
51096650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			off	- not enabled
51106650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
51116650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			warn	- the kernel will emit rate limited warnings
51126650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)				  about applications triggering the #AC
51136650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)				  exception. This mode is the default on CPUs
51146650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)				  that supports split lock detection.
51156650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
51166650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
51176650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)				  that trigger the #AC exception.
51186650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
51196650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
51206650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
51216650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
51226650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)			mode.
51236650cdd9SPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
51247e5b3c26SMark Gross	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
51257e5b3c26SMark Gross			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
51267e5b3c26SMark Gross			(SRBDS) mitigation.
51277e5b3c26SMark Gross
51287e5b3c26SMark Gross			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
51297e5b3c26SMark Gross			exploit which can leak bits from the random
51307e5b3c26SMark Gross			number generator.
51317e5b3c26SMark Gross
51327e5b3c26SMark Gross			By default, this issue is mitigated by
51337e5b3c26SMark Gross			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
51347e5b3c26SMark Gross			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
51357e5b3c26SMark Gross			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
51367e5b3c26SMark Gross			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
51377e5b3c26SMark Gross
51387e5b3c26SMark Gross			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
51397e5b3c26SMark Gross			the following option:
51407e5b3c26SMark Gross
51417e5b3c26SMark Gross			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
51427e5b3c26SMark Gross				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
51437e5b3c26SMark Gross
5144c350c008SPaul E. McKenney	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5145c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			Specifies how frequently to check for
5146c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5147c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5148c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5149c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5150c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5151c350c008SPaul E. McKenney			are ignored.
5152c350c008SPaul E. McKenney
515322607d66SPaul E. McKenney	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
515422607d66SPaul E. McKenney			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
515522607d66SPaul E. McKenney			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
515622607d66SPaul E. McKenney			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
515722607d66SPaul E. McKenney			grace period will be considered for automatic
515822607d66SPaul E. McKenney			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
515922607d66SPaul E. McKenney			expediting.
516022607d66SPaul E. McKenney
5161a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5162a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5163a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier
5164a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5165a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5166a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5167a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5168a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier
5169a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5170a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   for both kernel and userspace
5171a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5172a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   for both kernel and userspace
5173a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5174a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5175a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   to allow userspace to register its
5176a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier				   interest in being mitigated too.
5177a43ae4dfSMarc Zyngier
51781be7107fSHugh Dickins	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
51791be7107fSHugh Dickins			override the default stack gap protection. The value
51801be7107fSHugh Dickins			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
51811be7107fSHugh Dickins			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
51821be7107fSHugh Dickins			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
51831be7107fSHugh Dickins			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
51841be7107fSHugh Dickins
5185e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5186e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5187e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5188e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5189e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta			to false.
5190e1fdc403SVijayanand Jitta
5191e52347bdSJani Nikula	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5192e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5193e52347bdSJani Nikula
5194e52347bdSJani Nikula	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5195e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
519625942e5eSRandy Dunlap			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5197e52347bdSJani Nikula			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5198e52347bdSJani Nikula			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5199e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5200e52347bdSJani Nikula			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5201e52347bdSJani Nikula
5202e52347bdSJani Nikula	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5203e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <num>
5204e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5205e52347bdSJani Nikula			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5206e52347bdSJani Nikula			as the initial boot-console.
5207e52347bdSJani Nikula			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5208e52347bdSJani Nikula
5209e52347bdSJani Nikula	sti_font=	[HW]
5210e52347bdSJani Nikula			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5211e52347bdSJani Nikula
5212e52347bdSJani Nikula	stifb=		[HW]
5213e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5214e52347bdSJani Nikula
5215e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5216e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5217e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5218e52347bdSJani Nikula			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5219e52347bdSJani Nikula			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5220e52347bdSJani Nikula			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5221e52347bdSJani Nikula			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5222e52347bdSJani Nikula			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5223e52347bdSJani Nikula			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5224e52347bdSJani Nikula			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5225e52347bdSJani Nikula			maximum port values.
5226e52347bdSJani Nikula
5227e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5228e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5229e52347bdSJani Nikula			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5230e52347bdSJani Nikula			process in parallel from a single connection.
5231e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5232e52347bdSJani Nikula
5233e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5234e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS]
5235e52347bdSJani Nikula			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5236e52347bdSJani Nikula			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5237e52347bdSJani Nikula			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5238e52347bdSJani Nikula			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5239e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5240e52347bdSJani Nikula			NFS server is running.
5241e52347bdSJani Nikula
5242e52347bdSJani Nikula			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5243e52347bdSJani Nikula				    automatically using heuristics
5244e52347bdSJani Nikula			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5245e52347bdSJani Nikula			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5246e52347bdSJani Nikula			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5247e52347bdSJani Nikula				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5248e52347bdSJani Nikula
5249e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5250e52347bdSJani Nikula	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5251e52347bdSJani Nikula			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5252e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5253e52347bdSJani Nikula			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5254e52347bdSJani Nikula			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5255e52347bdSJani Nikula			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5256e52347bdSJani Nikula			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5257e52347bdSJani Nikula
5258e52347bdSJani Nikula	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5259e52347bdSJani Nikula			[SUSPEND]
5260e52347bdSJani Nikula			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5261e52347bdSJani Nikula			mode before resuming the system (see
5262e52347bdSJani Nikula			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5263e52347bdSJani Nikula			is set. Default value is 5.
5264e52347bdSJani Nikula
52656a9c930bSRam Pai	svm=		[PPC]
52666a9c930bSRam Pai			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
52676a9c930bSRam Pai			This parameter controls use of the Protected
52686a9c930bSRam Pai			Execution Facility on pSeries.
52696a9c930bSRam Pai
5270e52347bdSJani Nikula	swapaccount=[0|1]
5271e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5272e52347bdSJani Nikula			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5273da82c92fSMauro Carvalho Chehab			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5274e52347bdSJani Nikula
5275e52347bdSJani Nikula	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5276fff5d992SGeert Uytterhoeven			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5277e52347bdSJani Nikula			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5278e52347bdSJani Nikula			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5279e52347bdSJani Nikula			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5280fff5d992SGeert Uytterhoeven			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5281e52347bdSJani Nikula
5282e52347bdSJani Nikula	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5283e52347bdSJani Nikula
52843db978d4SVlastimil Babka	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
52853db978d4SVlastimil Babka			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
52863db978d4SVlastimil Babka			process, as if the value was written to the respective
52873db978d4SVlastimil Babka			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
52883db978d4SVlastimil Babka			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
52893db978d4SVlastimil Babka			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
52903db978d4SVlastimil Babka			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
52913db978d4SVlastimil Babka			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
52923db978d4SVlastimil Babka
5293e52347bdSJani Nikula	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5294e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5295e52347bdSJani Nikula			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5296e52347bdSJani Nikula			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5297e52347bdSJani Nikula			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5298e52347bdSJani Nikula			in older udev will not work anymore.
5299e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5300e52347bdSJani Nikula			the kernel configuration.
5301e52347bdSJani Nikula
5302e52347bdSJani Nikula	sysrq_always_enabled
5303e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL]
5304e52347bdSJani Nikula			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5305e52347bdSJani Nikula			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5306e52347bdSJani Nikula			Useful for debugging.
5307e52347bdSJani Nikula
5308e52347bdSJani Nikula	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5309e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5310e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5311e52347bdSJani Nikula			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
53121cec2cacSMauro Carvalho Chehab			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5313e52347bdSJani Nikula			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5314e52347bdSJani Nikula
5315e52347bdSJani Nikula	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5316e52347bdSJani Nikula
5317e52347bdSJani Nikula	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5318e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5319e52347bdSJani Nikula			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5320e52347bdSJani Nikula			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5321e52347bdSJani Nikula			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5322e52347bdSJani Nikula			The system is woken from this state using a
5323e52347bdSJani Nikula			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5324e52347bdSJani Nikula
5325e52347bdSJani Nikula	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5326e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5327e52347bdSJani Nikula
5328e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5329e52347bdSJani Nikula			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5330e52347bdSJani Nikula			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5331e52347bdSJani Nikula
5332e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5333e52347bdSJani Nikula			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5334e52347bdSJani Nikula			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5335e52347bdSJani Nikula
5336e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5337e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5338e52347bdSJani Nikula			critical and hot trip points.
5339e52347bdSJani Nikula
5340e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5341e52347bdSJani Nikula			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5342e52347bdSJani Nikula
5343e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5344e52347bdSJani Nikula			-1: disable all passive trip points
5345e52347bdSJani Nikula			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5346e52347bdSJani Nikula			value
5347e52347bdSJani Nikula
5348e52347bdSJani Nikula	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5349e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5350e52347bdSJani Nikula			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5351e52347bdSJani Nikula			0: no polling (default)
5352e52347bdSJani Nikula
5353e52347bdSJani Nikula	threadirqs	[KNL]
5354e52347bdSJani Nikula			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5355e52347bdSJani Nikula			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5356e52347bdSJani Nikula
5357e52347bdSJani Nikula	topology=	[S390]
5358e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {off | on}
5359e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5360e52347bdSJani Nikula			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5361e52347bdSJani Nikula			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5362e52347bdSJani Nikula			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5363e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is on.
5364e52347bdSJani Nikula
5365e52347bdSJani Nikula	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5366e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: {off}
5367e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5368e52347bdSJani Nikula			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5369e52347bdSJani Nikula			LPAR.
5370e52347bdSJani Nikula
53718171d3e0SPaul E. McKenney	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
53728171d3e0SPaul E. McKenney			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
53738171d3e0SPaul E. McKenney			until after init has spawned.
53748171d3e0SPaul E. McKenney
53752102ad29SPaul E. McKenney	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
53762102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
53772102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
53782102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			very costly operation when many torture tests
53792102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			are running concurrently, especially on systems
53802102ad29SPaul E. McKenney			with rotating-rust storage.
53812102ad29SPaul E. McKenney
53828a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
53838a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
53848a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
53858a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
53868a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney
53878a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
53888a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
53898a67a20bSPaul E. McKenney
5390e52347bdSJani Nikula	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5391e52347bdSJani Nikula
5392e52347bdSJani Nikula	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5393e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: integer pcr id
5394e52347bdSJani Nikula			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5395e52347bdSJani Nikula			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5396e52347bdSJani Nikula			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5397e52347bdSJani Nikula			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5398e52347bdSJani Nikula			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5399e52347bdSJani Nikula			are saved.
5400e52347bdSJani Nikula
5401e52347bdSJani Nikula	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5402e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5403e52347bdSJani Nikula
5404e52347bdSJani Nikula	trace_event=[event-list]
5405e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5406e52347bdSJani Nikula			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
540725942e5eSRandy Dunlap			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
54085fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5409e52347bdSJani Nikula
5410e52347bdSJani Nikula	trace_options=[option-list]
5411e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5412e52347bdSJani Nikula			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5413e52347bdSJani Nikula			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5414e52347bdSJani Nikula			to echo the option name into
5415e52347bdSJani Nikula
5416e52347bdSJani Nikula			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5417e52347bdSJani Nikula
5418e52347bdSJani Nikula			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5419e52347bdSJani Nikula			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5420e52347bdSJani Nikula
5421e52347bdSJani Nikula			      trace_options=stacktrace
5422e52347bdSJani Nikula
54235fb94e9cSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5424e52347bdSJani Nikula			section.
5425e52347bdSJani Nikula
5426e52347bdSJani Nikula	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5427e52347bdSJani Nikula			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5428e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5429e52347bdSJani Nikula			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5430e52347bdSJani Nikula			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5431e52347bdSJani Nikula			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5432e52347bdSJani Nikula
5433e52347bdSJani Nikula			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5434e52347bdSJani Nikula			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5435e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5436e52347bdSJani Nikula			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5437e52347bdSJani Nikula
5438e52347bdSJani Nikula			** CAUTION **
5439e52347bdSJani Nikula
5440e52347bdSJani Nikula			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5441e52347bdSJani Nikula			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5442e52347bdSJani Nikula			the system to live lock.
5443e52347bdSJani Nikula
5444e52347bdSJani Nikula	traceoff_on_warning
5445e52347bdSJani Nikula			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5446e52347bdSJani Nikula			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5447e52347bdSJani Nikula			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5448e52347bdSJani Nikula			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5449e52347bdSJani Nikula
5450e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5451e52347bdSJani Nikula			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5452e52347bdSJani Nikula			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5453e52347bdSJani Nikula
5454e52347bdSJani Nikula			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5455e52347bdSJani Nikula			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5456e52347bdSJani Nikula
5457e52347bdSJani Nikula	transparent_hugepage=
5458e52347bdSJani Nikula			[KNL]
5459e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5460e52347bdSJani Nikula			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5461e52347bdSJani Nikula			with respect to transparent hugepages.
546245c9a74fSMike Rapoport			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
546345c9a74fSMike Rapoport			for more details.
5464e52347bdSJani Nikula
5465e52347bdSJani Nikula	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5466e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <string>
5467e52347bdSJani Nikula			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5468e52347bdSJani Nikula			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5469e52347bdSJani Nikula			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5470e52347bdSJani Nikula			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5471e52347bdSJani Nikula			virtualized environment.
5472e52347bdSJani Nikula			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5473e52347bdSJani Nikula			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5474e52347bdSJani Nikula			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5475e52347bdSJani Nikula			can add overhead.
54766be53520SDou Liyang			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
54776be53520SDou Liyang			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
54786be53520SDou Liyang			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
54790f0b7e1cSJuri Lelli			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
54800f0b7e1cSJuri Lelli			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
54810f0b7e1cSJuri Lelli			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
54820f0b7e1cSJuri Lelli			acceptable).
5483e52347bdSJani Nikula
5484bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5485bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5486bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5487bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5488bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch			Format: <unsigned int>
5489bd35c77eSKrzysztof Piecuch
549095c5824fSPawan Gupta	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
549195c5824fSPawan Gupta			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
549295c5824fSPawan Gupta			support TSX control.
549395c5824fSPawan Gupta
549495c5824fSPawan Gupta			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
549595c5824fSPawan Gupta
549695c5824fSPawan Gupta			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
549795c5824fSPawan Gupta				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
549895c5824fSPawan Gupta				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
549995c5824fSPawan Gupta				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
550095c5824fSPawan Gupta				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
550195c5824fSPawan Gupta				with leaving it enabled.
550295c5824fSPawan Gupta
550395c5824fSPawan Gupta			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
550495c5824fSPawan Gupta				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
550595c5824fSPawan Gupta				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
550695c5824fSPawan Gupta				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
550795c5824fSPawan Gupta				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
550895c5824fSPawan Gupta				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
550995c5824fSPawan Gupta				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
551095c5824fSPawan Gupta
55117531a359SPawan Gupta			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
55127531a359SPawan Gupta				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
55137531a359SPawan Gupta
551495c5824fSPawan Gupta			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
551595c5824fSPawan Gupta
551695c5824fSPawan Gupta			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
551795c5824fSPawan Gupta			for more details.
551895c5824fSPawan Gupta
5519a7a248c5SPawan Gupta	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5520a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5521a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5522a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5523a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5524a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5525a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5526a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5527a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			conditions.
5528a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5529a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5530a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5531a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5532a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			access.
5533a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5534a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5535a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			options are:
5536a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5537a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5538a7a248c5SPawan Gupta				     if TSX is enabled.
5539a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5540a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5541a7a248c5SPawan Gupta				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5542a7a248c5SPawan Gupta				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5543a7a248c5SPawan Gupta				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5544a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5545a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
554664870ed1SWaiman Long			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
554764870ed1SWaiman Long			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
554864870ed1SWaiman Long			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
554964870ed1SWaiman Long			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
555064870ed1SWaiman Long
5551a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5552a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5553a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5554a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			required and doesn't provide any additional
5555a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			mitigation.
5556a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5557a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			For details see:
5558a7a248c5SPawan Gupta			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5559a7a248c5SPawan Gupta
5560e52347bdSJani Nikula	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5561e52347bdSJani Nikula			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5562e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
5563e52347bdSJani Nikula			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
55641752118dSTom Saeger			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5565e52347bdSJani Nikula
5566e52347bdSJani Nikula	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5567e52347bdSJani Nikula			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5568e52347bdSJani Nikula			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5569e52347bdSJani Nikula			help "seeing" what's going on.
5570e52347bdSJani Nikula
5571e52347bdSJani Nikula	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5572e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5573e52347bdSJani Nikula
5574e52347bdSJani Nikula	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5575e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5576e52347bdSJani Nikula			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5577e52347bdSJani Nikula			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5578e52347bdSJani Nikula			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5579e52347bdSJani Nikula			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5580e52347bdSJani Nikula			reported either.
5581e52347bdSJani Nikula
5582e52347bdSJani Nikula	unknown_nmi_panic
5583e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5584e52347bdSJani Nikula
5585e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.authorized_default=
5586e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5587e52347bdSJani Nikula			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
55887bae0432SDmitry Torokhov			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
55897bae0432SDmitry Torokhov			if device connected to internal port)
5590e52347bdSJani Nikula
5591e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.autosuspend=
5592e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5593e52347bdSJani Nikula			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5594e52347bdSJani Nikula			is the time required before an idle device will be
5595e52347bdSJani Nikula			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5596e52347bdSJani Nikula			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5597e52347bdSJani Nikula
5598e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5599e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5600e52347bdSJani Nikula
5601e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5602e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5603e52347bdSJani Nikula			(default = 65536).
5604e52347bdSJani Nikula
5605e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5606e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5607e52347bdSJani Nikula
5608e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5609e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
56103155f4f4SAlan Stern			scheme (default 0 = off).
5611e52347bdSJani Nikula
5612e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5613e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5614e52347bdSJani Nikula			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5615e52347bdSJani Nikula
5616e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5617e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5618e52347bdSJani Nikula			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5619e52347bdSJani Nikula
5620e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5621e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5622e52347bdSJani Nikula			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5623e52347bdSJani Nikula			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5624e52347bdSJani Nikula
5625e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5626e52347bdSJani Nikula
5627027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng	usbcore.quirks=
5628027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5629027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5630027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			commas. Each entry has the form
5631027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5632027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5633027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5634027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5635027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			the following meanings:
5636027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5637027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					descriptors must not be fetched using
5638027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					a 255-byte read);
5639027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5640027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					correctly so reset it instead);
5641027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5642027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					Set-Interface requests);
5643027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5644027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					handle its Configuration or Interface
5645027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					strings);
5646027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5647027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5648027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5649027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					more interface descriptions than the
5650027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5651027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					talking to these interfaces);
5652027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5653027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					during initialization, after we read
5654027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					the device descriptor);
5655027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5656027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					high speed and super speed interrupt
5657027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5658027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					require the interval in microframes (1
5659027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5660027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5661027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					(bInterval-1).
5662027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					Devices with this quirk report their
5663027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					bInterval as the result of this
5664027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					calculation instead of the exponent
5665027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					variable used in the calculation);
5666027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5667027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5668027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					requests);
5669027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5670027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5671027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					remote wakeup capability);
5672027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5673027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					Power Management);
5674027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5675027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5676027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5677027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					calculation);
5678027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5679027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng					to be disconnected before suspend to
56804d8d5a39SKai-Heng Feng					prevent spurious wakeup);
56814d8d5a39SKai-Heng Feng				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
56824d8d5a39SKai-Heng Feng					pause after every control message);
5683781f0766SKai-Heng Feng				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5684781f0766SKai-Heng Feng					delay after resetting its port);
5685027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5686027bd6caSKai-Heng Feng
5687e52347bdSJani Nikula	usbhid.mousepoll=
5688e52347bdSJani Nikula			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5689e52347bdSJani Nikula
5690933bfe4dSTobias Jakobi	usbhid.jspoll=
5691933bfe4dSTobias Jakobi			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5692933bfe4dSTobias Jakobi
56932ddc8e2dSFilip Alac	usbhid.kbpoll=
56942ddc8e2dSFilip Alac			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
56952ddc8e2dSFilip Alac
5696e52347bdSJani Nikula	usb-storage.delay_use=
5697e52347bdSJani Nikula			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5698e52347bdSJani Nikula			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5699e52347bdSJani Nikula
5700e52347bdSJani Nikula	usb-storage.quirks=
5701e52347bdSJani Nikula			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5702e52347bdSJani Nikula			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5703e52347bdSJani Nikula			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5704e52347bdSJani Nikula			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5705e52347bdSJani Nikula			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5706e52347bdSJani Nikula			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5707e52347bdSJani Nikula			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5708e52347bdSJani Nikula				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
570965cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					of sense data, not on uas);
5710e52347bdSJani Nikula				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
571165cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5712e52347bdSJani Nikula				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5713e52347bdSJani Nikula					device capacity by one sector);
5714e52347bdSJani Nikula				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
571565cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5716e52347bdSJani Nikula				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5717e52347bdSJani Nikula					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5718e52347bdSJani Nikula				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5719e52347bdSJani Nikula					command, uas only);
5720e52347bdSJani Nikula				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5721e52347bdSJani Nikula					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5722e52347bdSJani Nikula				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5723e52347bdSJani Nikula					reported device capacity by one
5724e52347bdSJani Nikula					sector if the number is odd);
5725e52347bdSJani Nikula				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5726e52347bdSJani Nikula					device);
5727e52347bdSJani Nikula				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5728e52347bdSJani Nikula					command, uas only);
57298010622cSOliver Neukum				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
5730e52347bdSJani Nikula				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
573165cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5732e52347bdSJani Nikula				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
573365cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
573465cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					not on uas);
5735e52347bdSJani Nikula				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
573665cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5737e52347bdSJani Nikula				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
573865cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					reported by the device, not on uas);
5739e52347bdSJani Nikula				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
574065cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					by default, not on uas);
5741e52347bdSJani Nikula				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
574265cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5743e52347bdSJani Nikula				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5744e52347bdSJani Nikula					Logical Unit);
5745e52347bdSJani Nikula				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5746e52347bdSJani Nikula					commands, uas only);
5747e52347bdSJani Nikula				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5748e52347bdSJani Nikula				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5749e52347bdSJani Nikula					medium is write-protected).
5750e52347bdSJani Nikula				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
575165cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					even if the device claims no cache,
575265cc8bf9SOliver Neukum					not on uas)
5753e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5754e52347bdSJani Nikula
5755e52347bdSJani Nikula	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5756e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <int>
5757e52347bdSJani Nikula			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5758e52347bdSJani Nikula				 1 - undefined instruction events
5759e52347bdSJani Nikula				 2 - system calls
5760e52347bdSJani Nikula				 4 - invalid data aborts
5761e52347bdSJani Nikula				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5762e52347bdSJani Nikula				16 - SIGBUS faults
5763e52347bdSJani Nikula			Example: user_debug=31
5764e52347bdSJani Nikula
5765e52347bdSJani Nikula	userpte=
5766e52347bdSJani Nikula			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5767e52347bdSJani Nikula
5768e52347bdSJani Nikula				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5769e52347bdSJani Nikula					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5770e52347bdSJani Nikula					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5771e52347bdSJani Nikula
5772e52347bdSJani Nikula	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5773e52347bdSJani Nikula			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5774e52347bdSJani Nikula
5775e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5776e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5777e52347bdSJani Nikula
5778e52347bdSJani Nikula	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5779e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5780e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5781e52347bdSJani Nikula
5782e52347bdSJani Nikula			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5783e52347bdSJani Nikula			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5784e52347bdSJani Nikula			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5785e52347bdSJani Nikula
5786e52347bdSJani Nikula			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5787e52347bdSJani Nikula			alias for vdso32=0.
5788e52347bdSJani Nikula
5789e52347bdSJani Nikula			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5790e52347bdSJani Nikula			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5791e52347bdSJani Nikula
5792e52347bdSJani Nikula	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5793e52347bdSJani Nikula			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5794e52347bdSJani Nikula
5795e52347bdSJani Nikula	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5796ab42b818SMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5797e52347bdSJani Nikula
5798e52347bdSJani Nikula	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5799e52347bdSJani Nikula			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5800e52347bdSJani Nikula			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5801e52347bdSJani Nikula			level and then send out the event to user space through
5802e52347bdSJani Nikula			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5803e52347bdSJani Nikula			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5804e52347bdSJani Nikula			brightness level.
5805e52347bdSJani Nikula			default: 1
5806e52347bdSJani Nikula
5807e52347bdSJani Nikula	virtio_mmio.device=
5808e52347bdSJani Nikula			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5809e52347bdSJani Nikula
5810e52347bdSJani Nikula				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5811e52347bdSJani Nikula			where:
5812e52347bdSJani Nikula				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5813e52347bdSJani Nikula						like K, M and G)
5814e52347bdSJani Nikula				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5815e52347bdSJani Nikula				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5816e52347bdSJani Nikula						request_irq())
5817e52347bdSJani Nikula				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5818e52347bdSJani Nikula			example:
5819e52347bdSJani Nikula				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5820e52347bdSJani Nikula
5821e52347bdSJani Nikula			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5822e52347bdSJani Nikula
5823e52347bdSJani Nikula	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5824cb1aaebeSMauro Carvalho Chehab			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
58254f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5826e52347bdSJani Nikula			Use vga=ask for menu.
5827e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5828e52347bdSJani Nikula			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5829e52347bdSJani Nikula
5830f682a97aSAlexander Duyck	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5831f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5832f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5833f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			All options are enabled by default, and this
5834f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5835f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5836f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			debugging features.
5837f682a97aSAlexander Duyck
5838f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			Available options are:
5839f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5840f682a97aSAlexander Duyck			  -	Disable all of the above options
5841f682a97aSAlexander Duyck
5842e52347bdSJani Nikula	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5843e52347bdSJani Nikula			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5844e52347bdSJani Nikula			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5845e52347bdSJani Nikula			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5846e52347bdSJani Nikula			mapped kernel RAM.
5847e52347bdSJani Nikula
58483f429842SHeiko Carstens	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
58493f429842SHeiko Carstens			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
58503f429842SHeiko Carstens			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
58513f429842SHeiko Carstens
5852e52347bdSJani Nikula	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5853e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <command>
5854e52347bdSJani Nikula
5855e52347bdSJani Nikula	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5856e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <command>
5857e52347bdSJani Nikula
5858e52347bdSJani Nikula	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5859e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <command>
5860e52347bdSJani Nikula
5861e52347bdSJani Nikula	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5862e52347bdSJani Nikula			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5863e52347bdSJani Nikula			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5864e52347bdSJani Nikula			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5865e52347bdSJani Nikula			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5866e52347bdSJani Nikula			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5867e52347bdSJani Nikula			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5868e52347bdSJani Nikula
5869e52347bdSJani Nikula			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5870bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5871bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski				    page is readable.
5872e52347bdSJani Nikula
5873bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5874bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5875bd49e16eSAndy Lutomirski				    page is not readable.
5876e52347bdSJani Nikula
5877e52347bdSJani Nikula			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5878e52347bdSJani Nikula			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5879e52347bdSJani Nikula			            might break your system.
5880e52347bdSJani Nikula
5881e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5882e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5883e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5884e52347bdSJani Nikula
5885e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5886e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5887e52347bdSJani Nikula			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5888e52347bdSJani Nikula			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5889e52347bdSJani Nikula
5890e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5891e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5892e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5893e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5894e52347bdSJani Nikula			ranging from 0-255.
5895e52347bdSJani Nikula
5896e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5897e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5898e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the default green palette of the console.
5899e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5900e52347bdSJani Nikula			ranging from 0-255.
5901e52347bdSJani Nikula
5902e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5903e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5904e52347bdSJani Nikula			Change the default red palette of the console.
5905e52347bdSJani Nikula			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5906e52347bdSJani Nikula			ranging from 0-255.
5907e52347bdSJani Nikula
5908e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.default_utf8=
5909e52347bdSJani Nikula			[VT]
5910e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format=<0|1>
5911e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5912e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5913e52347bdSJani Nikula			newly opened terminals.
5914e52347bdSJani Nikula
5915e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.global_cursor_default=
5916e52347bdSJani Nikula			[VT]
5917e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format=<-1|0|1>
5918e52347bdSJani Nikula			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5919e52347bdSJani Nikula			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5920e52347bdSJani Nikula			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5921e52347bdSJani Nikula			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5922e52347bdSJani Nikula			cursors, 1 will display them.
5923e52347bdSJani Nikula
5924e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5925e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 2 = green.
5926e52347bdSJani Nikula
5927e52347bdSJani Nikula	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5928e52347bdSJani Nikula			Default: 3 = cyan.
5929e52347bdSJani Nikula
5930e52347bdSJani Nikula	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5931cc2a2d19SMauro Carvalho Chehab			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5932e52347bdSJani Nikula			or other driver-specific files in the
5933e52347bdSJani Nikula			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5934e52347bdSJani Nikula
593511295055SLaurence Oberman	watchdog_thresh=
593611295055SLaurence Oberman			[KNL]
593711295055SLaurence Oberman			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
593811295055SLaurence Oberman			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
593911295055SLaurence Oberman			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
594011295055SLaurence Oberman			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
594111295055SLaurence Oberman			seconds.
594211295055SLaurence Oberman
5943e52347bdSJani Nikula	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5944e52347bdSJani Nikula			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5945e52347bdSJani Nikula			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5946e52347bdSJani Nikula			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5947e52347bdSJani Nikula			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5948e52347bdSJani Nikula			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5949e52347bdSJani Nikula			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5950e52347bdSJani Nikula			corresponding sysfs file.
5951e52347bdSJani Nikula
5952e52347bdSJani Nikula	workqueue.disable_numa
5953e52347bdSJani Nikula			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5954e52347bdSJani Nikula			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5955e52347bdSJani Nikula			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5956e52347bdSJani Nikula			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5957e52347bdSJani Nikula			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5958e52347bdSJani Nikula			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5959e52347bdSJani Nikula			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5960e52347bdSJani Nikula
5961e52347bdSJani Nikula	workqueue.power_efficient
5962e52347bdSJani Nikula			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5963e52347bdSJani Nikula			they show better performance thanks to cache
5964e52347bdSJani Nikula			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5965e52347bdSJani Nikula			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5966e52347bdSJani Nikula
5967e52347bdSJani Nikula			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5968e52347bdSJani Nikula			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5969e52347bdSJani Nikula			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5970e52347bdSJani Nikula			power usage at the cost of small performance
5971e52347bdSJani Nikula			overhead.
5972e52347bdSJani Nikula
5973e52347bdSJani Nikula			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5974e52347bdSJani Nikula			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5975e52347bdSJani Nikula
5976e52347bdSJani Nikula	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5977e52347bdSJani Nikula			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5978e52347bdSJani Nikula			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5979e52347bdSJani Nikula			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5980e52347bdSJani Nikula			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5981e52347bdSJani Nikula			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5982e52347bdSJani Nikula			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5983e52347bdSJani Nikula			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5984e52347bdSJani Nikula			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5985e52347bdSJani Nikula			impacted.
5986e52347bdSJani Nikula
5987e52347bdSJani Nikula	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5988e52347bdSJani Nikula			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5989e52347bdSJani Nikula			supporting x2apic.
5990e52347bdSJani Nikula
5991e52347bdSJani Nikula	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5992e52347bdSJani Nikula			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5993e52347bdSJani Nikula			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5994e52347bdSJani Nikula			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5995e52347bdSJani Nikula			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5996e52347bdSJani Nikula			domains.
5997e52347bdSJani Nikula
5998e52347bdSJani Nikula	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5999e52347bdSJani Nikula			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6000e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6001e52347bdSJani Nikula			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6002e52347bdSJani Nikula			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6003e52347bdSJani Nikula			nics -- unplug network devices
6004e52347bdSJani Nikula			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6005e52347bdSJani Nikula			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6006e52347bdSJani Nikula				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6007e52347bdSJani Nikula				the unplug protocol
6008e52347bdSJani Nikula			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6009e52347bdSJani Nikula
6010c6875f3aSBoris Ostrovsky	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6011c6875f3aSBoris Ostrovsky			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6012c6875f3aSBoris Ostrovsky			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6013c6875f3aSBoris Ostrovsky
6014e52347bdSJani Nikula	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
60159a3c05e6SZhenzhong Duan			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
60169a3c05e6SZhenzhong Duan			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
60179a3c05e6SZhenzhong Duan			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6018e52347bdSJani Nikula
6019e52347bdSJani Nikula	xen_nopv	[X86]
6020e52347bdSJani Nikula			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6021e52347bdSJani Nikula			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6022b39b0497SZhenzhong Duan			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6023b39b0497SZhenzhong Duan			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6024e52347bdSJani Nikula
6025b36b0fe9SDavid Woodhouse	xen_no_vector_callback
6026b36b0fe9SDavid Woodhouse			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6027b36b0fe9SDavid Woodhouse			event channel interrupts.
6028b36b0fe9SDavid Woodhouse
6029197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6030197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6031197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6032197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6033197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6034197ecb38SMarek Marczykowski-Górecki
60352ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
60362ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
60372ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
60382ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
60392ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
60402ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux			more timer interrupts.
60412ec16bc0SRyan Thibodeaux
6042e99502f7SJuergen Gross	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6043e99502f7SJuergen Gross			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6044e99502f7SJuergen Gross			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6045e99502f7SJuergen Gross
6046e99502f7SJuergen Gross	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6047e99502f7SJuergen Gross			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6048e99502f7SJuergen Gross			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6049e99502f7SJuergen Gross
60501a89c1dcSJuergen Gross	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
60511a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
60521a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
60531a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
60541a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
60551a89c1dcSJuergen Gross			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
60561a89c1dcSJuergen Gross
605730978346SZhenzhong Duan	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
605830978346SZhenzhong Duan			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
605930978346SZhenzhong Duan			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
606030978346SZhenzhong Duan			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
606130978346SZhenzhong Duan
60629a3c05e6SZhenzhong Duan	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
606305eee619SZhenzhong Duan			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
606405eee619SZhenzhong Duan			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
606505eee619SZhenzhong Duan			contention.
606605eee619SZhenzhong Duan
6067e52347bdSJani Nikula	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6068e52347bdSJani Nikula			Format:
6069e52347bdSJani Nikula			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6070c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor
6071ba45cff6SMichael Neuling	xive=		[PPC]
6072ba45cff6SMichael Neuling			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6073ba45cff6SMichael Neuling			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6074ba45cff6SMichael Neuling			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6075ba45cff6SMichael Neuling
6076ba45cff6SMichael Neuling			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6077ba45cff6SMichael Neuling				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6078ba45cff6SMichael Neuling				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6079ba45cff6SMichael Neuling
6080c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6081c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6082c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6083c0addc9aSLaurentiu Tudor			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
60846278f55bSGustavo Romero
60856278f55bSGustavo Romero	xmon		[PPC]
60866278f55bSGustavo Romero			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
60876278f55bSGustavo Romero			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
60886278f55bSGustavo Romero			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
60896278f55bSGustavo Romero			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
60906278f55bSGustavo Romero				debugger is called from setup_arch().
60916278f55bSGustavo Romero			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
60926278f55bSGustavo Romero				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
60936278f55bSGustavo Romero				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
60946278f55bSGustavo Romero				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
60956278f55bSGustavo Romero			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
60966278f55bSGustavo Romero				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
60976278f55bSGustavo Romero				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
60986278f55bSGustavo Romero				can be written using xmon commands.
60996278f55bSGustavo Romero			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
61006278f55bSGustavo Romero				memory, and other data can't be written using
61016278f55bSGustavo Romero				xmon commands.
61026278f55bSGustavo Romero			off	xmon is disabled.
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