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Mauro Carvalho Chehabe53dd082007-09-15 07:38:47 -03001 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +09304The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
5implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
6and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
7punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
8manner), and with descriptions where known.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093010The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
11if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
12parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
13environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
14Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093016Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
17line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070018
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093019 (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093022Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
23specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
24kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
25when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
26loadable modules too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -070028Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
29 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
30can also be entered as
31 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
32
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093033Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
34 param="spaces in here"
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -070035
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -070036cpu lists:
37----------
38
39Some kernel parameters take a list of CPUs as a value, e.g. isolcpus,
40nohz_full, irqaffinity, rcu_nocbs. The format of this list is:
41
42 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
43
44or
45
46 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
47 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
48
49or a mixture
50
51<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
52
53Note that for the special case of a range one can split the range into equal
54sized groups and for each group use some amount from the beginning of that
55group:
56
57 <cpu number>-cpu number>:<used size>/<group size>
58
59For example one can add to the command line following parameter:
60
61 isolcpus=1,2,10-20,100-2000:2/25
62
63where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,...
64
65
66
Stefan Richtera901ebb2006-04-01 01:43:18 +020067This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
68"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
69module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
70reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
71parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
72"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
73
Stefan Richter6585fa82006-04-01 01:44:30 +020074The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
75enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
76the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
77parameter is applicable:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070078
79 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
Chuck Ebbertc99c1082007-07-27 10:46:20 +100080 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070081 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
82 APIC APIC support is enabled.
83 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070084 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +020085 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070086 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
Robin Getz0ae53642007-10-09 17:24:49 +080087 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -070088 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -070089 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
Alan Cox9cfe2682011-01-25 14:18:38 +000090 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
91 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070092 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
93 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
94 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -040095 EVM Extended Verification Module
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070096 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070097 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -070098 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070099 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700100 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
Mimi Zohar6146f0d2009-02-04 09:06:57 -0500101 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700102 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
Adrian Bunk41e2e8b2005-07-12 13:58:33 -0700103 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800104 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700105 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
106 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
107 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -0500108 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +0200109 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
Kristen Carlson Accardi11ef6972006-09-28 11:29:01 -0700110 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700111 LP Printer support is enabled.
112 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
113 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
114 These options have more detailed description inside of
115 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700116 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700117 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700118 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -0700119 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700120 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700121 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
122 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
123 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
124 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700125 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
126 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700127 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
128 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -0700129 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700130 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
131 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
132 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
133 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
134 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
135 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
136 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
137 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap163475f2010-08-14 12:36:14 -0700138 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
139 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -0700140 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700141 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -0700142 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700143 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
Paul Mundte523d932007-02-28 18:30:01 +0900144 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700145 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
146 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -0700147 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
148 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -0300149 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700150 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -0500151 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700152 USB USB support is enabled.
153 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
154 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +0100155 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700156 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
157 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
158 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
159 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700160 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700161 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
162 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700163 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700164 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500165 X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +0100166 XEN Xen support is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700167
168In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
169
170 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
171 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
172 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
173
174Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
175loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
176Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -0500177need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700178
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100179There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700180See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100181
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700182Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
183a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
184be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
185it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
186running once the system is up.
187
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700188The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
189complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
190a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
191and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
192./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
193
Ahmed S. Darwish7a19a232011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800194Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
195parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
196multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
197bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
198
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700199
Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +0000200 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -0800201 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +0200202 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +0300203 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700204 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +0200205 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700206 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
207 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700208 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700209 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +0800210 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +0800211 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +0200212 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
213 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700214
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200215 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700216
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400217 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
218 Format: <int>
219 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
220 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -0400221 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400222
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +0200223 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
224 acpi_backlight=vendor
225 acpi_backlight=video
226 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
227 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
228 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
229
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +0000230 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
231 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
232 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
233 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
234 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
235
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200236 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
237 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
238 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
239 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
240 This option is useful for developers to identify the
241 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
242 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
243
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700244 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
245 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700246 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700247 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
248 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
249 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
250 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
251 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
252 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
253 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600254 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
255 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
256 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700257
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600258 Enable processor driver info messages:
259 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
260 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
261 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700262 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
263 object while interpreting AML:
264 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700265 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
266 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +0200267
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700268 Some values produce so much output that the system is
269 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
270 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +0800271
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200272 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
273 { strict | lax | no }
274 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
275 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
276 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
277 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
278 can interfere with legacy drivers.
279 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
280 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
281 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
282 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
283 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
284 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
285 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
286 no further checks are performed.
287
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +0800288 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
289 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
290 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
291 size limitation.
292
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700293 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
294 ACPI will balance active IRQs
295 default in APIC mode
296
297 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
298 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
299 default in PIC mode
300
301 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
302 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
303
304 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
305 use by PCI
306 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
307
Lv Zhengc1e94142017-04-04 19:32:17 +0000308 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
309 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
310 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
311 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
312 the GPE dispatcher.
313 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
314 GPE floodings.
315 Format: <int>
Lv Zhengc1e94142017-04-04 19:32:17 +0000316
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800317 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
318 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800319 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
320 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
321 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800322 This feature is enabled by default.
323 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800324
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200325 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
326 kernels.
327
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800328 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
329 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
330 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
331 installed automatically and they will appear under
332 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
333 This option turns off this feature.
334 Note that specifying this option does not affect
335 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
336 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700337
Jean Delvaref2a18532020-02-06 16:58:45 +0100338 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT]
339 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
340 a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
341
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200342 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
343 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
344 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
345 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800346
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700347 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
348 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
349
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200350 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
351 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
352 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
353 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
354 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
355
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700356 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800357 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
358 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800359 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800360 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
361 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800362 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
363 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700364 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
365
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800366 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
367 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
368 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
369 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
370 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
371 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
372 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800373 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
374 care about the state of the feature group strings which
375 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800376 Examples:
377 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
378 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
379 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
380
381 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
382 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
383 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
384 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
385 multiple times through kernel command line is also
386 meaningless.
387 Examples:
388 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
389 FALSE.
390
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800391 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
392 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
393 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
394 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
395 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
396 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
397 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
398 there are quirks related to this string. This command
399 is useful when one want to control the state of the
400 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
401 the OSPM features.
402 Examples:
403 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
404 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
405 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
406 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
407 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
408 equivalent to
409 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
410 and
411 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
412 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
413
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530414 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700415 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
416 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
417 and always returns good values.
418
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700419 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
420 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
421
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700422 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
423 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
424 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
425
426 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
427 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200428 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700429 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
430 s3_bios and s3_mode.
431 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
432 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
433 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
434 used during resume from hibernation.
435 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
436 control method, with respect to putting devices into
437 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
438 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200439 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
440 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800441 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
442 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
443 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700444
445 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
446 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
447 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
448
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700449 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
450 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
451
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700452 agp= [AGP]
453 { off | try_unsupported }
454 off: disable AGP support
455 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
456 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
457
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700458 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
459 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
460
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000461 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
462 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
463 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
464 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
465
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200466 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
467 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
468 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
469 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
470 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
471 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
472 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
473
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100474 32: only for 32-bit processes
475 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200476 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
477 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
478
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500479 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
480 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
481 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
482 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
483 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
484 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
485
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100486 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200487 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
488 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900489 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
490 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
491 flushed before they will be reused, which
492 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200493 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
494 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100495 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
496 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
497 allowed anymore to lift isolation
498 requirements as needed. This option
499 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900500
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600501 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
502 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
503 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
504 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
505 IOMMU initialization.
506
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500507 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
508 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
509 remapping modes:
510 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
511 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
512 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
513 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
514 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
515
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700516 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
517 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
518 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200519 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700520
521 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
522 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
523 connected to one of 16 gameports
524 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
525
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700526 apc= [HW,SPARC]
527 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700528 Format: noidle
529 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
530 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
531 APC and your system crashes randomly.
532
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700533 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700534 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700535 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
536 Change the amount of debugging information output
537 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700538
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100539 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
540 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
541 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
542 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
543 backup of CPU 0
544 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
545 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
546 shot down by NMI
547
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800548 autoconf= [IPV6]
549 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
550
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400551 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
552 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
553 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
554 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
555 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
556 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
557 apic=verbose is specified.
558 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
559
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700560 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700561 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700562
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700563 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
564 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
565
566 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
567
568 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
569
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700570 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
571 EzKey and similar keyboards
572
573 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
574
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700575 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
576 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700577
578 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
579 keyboards
580
581 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
582 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700583
584 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
585 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700586
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400587 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
588 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500589 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
590 until the next reboot
591 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
592 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
593 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
594 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
595 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
596 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400597 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400598
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400599 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
600 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
601 Default: 64
602
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500603 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
604 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
605 Format: { "0" | "1" }
606 0 - Disable the BAU.
607 1 - Enable the BAU.
608 unset - Disable the BAU.
609
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700610 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
611 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700612
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700613 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
614 Format: <io>,<mode>
615 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
616
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700617 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
618 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700619 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
620 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
621
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700622 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
623 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700624 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
625 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
626
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700627 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
628 embedded devices based on command line input.
629 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
630
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700631 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
632 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
633 no delay (0).
634 Format: integer
635
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700636 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
637
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700638 bert_disable [ACPI]
639 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
640
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700641 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700642 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
643 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700644 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200645 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700646
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000647 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
648 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
649 at a time.
650
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700651 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
652
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700653 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700654 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
655 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
656 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
657 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
658 This option provides an override for these situations.
659
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300660 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
661 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
662 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300663 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300664
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700665 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
666 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
667 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
668 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
669 others).
670
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100671 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
672 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700673
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700674 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
675 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800676 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
677 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
678 a single hierarchy
679 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
680 subsystem
681 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
682 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
683 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700684
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500685 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
686 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
687 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
688 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
689
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800690 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
691 Format: <string>
692 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800693 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800694
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700695 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
696 Format: { "0" | "1" }
697 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700698 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
699 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700700 1 -- check protection requested by application.
701 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700702 Value can be changed at runtime via
703 /selinux/checkreqprot.
704
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100705 cio_ignore= [S390]
706 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700707 clk_ignore_unused
708 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700709 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
710 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
711 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
712 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
713 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
714 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
715 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
716 platform with proper driver support. For more
717 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100718
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700719 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700720 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200721 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700722 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200723 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700724 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
725
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700726 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700727 Format: <string>
728 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
729 with the name specified.
730 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
731 the platform:
732 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
733 [ACPI] acpi_pm
734 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
735 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
736 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700737 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700738 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
739 [MIPS] MIPS
740 [PARISC] cr16
741 [S390] tod
742 [SH] SuperH
743 [SPARC64] tick
744 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
745
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100746 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
747 [ARM,ARM64]
748 Format: <bool>
749 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
750 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
751 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
752 systems.
753
Scott Woodf6dc1572016-09-22 03:35:17 -0500754 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
755 [ARM64]
756 Format: <bool>
757 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
758 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
759 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
760 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
761 enabled based on the device tree.
762
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100763 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
764 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100765 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800766 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100767 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
768 ones should be.
769 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
770 or using the feature without checking anything
771 will still see it. This just prevents it from
772 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
773 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
774 some critical bits.
775
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700776 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
777 [ARM,X86,KNL]
778 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
779 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
780 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700781 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
782 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100783 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
784
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000785 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
786 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
787 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
788 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
789 a hypervisor.
790 Default: yes
791
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100792 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
793 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200794 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100795
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530796 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100797 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100798 Range: 0 - 8192
799 Default: 64
800
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700801 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700802 Format:
803 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700804
805 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
806 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
807
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700808 com90xx= [HW,NET]
809 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700810 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
811
812 condev= [HW,S390] console device
813 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700814
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700815 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
816
817 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
818
819 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800820 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700821 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800822 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
823 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
824 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
825 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700826
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800827 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
828 information. See
829 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
830 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700831
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700832 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
833 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900834 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400835 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
836 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700837 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
838 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400839 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
840 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900841 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
842 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
843 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
844 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400845 the h/w is not re-initialized.
846
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500847 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
848 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700849
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700850 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
851 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
852 console=brl,ttyS0
853 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
854
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700855 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
856 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
857 disables the blank timer.
858
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800859 coredump_filter=
860 [KNL] Change the default value for
861 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
862 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
863
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400864 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
865 disable the cpuidle sub-system
866
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400867 cpu_init_udelay=N
868 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
869 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
870 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
871 Default: 10000
872
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700873 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700874 Format:
875 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700876
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800877 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
878 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
879 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
880 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
881 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
882 is selected automatically. Check
883 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700884
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700885 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
886 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
887 in the running system. The syntax of range is
888 start-[end] where start and end are both
889 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800890 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700891
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700892 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700893 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
894 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
895 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
896 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
897 available.
898 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700899 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
900 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
901 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700902 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
903 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800904 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
905 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
906 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
907 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700908 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
909 for second kernel instead.
910 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700911 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700912 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700913
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100914 cryptomgr.notests
915 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
916
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700917 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
918 Format: <dma>
919
920 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
921 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700922
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700923 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700924 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
925
926 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
927 (one device per port)
928 Format: <port#>,<type>
929 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
930
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200931 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
932 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600933 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200934
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700935 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
936
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700937 debug_locks_verbose=
938 [KNL] verbose self-tests
939 Format=<0|1>
940 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
941 self-tests.
942 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
943 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
944 only useful to kernel developers.
945
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700946 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
947
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500948 no_debug_objects
949 [KNL] Disable object debugging
950
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc52012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800951 debug_guardpage_minorder=
952 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
953 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
954 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
955 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
956 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
957 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
958 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
959 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
960 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
961 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
962 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
963 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
964 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
965 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
966 bypassed) which are not detectable by
967 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
968 tracking down these problems.
969
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800970 debug_pagealloc=
971 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
972 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
973 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
974 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
975 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
976 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
977 on: enable the feature
978
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200979 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
980
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200981 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700982 Format: <area>[,<node>]
983 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
984
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700985 default_hugepagesz=
986 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
987 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
988 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
989 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
990 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
991 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700992
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700993 dhash_entries= [KNL]
994 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700995
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000996 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
997 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
998 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
999 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1000 miss to occur.
1001
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -08001002 disable= [IPV6]
1003 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1004
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +05301005 disable_radix [PPC]
1006 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1007
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +09001008 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1009 Format: <int>
1010 The number of initial APIC ID for the
1011 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1012 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1013 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1014 causing system reset or hang due to sending
1015 INIT from AP to BSP.
1016
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +00001017 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
1018 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
1019 to workaround buggy firmware.
1020
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -08001021 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1022 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1023
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001024 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001025 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1026 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001027 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001028
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +01001029 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +01001030 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1031 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1032 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1033 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1034
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301035 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001036 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1037 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1038
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -04001039 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1040
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001041 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1042 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1043
1044 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1045 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1046 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1047 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1048 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1049 architectural default is too low.
1050
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +02001051 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1052 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1053 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1054 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1055 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1056 driver later using sysfs.
1057
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001058 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1059 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1060 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1061 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1062 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001063 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1064 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1065 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1066 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1067 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1068 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
1069 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1070 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001071 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1072 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1073 data set with no connector name will be used for
1074 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001075
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001076 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1077
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -06001078 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1079 module.dyndbg[="val"]
1080 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1081 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
1082
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -07001083 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
1084 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
1085 information about the feature.
1086
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -08001087 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1088 in some Intel CPUs.
1089
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -07001090 module.async_probe [KNL]
1091 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1092
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -07001093 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1094 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1095 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1096 which are not unmapped.
1097
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001098 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001099
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -05001100 When used with no options, the early console is
1101 determined by the stdout-path property in device
1102 tree's chosen node.
1103
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +01001104 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1105 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1106 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1107 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1108 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1109 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +02001110
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001111 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1112 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -07001113 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001114 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001115 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001116 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1117 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001118 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001119 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1120 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1121 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1122 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001123 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001124
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001125 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001126 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001127 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1128 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1129 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001130 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1131 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1132 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001133
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +01001134 meson,<addr>
1135 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1136 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1137 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1138 supported.
1139
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -07001140 msm_serial,<addr>
1141 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1142 port at the specified address. The serial port
1143 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1144 yet supported.
1145
1146 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1147 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1148 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1149 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1150 yet supported.
1151
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -05001152 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1153
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +01001154 s3c2410,<addr>
1155 s3c2412,<addr>
1156 s3c2440,<addr>
1157 s3c6400,<addr>
1158 s5pv210,<addr>
1159 exynos4210,<addr>
1160 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1161 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1162 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1163 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1164 Options are not yet supported.
1165
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001166 lpuart,<addr>
1167 lpuart32,<addr>
1168 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1169 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1170 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1171 port must already be setup and configured.
1172
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001173 armada3700_uart,<addr>
1174 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1175 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1176 address. The serial port must already be setup
1177 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1178
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +10001179 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001180 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001181 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001182 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001183 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001184 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001185 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001186 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001187 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001188
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001189 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1190 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1191 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1192
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001193 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001194 takes over.
1195
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001196 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1197 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001198
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001199 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1200 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1201 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1202 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1203 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1204 You can find the port for a given device in
1205 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1206 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001207
1208 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1209 very good.
1210
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001211 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1212 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001213
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001214 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1215
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001216 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1217 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1218 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1219 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1220 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1221 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1222 default: on.
1223
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001224 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1225 ekgdboc=kbd
1226
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001227 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001228 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1229
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001230 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001231 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001232
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001233 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001234 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001235 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1236 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1237 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001238 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1239 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1240 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001241 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001242 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001243
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001244 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1245 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1246 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1247 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1248 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1249
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001250 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1251 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1252 updating original EFI memory map.
1253 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1254 from ss to ss+nn.
1255 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1256 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1257 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1258 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1259
1260 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1261 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1262 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1263 doesn't support it.
1264
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001265 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1266 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1267 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1268 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1269 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1270
1271
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001272 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1273 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1274
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001275 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001276 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001277 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001278
1279 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001280 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001281 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001282 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1283
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001284 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001285 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001286 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1287 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001288 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001289
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001290 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1291 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1292 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1293 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1294
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001295 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001296 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1297 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1298 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1299 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1300
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001301 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1302 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1303 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1304 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1305 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1306 Default value is 0.
1307 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1308
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001309 erst_disable [ACPI]
1310 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1311 support.
1312
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001313 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1314 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1315 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1316
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001317 evm= [EVM]
1318 Format: { "fix" }
1319 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1320 current integrity status.
1321
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001322 failslab=
1323 fail_page_alloc=
1324 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1325 General fault injection mechanism.
1326 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001327 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001328
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001329 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001330 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001331
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001332 force_pal_cache_flush
1333 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1334 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1335 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1336 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1337
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001338 forcepae [X86-32]
1339 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1340 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1341 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1342 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1343 and may cause unknown problems.
1344
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001345 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001346 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001347 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1348 boot debugging.
1349
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001350 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001351 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001352 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1353 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1354 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1355 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001356
1357 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1358 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1359 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1360 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1361 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001362 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001363
1364 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1365 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1366 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1367 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1368 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001369
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001370 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1371 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1372 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1373 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1374 that can be changed at run time by the
1375 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1376
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001377 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1378 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1379 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1380 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1381 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1382
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001383 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1384 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1385 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1386 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1387 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1388
1389 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1390
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001391 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1392 Format: off | on
1393 default: on
1394
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001395 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1396 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1397 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1398 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1399 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1400
Thomas Gleixner2709c2a2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001401 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1402 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1403 android emulator
1404
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001405 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001406 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1407 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1408 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001409
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001410 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1411 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1412 Format: 0 | 1
1413 Default: 0
1414 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1415 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1416 Format: 0 | 1
1417 Default: 0
1418 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1419 Format: 0 | 1
1420 Default: 0
1421 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1422 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1423 Default: 1024
1424 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1425 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1426 Default: 1024
1427
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001428 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1429 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1430 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1431
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001432 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1433 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1434 backtraces on all cpus.
1435 Format: <integer>
1436
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001437 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1438 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001439 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001440 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001441
1442 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1443
1444 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1445 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1446
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001447 hest_disable [ACPI]
1448 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1449 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1450 logic will be disabled.
1451
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001452 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1453 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1454 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1455 size on bigger boxes.
1456
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001457 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1458 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1459 Default: "on"
1460
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001461 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1462 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1463
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001464 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1465
1466 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1467 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1468 verbose }
1469 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1470 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1471 VIA, nVidia)
1472 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1473
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001474 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1475 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1476
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001477 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1478 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001479 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1480 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1481 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1482 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001483 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001484
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001485 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1486 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001487 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1488 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1489 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001490
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001491 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1492 hardware thread id mappings.
1493 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1494
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001495 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1496 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1497 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1498 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1499 the real console.
1500
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001501 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001502 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1503 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001504 Format:
1505 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1506
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001507 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001508 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1509 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1510 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1511 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001512 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001513 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1514 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001515 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1516 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001517 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001518 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1519 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001520 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001521 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001522 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1523 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001524 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e1922016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001525 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1526 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1527 transitions, or never reset
1528 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1529 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1530 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1531 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1532 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001533 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001534 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001535
1536 i810= [HW,DRM]
1537
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001538 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1539 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1540 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001541 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1542 does not match list of supported models.
1543 i8k.power_status
1544 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1545 (disabled by default)
1546 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1547 capability is set.
1548
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001549 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001550 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1551 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001552 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1553 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1554 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1555 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1556 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1557 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1558 value switches the backlight off.
1559 -1 -- never invert brightness
1560 0 -- machine default
1561 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001562
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001563 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1564 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1565
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001566 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1567 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001568 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1569 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001570 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001571
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001572 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1573 Format: <int>
1574 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1575 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1576 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1577 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1578 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1579 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1580 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1581 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1582 was 0x3.
1583
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001584 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1585 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1586
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001587 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001588 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001589 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1590 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1591 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1592 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001593 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001594 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001595 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001596
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001597 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1598 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1599 Default: strict
1600
1601 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1602 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1603 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1604 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1605 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1606 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1607 encoding mode.
1608
1609 Available settings are as follows:
1610 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1611 supported by the FPU
1612 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1613 by the FPU
1614 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1615 by the FPU
1616 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1617 supported by the FPU
1618
1619 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1620 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1621 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1622 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1623 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1624 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1625 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1626 MIPS64 CPUs.
1627
1628 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1629 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1630 except where unsupported by hardware.
1631
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001632 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1633 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1634 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001635 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1636 could change it dynamically, usually by
1637 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001638
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001639 ignore_rlimit_data
1640 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1641 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1642 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1643
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001644 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1645 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1646
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001647 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001648 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001649 default: "enforce"
1650
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001651 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1652 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1653 owned by uid=0.
1654
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001655 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001656 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1657 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001658 default: "sha1"
1659
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001660 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1661 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1662
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001663 ima_policy= [IMA]
1664 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1665 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1666 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1667 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1668 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1669 Format: "tcb"
1670
1671 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001672 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1673 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1674 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1675 opened for read by uid=0.
1676
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001677 ima_template= [IMA]
1678 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001679 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001680 Default: "ima-ng"
1681
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001682 ima_template_fmt=
1683 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1684 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1685
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001686 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1687 Format: <min_file_size>
1688 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1689 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1690
1691 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1692 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1693 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1694
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001695 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1696 Format: <bufsize>
1697 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1698
1699 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1700 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1701 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1702
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001703 init= [KNL]
1704 Format: <full_path>
1705 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1706 process.
1707
1708 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1709 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1710 startup.
1711
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001712 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1713 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1714 modules and initcalls.
1715
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001716 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1717
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001718 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1719 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1720 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1721 override in debugfs after boot.
1722
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001723 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1724 Format: <irq>
1725
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001726 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1727
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001728 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1729 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1730 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1731 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1732
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001733 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001734 on
1735 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001736 off
1737 Disable intel iommu driver.
1738 igfx_off [Default Off]
1739 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1740 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1741 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1742 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1743 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001744 forcedac [x86_64]
1745 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001746 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001747 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001748 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1749 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001750 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001751 strict [Default Off]
1752 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1753 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1754 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001755 sp_off [Default Off]
1756 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1757 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1758 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001759 ecs_off [Default Off]
1760 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1761 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1762 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1763 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1764 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001765
1766 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1767 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001768 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001769
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001770 intel_pstate= [X86]
1771 disable
1772 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1773 scaling driver for the supported processors
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001774 force
1775 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1776 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1777 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1778 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1779 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1780 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1781 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1782 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001783 no_hwp
1784 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1785 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001786 hwp_only
1787 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1788 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001789 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001790 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1791 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1792 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1793 then this feature is turned on by default.
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001794
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001795 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001796 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1797 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1798 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001799 no_x2apic_optout
1800 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001801 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001802
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001803 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1804 strict regions from userspace.
1805 relaxed
1806
1807 iommu= [x86]
1808 off
1809 force
1810 noforce
1811 biomerge
1812 panic
1813 nopanic
1814 merge
1815 nomerge
1816 forcesac
1817 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001818 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001819 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1820 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001821
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001822
1823 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1824 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1825 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1826
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301827 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001828 0x80
1829 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1830 0xed
1831 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001832 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001833 Simple two microseconds delay
1834 none
1835 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001836
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001837 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001838 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001839
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001840 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001841 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001842
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001843 irqfixup [HW]
1844 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1845 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1846 firmware running.
1847
1848 irqpoll [HW]
1849 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1850 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1851 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1852 firmware running.
1853
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001854 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001855 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001856
1857 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001858 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001859
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001860 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1861 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001862 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1863 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001864 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1865 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1866
1867 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001868 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1869 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1870 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001871
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001872 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001873
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001874 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1875 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1876 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1877 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1878 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1879 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1880
1881 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1882 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1883 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1884 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1885 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1886 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1887
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001888 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1889 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1890 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1891 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1892 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1893 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1894
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001895 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1896 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1897
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001898 nokaslr [KNL]
1899 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1900 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1901 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001902
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001903 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1904
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001905 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1906 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1907 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001908 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1909 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1910 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1911 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1912 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1913 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1914 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001915 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001916 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1917 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1918 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1919 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1920 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1921 zone if it does not.
1922
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001923 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1924 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1925 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1926 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1927 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1928 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1929 time.
1930
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001931 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1932 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1933 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1934 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1935 optional and is the number seconds in between
1936 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1937 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1938 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1939 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1940 the kernel debugger.
1941
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001942 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001943 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1944 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001945 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1946 keyboard only format: kbd
1947 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1948 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1949 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1950 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001951
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001952 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1953 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1954
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001955 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1956 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1957 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1958
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001959 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1960 Valid arguments: on, off
1961 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001962 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1963 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001964
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001965 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1966 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1967 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1968 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1969 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1970 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1971
Jeremy Linton8973a612019-01-25 12:07:00 -06001972 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
1973 and kernel address spaces.
1974 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
1975 0: force disabled
1976 1: force enabled
1977
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301978 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001979 in oops dumps.
1980
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001981 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1982 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1983
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001984 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1985 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001986 Default is 0 (off)
1987
Paolo Bonzinia7ad7942019-11-04 12:22:02 +01001988 kvm.nx_huge_pages=
1989 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
1990 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
1991 force : Always deploy workaround.
1992 off : Never deploy workaround.
1993 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
1994 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
1995
1996 Default is 'auto'.
1997
1998 If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
1999 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2000
Junaid Shahidc6e94ac2019-11-04 12:22:03 +01002001 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2002 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2003 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2004 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2005 minute. The default is 60.
2006
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002007 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08002008 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002009
2010 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2011 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002012 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002013
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002014 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2015 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2016 Default is 1 (enabled)
2017
2018 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2019 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2020 Default is 0 (disabled)
2021
2022 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2023 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2024 Default is 1 (enabled)
2025
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03002026 kvm-intel.nested=
2027 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2028 Default is 0 (disabled)
2029
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002030 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2031 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2032 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2033 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2034
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilkaf6ce922018-07-02 12:29:30 +02002035 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2036 CVE-2018-3620.
2037
2038 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2039
2040 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2041 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2042 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2043 never: Disables the mitigation
2044
2045 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2046
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002047 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2048 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2049 Default is 1 (enabled)
2050
Jiri Kosina2decbf52018-07-13 16:23:25 +02002051 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2052 affected CPUs
2053
2054 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2055 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2056
2057 full
2058 Provides all available mitigations for the
2059 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2060 enables all mitigations in the
2061 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2062
2063 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2064 sysfs interface is still possible after
2065 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2066 when the first VM is started in a
2067 potentially insecure configuration,
2068 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2069
2070 full,force
2071 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2072 flush runtime control. Implies the
2073 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2074 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2075
2076 flush
2077 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2078 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2079 L1D flush.
2080
2081 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2082 sysfs interface is still possible after
2083 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2084 when the first VM is started in a
2085 potentially insecure configuration,
2086 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2087
2088 flush,nosmt
2089
2090 Disables SMT and enables the default
2091 hypervisor mitigation.
2092
2093 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2094 sysfs interface is still possible after
2095 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2096 when the first VM is started in a
2097 potentially insecure configuration,
2098 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2099
2100 flush,nowarn
2101 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2102 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2103 insecure configuration.
2104
2105 off
2106 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2107 emit any warnings.
Michal Hockoc3692582018-11-13 19:49:10 +01002108 It also drops the swap size and available
2109 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2110 bare metal.
Jiri Kosina2decbf52018-07-13 16:23:25 +02002111
2112 Default is 'flush'.
2113
Thomas Gleixnercb106032019-02-19 11:10:49 +01002114 For details see: Documentation/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
Jiri Kosina2decbf52018-07-13 16:23:25 +02002115
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002116 l2cr= [PPC]
2117
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11002118 l3cr= [PPC]
2119
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002120 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002121 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002122
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07002123 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2124 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2125 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2126
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302127 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08002128 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01002129
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002130 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2131 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2132 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2133 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002134 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002135 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2136 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002137
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02002138 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2139 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2140 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002141
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04002142 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2143 when set.
2144 Format: <int>
2145
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002146 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2147 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02002148 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002149 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2150 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2151 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2152 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2153 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2154
2155 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2156 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2157 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2158 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2159 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2160 host link and device attached to it.
2161
2162 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2163 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2164 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2165 The following configurations can be forced.
2166
2167 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2168 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2169
2170 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2171
2172 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2173 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2174 allowed.
2175
2176 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2177
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04002178 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2179
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09002180 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2181 and both resets.
2182
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07002183 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2184 hot-unplug link recovery
2185
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02002186 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2187
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02002188 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2189
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08002190 * disable: Disable this device.
2191
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002192 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2193 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2194
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002195 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002196
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002197 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002198 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002199
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002200 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2201 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002202
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002203 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2204 Format: <integer>
2205
2206 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2207 Format: <integer>
2208
2209 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2210 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002211
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002212 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2213 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2214 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2215 number of online CPUs.
2216
2217 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2218 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2219
2220 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2221 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2222
2223 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2224 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2225 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2226
2227 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2228 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2229 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2230 mode during the locktorture test.
2231
2232 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2233 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2234 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2235
2236 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2237 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2238
2239 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2240 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2241 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2242 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2243 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2244 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2245
2246 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2247 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2248
2249 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2250 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2251
2252 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2253 Enable additional printk() statements.
2254
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002255 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2256 Format: <irq>
2257
2258 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2259 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2260 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2261 loglevels are defined as follows:
2262
2263 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2264 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2265 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2266 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2267 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2268 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2269 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2270 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2271
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002272 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002273 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2274 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2275 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2276 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2277 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2278 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002279
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002280 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2281 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2282 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2283 kernel boot problems.
2284
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002285 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2286 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2287 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2288 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2289 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2290 attached printers to be reset. Using
2291 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2292 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2293 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2294 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2295 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2296 port specification list means that device IDs
2297 from each port should be examined, to see if
2298 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2299 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2300 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2301
2302 lpj=n [KNL]
2303 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2304 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2305 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2306 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2307 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2308 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2309 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2310 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2311 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2312 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2313 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2314 hardware.
2315
2316 ltpc= [NET]
2317 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2318
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002319 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002320 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2321 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002322
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002323 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2324 yeeloong laptop.
2325 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2326
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002327 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2328 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002329
2330 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002331 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2332 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2333 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2334 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2335 only takes effect during system bootup.
2336 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2337 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002338
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002339 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2340 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2341 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2342 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2343 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2344 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002345
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002346 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002347
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002348 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002349
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002350 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2351 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002352
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002353 mdacon= [MDA]
2354 Format: <first>,<last>
2355 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002356
Thomas Gleixner4e722ae2019-02-18 22:04:08 +01002357 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2358 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2359 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2360
2361 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2362 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2363 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2364
2365 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2366 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2367 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2368 not have direct access.
2369
2370 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2371 options are:
2372
Josh Poimboeuff02eee62019-04-02 09:59:33 -05002373 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2374 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2375 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2376 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
Thomas Gleixner4e722ae2019-02-18 22:04:08 +01002377
Waiman Long5aba0ad2019-11-15 11:14:44 -05002378 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2379 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2380 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2381 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2382 too.
2383
Thomas Gleixner4e722ae2019-02-18 22:04:08 +01002384 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2385 mds=full.
2386
Thomas Gleixner3880bc12019-02-19 00:02:31 +01002387 For details see: Documentation/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2388
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002389 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2390 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2391 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002392 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2393 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2394 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2395 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002396
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002397 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002398 memory.
2399
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002400 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2401 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2402 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2403
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002404 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2405 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2406 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2407 set according to the
2408 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2409 option.
2410 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2411
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302412 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002413 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2414 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2415 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2416 option description.
2417
2418 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002419 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2420 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002421
2422 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2423 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002424 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002425
2426 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2427 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002428 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002429 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2430 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2431 or
2432 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002433
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002434 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2435 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2436 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2437 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2438 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2439
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002440 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2441 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2442 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2443 Setting this option will scan the memory
2444 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2445 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2446 from using the memory being corrupted.
2447 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2448 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2449 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2450 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2451
2452 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2453 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2454 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2455 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2456 corruption in more or less memory.
2457
2458 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2459 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2460 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2461 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2462
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002463 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002464 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002465 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002466 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2467 performed. Each pass selects another test
2468 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2469 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2470 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2471 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002472
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002473 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2474 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2475
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002476 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2477 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2478 platforms.
2479
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002480 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2481 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2482 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2483 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2484
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002485 mga= [HW,DRM]
2486
Randy Dunlap1c207f92008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002487 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2488 physical address is ignored.
2489
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002490 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2491 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2492 Default: "0tb"
2493 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2494 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2495 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2496 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2497 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2498 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2499 unconfigured.
2500 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2501 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2502 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2503 VGA shield.
2504 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2505 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2506 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2507 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2508 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2509 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2510
Josh Poimboeufedda9c32019-04-12 15:39:28 -05002511 mitigations=
Josh Poimboeuf17092842019-04-12 15:39:29 -05002512 [X86] Control optional mitigations for CPU
2513 vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
2514 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2515 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
Josh Poimboeufedda9c32019-04-12 15:39:28 -05002516
2517 off
2518 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2519 improves system performance, but it may also
2520 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
Josh Poimboeuf17092842019-04-12 15:39:29 -05002521 Equivalent to: nopti [X86]
Josh Poimboeuf90d45f02019-07-08 11:52:26 -05002522 nospectre_v1 [X86]
Josh Poimboeuf17092842019-04-12 15:39:29 -05002523 nospectre_v2 [X86]
2524 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2525 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86]
2526 l1tf=off [X86]
Josh Poimboeuf025b9cf2019-04-17 16:39:02 -05002527 mds=off [X86]
Pawan Guptaba54aad2019-10-23 12:32:55 +02002528 tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
Paolo Bonzinia7ad7942019-11-04 12:22:02 +01002529 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2530
2531 Exceptions:
2532 This does not have any effect on
2533 kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2534 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
Josh Poimboeufedda9c32019-04-12 15:39:28 -05002535
2536 auto (default)
2537 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2538 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2539 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2540 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2541 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
Josh Poimboeuf17092842019-04-12 15:39:29 -05002542 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
Josh Poimboeufedda9c32019-04-12 15:39:28 -05002543
2544 auto,nosmt
2545 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2546 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2547 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
Josh Poimboeuf17092842019-04-12 15:39:29 -05002548 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
Josh Poimboeuf025b9cf2019-04-17 16:39:02 -05002549 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
Pawan Guptaba54aad2019-10-23 12:32:55 +02002550 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
Josh Poimboeufedda9c32019-04-12 15:39:28 -05002551
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002552 mminit_loglevel=
2553 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2554 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2555 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2556 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2557 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2558 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2559
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002560 module.sig_enforce
2561 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2562 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002563 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002564 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2565
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302566 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2567 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2568
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002569 mousedev.tap_time=
2570 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2571 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2572 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2573 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2574 Format: <msecs>
2575 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2576 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2577 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2578 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2579
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302580 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002581 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2582 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2583 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2584 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2585 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2586 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2587 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2588 is not too small.
2589
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002590 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2591 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2592
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002593 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2594 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2595
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002596 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2597 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002598
2599 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002600 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002601
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002602 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2603 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2604 at a time.
2605
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002606 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2607
2608 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2609
2610 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2611 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2612 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2613 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2614 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2615
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002616 mtdset= [ARM]
2617 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2618
2619 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2620
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002621 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002622 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2623 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002624
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002625 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002626 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002627 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2628
2629 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2630 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2631 Default is 1.
2632 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2633 using up MTRRs.
2634
2635 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2636 Format: <integer>
2637 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2638 Default : 1
2639 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2640 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2641
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002642 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2643
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002644 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2645 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2646 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2647 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002648 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2649 file if at all.
2650
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002651 nf_conntrack.acct=
2652 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2653 0 to disable accounting
2654 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002655 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002656
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002657 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002658 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002659
2660 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002661 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002662
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002663 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2664 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2665
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002666 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2667 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2668 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2669 requests.
2670
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002671 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2672 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2673 channel should listen.
2674
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002675 nfs.cache_getent=
2676 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2677 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2678
2679 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2680 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2681 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2682
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002683 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2684 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2685 entries.
2686
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002687 nfs.enable_ino64=
2688 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2689 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2690 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2691 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2692 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2693
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002694 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2695 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2696 slots the client will assign to the callback
2697 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2698 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2699 a particular server.
2700
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002701 nfs.max_session_slots=
2702 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2703 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2704 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2705 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2706 Note that there is little point in setting this
2707 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2708
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002709 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002710 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2711 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2712 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2713 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2714 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2715 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2716 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2717 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2718 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2719 back to using the idmapper.
2720 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002721 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2722 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2723 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2724 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2725 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002726
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002727 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2728 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2729 information in exchange_id requests.
2730 If zero, no implementation identification information
2731 will be sent.
2732 The default is to send the implementation identification
2733 information.
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002734
2735 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2736 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2737 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2738 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2739 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2740 after the locks are lost.
2741 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2742 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2743 parameter to '1'.
2744 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2745 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002746
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002747 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2748 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2749 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2750
2751 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2752 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2753 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2754 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2755
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002756 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2757 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2758 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2759 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2760 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2761 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002762
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002763 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2764 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2765 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2766 osd-targets. Please see:
2767 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2768
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002769 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002770 when a NMI is triggered.
2771 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2772
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302773 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002774 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002775 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002776 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2777 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002778 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002779 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002780 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2781 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002782 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2783 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002784
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002785 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2786 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2787 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2788 waits 4 seconds.
2789
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002790 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002791 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2792 is present.
2793
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002794 no_console_suspend
2795 [HW] Never suspend the console
2796 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2797 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2798 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2799 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2800 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2801 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2802 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002803 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2804 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2805 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2806 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2807 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002808
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002809 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2810 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2811 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002812
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002813 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2814
Vasily Gorbikd69aa5e2018-04-27 07:36:39 +02002815 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2816 (CPU alternatives feature).
2817
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002818 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2819 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2820
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002821 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2822
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002823 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2824 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2825
2826 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002827
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002828 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2829
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002830 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2831
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002832 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2833
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002834 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002835
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002836 noexec [IA-64]
2837
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302838 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002839 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002840 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002841 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2842
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002843 nosmap [X86]
2844 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2845 even if it is supported by processor.
2846
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002847 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002848 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002849 even if it is supported by processor.
2850
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002851 noexec32 [X86-64]
2852 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2853 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2854 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2855 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2856 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002857
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002858 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002859
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002860 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002861 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2862 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002863
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002864 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2865
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002866 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2867 Equivalent to smt=1.
2868
Thomas Gleixnerf37486c2018-05-29 17:48:27 +02002869 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
Thomas Gleixnerfe2a9552018-06-29 16:05:47 +02002870 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2871 via the sysfs control file.
Thomas Gleixnerf37486c2018-05-29 17:48:27 +02002872
Josh Poimboeuf90d45f02019-07-08 11:52:26 -05002873 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2874 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
2875 possible in the system.
2876
Diana Craciun0feb3712018-12-12 16:03:10 +02002877 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
David Woodhouse8f96937ee2018-01-11 21:46:26 +00002878 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2879 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2880 to spectre_v2=off.
2881
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk6f70a552018-04-25 22:04:21 -04002882 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2883 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2884
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002885 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2886 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2887 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2888
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002889 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2890 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2891 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2892 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2893 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2894 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2895
2896 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2897 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2898 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2899 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2900 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2901 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2902 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2903
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002904 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2905 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2906 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002907
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002908 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2909 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2910 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2911
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002912 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2913 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2914 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2915 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2916 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2917 real-time systems.
2918
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002919 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2920
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002921 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2922 Valid arguments: on, off
2923 Default: on
2924
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002925 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002926 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002927 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002928 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002929 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2930 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002931 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2932 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002933
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002934 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2935
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002936 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002937 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2938
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302939 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002940 broken timer IRQ sources.
2941
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002942 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2943
2944 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2945 initial RAM disk.
2946
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002947 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2948 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002949 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002950
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002951 nointroute [IA-64]
2952
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002953 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2954
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002955 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002956
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002957 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2958
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002959 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2960 fault handling.
2961
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002962 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2963 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2964 behaviour
2965
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002966 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002967
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002968 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002969
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002970 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002971 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002972
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002973 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2974
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002975 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002976
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002977 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2978 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2979
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002980 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2981 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2982 irq.
2983
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002984 nomodule Disable module load
2985
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002986 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2987 pagetables) support.
2988
Andy Lutomirskie6a29322017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002989 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2990
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002991 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2992 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2993
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002994 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002995 with UP alternatives
2996
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002997 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2998 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2999 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3000 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07003001
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003002 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3003 space.
3004
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003005 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3006 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3007 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3008
3009 nosbagart [IA-64]
3010
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003011 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08003012
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04003013 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3014 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003015
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07003016 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3017
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003018 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3019
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003020 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003021
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07003022 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3023 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04003024
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003025 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003026
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08003027 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3028
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08003029 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3030 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3031 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3032 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3033 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3034 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3035 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3036 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3037 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3038 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3039 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3040 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3041 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3042
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003043 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07003044 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3045 SAL PALO.
3046
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08003047 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3048 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08003049 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3050 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3051 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3052 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3053 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3054 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08003055
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003056 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3057
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00003058 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3059 Allowed values are enable and disable
3060
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07003061 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3062 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
3063 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3064 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
3065
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08003066 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3067 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3068 info.
3069
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07003070 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3071 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3072 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3073 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3074 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3075 interrupts *may* be lost!
3076
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08003077 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3078 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3079 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3080 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3081
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003082 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3083 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3084
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02003085 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3086 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3087 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02003088 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3089 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02003090 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3091 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02003092 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3093 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3094 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02003095
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003096 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3097 process, but there is a small probability of
3098 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07003099 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3100 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3101
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07003102 OSS [HW,OSS]
3103 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
3104
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08003105 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3106 Storage of the information about who allocated
3107 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3108 we can turn it on.
3109 on: enable the feature
3110
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07003111 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3112 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
3113 off: turn off poisoning
3114 on: turn on poisoning
3115
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003116 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07003117 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3118 timeout = 0: wait forever
3119 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003120 Format: <timeout>
3121
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08003122 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3123 on a WARN().
3124
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07003125 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3126 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3127 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3128 succeeds in any situation.
3129 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3130 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3131 kernel more unstable.
3132
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003133 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3134 connected to, default is 0.
3135 Format: <parport#>
3136 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3137 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003138 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003139
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003140 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3141 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3142 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3143 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3144 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3145 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3146 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3147 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3148 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3149 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3150 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3151 are specified on the command line, starting
3152 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003153
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003154 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3155 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3156 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3157 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3158 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3159 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003160 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3161
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08003162 pause_on_oops=
3163 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3164 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3165 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3166
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003167 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3168
3169 pcd. [PARIDE]
3170 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003171 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003172
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003173 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07003174 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
3175 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003176 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003177 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003178 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3179 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003180 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003181 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3182 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3183 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01003184 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3185 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3186 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3187 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3188 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3189 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3190 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3191 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3192 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3193 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07003194 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3195 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3196 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04003197 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3198 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05303199 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08003200 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02003201 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3202 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3203 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07003204 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3205 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3206 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02003207 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3208 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3209 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02003210 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3211 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3212 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3213 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02003214 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3215 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3216 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3217 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003218 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003219 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3220 on several machines and they hang the machine
3221 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3222 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3223 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3224 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3225 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003226 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003227 Use with caution as certain devices share
3228 address decoders between ROMs and other
3229 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003230 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07003231 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3232 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07003233 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3234 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003235 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003236 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3237 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3238 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003239 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003240 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3241 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3242 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003243 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003244 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3245 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3246 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003247 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003248 numbers ourselves, overriding
3249 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003250 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003251 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3252 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3253 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3254 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3255 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003256 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003257 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003258 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3259 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3260 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3261 please report a bug.
3262 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3263 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003264 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3265 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3266 so this option is a temporary workaround
3267 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003268 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3269 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003270 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3271 This might help on some broken boards which
3272 machine check when some devices' config space
3273 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3274 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003275 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3276 This sorting is done to get a device
3277 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3278 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003279 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3280 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3281 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3282 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3283 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3284 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3285 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3286 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3287 or bus can support) for best performance.
3288 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3289 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3290 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3291 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3292 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3293 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003294 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3295 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3296 The default value is 256 bytes.
3297 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3298 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3299 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a682009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003300 resource_alignment=
3301 Format:
3302 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003303 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3304 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a682009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003305 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3306 aligned memory resources.
3307 If <order of align> is not specified,
3308 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3309 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3310 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003311 To specify the alignment for several
3312 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3313 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3314 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003315 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3316 end-to-end CRC checking).
3317 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3318 the default.
3319 off: Turn ECRC off
3320 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003321 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3322 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3323 Default size is 256 bytes.
3324 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3325 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3326 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003327 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3328 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3329 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003330 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3331 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3332 accommodate resources required by all child
3333 devices.
3334 off: Turn realloc off
3335 on: Turn realloc on
3336 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003337 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003338 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3339 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3340 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003341
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003342 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3343 Management.
3344 off Disable ASPM.
3345 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3346 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3347
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003348 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3349 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3350 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3351
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003352 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003353 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3354 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3355 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3356 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3357 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003358 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3359 ports driver.
3360
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003361 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3362 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3363 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3364
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003365 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003366 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003367 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003368
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003369 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3370
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303371 pd_ignore_unused
3372 [PM]
3373 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3374 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3375 for debug and development, but should not be
3376 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3377
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003378 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003379 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003380
3381 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3382 boot time.
3383 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3384 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3385
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003386 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003387 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3388 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3389 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3390 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3391 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003392
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003393 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003394 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003395
3396 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003397 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003398
3399 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003400 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003401
3402 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3403 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3404 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3405
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003406 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003407 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3408 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3409
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003410 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3411 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3412 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3413 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3414 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3415 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003416
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003417 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3418 { off }
3419
3420 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3421 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3422
3423 pnp_reserve_irq=
3424 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3425
3426 pnp_reserve_dma=
3427 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3428
3429 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003430 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003431
3432 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003433 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3434 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003435 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3436
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003437 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3438 Default is 21.
3439 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3440 may be specified.
3441 Format: <port>,<port>....
3442
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003443 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3444 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3445 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3446 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3447 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3448
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003449 print-fatal-signals=
3450 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003451
3452 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3453 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3454 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3455 coredump - etc.
3456
3457 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3458 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3459
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003460 default: off.
3461
Matthew Garrettc22ab332012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003462 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3463 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3464 panics
3465 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3466 default: disabled
3467
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003468 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3469 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3470 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3471 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3472 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3473 Default: ratelimit
3474
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003475 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3476 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3477
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003478 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3479 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3480 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3481
3482 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3483 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3484 instead using the legacy FADT method
3485
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003486 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003487 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3488 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3489 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3490 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003491 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3492 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003493 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003494
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003495 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3496 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003497 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003498
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003499 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3500 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003501 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3502 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003503 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3504 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003505 (0 = never).
3506 psmouse.resolution=
3507 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3508 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003509 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003510 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3511
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003512 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3513
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003514 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003515 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003516
Dave Hansen4e6c2af2018-01-05 09:44:36 -08003517 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3518 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3519 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3520 system calls and interrupts.
3521
3522 on - unconditionally enable
3523 off - unconditionally disable
3524 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3525 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3526
3527 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3528
3529 nopti [X86_64]
3530 Equivalent to pti=off
Borislav Petkov80183072018-01-02 14:19:48 +01003531
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003532 pty.legacy_count=
3533 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3534 default number.
3535
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003536 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003537
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003538 r128= [HW,DRM]
3539
3540 raid= [HW,RAID]
3541 See Documentation/md.txt.
3542
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003543 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003544 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003545
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003546 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003547 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3548
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003549 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3550 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3551 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003552 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3553 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3554 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3555 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003556 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3557 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3558 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3559
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003560 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003561 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3562 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3563 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3564 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3565 This improves the real-time response for the
3566 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3567 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3568 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3569 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3570
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003571 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003572 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3573 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003574
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003575 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3576 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3577 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3578 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3579
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003580 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3581 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3582 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3583 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3584
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003585 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3586 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3587 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003588 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3589 is set.
3590
3591 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3592 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3593 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3594 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3595 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3596 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003597
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003598 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3599 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3600 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3601 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3602 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003603
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003604 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003605 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3606 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3607 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3608 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3609 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3610 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003611
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003612 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3613 Set required age in jiffies for a
3614 given grace period before RCU starts
3615 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3616 rcu_note_context_switch().
3617
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003618 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003619 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3620 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3621 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3622 and maximum value is HZ.
3623
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003624 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003625 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3626 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3627 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3628
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003629 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003630 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3631 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3632 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3633 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3634 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3635 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3636 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3637 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3638 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003639
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003640 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3641 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3642 defaults to the square root of the number of
3643 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3644 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3645 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3646
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003647 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003648 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3649 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003650
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003651 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003652 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3653 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003654
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003655 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003656 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3657 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003658
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003659 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003660 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3661 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3662 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3663 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003664
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003665 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3666 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3667 grace-period primitives.
3668
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003669 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3670 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3671 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3672 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3673 interference.
3674
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003675 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3676 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3677 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3678 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3679 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3680 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3681 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3682 a single reader.
3683
3684 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3685 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3686 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3687 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3688
3689 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3690 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3691
3692 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3693 Shut the system down after performance tests
3694 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3695 testing.
3696
3697 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3698 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3699
3700 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3701 Enable additional printk() statements.
3702
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003703 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3704 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3705 callback-flood tests.
3706
3707 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3708 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3709 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3710 test.
3711
3712 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3713 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3714 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3715 disable callback-flood testing.
3716
3717 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3718 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3719 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3720
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003721 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003722 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3723 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003724
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003725 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003726 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3727 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003728
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003729 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003730 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3731 in seconds.
3732
3733 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3734 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3735 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003736
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003737 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003738 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003739
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003740 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003741 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3742 update-side primitives, if available.
3743
3744 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3745 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3746 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3747 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3748 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3749 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3750 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003751
3752 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003753 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3754
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003755 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003756 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3757 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3758 test, hence the "fake".
3759
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003760 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003761 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3762 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3763 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3764 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3765 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003766
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003767 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3768 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3769
3770 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003771 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3772
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003773 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003774 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3775 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3776
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003777 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003778 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3779 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3780 during the rcutorture test.
3781
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003782 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003783 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3784 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3785
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003786 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003787 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3788 warnings, zero to disable.
3789
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003790 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003791 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3792
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003793 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003794 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3795
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003796 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003797 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3798 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3799 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3800 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3801
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003802 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003803 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3804 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3805 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3806
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003807 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003808 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3809
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003810 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003811 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3812
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003813 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003814 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3815 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3816
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003817 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3818 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3819
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003820 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003821 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3822
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003823 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003824 Enable additional printk() statements.
3825
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003826 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3827 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3828
3829 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3830 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3831
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003832 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3833 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3834 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3835 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3836 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3837 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003838 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003839
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003840 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3841 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3842 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3843 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003844 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3845 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3846 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3847 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3848 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003849
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003850 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3851 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3852 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003853 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3854 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003855
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003856 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3857 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3858 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3859 to zero.
3860
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003861 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3862 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3863
3864 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3865 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3866
3867 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3868 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3869
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003870 rdinit= [KNL]
3871 Format: <full_path>
3872 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3873 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3874
Tom Lendacky9272c252019-08-19 15:52:35 +00003875 rdrand= [X86]
3876 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
3877 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
3878 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
3879 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
3880 path).
3881
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003882 reboot= [KNL]
3883 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3884 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3885 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3886 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3887 [[,]f[orce]
3888 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3889 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3890 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3891 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3892 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003893
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003894 relax_domain_level=
3895 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003896 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003897
Rafael J. Wysocki0399d4d2014-05-26 13:40:59 +02003898 relative_sleep_states=
3899 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3900 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3901 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3902 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3903 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3904
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003905 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3906
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003907 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9af2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003908 Format: nn[KMG]
3909 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3910 address space.
3911
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003912 reservelow= [X86]
3913 Format: nn[K]
3914 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3915 the bottom of the address space.
3916
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003917 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3918 during initialization.
3919
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003920 resume= [SWSUSP]
3921 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003922 Format:
3923 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003924
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003925 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3926 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3927 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3928 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3929 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3930
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003931 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3932 read the resume files
3933
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003934 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3935 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3936 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3937
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003938 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3939 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3940 present during boot.
3941 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003942 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003943 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3944 (that will set all pages holding image data
3945 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003946
Michael Neuling0a7b35c2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003947 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3948
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003949 rfkill.default_state=
3950 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3951 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3952 1 Unblocked.
3953
3954 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3955 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3956 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3957 blocked and the previous configuration.
3958 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3959 blocked and everything unblocked.
3960
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003961 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3962 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3963
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003964 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3965
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003966 rodata= [KNL]
3967 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3968 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3969
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003970 rockchip.usb_uart
3971 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3972 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3973 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3974 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3975
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003976 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd2011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003977 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003978
3979 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3980 mount the root filesystem
3981
3982 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3983
3984 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3985
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003986 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3987 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3988 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3989
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003990 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3991 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3992 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3993 managed by CMA.
3994
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003995 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3996
3997 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3998
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003999 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4000 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4001 strict
4002 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4003 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4004 which is faster.
4005
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004006 sa1100ir [NET]
4007 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4008
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004009 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004010
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06004011 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4012
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00004013 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4014 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4015 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4016 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4017
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02004018 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4019 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4020 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4021 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4022 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4023 1 -- enable.
4024 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4025 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4026
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004027 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
4028 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
4029 security module asking for security registration will be
4030 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
4031 as if no module has been chosen.
4032
4033 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004034 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4035 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4036 0 -- disable.
4037 1 -- enable.
4038 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4039 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4040 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4041
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07004042 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4043 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4044 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4045 0 -- disable.
4046 1 -- enable.
4047 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4048
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004049 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004050
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004051 shapers= [NET]
4052 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004053
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07004054 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
4055 Format: { <integer> }
4056 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
4057 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
4058 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
4059
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004060 simeth= [IA-64]
4061 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004062
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004063 slram= [HW,MTD]
4064
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07004065 slab_nomerge [MM]
4066 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4067 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4068 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
4069 merging on their own.
4070 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4071
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07004072 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4073 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4074 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4075 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4076 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4077
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07004078 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4079 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4080 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4081 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4082 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4083 last alloc / free. For more information see
4084 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07004085
4086 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07004087 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4088 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4089 fragmentation. For more information see
4090 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07004091
4092 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07004093 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4094 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4095 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4096 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4097 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4098 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07004099 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4100
4101 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004102 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07004103 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07004104 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4105
4106 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07004107 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4108 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07004109
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004110 smart2= [HW]
4111 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4112
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07004113 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4114 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4115 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4116 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4117 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4118 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4119 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4120 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4121 1: Fast pin select (default)
4122 2: ATC IRMode
4123
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02004124 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4125 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4126 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4127 actual hardware limit.
4128 Format: <integer>
4129 Default: -1 (no limit)
4130
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02004131 softlockup_panic=
4132 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004133 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02004134
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07004135 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4136 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4137 backtraces on all cpus.
4138 Format: <integer>
4139
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004140 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02004141 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004142
David Woodhouse8f96937ee2018-01-11 21:46:26 +00004143 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4144 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
Thomas Gleixnerdda365c2018-11-25 19:33:45 +01004145 The default operation protects the kernel from
4146 user space attacks.
David Woodhouse8f96937ee2018-01-11 21:46:26 +00004147
Thomas Gleixnerdda365c2018-11-25 19:33:45 +01004148 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4149 spectre_v2_user=on
4150 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4151 spectre_v2_user=off
David Woodhouse8f96937ee2018-01-11 21:46:26 +00004152 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4153 vulnerable
4154
4155 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4156 mitigation method at run time according to the
4157 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4158 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4159 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4160
Thomas Gleixnerdda365c2018-11-25 19:33:45 +01004161 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4162 against user space to user space task attacks.
4163
4164 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4165 the user space protections.
4166
David Woodhouse8f96937ee2018-01-11 21:46:26 +00004167 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4168
4169 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4170 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4171 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4172
4173 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4174 spectre_v2=auto.
4175
Thomas Gleixnerdda365c2018-11-25 19:33:45 +01004176 spectre_v2_user=
4177 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4178 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4179 user space tasks
4180
4181 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4182 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4183
4184 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4185 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4186
Thomas Gleixner91d9bbd2018-11-25 19:33:54 +01004187 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4188 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4189 per thread. The mitigation control state
4190 is inherited on fork.
4191
Thomas Gleixnere58cf372018-11-25 19:33:56 +01004192 prctl,ibpb
4193 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4194 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4195 always when switching between different user
4196 space processes.
4197
Thomas Gleixner6f4b9252018-11-25 19:33:55 +01004198 seccomp
4199 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4200 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4201 they explicitly opt out.
4202
Thomas Gleixnere58cf372018-11-25 19:33:56 +01004203 seccomp,ibpb
4204 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4205 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4206 always when switching between different
4207 user space processes.
4208
Thomas Gleixnerdda365c2018-11-25 19:33:45 +01004209 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4210 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
Thomas Gleixner6f4b9252018-11-25 19:33:55 +01004211
4212 Default mitigation:
4213 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
Thomas Gleixnerdda365c2018-11-25 19:33:45 +01004214
4215 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4216 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4217
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk6f70a552018-04-25 22:04:21 -04004218 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4219 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4220 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4221
4222 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4223 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4224 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4225 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4226 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4227 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4228 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4229 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4230
4231 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4232 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4233 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4234 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4235
4236 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4237 Bypass optimization is used.
4238
Kees Cook05a85a32018-05-03 14:37:54 -07004239 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4240 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4241 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4242 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4243 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4244 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4245 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4246 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4247 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4248 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4249 for a process by default. The state of the control
4250 is inherited on fork.
4251 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4252 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk6f70a552018-04-25 22:04:21 -04004253
4254 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4255 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4256
Kees Cook05a85a32018-05-03 14:37:54 -07004257 Default mitigations:
4258 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4259
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004260 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4261 spia_fio_base=
4262 spia_pedr=
4263 spia_peddr=
4264
Marc Zyngier3a64e6a2018-07-20 10:56:25 +01004265 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4266 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4267
4268 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4269 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4270 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4271 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4272
4273 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4274 for both kernel and userspace
4275 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4276 for both kernel and userspace
4277 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4278 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4279 to allow userspace to register its
4280 interest in being mitigated too.
4281
Hugh Dickinscfc0eb402017-06-19 04:03:24 -07004282 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4283 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4284 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4285 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4286 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4287 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4288
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05004289 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4290 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4291
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05004292 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4293 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4294 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4295 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4296 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4297 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4298 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4299
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004300 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4301 Format: <num>
4302 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4303 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4304 as the initial boot-console.
4305 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4306
4307 sti_font= [HW]
4308 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4309
4310 stifb= [HW]
4311 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4312
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004313 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4314 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4315 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4316 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4317 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4318 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4319 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4320 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4321 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4322 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4323 maximum port values.
4324
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04004325 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4326 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4327 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4328 process in parallel from a single connection.
4329 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4330
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08004331 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4332 [NFS]
4333 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4334 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4335 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4336 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4337 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4338 NFS server is running.
4339
4340 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4341 automatically using heuristics
4342 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4343 percpu one pool for each CPU
4344 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4345 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4346
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004347 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4348 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4349 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4350 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4351 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4352 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4353 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4354 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4355
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004356 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4357 [SUSPEND]
4358 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4359 mode before resuming the system (see
4360 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4361 is set. Default value is 5.
4362
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004363 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004364 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4365 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004366 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004367
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004368 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoeven41c6b3e2016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004369 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004370 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4371 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4372 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoeven41c6b3e2016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004373 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004374
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004375 switches= [HW,M68k]
4376
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004377 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4378 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4379 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4380 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4381 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4382 in older udev will not work anymore.
4383 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4384 the kernel configuration.
4385
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004386 sysrq_always_enabled
4387 [KNL]
4388 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4389 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4390 Useful for debugging.
4391
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004392 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4393 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4394 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4395 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4396 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4397 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4398
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004399 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4400
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004401 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004402 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004403 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4404 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4405 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4406 The system is woken from this state using a
4407 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004408
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004409 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4410 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4411
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004412 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4413 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4414 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4415
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004416 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4417 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004418 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004419
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004420 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4421 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4422 critical and hot trip points.
4423
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004424 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4425 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4426
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004427 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4428 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004429 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4430 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004431
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004432 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4433 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4434 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4435 0: no polling (default)
4436
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004437 threadirqs [KNL]
4438 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004439 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004440
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004441 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4442 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4443
4444 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4445 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4446 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4447
4448 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4449 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004450 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4451 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004452
4453 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4454 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4455 to the hypervisor.
4456
4457 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4458 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4459 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4460 kernel based on different criteria.
4461
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004462 topology= [S390]
4463 Format: {off | on}
4464 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004465 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4466 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004467 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004468 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004469
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004470 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4471 Format: {off}
4472 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4473 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4474 LPAR.
4475
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004476 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4477
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004478 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4479 Format: integer pcr id
4480 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4481 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4482 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4483 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4484 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4485 are saved.
4486
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004487 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004488 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004489
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004490 trace_event=[event-list]
4491 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004492 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4493 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4494 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004495
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004496 trace_options=[option-list]
4497 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4498 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4499 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4500 to echo the option name into
4501
4502 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4503
4504 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4505 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4506
4507 trace_options=stacktrace
4508
4509 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4510 section.
4511
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004512 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4513 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4514 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4515 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4516 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4517 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4518
4519 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4520 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4521 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4522 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4523
4524 ** CAUTION **
4525
4526 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4527 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4528 the system to live lock.
4529
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004530 traceoff_on_warning
4531 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4532 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4533 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4534 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4535
4536 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4537 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4538 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4539
4540 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4541 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4542
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004543 transparent_hugepage=
4544 [KNL]
4545 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4546 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4547 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4548 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4549
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004550 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004551 Format: <string>
4552 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004553 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4554 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4555 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4556 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004557 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4558 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4559 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4560 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004561
Pawan Gupta21127882019-10-23 11:01:53 +02004562 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4563 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4564 support TSX control.
4565
4566 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4567
4568 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4569 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4570 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4571 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4572 so there may be unknown security risks associated
4573 with leaving it enabled.
4574
4575 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4576 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4577 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4578 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4579 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4580 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4581 deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4582
Pawan Gupta562afad2019-10-23 12:28:57 +02004583 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4584 otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4585
Pawan Gupta21127882019-10-23 11:01:53 +02004586 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4587
4588 See Documentation/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4589 for more details.
4590
Pawan Guptaba54aad2019-10-23 12:32:55 +02004591 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
4592 Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
4593
4594 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
4595 certain CPUs that support Transactional
4596 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
4597 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
4598 information to a disclosure gadget under certain
4599 conditions.
4600
4601 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4602 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
4603 access data to which the attacker does not have direct
4604 access.
4605
4606 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The
4607 options are:
4608
4609 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4610 if TSX is enabled.
4611
4612 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
4613 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
4614 is not disabled because CPU is not
4615 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
4616 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
4617
Waiman Long5aba0ad2019-11-15 11:14:44 -05004618 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
4619 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
4620 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
4621 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
4622
Pawan Guptaba54aad2019-10-23 12:32:55 +02004623 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4624 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected
4625 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
4626 required and doesn't provide any additional
4627 mitigation.
4628
4629 For details see:
4630 Documentation/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4631
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004632 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4633 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4634 Format:
4635 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004636 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4637
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004638 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4639 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4640 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4641 help "seeing" what's going on.
4642
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004643 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4644 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4645
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004646 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4647 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4648 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4649 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4650 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4651 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4652 reported either.
4653
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004654 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004655 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004656
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004657 usbcore.authorized_default=
4658 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4659 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4660 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4661
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004662 usbcore.autosuspend=
4663 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4664 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4665 is the time required before an idle device will be
4666 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004667 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004668
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004669 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4670 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4671
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004672 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4673 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4674 (default = 65536).
4675
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004676 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4677 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4678
4679 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4680 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4681 scheme (default 0 = off).
4682
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004683 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4684 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4685 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4686
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004687 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4688 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4689 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4690
4691 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4692 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4693 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4694 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4695
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004696 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4697
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004698 usbhid.mousepoll=
4699 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004700
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004701 usb-storage.delay_use=
4702 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004703 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004704
4705 usb-storage.quirks=
4706 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4707 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4708 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4709 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4710 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4711 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4712 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004713 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4714 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004715 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4716 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004717 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4718 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004719 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4720 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4721 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4722 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004723 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4724 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004725 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4726 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004727 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4728 reported device capacity by one
4729 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004730 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4731 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004732 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4733 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004734 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4735 unlock ejectable media);
4736 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4737 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004738 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4739 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004740 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4741 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004742 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4743 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004744 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4745 bogus residue values);
4746 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4747 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004748 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4749 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004750 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004751 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4752 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004753 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4754 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004755 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4756
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004757 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4758 Format: <int>
4759 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4760 1 - undefined instruction events
4761 2 - system calls
4762 4 - invalid data aborts
4763 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4764 16 - SIGBUS faults
4765 Example: user_debug=31
4766
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004767 userpte=
4768 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4769
4770 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4771 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4772 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4773
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304774 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004775 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4776
4777 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004778 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4779
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004780 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4781 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4782 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4783
4784 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4785 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4786 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4787
4788 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4789 alias for vdso32=0.
4790
4791 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4792 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004793
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004794 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4795 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4796
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004797 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4798 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4799
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004800 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4801 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4802 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4803 level and then send out the event to user space through
4804 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4805 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4806 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004807 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004808
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004809 virtio_mmio.device=
4810 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4811
4812 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4813 where:
4814 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4815 like K, M and G)
4816 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4817 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4818 request_irq())
4819 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4820 example:
4821 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4822
4823 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4824
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004825 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004826 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004827 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004828 Use vga=ask for menu.
4829 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4830 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4831
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004832 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004833 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4834 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4835 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4836 mapped kernel RAM.
4837
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004838 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4839 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004840
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004841 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4842 Format: <command>
4843
4844 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4845 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004846
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004847 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4848 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4849 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4850 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4851 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4852 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4853 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4854
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004855 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4856 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004857
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004858 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004859 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4860 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4861 better than they would in emulation mode.
4862 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4863
4864 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4865 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4866 might break your system.
4867
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004868 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4869 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4870 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4871
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004872 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4873 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4874 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4875 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4876
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004877 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4878 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4879 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4880 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4881 ranging from 0-255.
4882
4883 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4884 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4885 Change the default green palette of the console.
4886 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4887 ranging from 0-255.
4888
4889 vt.default_red= [VT]
4890 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4891 Change the default red palette of the console.
4892 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4893 ranging from 0-255.
4894
4895 vt.default_utf8=
4896 [VT]
4897 Format=<0|1>
4898 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4899 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4900 newly opened terminals.
4901
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004902 vt.global_cursor_default=
4903 [VT]
4904 Format=<-1|0|1>
4905 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4906 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4907 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4908 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4909 cursors, 1 will display them.
4910
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004911 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4912 Default: 2 = green.
4913
4914 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4915 Default: 3 = cyan.
4916
Randy Dunlap4724ba52010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004917 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4918 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4919 or other driver-specific files in the
4920 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004921
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004922 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4923 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4924 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4925 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4926 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4927 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4928 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4929 corresponding sysfs file.
4930
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004931 workqueue.disable_numa
4932 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4933 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4934 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4935 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4936 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4937 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4938 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4939
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304940 workqueue.power_efficient
4941 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4942 they show better performance thanks to cache
4943 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4944 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4945
4946 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4947 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4948 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4949 power usage at the cost of small performance
4950 overhead.
4951
4952 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4953 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4954
Tejun Heof303fcc2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004955 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4956 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4957 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4958 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4959 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4960 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4961 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4962 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4963 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4964 impacted.
4965
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004966 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4967 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4968 supporting x2apic.
4969
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004970 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4971 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004972 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4973 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004974 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004975
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004976 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4977 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4978 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4979 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4980 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4981 domains.
4982
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004983 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4984 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4985 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4986 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4987 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4988 nics -- unplug network devices
4989 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004990 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4991 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4992 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004993 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004994
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004995 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4996 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4997 optimizations.
4998
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004999 xen_nopv [X86]
5000 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5001 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5002
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005003 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07005004 Format:
5005 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005006
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07005007______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005008
5009TODO:
5010
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005011 Add more DRM drivers.