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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
Stefan Richtera901ebb2006-04-01 01:43:18 +020036This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
37"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
38module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
39reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
40parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
41"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
42
Stefan Richter6585fa82006-04-01 01:44:30 +020043The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
44enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
45the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
46parameter is applicable:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047
48 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
Chuck Ebbertc99c1082007-07-27 10:46:20 +100049 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070050 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
51 APIC APIC support is enabled.
52 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070053 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +020054 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070055 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
Robin Getz0ae53642007-10-09 17:24:49 +080056 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -070057 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -070058 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
Alan Cox9cfe2682011-01-25 14:18:38 +000059 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
60 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070061 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
62 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
63 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -040064 EVM Extended Verification Module
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070065 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070066 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -070067 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070068 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070069 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
Mimi Zohar6146f0d2009-02-04 09:06:57 -050070 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070071 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
Adrian Bunk41e2e8b2005-07-12 13:58:33 -070072 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -080073 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070074 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
75 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
76 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -050077 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +020078 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
Kristen Carlson Accardi11ef6972006-09-28 11:29:01 -070079 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070080 LP Printer support is enabled.
81 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
82 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
83 These options have more detailed description inside of
84 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070085 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070086 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070087 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -070088 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -070089 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070090 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
91 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
92 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
93 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -070094 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
95 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070096 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
97 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -070098 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070099 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
100 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
101 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
102 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
103 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
104 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
105 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
106 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap163475f2010-08-14 12:36:14 -0700107 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
108 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -0700109 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700110 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -0700111 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700112 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
Paul Mundte523d932007-02-28 18:30:01 +0900113 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700114 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
115 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -0700116 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
117 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -0300118 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700119 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -0500120 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700121 USB USB support is enabled.
122 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
123 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +0100124 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700125 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
126 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
127 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
128 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700129 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700130 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
131 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700132 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700133 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +0100134 XEN Xen support is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700135
136In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
137
138 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
139 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
140 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
141
142Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
143loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
144Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -0500145need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700146
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100147There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700148See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100149
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700150Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
151a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
152be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
153it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
154running once the system is up.
155
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700156The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
157complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
158a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
159and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
160./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
161
Ahmed S. Darwish7a19a232011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800162Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
163parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
164multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
165bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
166
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700167
Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +0000168 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -0800169 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +0300170 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
171 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700172 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
173 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
174 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700175 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700176 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +0800177 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +0800178 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +0000179 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off" or "acpi=force" are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700180
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200181 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700182
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400183 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
184 Format: <int>
185 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
186 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -0400187 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400188
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +0200189 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
190 acpi_backlight=vendor
191 acpi_backlight=video
192 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
193 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
194 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
195
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200196 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
197 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
198 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
199 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
200 This option is useful for developers to identify the
201 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
202 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
203
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700204 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
205 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700206 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700207 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
208 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
209 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
210 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
211 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
212 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
213 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600214 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
215 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
216 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700217
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600218 Enable processor driver info messages:
219 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
220 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
221 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700222 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
223 object while interpreting AML:
224 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700225 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
226 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +0200227
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700228 Some values produce so much output that the system is
229 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
230 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +0800231
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200232 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
233 { strict | lax | no }
234 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
235 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
236 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
237 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
238 can interfere with legacy drivers.
239 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
240 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
241 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
242 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
243 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
244 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
245 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
246 no further checks are performed.
247
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +0800248 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
249 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
250 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
251 size limitation.
252
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700253 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
254 ACPI will balance active IRQs
255 default in APIC mode
256
257 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
258 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
259 default in PIC mode
260
261 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
262 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
263
264 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
265 use by PCI
266 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
267
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800268 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
269 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800270 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
271 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
272 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800273 This feature is enabled by default.
274 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800275
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200276 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
277 kernels.
278
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800279 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
280 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
281 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
282 installed automatically and they will appear under
283 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
284 This option turns off this feature.
285 Note that specifying this option does not affect
286 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
287 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700288
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200289 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
290 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
291 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
292 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800293
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700294 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
295 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
296
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200297 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
298 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
299 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
300 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
301 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
302
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700303 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800304 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
305 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800306 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800307 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
308 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700309 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
310
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800311 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
312 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
313 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
314 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
315 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
316 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
317 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800318 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
319 care about the state of the feature group strings which
320 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800321 Examples:
322 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
323 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
324 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
325
326 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
327 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
328 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
329 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
330 multiple times through kernel command line is also
331 meaningless.
332 Examples:
333 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
334 FALSE.
335
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800336 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
337 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
338 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
339 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
340 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
341 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
342 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
343 there are quirks related to this string. This command
344 is useful when one want to control the state of the
345 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
346 the OSPM features.
347 Examples:
348 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
349 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
350 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
351 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
352 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
353 equivalent to
354 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
355 and
356 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
357 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
358
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530359 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700360 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
361 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
362 and always returns good values.
363
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700364 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
365 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
366
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700367 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
368 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
369 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
370
371 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
372 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200373 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700374 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
375 s3_bios and s3_mode.
376 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
377 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
378 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
379 used during resume from hibernation.
380 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
381 control method, with respect to putting devices into
382 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
383 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200384 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
385 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800386 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
387 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
388 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700389
390 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
391 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
392 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
393
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700394 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
395 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
396
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700397 agp= [AGP]
398 { off | try_unsupported }
399 off: disable AGP support
400 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
401 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
402
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700403 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
404 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
405
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000406 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
407 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
408 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
409 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
410
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200411 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
412 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
413 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
414 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
415 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
416 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
417 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
418
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100419 32: only for 32-bit processes
420 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200421 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
422 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
423
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500424 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
425 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
426 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
427 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
428 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
429 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
430
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a32011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100431 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200432 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
433 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900434 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
435 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
436 flushed before they will be reused, which
437 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200438 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
439 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100440 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
441 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
442 allowed anymore to lift isolation
443 requirements as needed. This option
444 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900445
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600446 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
447 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
448 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
449 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
450 IOMMU initialization.
451
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700452 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
453 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
454 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200455 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700456
457 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
458 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
459 connected to one of 16 gameports
460 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
461
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700462 apc= [HW,SPARC]
463 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700464 Format: noidle
465 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
466 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
467 APC and your system crashes randomly.
468
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700469 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700470 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
472 Change the amount of debugging information output
473 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700474
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100475 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
476 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
477 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
478 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
479 backup of CPU 0
480 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
481 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
482 shot down by NMI
483
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800484 autoconf= [IPV6]
485 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
486
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400487 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
488 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
489 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
490 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
491 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
492 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
493 apic=verbose is specified.
494 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
495
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700496 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700497 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700498
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700499 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
500 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
501
502 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
503
504 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
505
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700506 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
507 EzKey and similar keyboards
508
509 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
510
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700511 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
512 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700513
514 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
515 keyboards
516
517 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
518 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700519
520 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
521 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700522
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400523 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
524 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500525 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
526 until the next reboot
527 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
528 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
529 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
530 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
531 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
532 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400533 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400534
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400535 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
536 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
537 Default: 64
538
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700539 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
540 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700541
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700542 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
543 Format: <io>,<mode>
544 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
545
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700546 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
547 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700548 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
549 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
550
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700551 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
552 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700553 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
554 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
555
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700556 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
557 embedded devices based on command line input.
558 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
559
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700560 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
561 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
562 no delay (0).
563 Format: integer
564
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700565 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
566
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700567 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700568 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
569 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700570 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200571 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700572
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000573 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
574 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
575 at a time.
576
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700577 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
578
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700579 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700580 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
581 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
582 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
583 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
584 This option provides an override for these situations.
585
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300586 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
587 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
588 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300589 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300590
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700591 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
592 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
593 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
594 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
595 others).
596
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100597 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
598 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700599
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700600 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
601 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800602 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
603 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
604 a single hierarchy
605 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
606 subsystem
607 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
608 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
609 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700610
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800611 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
612 Format: <string>
613 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
614
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700615 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
616 Format: { "0" | "1" }
617 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700618 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
619 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700620 1 -- check protection requested by application.
621 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700622 Value can be changed at runtime via
623 /selinux/checkreqprot.
624
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100625 cio_ignore= [S390]
626 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700627 clk_ignore_unused
628 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700629 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
630 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
631 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
632 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
633 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
634 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
635 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
636 platform with proper driver support. For more
637 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100638
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700639 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700640 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200641 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700642 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200643 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700644 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
645
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700646 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700647 Format: <string>
648 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
649 with the name specified.
650 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
651 the platform:
652 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
653 [ACPI] acpi_pm
654 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
655 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
656 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700657 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700658 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
659 [MIPS] MIPS
660 [PARISC] cr16
661 [S390] tod
662 [SH] SuperH
663 [SPARC64] tick
664 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
665
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100666 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
667 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800668 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
669 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100670 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
671 ones should be.
672 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
673 or using the feature without checking anything
674 will still see it. This just prevents it from
675 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
676 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
677 some critical bits.
678
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700679 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
680 [ARM,X86,KNL]
681 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
682 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
683 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700684 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
685 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100686 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
687
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000688 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
689 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
690 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
691 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
692 a hypervisor.
693 Default: yes
694
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100695 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
696 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200697 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100698
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530699 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100700 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100701 Range: 0 - 8192
702 Default: 64
703
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700704 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700705 Format:
706 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700707
708 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
709 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
710
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700711 com90xx= [HW,NET]
712 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700713 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
714
715 condev= [HW,S390] console device
716 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700717
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700718 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
719
720 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
721
722 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800723 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700724 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800725 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
726 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
727 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
728 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700729
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800730 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
731 information. See
732 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
733 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700734
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700735 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
736 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900737 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400738 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
739 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700740 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
741 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400742 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
743 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900744 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
745 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
746 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
747 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400748 the h/w is not re-initialized.
749
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500750 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
751 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700752
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700753 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
754 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
755 console=brl,ttyS0
756 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
757
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700758 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
759 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
760 disables the blank timer.
761
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800762 coredump_filter=
763 [KNL] Change the default value for
764 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
765 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
766
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400767 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
768 disable the cpuidle sub-system
769
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400770 cpu_init_udelay=N
771 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
772 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
773 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
774 Default: 10000
775
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700776 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700777 Format:
778 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700779
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800780 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
781 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
782 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
783 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
784 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
785 is selected automatically. Check
786 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700787
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700788 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
789 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
790 in the running system. The syntax of range is
791 start-[end] where start and end are both
792 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800793 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700794
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700795 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700796 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
797 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
798 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
799 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
800 available.
801 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700802 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
803 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
804 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700805 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
806 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800807 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
808 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
809 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
810 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700811 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
812 for second kernel instead.
813 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700814 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700815 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700816
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700817 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
818 Format: <dma>
819
820 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
821 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700822
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700823 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700824 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
825
826 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
827 (one device per port)
828 Format: <port#>,<type>
829 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
830
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200831 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
832 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600833 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200834
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700835 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
836
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700837 debug_locks_verbose=
838 [KNL] verbose self-tests
839 Format=<0|1>
840 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
841 self-tests.
842 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
843 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
844 only useful to kernel developers.
845
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700846 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
847
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500848 no_debug_objects
849 [KNL] Disable object debugging
850
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800851 debug_guardpage_minorder=
852 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
853 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
854 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
855 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
856 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
857 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
858 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
859 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
860 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
861 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
862 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
863 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
864 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
865 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
866 bypassed) which are not detectable by
867 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
868 tracking down these problems.
869
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800870 debug_pagealloc=
871 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
872 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
873 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
874 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
875 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
876 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
877 on: enable the feature
878
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200879 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
880
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200881 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700882 Format: <area>[,<node>]
883 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
884
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700885 default_hugepagesz=
886 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
887 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
888 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
889 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
890 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
891 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700892
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700893 dhash_entries= [KNL]
894 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700895
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800896 disable= [IPV6]
897 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
898
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900899 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
900 Format: <int>
901 The number of initial APIC ID for the
902 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
903 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
904 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
905 causing system reset or hang due to sending
906 INIT from AP to BSP.
907
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000908 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
909 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
910 to workaround buggy firmware.
911
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800912 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
913 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
914
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700915 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700916 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
917 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700918 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700919
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100920 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100921 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
922 memory out of your available memory pool based on
923 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
924 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
925
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530926 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700927 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
928 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
929
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400930 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
931
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700932 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
933 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
934
935 dma_debug_entries=<number>
936 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
937 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
938 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
939 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
940 architectural default is too low.
941
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200942 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
943 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
944 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
945 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
946 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
947 driver later using sysfs.
948
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700949 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
950 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
951 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
952 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
953 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100954 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
955 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
956 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
957 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
958 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
959 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
960 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
961 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700962 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
963 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
964 data set with no connector name will be used for
965 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100966
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700967 dscc4.setup= [NET]
968
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600969 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
970 module.dyndbg[="val"]
971 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
972 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
973
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700974 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
975 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
976 information about the feature.
977
Borislav Petkovf29ba612015-03-27 16:15:18 +0100978 eagerfpu= [X86]
979 on enable eager fpu restore
980 off disable eager fpu restore
981 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
982 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
983
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700984 module.async_probe [KNL]
985 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
986
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700987 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
988 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
989 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
990 which are not unmapped.
991
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700992 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500993
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500994 When used with no options, the early console is
995 determined by the stdout-path property in device
996 tree's chosen node.
997
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200998 cdns,<addr>
999 Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
1000 port at the specified address. The cadence serial port
1001 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1002 yet supported.
1003
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001004 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1005 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -07001006 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001007 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001008 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001009 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1010 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001011 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001012 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1013 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1014 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1015 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001016 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001017
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001018 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001019 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001020 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1021 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1022 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001023 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1024 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1025 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001026
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -07001027 msm_serial,<addr>
1028 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1029 port at the specified address. The serial port
1030 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1031 yet supported.
1032
1033 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1034 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1035 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1036 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1037 yet supported.
1038
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -05001039 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1040
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +01001041 s3c2410,<addr>
1042 s3c2412,<addr>
1043 s3c2440,<addr>
1044 s3c6400,<addr>
1045 s5pv210,<addr>
1046 exynos4210,<addr>
1047 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1048 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1049 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1050 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1051 Options are not yet supported.
1052
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001053 lpuart,<addr>
1054 lpuart32,<addr>
1055 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1056 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1057 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1058 port must already be setup and configured.
1059
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +10001060 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001061 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001062 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001063 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001064 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001065 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001066 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001067 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001068 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001069
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001070 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1071 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1072 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1073
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001074 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001075 takes over.
1076
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001077 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1078 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001079
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001080 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1081 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1082 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1083 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1084 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1085 You can find the port for a given device in
1086 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1087 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001088
1089 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1090 very good.
1091
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001092 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1093 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001094
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001095 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1096
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001097 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1098 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1099 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1100 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1101 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1102 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1103 default: on.
1104
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001105 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1106 ekgdboc=kbd
1107
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001108 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001109 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1110
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001111 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001112 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001113
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001114 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001115 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001116 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1117 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1118 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001119 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1120 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1121 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001122 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001123 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001124
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001125 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1126 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1127 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1128 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1129 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1130
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001131 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1132 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1133 updating original EFI memory map.
1134 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1135 from ss to ss+nn.
1136 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1137 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1138 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1139 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1140
1141 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1142 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1143 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1144 doesn't support it.
1145
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001146 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1147 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1148
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001149 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001150 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001151 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001152
1153 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001154 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001155 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001156 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1157
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001158 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001159 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001160 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1161 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001162 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001163
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001164 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1165 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1166 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1167 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1168
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001169 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001170 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1171 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1172 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1173 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1174
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001175 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1176 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1177 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1178 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1179 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1180 Default value is 0.
1181 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1182
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001183 erst_disable [ACPI]
1184 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1185 support.
1186
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001187 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1188 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1189 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1190
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001191 evm= [EVM]
1192 Format: { "fix" }
1193 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1194 current integrity status.
1195
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001196 failslab=
1197 fail_page_alloc=
1198 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1199 General fault injection mechanism.
1200 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001201 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001202
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001203 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001204 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001205
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001206 force_pal_cache_flush
1207 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1208 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1209 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1210 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1211
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001212 forcepae [X86-32]
1213 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1214 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1215 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1216 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1217 and may cause unknown problems.
1218
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001219 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001220 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001221 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1222 boot debugging.
1223
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001224 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001225 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001226 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1227 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1228 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1229 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001230
1231 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1232 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1233 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1234 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1235 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001236 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001237
1238 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1239 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1240 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1241 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1242 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001243
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001244 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1245 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1246 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1247 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1248 that can be changed at run time by the
1249 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1250
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001251 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1252 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1253 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1254 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1255 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1256
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001257 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1258 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1259 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1260 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1261 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1262
1263 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1264
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001265 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1266 Format: off | on
1267 default: on
1268
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001269 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1270 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1271 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1272 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1273 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1274
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001275 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001276 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1277 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1278 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001279
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001280 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1281 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1282 Format: 0 | 1
1283 Default: 0
1284 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1285 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1286 Format: 0 | 1
1287 Default: 0
1288 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1289 Format: 0 | 1
1290 Default: 0
1291 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1292 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1293 Default: 1024
1294 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1295 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1296 Default: 1024
1297
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001298 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1299 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1300 backtraces on all cpus.
1301 Format: <integer>
1302
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001303 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1304 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001305 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001306 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001307
1308 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1309
1310 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1311 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1312
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001313 hest_disable [ACPI]
1314 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1315 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1316 logic will be disabled.
1317
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001318 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1319 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1320 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1321 size on bigger boxes.
1322
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001323 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1324 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1325 Default: "on"
1326
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001327 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1328 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1329
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001330 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1331
1332 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1333 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1334 verbose }
1335 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1336 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1337 VIA, nVidia)
1338 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1339
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001340 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1341 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1342
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001343 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1344 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001345 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1346 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1347 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1348 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001349 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001350
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001351 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1352 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001353 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1354 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1355 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001356
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001357 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1358 hardware thread id mappings.
1359 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1360
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001361 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1362 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1363 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1364 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1365 the real console.
1366
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001367 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001368 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1369 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001370 Format:
1371 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1372
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001373 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001374 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1375 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1376 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1377 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001378 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001379 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1380 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001381 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1382 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001383 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001384 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1385 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001386 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001387 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001388 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1389 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001390 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001391 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
1392 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001393 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001394
1395 i810= [HW,DRM]
1396
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001397 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1398 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1399 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001400 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1401 does not match list of supported models.
1402 i8k.power_status
1403 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1404 (disabled by default)
1405 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1406 capability is set.
1407
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001408 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001409 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1410 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001411 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1412 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1413 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1414 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1415 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1416 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1417 value switches the backlight off.
1418 -1 -- never invert brightness
1419 0 -- machine default
1420 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001421
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001422 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1423 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1424
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001425 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1426 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001427 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1428 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001429 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001430
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001431 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1432 Format: <int>
1433 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1434 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1435 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1436 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1437 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1438 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1439 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1440 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1441 was 0x3.
1442
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001443 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1444 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1445
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001446 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001447 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001448 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1449 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1450 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1451 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001452 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001453 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001454 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001455
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001456 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1457 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1458 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001459 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1460 could change it dynamically, usually by
1461 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001462
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001463 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1464 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1465
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001466 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001467 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001468 default: "enforce"
1469
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001470 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1471 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1472 owned by uid=0.
1473
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001474 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001475 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1476 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001477 default: "sha1"
1478
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001479 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1480 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1481
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001482 ima_policy= [IMA]
1483 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1484 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1485 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1486 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1487 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1488 Format: "tcb"
1489
1490 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001491 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1492 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1493 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1494 opened for read by uid=0.
1495
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001496 ima_template= [IMA]
1497 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001498 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001499 Default: "ima-ng"
1500
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001501 ima_template_fmt=
1502 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1503 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1504
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001505 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1506 Format: <min_file_size>
1507 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1508 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1509
1510 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1511 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1512 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1513
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001514 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1515 Format: <bufsize>
1516 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1517
1518 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1519 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1520 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1521
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001522 init= [KNL]
1523 Format: <full_path>
1524 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1525 process.
1526
1527 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1528 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1529 startup.
1530
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001531 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1532 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1533 modules and initcalls.
1534
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001535 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1536
1537 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1538 Format: <irq>
1539
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001540 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1541
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001542 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1543 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1544 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1545 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1546
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001547 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001548 on
1549 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001550 off
1551 Disable intel iommu driver.
1552 igfx_off [Default Off]
1553 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1554 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1555 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1556 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1557 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001558 forcedac [x86_64]
1559 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001560 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001561 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001562 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1563 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001564 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001565 strict [Default Off]
1566 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1567 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1568 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001569 sp_off [Default Off]
1570 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1571 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1572 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001573 ecs_off [Default Off]
1574 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1575 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1576 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1577 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1578 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001579
1580 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1581 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1582 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1583
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001584 intel_pstate= [X86]
1585 disable
1586 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1587 scaling driver for the supported processors
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001588 force
1589 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1590 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1591 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1592 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1593 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1594 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1595 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1596 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001597 no_hwp
1598 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1599 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001600 hwp_only
1601 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1602 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001603
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001604 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001605 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1606 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1607 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001608 no_x2apic_optout
1609 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001610 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001611
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001612 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1613 strict regions from userspace.
1614 relaxed
1615
1616 iommu= [x86]
1617 off
1618 force
1619 noforce
1620 biomerge
1621 panic
1622 nopanic
1623 merge
1624 nomerge
1625 forcesac
1626 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001627 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001628 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1629 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001630
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001631
1632 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1633 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1634 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1635
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301636 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001637 0x80
1638 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1639 0xed
1640 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001641 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001642 Simple two microseconds delay
1643 none
1644 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001645
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001646 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001647 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001648
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001649 irqfixup [HW]
1650 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1651 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1652 firmware running.
1653
1654 irqpoll [HW]
1655 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1656 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1657 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1658 firmware running.
1659
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001660 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001661 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001662
1663 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -08001664 Format:
1665 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1666 or
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001667 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1668 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -08001669 or a mixture
1670 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001671
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001672 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1673 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001674 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1675 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001676 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1677 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1678
1679 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001680 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1681 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1682 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001683
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001684 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001685
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001686 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1687 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1688 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1689 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1690 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1691 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1692
1693 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1694 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1695 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1696 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1697 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1698 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1699
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001700 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1701 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1702
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001703 kaslr/nokaslr [X86]
1704 Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR
1705 (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into
1706 the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected,
1707 kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled,
1708 hibernation will be disabled.
1709
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001710 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1711
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301712 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001713 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1714 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1715 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1716 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1717 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1718 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1719 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001720 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001721 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1722 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1723 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1724 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1725 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1726 zone if it does not.
1727
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001728 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1729 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1730 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1731 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1732 optional and is the number seconds in between
1733 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1734 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1735 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1736 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1737 the kernel debugger.
1738
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001739 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001740 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1741 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001742 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1743 keyboard only format: kbd
1744 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1745 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1746 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1747 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001748
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001749 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1750 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1751
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001752 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1753 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1754 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1755
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001756 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1757 Valid arguments: on, off
1758 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001759 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1760 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001761
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001762 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1763 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1764 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1765 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1766 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1767 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1768
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301769 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001770 in oops dumps.
1771
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001772 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1773 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1774
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001775 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1776 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001777 Default is 0 (off)
1778
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001779 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001780 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001781
1782 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1783 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001784 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001785
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001786 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1787 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1788 Default is 1 (enabled)
1789
1790 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1791 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1792 Default is 0 (disabled)
1793
1794 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1795 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1796 Default is 1 (enabled)
1797
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001798 kvm-intel.nested=
1799 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1800 Default is 0 (disabled)
1801
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001802 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1803 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1804 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1805 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1806
1807 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1808 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1809 Default is 1 (enabled)
1810
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001811 l2cr= [PPC]
1812
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001813 l3cr= [PPC]
1814
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001815 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001816 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001817
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001818 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1819 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1820 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1821
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301822 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001823 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001824
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001825 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1826 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1827 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1828 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001829 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001830 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1831 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001832
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001833 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1834 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1835 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001836
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001837 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1838 when set.
1839 Format: <int>
1840
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001841 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1842 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001843 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001844 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1845 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1846 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1847 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1848 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1849
1850 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1851 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1852 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1853 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1854 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1855 host link and device attached to it.
1856
1857 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1858 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1859 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1860 The following configurations can be forced.
1861
1862 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1863 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1864
1865 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1866
1867 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1868 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1869 allowed.
1870
1871 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1872
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001873 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1874
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001875 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1876 and both resets.
1877
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001878 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1879 hot-unplug link recovery
1880
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001881 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1882
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001883 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1884
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001885 * disable: Disable this device.
1886
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001887 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1888 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1889
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001890 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001891
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001892 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001893 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001894
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001895 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1896 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001897
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001898 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1899 Format: <integer>
1900
1901 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1902 Format: <integer>
1903
1904 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1905 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001906
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07001907 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1908 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1909 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1910 number of online CPUs.
1911
1912 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1913 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1914
1915 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1916 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1917
1918 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1919 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1920 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1921
1922 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1923 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1924 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1925 mode during the locktorture test.
1926
1927 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1928 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1929 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1930
1931 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1932 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1933
1934 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1935 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1936 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1937 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1938 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1939 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1940
1941 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1942 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1943
1944 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1945 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1946
1947 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1948 Enable additional printk() statements.
1949
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001950 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1951 Format: <irq>
1952
1953 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1954 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1955 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1956 loglevels are defined as follows:
1957
1958 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1959 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1960 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1961 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1962 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1963 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1964 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1965 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1966
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08001967 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07001968 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1969 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1970 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1971 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1972 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1973 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001974
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07001975 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1976 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1977 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1978 kernel boot problems.
1979
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001980 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1981 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1982 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1983 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1984 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1985 attached printers to be reset. Using
1986 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1987 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1988 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1989 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1990 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1991 port specification list means that device IDs
1992 from each port should be examined, to see if
1993 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1994 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1995 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1996
1997 lpj=n [KNL]
1998 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1999 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2000 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2001 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2002 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2003 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2004 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2005 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2006 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2007 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2008 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2009 hardware.
2010
2011 ltpc= [NET]
2012 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2013
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002014 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002015 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2016 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002017
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002018 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2019 yeeloong laptop.
2020 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2021
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002022 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2023 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002024
2025 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002026 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
2027 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
2028 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
2029 the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002030
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002031 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2032 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2033 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2034 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2035 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2036 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002037
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002038 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002039
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002040 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002041
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002042 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2043 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002044
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002045 mdacon= [MDA]
2046 Format: <first>,<last>
2047 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002048
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002049 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2050 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2051 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002052 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2053 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2054 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2055 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002056
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002057 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002058 memory.
2059
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002060 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2061 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2062 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2063
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302064 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002065 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2066 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2067 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2068 option description.
2069
2070 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002071 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2072 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002073
2074 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2075 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002076 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002077
2078 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2079 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002080 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002081 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2082 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2083 or
2084 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002085
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002086 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2087 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2088 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2089 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2090 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2091
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002092 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2093 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2094 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2095 Setting this option will scan the memory
2096 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2097 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2098 from using the memory being corrupted.
2099 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2100 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2101 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2102 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2103
2104 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2105 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2106 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2107 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2108 corruption in more or less memory.
2109
2110 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2111 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2112 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2113 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2114
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002115 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002116 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002117 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002118 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2119 performed. Each pass selects another test
2120 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2121 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2122 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2123 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002124
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002125 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2126 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2127
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002128 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2129 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2130 platforms.
2131
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002132 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2133 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2134 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2135 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2136
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002137 mga= [HW,DRM]
2138
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002139 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2140 physical address is ignored.
2141
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002142 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2143 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2144 Default: "0tb"
2145 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2146 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2147 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2148 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2149 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2150 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2151 unconfigured.
2152 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2153 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2154 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2155 VGA shield.
2156 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2157 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2158 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2159 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2160 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2161 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2162
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002163 mminit_loglevel=
2164 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2165 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2166 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2167 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2168 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2169 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2170
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002171 module.sig_enforce
2172 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2173 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002174 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002175 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2176
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002177 mousedev.tap_time=
2178 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2179 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2180 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2181 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2182 Format: <msecs>
2183 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2184 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2185 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2186 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2187
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302188 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002189 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2190 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2191 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2192 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2193 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2194 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2195 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2196 is not too small.
2197
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002198 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2199 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2200
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002201 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2202 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2203
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002204 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2205 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002206
2207 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002208 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002209
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002210 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2211 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2212 at a time.
2213
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002214 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2215
2216 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2217
2218 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2219 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2220 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2221 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2222 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2223
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002224 mtdset= [ARM]
2225 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2226
2227 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2228
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002229 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002230 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2231 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002232
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002233 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002234 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002235 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2236
2237 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2238 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2239 Default is 1.
2240 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2241 using up MTRRs.
2242
2243 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2244 Format: <integer>
2245 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2246 Default : 1
2247 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2248 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2249
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002250 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2251
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002252 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2253 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2254 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2255 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002256 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2257 file if at all.
2258
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002259 nf_conntrack.acct=
2260 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2261 0 to disable accounting
2262 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002263 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002264
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002265 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002266 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002267
2268 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002269 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002270
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002271 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2272 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2273
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002274 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2275 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2276 channel should listen.
2277
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002278 nfs.cache_getent=
2279 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2280 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2281
2282 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2283 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2284 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2285
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002286 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2287 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2288 entries.
2289
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002290 nfs.enable_ino64=
2291 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2292 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2293 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2294 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2295 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2296
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002297 nfs.max_session_slots=
2298 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2299 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2300 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2301 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2302 Note that there is little point in setting this
2303 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2304
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002305 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002306 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2307 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2308 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2309 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2310 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2311 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2312 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2313 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2314 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2315 back to using the idmapper.
2316 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002317 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2318 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2319 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2320 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2321 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002322
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002323 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2324 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2325 information in exchange_id requests.
2326 If zero, no implementation identification information
2327 will be sent.
2328 The default is to send the implementation identification
2329 information.
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002330
2331 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2332 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2333 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2334 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2335 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2336 after the locks are lost.
2337 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2338 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2339 parameter to '1'.
2340 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2341 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002342
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002343 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2344 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2345 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2346
2347 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2348 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2349 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2350 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2351
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002352 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2353 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2354 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2355 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2356 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2357 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002358
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002359 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2360 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2361 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2362 osd-targets. Please see:
2363 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2364
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002365 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002366 when a NMI is triggered.
2367 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2368
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302369 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002370 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002371 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002372 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2373 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002374 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002375 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002376 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2377 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002378 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2379 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002380
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002381 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2382 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2383 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2384 waits 4 seconds.
2385
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002386 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002387 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2388 is present.
2389
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002390 no_console_suspend
2391 [HW] Never suspend the console
2392 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2393 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2394 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2395 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2396 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2397 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2398 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002399 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2400 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2401 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2402 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2403 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002404
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002405 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2406 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2407 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002408
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002409 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2410
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002411 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2412 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2413
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002414 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2415
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002416 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2417 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2418
2419 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002420
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002421 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2422
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002423 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2424
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002425 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
2426
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002427 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2428
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002429 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002430
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002431 noexec [IA-64]
2432
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302433 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002434 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002435 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002436 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2437
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002438 nosmap [X86]
2439 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2440 even if it is supported by processor.
2441
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002442 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002443 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002444 even if it is supported by processor.
2445
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002446 noexec32 [X86-64]
2447 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2448 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2449 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2450 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2451 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002452
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002453 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002454
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002455 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002456 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2457 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002458
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002459 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2460
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002461 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2462 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2463 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2464
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002465 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2466 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2467 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2468 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2469 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2470 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2471
2472 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2473 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2474 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2475 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2476 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2477 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2478 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2479
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002480 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2481 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2482 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002483
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002484 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2485 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2486 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2487
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002488 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2489 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2490 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2491 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2492 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2493 real-time systems.
2494
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002495 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2496
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002497 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2498 Valid arguments: on, off
2499 Default: on
2500
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002501 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2502 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002503 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002504 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2505 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002506 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2507 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002508
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002509 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2510
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002511 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002512 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2513
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302514 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002515 broken timer IRQ sources.
2516
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002517 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2518
2519 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2520 initial RAM disk.
2521
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002522 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2523 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002524 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002525
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002526 nointroute [IA-64]
2527
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002528 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002529
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002530 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2531
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002532 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2533 fault handling.
2534
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002535 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2536 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2537 behaviour
2538
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002539 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002540
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002541 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002542
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002543 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2544 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
2545
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002546 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2547
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002548 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002549
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002550 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2551 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2552
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002553 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2554 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2555 irq.
2556
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002557 nomodule Disable module load
2558
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002559 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2560 pagetables) support.
2561
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002562 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2563 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2564
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002565 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002566
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002567 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002568 with UP alternatives
2569
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002570 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2571 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2572 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2573 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002574
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002575 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2576 space.
2577
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002578 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2579 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2580 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2581
2582 nosbagart [IA-64]
2583
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002584 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002585
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002586 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2587 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002588
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002589 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2590
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002591 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2592
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002593 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002594
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002595 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2596 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002597
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002598 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002599
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002600 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2601
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002602 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2603 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2604 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2605 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2606 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2607 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2608 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2609 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2610 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2611 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2612 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2613 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2614 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2615
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002616 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002617 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2618 SAL PALO.
2619
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002620 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2621 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2622 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
2623 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
2624 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
2625
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002626 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2627
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002628 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2629 Allowed values are enable and disable
2630
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002631 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2632 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2633 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2634 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2635
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002636 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2637 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2638 info.
2639
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002640 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2641 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2642 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2643 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2644 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2645 interrupts *may* be lost!
2646
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002647 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2648 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2649 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2650 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2651
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002652 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2653 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2654
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002655 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2656 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2657 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002658 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2659 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002660 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2661 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002662 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2663 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2664 for generic hr timer mode)
Andreas Krebbeldd3c4672011-11-25 20:03:05 +01002665 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
2666 (report cpu_type "timer")
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002667
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002668 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2669 process, but there is a small probability of
2670 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002671 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2672 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2673
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002674 OSS [HW,OSS]
2675 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2676
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002677 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2678 Storage of the information about who allocated
2679 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2680 we can turn it on.
2681 on: enable the feature
2682
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002683 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002684 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2685 timeout = 0: wait forever
2686 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002687 Format: <timeout>
2688
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002689 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2690 on a WARN().
2691
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002692 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2693 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2694 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2695 succeeds in any situation.
2696 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2697 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2698 kernel more unstable.
2699
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002700 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2701 connected to, default is 0.
2702 Format: <parport#>
2703 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2704 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002705 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002706
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002707 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2708 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2709 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2710 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2711 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2712 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2713 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2714 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2715 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2716 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2717 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2718 are specified on the command line, starting
2719 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002720
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002721 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2722 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2723 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2724 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2725 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2726 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002727 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2728
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002729 pause_on_oops=
2730 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2731 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2732 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2733
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002734 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2735
2736 pcd. [PARIDE]
2737 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002738 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002739
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002740 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002741 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2742 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002743 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002744 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002745 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2746 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002747 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002748 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2749 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2750 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002751 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002752 Mechanism 1.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002753 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002754 Mechanism 2.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002755 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2756 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2757 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002758 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2759 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302760 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002761 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002762 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2763 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2764 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002765 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2766 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2767 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002768 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2769 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2770 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002771 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2772 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2773 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2774 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002775 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2776 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2777 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2778 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002779 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002780 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2781 on several machines and they hang the machine
2782 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2783 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2784 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2785 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2786 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002787 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002788 Use with caution as certain devices share
2789 address decoders between ROMs and other
2790 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002791 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002792 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2793 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002794 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2795 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002796 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002797 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2798 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2799 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002800 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002801 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2802 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2803 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002804 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002805 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2806 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2807 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002808 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002809 numbers ourselves, overriding
2810 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002811 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002812 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2813 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2814 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2815 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2816 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002817 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002818 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002819 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2820 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2821 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2822 please report a bug.
2823 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2824 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002825 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2826 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2827 so this option is a temporary workaround
2828 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002829 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2830 handle more pci cards
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002831 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2832 just use the configuration from the
2833 bootloader. This is currently used on
2834 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2835 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002836 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2837 This might help on some broken boards which
2838 machine check when some devices' config space
2839 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2840 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002841 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2842 This sorting is done to get a device
2843 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2844 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08002845 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2846 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2847 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2848 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2849 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2850 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2851 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2852 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2853 or bus can support) for best performance.
2854 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2855 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2856 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2857 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2858 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2859 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08002860 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2861 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2862 The default value is 256 bytes.
2863 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2864 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2865 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002866 resource_alignment=
2867 Format:
2868 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2869 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2870 aligned memory resources.
2871 If <order of align> is not specified,
2872 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2873 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2874 windows need to be expanded.
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06002875 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2876 end-to-end CRC checking).
2877 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2878 the default.
2879 off: Turn ECRC off
2880 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08002881 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2882 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2883 Default size is 256 bytes.
2884 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2885 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2886 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08002887 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2888 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2889 accommodate resources required by all child
2890 devices.
2891 off: Turn realloc off
2892 on: Turn realloc on
2893 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01002894 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06002895 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2896 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2897 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002898
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04002899 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2900 Management.
2901 off Disable ASPM.
2902 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2903 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2904
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05002905 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2906 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2907 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2908
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002909 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002910 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2911 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2912 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2913 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2914 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002915 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2916 ports driver.
2917
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002918 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01002919 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002920 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002921
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002922 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2923
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05302924 pd_ignore_unused
2925 [PM]
2926 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2927 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2928 for debug and development, but should not be
2929 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2930
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002931 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002932 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002933
2934 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2935 boot time.
2936 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2937 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2938
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09002939 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09002940 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2941 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2942 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2943 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2944 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09002945
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002946 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002947 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002948
2949 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002950 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002951
2952 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002953 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002954
2955 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2956 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2957 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2958
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002959 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02002960 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2961 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
2962
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06002963 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
2964 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
2965 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
2966 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
2967 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
2968 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06002969
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002970 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
2971 { off }
2972
2973 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
2974 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2975
2976 pnp_reserve_irq=
2977 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2978
2979 pnp_reserve_dma=
2980 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2981
2982 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002983 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002984
2985 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002986 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2987 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002988 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2989
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07002990 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2991 Default is 21.
2992 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
2993 may be specified.
2994 Format: <port>,<port>....
2995
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11002996 ppc_strict_facility_enable
2997 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
2998 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
2999 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3000 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3001
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003002 print-fatal-signals=
3003 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003004
3005 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3006 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3007 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3008 coredump - etc.
3009
3010 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3011 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3012
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003013 default: off.
3014
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003015 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3016 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3017 panics
3018 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3019 default: disabled
3020
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003021 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3022 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3023
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003024 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3025 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3026 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3027
3028 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3029 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3030 instead using the legacy FADT method
3031
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003032 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003033 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3034 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3035 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3036 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003037 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3038 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003039 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003040
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003041 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3042 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003043 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003044
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003045 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3046 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003047 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3048 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003049 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3050 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003051 (0 = never).
3052 psmouse.resolution=
3053 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3054 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003055 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003056 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3057
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003058 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3059
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003060 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003061 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003062
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003063 pty.legacy_count=
3064 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3065 default number.
3066
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003067 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003068
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003069 r128= [HW,DRM]
3070
3071 raid= [HW,RAID]
3072 See Documentation/md.txt.
3073
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003074 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003075 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003076
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003077 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003078 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003079
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003080 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003081 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3082 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3083 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003084 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3085 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3086 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3087 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003088 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3089 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3090 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3091
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003092 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003093 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3094 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3095 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3096 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3097 This improves the real-time response for the
3098 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3099 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3100 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3101 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3102
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003103 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003104 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3105 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003106
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003107 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3108 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3109 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3110 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3111
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003112 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3113 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3114 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3115 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3116
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003117 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3118 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3119 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003120 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3121 is set.
3122
3123 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3124 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3125 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3126 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3127 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3128 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003129
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003130 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3131 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3132 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3133 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3134 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003135
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003136 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003137 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3138 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3139 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3140 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3141 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3142 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003143
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003144 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3145 Set required age in jiffies for a
3146 given grace period before RCU starts
3147 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3148 rcu_note_context_switch().
3149
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003150 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003151 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3152 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3153 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3154 and maximum value is HZ.
3155
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003156 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003157 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3158 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3159 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3160
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003161 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003162 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3163 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3164 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3165 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3166 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3167 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3168 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3169 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3170 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003171
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003172 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3173 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3174 defaults to the square root of the number of
3175 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3176 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3177 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3178
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003179 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003180 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3181 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003182
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003183 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003184 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3185 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003186
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003187 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003188 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3189 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003190
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003191 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003192 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3193 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3194 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3195 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003196
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003197 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3198 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3199 callback-flood tests.
3200
3201 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3202 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3203 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3204 test.
3205
3206 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3207 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3208 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3209 disable callback-flood testing.
3210
3211 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3212 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3213 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3214
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003215 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003216 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3217 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003218
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003219 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003220 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3221 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003222
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003223 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003224 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3225 in seconds.
3226
3227 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3228 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3229 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003230
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003231 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003232 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003233
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003234 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003235 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3236 update-side primitives, if available.
3237
3238 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3239 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3240 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3241 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3242 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3243 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3244 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003245
3246 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003247 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3248
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003249 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003250 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3251 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3252 test, hence the "fake".
3253
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003254 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003255 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3256 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3257 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3258 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3259 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003260
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003261 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3262 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3263
3264 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003265 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3266
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003267 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003268 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3269 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3270
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003271 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003272 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3273 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3274 during the rcutorture test.
3275
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003276 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003277 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3278 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3279
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003280 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003281 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3282 warnings, zero to disable.
3283
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003284 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003285 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3286
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003287 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003288 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3289
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003290 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003291 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3292 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3293 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3294 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3295
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003296 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003297 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3298 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3299 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3300
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003301 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003302 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3303
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003304 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003305 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3306
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003307 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003308 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3309 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3310
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003311 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3312 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3313
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003314 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003315 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3316
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003317 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003318 Enable additional printk() statements.
3319
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003320 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3321 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3322
3323 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3324 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3325
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003326 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3327 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3328 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3329 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3330 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3331 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003332 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003333
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003334 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3335 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3336 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3337 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003338 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3339 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3340 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3341 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3342 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003343
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003344 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3345 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3346 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003347 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3348 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003349
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003350 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3351 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3352 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3353 to zero.
3354
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003355 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3356 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3357
3358 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3359 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3360
3361 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3362 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3363
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003364 rdinit= [KNL]
3365 Format: <full_path>
3366 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3367 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3368
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003369 reboot= [KNL]
3370 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3371 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3372 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3373 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3374 [[,]f[orce]
3375 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3376 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3377 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3378 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3379 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003380
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003381 relax_domain_level=
3382 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +01003383 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003384
Rafael J. Wysocki0399d4d2014-05-26 13:40:59 +02003385 relative_sleep_states=
3386 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3387 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3388 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3389 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3390 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3391
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003392 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3393
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003394 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003395 Format: nn[KMG]
3396 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3397 address space.
3398
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003399 reservelow= [X86]
3400 Format: nn[K]
3401 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3402 the bottom of the address space.
3403
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003404 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3405 during initialization.
3406
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003407 resume= [SWSUSP]
3408 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003409 Format:
3410 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003411
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003412 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3413 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3414 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3415 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3416 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3417
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003418 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3419 read the resume files
3420
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003421 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3422 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3423 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3424
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003425 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3426 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3427 present during boot.
3428 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003429 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003430
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003431 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3432
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003433 rfkill.default_state=
3434 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3435 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3436 1 Unblocked.
3437
3438 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3439 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3440 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3441 blocked and the previous configuration.
3442 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3443 blocked and everything unblocked.
3444
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003445 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3446 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3447
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003448 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3449
3450 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003451 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003452
3453 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3454 mount the root filesystem
3455
3456 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3457
3458 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3459
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003460 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3461 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3462 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3463
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003464 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3465 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3466 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3467 managed by CMA.
3468
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003469 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3470
3471 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3472
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003473 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3474 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3475 strict
3476 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3477 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3478 which is faster.
3479
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003480 sa1100ir [NET]
3481 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3482
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003483 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003484
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003485 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3486
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003487 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3488 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3489 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3490 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3491 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3492 1 -- enable.
3493 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3494 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3495
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003496 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3497 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3498 security module asking for security registration will be
3499 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3500 as if no module has been chosen.
3501
3502 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003503 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3504 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3505 0 -- disable.
3506 1 -- enable.
3507 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3508 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3509 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3510
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003511 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3512 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3513 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3514 0 -- disable.
3515 1 -- enable.
3516 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3517
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003518 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003519
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003520 shapers= [NET]
3521 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003522
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07003523 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3524 Format: { <integer> }
3525 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3526 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3527 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3528
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003529 simeth= [IA-64]
3530 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003531
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003532 slram= [HW,MTD]
3533
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003534 slab_nomerge [MM]
3535 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3536 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3537 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3538 merging on their own.
3539 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3540
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003541 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3542 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3543 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3544 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3545 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3546
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003547 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3548 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3549 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3550 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3551 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3552 last alloc / free. For more information see
3553 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003554
3555 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003556 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3557 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3558 fragmentation. For more information see
3559 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003560
3561 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003562 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3563 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3564 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3565 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3566 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3567 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003568 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3569
3570 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003571 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003572 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003573 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3574
3575 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003576 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3577 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003578
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003579 smart2= [HW]
3580 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3581
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003582 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3583 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3584 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3585 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3586 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3587 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3588 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3589 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3590 1: Fast pin select (default)
3591 2: ATC IRMode
3592
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003593 softlockup_panic=
3594 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003595 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003596
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003597 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3598 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3599 backtraces on all cpus.
3600 Format: <integer>
3601
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003602 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003603 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003604
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003605 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3606 spia_fio_base=
3607 spia_pedr=
3608 spia_peddr=
3609
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003610 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3611 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3612
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003613 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3614 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3615 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3616 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3617 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3618 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3619 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3620
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003621 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3622 Format: <num>
3623 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3624 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3625 as the initial boot-console.
3626 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3627
3628 sti_font= [HW]
3629 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3630
3631 stifb= [HW]
3632 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3633
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003634 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3635 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3636 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3637 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3638 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3639 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3640 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3641 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3642 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3643 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3644 maximum port values.
3645
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003646 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3647 [NFS]
3648 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3649 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3650 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3651 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3652 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3653 NFS server is running.
3654
3655 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3656 automatically using heuristics
3657 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3658 percpu one pool for each CPU
3659 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3660 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3661
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003662 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3663 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3664 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3665 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3666 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3667 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3668 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3669 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3670
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003671 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3672 [SUSPEND]
3673 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3674 mode before resuming the system (see
3675 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3676 is set. Default value is 5.
3677
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003678 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003679 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3680 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3681 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
3682
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003683 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3684 Format: { <int> | force }
3685 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3686 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3687 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003688
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003689 switches= [HW,M68k]
3690
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02003691 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3692 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3693 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3694 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3695 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3696 in older udev will not work anymore.
3697 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3698 the kernel configuration.
3699
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08003700 sysrq_always_enabled
3701 [KNL]
3702 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3703 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3704 Useful for debugging.
3705
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01003706 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3707 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3708 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3709 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3710 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3711 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3712
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003713 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3714
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003715 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003716 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003717 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3718 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3719 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3720 The system is woken from this state using a
3721 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003722
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003723 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3724 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3725
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04003726 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3727 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3728 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3729
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003730 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3731 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04003732 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003733
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04003734 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3735 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3736 critical and hot trip points.
3737
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04003738 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3739 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3740
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003741 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3742 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08003743 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3744 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003745
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04003746 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3747 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3748 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3749 0: no polling (default)
3750
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003751 threadirqs [KNL]
3752 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003753 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003754
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003755 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3756 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3757
3758 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3759 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3760 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3761
3762 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3763 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04003764 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3765 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003766
3767 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3768 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3769 to the hypervisor.
3770
3771 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3772 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3773 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3774 kernel based on different criteria.
3775
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003776 topology= [S390]
3777 Format: {off | on}
3778 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07003779 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3780 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003781 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02003782 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003783
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07003784 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3785 Format: {off}
3786 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3787 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3788 LPAR.
3789
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003790 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3791
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03003792 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3793 Format: integer pcr id
3794 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3795 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3796 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3797 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3798 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3799 are saved.
3800
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08003801 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09003802 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09003803
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003804 trace_event=[event-list]
3805 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
3806 to facilitate early boot debugging.
3807 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
3808
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04003809 trace_options=[option-list]
3810 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3811 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3812 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3813 to echo the option name into
3814
3815 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3816
3817 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3818 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3819
3820 trace_options=stacktrace
3821
3822 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3823 section.
3824
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05003825 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3826 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3827 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3828 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3829 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3830 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3831
3832 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3833 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3834 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3835 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3836
3837 ** CAUTION **
3838
3839 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3840 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3841 the system to live lock.
3842
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04003843 traceoff_on_warning
3844 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3845 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3846 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3847 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3848
3849 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3850 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3851 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3852
3853 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3854 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3855
Jiri Kosinafcf4d8212012-03-21 16:34:02 -07003856 transparent_hugepage=
3857 [KNL]
3858 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3859 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3860 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3861 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3862
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003863 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07003864 Format: <string>
3865 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003866 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3867 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
3868 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3869 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07003870 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3871 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3872 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
3873 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07003874
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003875 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
3876 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
3877 Format:
3878 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003879 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
3880
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00003881 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
3882 happen after console_init() and before a proper
3883 console driver takes over, this boot options might
3884 help "seeing" what's going on.
3885
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00003886 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3887 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
3888
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05003889 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
3890 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
3891 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
3892 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
3893 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
3894 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
3895 reported either.
3896
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01003897 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003898 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01003899
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02003900 usbcore.authorized_default=
3901 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
3902 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
3903 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
3904
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05003905 usbcore.autosuspend=
3906 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
3907 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
3908 is the time required before an idle device will be
3909 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04003910 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05003911
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003912 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
3913 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
3914
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05003915 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
3916 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
3917 (default = 65536).
3918
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003919 usbcore.blinkenlights=
3920 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
3921
3922 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
3923 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3924 scheme (default 0 = off).
3925
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05003926 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
3927 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
3928 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
3929
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003930 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
3931 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
3932 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
3933
3934 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
3935 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
3936 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
3937 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
3938
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01003939 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
3940
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003941 usbhid.mousepoll=
3942 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003943
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003944 usb-storage.delay_use=
3945 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00003946 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003947
3948 usb-storage.quirks=
3949 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
3950 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
3951 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
3952 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
3953 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
3954 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
3955 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05003956 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
3957 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05003958 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
3959 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003960 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
3961 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01003962 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
3963 READ_DISC_INFO command);
3964 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
3965 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02003966 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
3967 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02003968 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
3969 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05003970 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
3971 reported device capacity by one
3972 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003973 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
3974 device);
3975 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
3976 unlock ejectable media);
3977 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
3978 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04003979 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
3980 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05003981 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
3982 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04003983 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
3984 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003985 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
3986 bogus residue values);
3987 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
3988 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02003989 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
3990 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04003991 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003992 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
3993 medium is write-protected).
3994 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
3995
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07003996 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
3997 Format: <int>
3998 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
3999 1 - undefined instruction events
4000 2 - system calls
4001 4 - invalid data aborts
4002 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4003 16 - SIGBUS faults
4004 Example: user_debug=31
4005
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004006 userpte=
4007 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4008
4009 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4010 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4011 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4012
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304013 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004014 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4015
4016 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004017 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4018
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004019 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4020 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4021 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4022
4023 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4024 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4025 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4026
4027 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4028 alias for vdso32=0.
4029
4030 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4031 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004032
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004033 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4034 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4035
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004036 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4037 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4038
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004039 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4040 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4041 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4042 level and then send out the event to user space through
4043 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4044 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4045 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004046 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004047
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004048 virtio_mmio.device=
4049 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4050
4051 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4052 where:
4053 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4054 like K, M and G)
4055 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4056 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4057 request_irq())
4058 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4059 example:
4060 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4061
4062 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4063
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004064 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004065 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004066 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004067 Use vga=ask for menu.
4068 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4069 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4070
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004071 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004072 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4073 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4074 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4075 mapped kernel RAM.
4076
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004077 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4078 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004079
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004080 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4081 Format: <command>
4082
4083 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4084 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004085
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004086 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4087 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4088 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4089 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4090 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4091 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4092 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4093
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004094 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4095 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004096
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004097 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004098 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4099 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4100 better than they would in emulation mode.
4101 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4102
4103 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4104 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4105 might break your system.
4106
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004107 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4108 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4109 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4110
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004111 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4112 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4113 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4114 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4115
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004116 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4117 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4118 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4119 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4120 ranging from 0-255.
4121
4122 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4123 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4124 Change the default green palette of the console.
4125 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4126 ranging from 0-255.
4127
4128 vt.default_red= [VT]
4129 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4130 Change the default red palette of the console.
4131 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4132 ranging from 0-255.
4133
4134 vt.default_utf8=
4135 [VT]
4136 Format=<0|1>
4137 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4138 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4139 newly opened terminals.
4140
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004141 vt.global_cursor_default=
4142 [VT]
4143 Format=<-1|0|1>
4144 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4145 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4146 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4147 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4148 cursors, 1 will display them.
4149
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004150 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4151 Default: 2 = green.
4152
4153 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4154 Default: 3 = cyan.
4155
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004156 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4157 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4158 or other driver-specific files in the
4159 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004160
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004161 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4162 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4163 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4164 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4165 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4166 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4167 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4168 corresponding sysfs file.
4169
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004170 workqueue.disable_numa
4171 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4172 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4173 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4174 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4175 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4176 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4177 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4178
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304179 workqueue.power_efficient
4180 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4181 they show better performance thanks to cache
4182 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4183 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4184
4185 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4186 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4187 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4188 power usage at the cost of small performance
4189 overhead.
4190
4191 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4192 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4193
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004194 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4195 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4196 supporting x2apic.
4197
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004198 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4199 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004200 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4201 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004202 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004203
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004204 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4205 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4206 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4207 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4208 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4209 domains.
4210
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004211 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4212 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4213 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4214 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4215 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4216 nics -- unplug network devices
4217 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004218 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4219 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4220 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004221 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004222
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004223 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4224 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4225 optimizations.
4226
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004227 xen_nopv [X86]
4228 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4229 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4230
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004231 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004232 Format:
4233 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004234
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004235______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004236
4237TODO:
4238
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004239 Add more DRM drivers.