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Mauro Carvalho Chehabe53dd082007-09-15 07:38:47 -03001 Kernel Parameters
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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.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800614 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800615
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700616 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
617 Format: { "0" | "1" }
618 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700619 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
620 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700621 1 -- check protection requested by application.
622 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700623 Value can be changed at runtime via
624 /selinux/checkreqprot.
625
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100626 cio_ignore= [S390]
627 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700628 clk_ignore_unused
629 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700630 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
631 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
632 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
633 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
634 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
635 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
636 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
637 platform with proper driver support. For more
638 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100639
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700640 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700641 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200642 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700643 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200644 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700645 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
646
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700647 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700648 Format: <string>
649 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
650 with the name specified.
651 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
652 the platform:
653 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
654 [ACPI] acpi_pm
655 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
656 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
657 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700658 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700659 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
660 [MIPS] MIPS
661 [PARISC] cr16
662 [S390] tod
663 [SH] SuperH
664 [SPARC64] tick
665 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
666
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100667 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
668 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800669 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
670 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100671 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
672 ones should be.
673 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
674 or using the feature without checking anything
675 will still see it. This just prevents it from
676 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
677 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
678 some critical bits.
679
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700680 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
681 [ARM,X86,KNL]
682 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
683 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
684 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700685 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
686 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100687 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
688
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000689 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
690 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
691 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
692 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
693 a hypervisor.
694 Default: yes
695
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100696 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
697 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200698 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100699
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530700 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100701 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100702 Range: 0 - 8192
703 Default: 64
704
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700705 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700706 Format:
707 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700708
709 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
710 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
711
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700712 com90xx= [HW,NET]
713 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700714 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
715
716 condev= [HW,S390] console device
717 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700718
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700719 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
720
721 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
722
723 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800724 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700725 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800726 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
727 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
728 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
729 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700730
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800731 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
732 information. See
733 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
734 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700735
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700736 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
737 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900738 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400739 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
740 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700741 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
742 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400743 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
744 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900745 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
746 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
747 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
748 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400749 the h/w is not re-initialized.
750
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500751 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
752 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700753
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700754 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
755 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
756 console=brl,ttyS0
757 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
758
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700759 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
760 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
761 disables the blank timer.
762
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800763 coredump_filter=
764 [KNL] Change the default value for
765 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
766 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
767
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400768 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
769 disable the cpuidle sub-system
770
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400771 cpu_init_udelay=N
772 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
773 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
774 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
775 Default: 10000
776
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700777 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700778 Format:
779 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700780
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800781 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
782 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
783 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
784 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
785 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
786 is selected automatically. Check
787 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700788
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700789 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
790 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
791 in the running system. The syntax of range is
792 start-[end] where start and end are both
793 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800794 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700795
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700796 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700797 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
798 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
799 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
800 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
801 available.
802 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700803 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
804 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
805 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700806 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
807 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800808 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
809 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
810 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
811 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700812 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
813 for second kernel instead.
814 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700815 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700816 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700817
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700818 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
819 Format: <dma>
820
821 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
822 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700823
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700824 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700825 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
826
827 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
828 (one device per port)
829 Format: <port#>,<type>
830 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
831
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200832 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
833 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600834 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200835
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700836 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
837
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700838 debug_locks_verbose=
839 [KNL] verbose self-tests
840 Format=<0|1>
841 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
842 self-tests.
843 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
844 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
845 only useful to kernel developers.
846
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700847 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
848
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500849 no_debug_objects
850 [KNL] Disable object debugging
851
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800852 debug_guardpage_minorder=
853 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
854 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
855 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
856 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
857 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
858 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
859 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
860 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
861 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
862 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
863 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
864 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
865 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
866 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
867 bypassed) which are not detectable by
868 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
869 tracking down these problems.
870
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800871 debug_pagealloc=
872 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
873 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
874 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
875 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
876 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
877 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
878 on: enable the feature
879
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200880 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
881
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200882 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700883 Format: <area>[,<node>]
884 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
885
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700886 default_hugepagesz=
887 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
888 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
889 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
890 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
891 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
892 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700893
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700894 dhash_entries= [KNL]
895 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700896
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800897 disable= [IPV6]
898 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
899
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900900 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
901 Format: <int>
902 The number of initial APIC ID for the
903 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
904 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
905 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
906 causing system reset or hang due to sending
907 INIT from AP to BSP.
908
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000909 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
910 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
911 to workaround buggy firmware.
912
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800913 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
914 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
915
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700916 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700917 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
918 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700919 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700920
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100921 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100922 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
923 memory out of your available memory pool based on
924 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
925 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
926
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530927 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700928 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
929 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
930
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400931 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
932
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700933 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
934 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
935
936 dma_debug_entries=<number>
937 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
938 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
939 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
940 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
941 architectural default is too low.
942
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200943 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
944 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
945 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
946 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
947 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
948 driver later using sysfs.
949
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700950 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
951 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
952 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
953 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
954 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100955 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
956 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
957 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
958 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
959 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
960 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
961 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
962 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700963 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
964 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
965 data set with no connector name will be used for
966 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100967
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700968 dscc4.setup= [NET]
969
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600970 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
971 module.dyndbg[="val"]
972 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
973 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
974
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700975 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
976 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
977 information about the feature.
978
Borislav Petkovf29ba612015-03-27 16:15:18 +0100979 eagerfpu= [X86]
980 on enable eager fpu restore
981 off disable eager fpu restore
982 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
983 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
984
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700985 module.async_probe [KNL]
986 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
987
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700988 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
989 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
990 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
991 which are not unmapped.
992
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700993 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500994
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500995 When used with no options, the early console is
996 determined by the stdout-path property in device
997 tree's chosen node.
998
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200999 cdns,<addr>
1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
1001 port at the specified address. The cadence serial port
1002 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1003 yet supported.
1004
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001005 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1006 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -07001007 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001008 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001009 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001010 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1011 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001012 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001013 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1014 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1015 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1016 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001017 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001018
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001019 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001020 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001021 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1022 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1023 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001024 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1025 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1026 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001027
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -07001028 msm_serial,<addr>
1029 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1030 port at the specified address. The serial port
1031 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1032 yet supported.
1033
1034 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1035 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1036 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1037 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1038 yet supported.
1039
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -05001040 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1041
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +01001042 s3c2410,<addr>
1043 s3c2412,<addr>
1044 s3c2440,<addr>
1045 s3c6400,<addr>
1046 s5pv210,<addr>
1047 exynos4210,<addr>
1048 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1049 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1050 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1051 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1052 Options are not yet supported.
1053
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001054 lpuart,<addr>
1055 lpuart32,<addr>
1056 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1057 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1058 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1059 port must already be setup and configured.
1060
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +10001061 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001062 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001063 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001064 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001065 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001066 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001067 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001068 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001069 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001070
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001071 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1072 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1073 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1074
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001075 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001076 takes over.
1077
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001078 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1079 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001080
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001081 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1082 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1083 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1084 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1085 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1086 You can find the port for a given device in
1087 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1088 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001089
1090 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1091 very good.
1092
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001093 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1094 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001095
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001096 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1097
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001098 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1099 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1100 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1101 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1102 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1103 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1104 default: on.
1105
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001106 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1107 ekgdboc=kbd
1108
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001109 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001110 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1111
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001112 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001113 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001114
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001115 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001116 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001117 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1118 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1119 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001120 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1121 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1122 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001123 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001124 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001125
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001126 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1127 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1128 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1129 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1130 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1131
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001132 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1133 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1134 updating original EFI memory map.
1135 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1136 from ss to ss+nn.
1137 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1138 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1139 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1140 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1141
1142 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1143 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1144 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1145 doesn't support it.
1146
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001147 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1148 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1149
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001150 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001151 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001152 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001153
1154 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001155 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001156 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001157 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1158
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001159 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001160 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001161 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1162 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001163 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001164
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001165 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1166 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1167 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1168 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1169
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001170 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001171 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1172 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1173 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1174 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1175
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001176 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1177 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1178 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1179 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1180 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1181 Default value is 0.
1182 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1183
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001184 erst_disable [ACPI]
1185 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1186 support.
1187
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001188 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1189 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1190 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1191
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001192 evm= [EVM]
1193 Format: { "fix" }
1194 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1195 current integrity status.
1196
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001197 failslab=
1198 fail_page_alloc=
1199 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1200 General fault injection mechanism.
1201 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001202 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001203
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001204 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001205 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001206
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001207 force_pal_cache_flush
1208 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1209 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1210 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1211 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1212
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001213 forcepae [X86-32]
1214 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1215 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1216 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1217 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1218 and may cause unknown problems.
1219
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001220 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001221 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001222 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1223 boot debugging.
1224
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001225 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001226 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001227 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1228 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1229 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1230 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001231
1232 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1233 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1234 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1235 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1236 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001237 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001238
1239 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1240 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1241 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1242 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1243 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001244
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001245 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1246 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1247 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1248 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1249 that can be changed at run time by the
1250 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1251
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001252 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1253 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1254 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1255 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1256 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1257
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001258 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1259 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1260 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1261 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1262 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1263
1264 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1265
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001266 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1267 Format: off | on
1268 default: on
1269
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001270 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1271 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1272 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1273 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1274 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1275
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001276 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001277 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1278 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1279 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001280
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001281 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1282 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1283 Format: 0 | 1
1284 Default: 0
1285 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1286 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1287 Format: 0 | 1
1288 Default: 0
1289 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1290 Format: 0 | 1
1291 Default: 0
1292 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1293 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1294 Default: 1024
1295 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1296 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1297 Default: 1024
1298
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001299 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1300 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1301 backtraces on all cpus.
1302 Format: <integer>
1303
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001304 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1305 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001306 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001307 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001308
1309 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1310
1311 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1312 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1313
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001314 hest_disable [ACPI]
1315 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1316 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1317 logic will be disabled.
1318
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001319 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1320 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1321 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1322 size on bigger boxes.
1323
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001324 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1325 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1326 Default: "on"
1327
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001328 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1329 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1330
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001331 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1332
1333 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1334 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1335 verbose }
1336 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1337 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1338 VIA, nVidia)
1339 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1340
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001341 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1342 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1343
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001344 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1345 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001346 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1347 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1348 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1349 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001350 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001351
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001352 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1353 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001354 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1355 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1356 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001357
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001358 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1359 hardware thread id mappings.
1360 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1361
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001362 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1363 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1364 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1365 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1366 the real console.
1367
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001368 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001369 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1370 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001371 Format:
1372 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1373
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001374 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001375 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1376 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1377 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1378 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001379 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001380 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1381 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001382 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1383 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001384 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001385 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1386 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001387 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001388 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001389 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1390 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001391 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001392 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
1393 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001394 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001395
1396 i810= [HW,DRM]
1397
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001398 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1399 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1400 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001401 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1402 does not match list of supported models.
1403 i8k.power_status
1404 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1405 (disabled by default)
1406 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1407 capability is set.
1408
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001409 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001410 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1411 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001412 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1413 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1414 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1415 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1416 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1417 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1418 value switches the backlight off.
1419 -1 -- never invert brightness
1420 0 -- machine default
1421 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001422
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001423 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1424 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1425
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001426 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1427 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001428 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1429 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001430 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001431
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001432 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1433 Format: <int>
1434 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1435 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1436 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1437 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1438 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1439 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1440 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1441 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1442 was 0x3.
1443
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001444 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1445 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1446
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001447 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001448 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001449 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1450 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1451 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1452 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001453 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001454 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001455 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001456
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001457 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1458 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1459 Default: strict
1460
1461 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1462 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1463 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1464 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1465 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1466 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1467 encoding mode.
1468
1469 Available settings are as follows:
1470 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1471 supported by the FPU
1472 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1473 by the FPU
1474 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1475 by the FPU
1476 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1477 supported by the FPU
1478
1479 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1480 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1481 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1482 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1483 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1484 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1485 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1486 MIPS64 CPUs.
1487
1488 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1489 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1490 except where unsupported by hardware.
1491
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001492 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1493 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1494 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001495 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1496 could change it dynamically, usually by
1497 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001498
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001499 ignore_rlimit_data
1500 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1501 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1502 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1503
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001504 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1505 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1506
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001507 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001508 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001509 default: "enforce"
1510
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001511 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1512 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1513 owned by uid=0.
1514
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001515 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001516 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1517 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001518 default: "sha1"
1519
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001520 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1521 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1522
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001523 ima_policy= [IMA]
1524 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1525 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1526 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1527 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1528 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1529 Format: "tcb"
1530
1531 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001532 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1533 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1534 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1535 opened for read by uid=0.
1536
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001537 ima_template= [IMA]
1538 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001539 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001540 Default: "ima-ng"
1541
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001542 ima_template_fmt=
1543 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1544 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1545
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001546 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1547 Format: <min_file_size>
1548 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1549 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1550
1551 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1552 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1553 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1554
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001555 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1556 Format: <bufsize>
1557 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1558
1559 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1560 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1561 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1562
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001563 init= [KNL]
1564 Format: <full_path>
1565 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1566 process.
1567
1568 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1569 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1570 startup.
1571
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001572 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1573 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1574 modules and initcalls.
1575
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001576 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1577
1578 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1579 Format: <irq>
1580
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001581 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1582
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001583 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1584 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1585 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1586 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1587
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001588 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001589 on
1590 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001591 off
1592 Disable intel iommu driver.
1593 igfx_off [Default Off]
1594 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1595 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1596 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1597 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1598 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001599 forcedac [x86_64]
1600 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001601 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001602 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001603 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1604 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001605 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001606 strict [Default Off]
1607 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1608 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1609 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001610 sp_off [Default Off]
1611 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1612 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1613 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001614 ecs_off [Default Off]
1615 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1616 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1617 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1618 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1619 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001620
1621 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1622 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1623 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1624
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001625 intel_pstate= [X86]
1626 disable
1627 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1628 scaling driver for the supported processors
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001629 force
1630 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1631 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1632 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1633 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1634 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1635 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1636 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1637 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001638 no_hwp
1639 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1640 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001641 hwp_only
1642 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1643 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001644
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001645 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001646 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1647 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1648 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001649 no_x2apic_optout
1650 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001651 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001652
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001653 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1654 strict regions from userspace.
1655 relaxed
1656
1657 iommu= [x86]
1658 off
1659 force
1660 noforce
1661 biomerge
1662 panic
1663 nopanic
1664 merge
1665 nomerge
1666 forcesac
1667 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001668 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001669 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1670 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001671
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001672
1673 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1674 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1675 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1676
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301677 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001678 0x80
1679 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1680 0xed
1681 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001682 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001683 Simple two microseconds delay
1684 none
1685 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001686
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001687 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001688 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001689
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001690 irqfixup [HW]
1691 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1692 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1693 firmware running.
1694
1695 irqpoll [HW]
1696 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1697 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1698 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1699 firmware running.
1700
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001701 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001702 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001703
1704 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -08001705 Format:
1706 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1707 or
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001708 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1709 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -08001710 or a mixture
1711 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001712
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001713 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1714 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001715 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1716 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001717 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1718 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1719
1720 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001721 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1722 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1723 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001724
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001725 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001726
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001727 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1728 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1729 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1730 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1731 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1732 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1733
1734 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1735 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1736 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1737 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1738 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1739 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1740
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001741 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1742 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1743
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001744 kaslr/nokaslr [X86]
1745 Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR
1746 (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into
1747 the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected,
1748 kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled,
1749 hibernation will be disabled.
1750
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001751 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1752
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001753 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1754 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1755 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001756 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1757 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1758 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1759 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1760 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1761 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1762 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001763 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001764 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1765 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1766 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1767 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1768 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1769 zone if it does not.
1770
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001771 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1772 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1773 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1774 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1775 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1776 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1777 time.
1778
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001779 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1780 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1781 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1782 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1783 optional and is the number seconds in between
1784 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1785 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1786 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1787 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1788 the kernel debugger.
1789
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001790 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001791 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1792 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001793 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1794 keyboard only format: kbd
1795 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1796 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1797 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1798 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001799
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001800 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1801 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1802
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001803 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1804 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1805 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1806
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001807 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1808 Valid arguments: on, off
1809 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001810 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1811 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001812
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001813 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1814 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1815 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1816 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1817 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1818 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1819
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301820 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001821 in oops dumps.
1822
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001823 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1824 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1825
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001826 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1827 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001828 Default is 0 (off)
1829
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001830 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001831 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001832
1833 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1834 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001835 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001836
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001837 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1838 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1839 Default is 1 (enabled)
1840
1841 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1842 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1843 Default is 0 (disabled)
1844
1845 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1846 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1847 Default is 1 (enabled)
1848
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001849 kvm-intel.nested=
1850 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1851 Default is 0 (disabled)
1852
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001853 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1854 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1855 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1856 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1857
1858 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1859 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1860 Default is 1 (enabled)
1861
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001862 l2cr= [PPC]
1863
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001864 l3cr= [PPC]
1865
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001866 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001867 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001868
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001869 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1870 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1871 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1872
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301873 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001874 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001875
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001876 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1877 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1878 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1879 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001880 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001881 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1882 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001883
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001884 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1885 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1886 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001887
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001888 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1889 when set.
1890 Format: <int>
1891
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001892 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1893 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001894 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001895 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1896 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1897 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1898 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1899 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1900
1901 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1902 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1903 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1904 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1905 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1906 host link and device attached to it.
1907
1908 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1909 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1910 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1911 The following configurations can be forced.
1912
1913 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1914 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1915
1916 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1917
1918 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1919 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1920 allowed.
1921
1922 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1923
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001924 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1925
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001926 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1927 and both resets.
1928
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001929 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1930 hot-unplug link recovery
1931
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001932 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1933
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001934 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1935
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001936 * disable: Disable this device.
1937
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001938 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1939 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1940
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001941 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001942
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001943 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001944 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001945
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001946 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1947 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001948
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001949 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1950 Format: <integer>
1951
1952 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1953 Format: <integer>
1954
1955 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1956 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001957
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07001958 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1959 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1960 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1961 number of online CPUs.
1962
1963 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1964 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1965
1966 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1967 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1968
1969 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1970 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1971 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1972
1973 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1974 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1975 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1976 mode during the locktorture test.
1977
1978 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1979 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1980 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1981
1982 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1983 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1984
1985 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1986 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1987 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1988 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1989 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1990 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1991
1992 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1993 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1994
1995 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1996 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1997
1998 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1999 Enable additional printk() statements.
2000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002001 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2002 Format: <irq>
2003
2004 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2005 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2006 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2007 loglevels are defined as follows:
2008
2009 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2010 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2011 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2012 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2013 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2014 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2015 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2016 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2017
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002018 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002019 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2020 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2021 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2022 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2023 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2024 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002025
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002026 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2027 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2028 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2029 kernel boot problems.
2030
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002031 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2032 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2033 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2034 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2035 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2036 attached printers to be reset. Using
2037 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2038 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2039 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2040 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2041 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2042 port specification list means that device IDs
2043 from each port should be examined, to see if
2044 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2045 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2046 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2047
2048 lpj=n [KNL]
2049 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2050 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2051 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2052 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2053 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2054 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2055 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2056 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2057 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2058 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2059 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2060 hardware.
2061
2062 ltpc= [NET]
2063 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2064
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002065 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002066 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2067 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002068
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002069 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2070 yeeloong laptop.
2071 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2072
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002073 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2074 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002075
2076 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002077 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
2078 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
2079 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
2080 the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002081
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002082 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2083 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2084 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2085 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2086 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2087 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002088
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002089 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002090
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002091 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002092
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002093 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2094 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002095
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002096 mdacon= [MDA]
2097 Format: <first>,<last>
2098 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002099
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002100 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2101 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2102 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002103 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2104 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2105 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2106 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002107
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002108 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002109 memory.
2110
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002111 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2112 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2113 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2114
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302115 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002116 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2117 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2118 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2119 option description.
2120
2121 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002122 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2123 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002124
2125 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2126 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002127 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002128
2129 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2130 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002131 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002132 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2133 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2134 or
2135 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002136
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002137 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2138 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2139 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2140 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2141 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2142
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002143 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2144 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2145 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2146 Setting this option will scan the memory
2147 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2148 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2149 from using the memory being corrupted.
2150 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2151 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2152 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2153 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2154
2155 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2156 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2157 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2158 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2159 corruption in more or less memory.
2160
2161 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2162 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2163 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2164 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2165
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002166 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002167 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002168 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002169 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2170 performed. Each pass selects another test
2171 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2172 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2173 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2174 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002175
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002176 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2177 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2178
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002179 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2180 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2181 platforms.
2182
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002183 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2184 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2185 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2186 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2187
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002188 mga= [HW,DRM]
2189
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002190 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2191 physical address is ignored.
2192
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002193 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2194 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2195 Default: "0tb"
2196 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2197 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2198 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2199 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2200 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2201 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2202 unconfigured.
2203 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2204 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2205 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2206 VGA shield.
2207 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2208 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2209 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2210 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2211 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2212 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2213
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002214 mminit_loglevel=
2215 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2216 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2217 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2218 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2219 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2220 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2221
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002222 module.sig_enforce
2223 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2224 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002225 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002226 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2227
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002228 mousedev.tap_time=
2229 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2230 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2231 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2232 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2233 Format: <msecs>
2234 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2235 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2236 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2237 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2238
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302239 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002240 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2241 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2242 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2243 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2244 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2245 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2246 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2247 is not too small.
2248
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002249 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2250 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2251
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002252 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2253 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2254
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002255 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2256 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002257
2258 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002259 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002260
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002261 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2262 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2263 at a time.
2264
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002265 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2266
2267 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2268
2269 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2270 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2271 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2272 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2273 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2274
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002275 mtdset= [ARM]
2276 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2277
2278 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2279
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002280 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002281 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2282 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002283
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002284 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002285 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002286 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2287
2288 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2289 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2290 Default is 1.
2291 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2292 using up MTRRs.
2293
2294 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2295 Format: <integer>
2296 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2297 Default : 1
2298 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2299 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2300
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002301 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2302
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002303 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2304 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2305 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2306 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002307 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2308 file if at all.
2309
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002310 nf_conntrack.acct=
2311 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2312 0 to disable accounting
2313 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002314 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002315
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002316 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002317 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002318
2319 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002320 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002321
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002322 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2323 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2324
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002325 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2326 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2327 channel should listen.
2328
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002329 nfs.cache_getent=
2330 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2331 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2332
2333 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2334 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2335 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2336
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002337 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2338 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2339 entries.
2340
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002341 nfs.enable_ino64=
2342 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2343 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2344 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2345 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2346 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2347
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002348 nfs.max_session_slots=
2349 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2350 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2351 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2352 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2353 Note that there is little point in setting this
2354 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2355
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002356 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002357 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2358 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2359 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2360 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2361 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2362 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2363 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2364 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2365 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2366 back to using the idmapper.
2367 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002368 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2369 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2370 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2371 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2372 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002373
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002374 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2375 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2376 information in exchange_id requests.
2377 If zero, no implementation identification information
2378 will be sent.
2379 The default is to send the implementation identification
2380 information.
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002381
2382 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2383 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2384 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2385 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2386 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2387 after the locks are lost.
2388 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2389 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2390 parameter to '1'.
2391 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2392 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002393
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002394 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2395 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2396 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2397
2398 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2399 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2400 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2401 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2402
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002403 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2404 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2405 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2406 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2407 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2408 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002409
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002410 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2411 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2412 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2413 osd-targets. Please see:
2414 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2415
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002416 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002417 when a NMI is triggered.
2418 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2419
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302420 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002421 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002422 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002423 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2424 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002425 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002426 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002427 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2428 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002429 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2430 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002431
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002432 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2433 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2434 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2435 waits 4 seconds.
2436
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002437 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002438 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2439 is present.
2440
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002441 no_console_suspend
2442 [HW] Never suspend the console
2443 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2444 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2445 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2446 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2447 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2448 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2449 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002450 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2451 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2452 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2453 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2454 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002455
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002456 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2457 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2458 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002459
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002460 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2461
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002462 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2463 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2464
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002465 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2466
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002467 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2468 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2469
2470 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002471
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002472 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2473
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002474 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2475
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002476 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
2477
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002478 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2479
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002480 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002481
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002482 noexec [IA-64]
2483
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302484 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002485 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002486 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002487 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2488
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002489 nosmap [X86]
2490 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2491 even if it is supported by processor.
2492
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002493 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002494 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002495 even if it is supported by processor.
2496
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002497 noexec32 [X86-64]
2498 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2499 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2500 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2501 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2502 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002503
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002504 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002505
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002506 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002507 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2508 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002509
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002510 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2511
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002512 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2513 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2514 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2515
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002516 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2517 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2518 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2519 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2520 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2521 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2522
2523 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2524 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2525 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2526 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2527 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2528 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2529 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2530
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002531 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2532 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2533 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002534
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002535 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2536 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2537 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2538
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002539 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2540 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2541 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2542 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2543 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2544 real-time systems.
2545
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002546 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2547
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002548 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2549 Valid arguments: on, off
2550 Default: on
2551
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002552 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2553 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002554 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002555 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2556 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002557 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2558 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002559
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002560 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2561
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002562 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002563 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2564
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302565 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002566 broken timer IRQ sources.
2567
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002568 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2569
2570 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2571 initial RAM disk.
2572
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002573 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2574 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002575 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002576
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002577 nointroute [IA-64]
2578
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002579 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002580
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002581 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2582
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002583 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2584 fault handling.
2585
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002586 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2587 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2588 behaviour
2589
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002590 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002591
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002592 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002593
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002594 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2595 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
2596
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002597 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2598
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002599 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002600
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002601 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2602 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2603
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002604 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2605 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2606 irq.
2607
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002608 nomodule Disable module load
2609
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002610 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2611 pagetables) support.
2612
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002613 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2614 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2615
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002616 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002617
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002618 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002619 with UP alternatives
2620
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002621 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2622 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2623 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2624 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002625
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002626 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2627 space.
2628
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002629 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2630 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2631 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2632
2633 nosbagart [IA-64]
2634
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002635 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002636
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002637 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2638 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002639
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002640 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2641
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002642 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2643
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002644 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002645
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002646 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2647 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002648
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002649 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002650
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002651 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2652
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002653 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2654 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2655 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2656 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2657 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2658 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2659 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2660 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2661 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2662 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2663 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2664 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2665 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2666
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002667 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002668 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2669 SAL PALO.
2670
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002671 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2672 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2673 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
2674 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
2675 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
2676
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002677 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2678
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002679 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2680 Allowed values are enable and disable
2681
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002682 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2683 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2684 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2685 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2686
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002687 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2688 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2689 info.
2690
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002691 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2692 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2693 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2694 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2695 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2696 interrupts *may* be lost!
2697
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002698 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2699 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2700 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2701 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2702
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002703 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2704 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2705
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002706 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2707 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2708 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002709 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2710 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002711 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2712 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002713 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2714 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2715 for generic hr timer mode)
Andreas Krebbeldd3c46702011-11-25 20:03:05 +01002716 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
2717 (report cpu_type "timer")
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002718
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002719 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2720 process, but there is a small probability of
2721 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002722 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2723 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2724
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002725 OSS [HW,OSS]
2726 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2727
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002728 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2729 Storage of the information about who allocated
2730 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2731 we can turn it on.
2732 on: enable the feature
2733
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002734 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002735 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2736 timeout = 0: wait forever
2737 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002738 Format: <timeout>
2739
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002740 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2741 on a WARN().
2742
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002743 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2744 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2745 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2746 succeeds in any situation.
2747 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2748 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2749 kernel more unstable.
2750
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002751 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2752 connected to, default is 0.
2753 Format: <parport#>
2754 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2755 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002756 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002757
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002758 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2759 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2760 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2761 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2762 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2763 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2764 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2765 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2766 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2767 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2768 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2769 are specified on the command line, starting
2770 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002771
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002772 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2773 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2774 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2775 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2776 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2777 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002778 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2779
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002780 pause_on_oops=
2781 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2782 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2783 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2784
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002785 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2786
2787 pcd. [PARIDE]
2788 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002789 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002790
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002791 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002792 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2793 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002794 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002795 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002796 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2797 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002798 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002799 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2800 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2801 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002802 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2803 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2804 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2805 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2806 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2807 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2808 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2809 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2810 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2811 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002812 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2813 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2814 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002815 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2816 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302817 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002818 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002819 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2820 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2821 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002822 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2823 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2824 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002825 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2826 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2827 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002828 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2829 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2830 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2831 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002832 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2833 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2834 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2835 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002836 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002837 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2838 on several machines and they hang the machine
2839 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2840 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2841 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2842 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2843 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002844 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002845 Use with caution as certain devices share
2846 address decoders between ROMs and other
2847 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002848 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002849 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2850 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002851 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2852 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002853 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002854 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2855 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2856 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002857 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002858 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2859 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2860 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002861 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002862 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2863 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2864 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002865 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002866 numbers ourselves, overriding
2867 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002868 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002869 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2870 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2871 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2872 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2873 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002874 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002875 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002876 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2877 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2878 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2879 please report a bug.
2880 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2881 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002882 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2883 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2884 so this option is a temporary workaround
2885 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002886 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2887 handle more pci cards
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002888 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2889 just use the configuration from the
2890 bootloader. This is currently used on
2891 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2892 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002893 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2894 This might help on some broken boards which
2895 machine check when some devices' config space
2896 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2897 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002898 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2899 This sorting is done to get a device
2900 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2901 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08002902 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2903 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2904 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2905 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2906 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2907 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2908 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2909 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2910 or bus can support) for best performance.
2911 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2912 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2913 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2914 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2915 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2916 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08002917 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2918 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2919 The default value is 256 bytes.
2920 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2921 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2922 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002923 resource_alignment=
2924 Format:
2925 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2926 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2927 aligned memory resources.
2928 If <order of align> is not specified,
2929 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2930 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2931 windows need to be expanded.
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06002932 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2933 end-to-end CRC checking).
2934 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2935 the default.
2936 off: Turn ECRC off
2937 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08002938 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2939 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2940 Default size is 256 bytes.
2941 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2942 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2943 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08002944 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2945 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2946 accommodate resources required by all child
2947 devices.
2948 off: Turn realloc off
2949 on: Turn realloc on
2950 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01002951 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06002952 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2953 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2954 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002955
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04002956 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2957 Management.
2958 off Disable ASPM.
2959 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2960 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2961
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05002962 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2963 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2964 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2965
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002966 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002967 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2968 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2969 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2970 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2971 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002972 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2973 ports driver.
2974
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002975 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01002976 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002977 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002978
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002979 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2980
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05302981 pd_ignore_unused
2982 [PM]
2983 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2984 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2985 for debug and development, but should not be
2986 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2987
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002988 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002989 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002990
2991 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2992 boot time.
2993 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2994 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2995
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09002996 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09002997 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2998 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2999 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3000 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3001 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003002
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003003 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003004 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003005
3006 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003007 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003008
3009 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003010 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003011
3012 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3013 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3014 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3015
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003016 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003017 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3018 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3019
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003020 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3021 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3022 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3023 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3024 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3025 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003026
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003027 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3028 { off }
3029
3030 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3031 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3032
3033 pnp_reserve_irq=
3034 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3035
3036 pnp_reserve_dma=
3037 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3038
3039 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003040 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003041
3042 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003043 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3044 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003045 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3046
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003047 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3048 Default is 21.
3049 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3050 may be specified.
3051 Format: <port>,<port>....
3052
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003053 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3054 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3055 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3056 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3057 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3058
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003059 print-fatal-signals=
3060 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003061
3062 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3063 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3064 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3065 coredump - etc.
3066
3067 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3068 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3069
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003070 default: off.
3071
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003072 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3073 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3074 panics
3075 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3076 default: disabled
3077
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003078 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3079 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3080
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003081 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3082 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3083 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3084
3085 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3086 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3087 instead using the legacy FADT method
3088
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003089 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003090 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3091 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3092 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3093 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003094 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3095 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003096 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003097
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003098 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3099 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003100 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003101
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003102 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3103 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003104 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3105 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003106 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3107 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003108 (0 = never).
3109 psmouse.resolution=
3110 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3111 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003112 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003113 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3114
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003115 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3116
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003117 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003118 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003119
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003120 pty.legacy_count=
3121 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3122 default number.
3123
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003124 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003125
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003126 r128= [HW,DRM]
3127
3128 raid= [HW,RAID]
3129 See Documentation/md.txt.
3130
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003131 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003132 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003133
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003134 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003135 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3136 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3137 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003138 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3139 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3140 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3141 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003142 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3143 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3144 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3145
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003146 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003147 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3148 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3149 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3150 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3151 This improves the real-time response for the
3152 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3153 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3154 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3155 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3156
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003157 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003158 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3159 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003160
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003161 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3162 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3163 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3164 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3165
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003166 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3167 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3168 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3169 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3170
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003171 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3172 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3173 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003174 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3175 is set.
3176
3177 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3178 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3179 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3180 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3181 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3182 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003183
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003184 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3185 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3186 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3187 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3188 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003189
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003190 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003191 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3192 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3193 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3194 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3195 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3196 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003197
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003198 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3199 Set required age in jiffies for a
3200 given grace period before RCU starts
3201 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3202 rcu_note_context_switch().
3203
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003204 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003205 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3206 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3207 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3208 and maximum value is HZ.
3209
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003210 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003211 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3212 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3213 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3214
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003215 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003216 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3217 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3218 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3219 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3220 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3221 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3222 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3223 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3224 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003225
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003226 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3227 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3228 defaults to the square root of the number of
3229 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3230 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3231 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3232
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003233 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003234 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3235 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003236
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003237 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003238 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3239 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003240
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003241 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003242 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3243 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003244
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003245 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003246 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3247 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3248 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3249 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003250
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003251 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3252 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3253 callback-flood tests.
3254
3255 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3256 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3257 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3258 test.
3259
3260 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3261 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3262 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3263 disable callback-flood testing.
3264
3265 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3266 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3267 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3268
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003269 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003270 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3271 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003272
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003273 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003274 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3275 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003276
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003277 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003278 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3279 in seconds.
3280
3281 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3282 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3283 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003284
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003285 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003286 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003287
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003288 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003289 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3290 update-side primitives, if available.
3291
3292 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3293 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3294 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3295 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3296 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3297 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3298 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003299
3300 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003301 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3302
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003303 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003304 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3305 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3306 test, hence the "fake".
3307
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003308 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003309 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3310 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3311 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3312 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3313 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003314
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003315 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3316 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3317
3318 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003319 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3320
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003321 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003322 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3323 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3324
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003325 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003326 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3327 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3328 during the rcutorture test.
3329
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003330 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003331 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3332 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3333
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003334 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003335 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3336 warnings, zero to disable.
3337
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003338 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003339 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3340
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003341 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003342 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3343
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003344 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003345 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3346 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3347 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3348 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3349
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003350 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003351 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3352 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3353 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3354
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003355 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003356 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3357
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003358 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003359 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3360
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003361 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003362 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3363 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3364
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003365 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3366 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3367
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003368 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003369 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3370
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003371 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003372 Enable additional printk() statements.
3373
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003374 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3375 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3376
3377 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3378 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3379
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003380 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3381 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3382 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3383 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3384 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3385 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003386 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003387
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003388 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3389 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3390 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3391 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003392 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3393 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3394 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3395 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3396 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003397
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003398 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3399 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3400 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003401 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3402 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003403
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003404 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3405 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3406 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3407 to zero.
3408
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003409 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3410 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3411
3412 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3413 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3414
3415 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3416 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3417
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003418 rdinit= [KNL]
3419 Format: <full_path>
3420 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3421 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3422
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003423 reboot= [KNL]
3424 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3425 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3426 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3427 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3428 [[,]f[orce]
3429 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3430 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3431 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3432 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3433 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003434
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003435 relax_domain_level=
3436 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +01003437 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003438
Rafael J. Wysocki0399d4d2014-05-26 13:40:59 +02003439 relative_sleep_states=
3440 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3441 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3442 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3443 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3444 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3445
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003446 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3447
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003448 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003449 Format: nn[KMG]
3450 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3451 address space.
3452
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003453 reservelow= [X86]
3454 Format: nn[K]
3455 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3456 the bottom of the address space.
3457
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003458 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3459 during initialization.
3460
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003461 resume= [SWSUSP]
3462 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003463 Format:
3464 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003465
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003466 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3467 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3468 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3469 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3470 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3471
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003472 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3473 read the resume files
3474
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003475 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3476 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3477 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3478
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003479 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3480 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3481 present during boot.
3482 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003483 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003484
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003485 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3486
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003487 rfkill.default_state=
3488 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3489 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3490 1 Unblocked.
3491
3492 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3493 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3494 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3495 blocked and the previous configuration.
3496 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3497 blocked and everything unblocked.
3498
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003499 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3500 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3501
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003502 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3503
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003504 rodata= [KNL]
3505 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3506 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3507
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003508 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003509 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003510
3511 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3512 mount the root filesystem
3513
3514 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3515
3516 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3517
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003518 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3519 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3520 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3521
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003522 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3523 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3524 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3525 managed by CMA.
3526
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003527 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3528
3529 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3530
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003531 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3532 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3533 strict
3534 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3535 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3536 which is faster.
3537
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003538 sa1100ir [NET]
3539 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3540
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003541 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003542
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003543 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3544
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003545 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3546 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3547 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3548 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3549
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003550 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3551 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3552 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3553 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3554 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3555 1 -- enable.
3556 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3557 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3558
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003559 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3560 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3561 security module asking for security registration will be
3562 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3563 as if no module has been chosen.
3564
3565 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003566 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3567 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3568 0 -- disable.
3569 1 -- enable.
3570 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3571 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3572 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3573
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003574 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3575 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3576 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3577 0 -- disable.
3578 1 -- enable.
3579 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3580
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003581 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003582
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003583 shapers= [NET]
3584 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003585
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07003586 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3587 Format: { <integer> }
3588 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3589 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3590 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3591
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003592 simeth= [IA-64]
3593 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003594
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003595 slram= [HW,MTD]
3596
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003597 slab_nomerge [MM]
3598 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3599 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3600 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3601 merging on their own.
3602 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3603
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003604 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3605 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3606 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3607 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3608 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3609
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003610 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3611 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3612 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3613 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3614 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3615 last alloc / free. For more information see
3616 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003617
3618 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003619 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3620 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3621 fragmentation. For more information see
3622 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003623
3624 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003625 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3626 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3627 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3628 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3629 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3630 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003631 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3632
3633 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003634 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003635 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003636 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3637
3638 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003639 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3640 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003641
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003642 smart2= [HW]
3643 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3644
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003645 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3646 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3647 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3648 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3649 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3650 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3651 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3652 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3653 1: Fast pin select (default)
3654 2: ATC IRMode
3655
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003656 softlockup_panic=
3657 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003658 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003659
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003660 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3661 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3662 backtraces on all cpus.
3663 Format: <integer>
3664
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003665 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003666 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003667
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003668 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3669 spia_fio_base=
3670 spia_pedr=
3671 spia_peddr=
3672
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003673 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3674 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3675
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003676 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3677 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3678 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3679 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3680 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3681 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3682 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3683
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003684 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3685 Format: <num>
3686 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3687 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3688 as the initial boot-console.
3689 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3690
3691 sti_font= [HW]
3692 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3693
3694 stifb= [HW]
3695 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3696
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003697 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3698 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3699 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3700 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3701 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3702 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3703 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3704 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3705 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3706 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3707 maximum port values.
3708
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003709 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3710 [NFS]
3711 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3712 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3713 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3714 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3715 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3716 NFS server is running.
3717
3718 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3719 automatically using heuristics
3720 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3721 percpu one pool for each CPU
3722 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3723 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3724
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003725 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3726 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3727 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3728 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3729 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3730 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3731 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3732 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3733
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003734 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3735 [SUSPEND]
3736 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3737 mode before resuming the system (see
3738 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3739 is set. Default value is 5.
3740
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003741 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003742 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3743 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3744 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
3745
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003746 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3747 Format: { <int> | force }
3748 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3749 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3750 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003751
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003752 switches= [HW,M68k]
3753
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02003754 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3755 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3756 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3757 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3758 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3759 in older udev will not work anymore.
3760 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3761 the kernel configuration.
3762
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08003763 sysrq_always_enabled
3764 [KNL]
3765 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3766 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3767 Useful for debugging.
3768
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01003769 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3770 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3771 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3772 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3773 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3774 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3775
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003776 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3777
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003778 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003779 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003780 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3781 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3782 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3783 The system is woken from this state using a
3784 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003785
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003786 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3787 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3788
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04003789 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3790 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3791 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3792
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003793 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3794 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04003795 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003796
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04003797 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3798 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3799 critical and hot trip points.
3800
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04003801 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3802 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3803
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003804 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3805 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08003806 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3807 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003808
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04003809 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3810 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3811 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3812 0: no polling (default)
3813
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003814 threadirqs [KNL]
3815 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003816 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003817
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003818 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3819 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3820
3821 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3822 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3823 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3824
3825 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3826 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04003827 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3828 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003829
3830 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3831 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3832 to the hypervisor.
3833
3834 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3835 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3836 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3837 kernel based on different criteria.
3838
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003839 topology= [S390]
3840 Format: {off | on}
3841 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07003842 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3843 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003844 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02003845 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003846
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07003847 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3848 Format: {off}
3849 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3850 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3851 LPAR.
3852
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003853 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3854
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03003855 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3856 Format: integer pcr id
3857 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3858 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3859 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3860 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3861 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3862 are saved.
3863
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08003864 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09003865 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09003866
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003867 trace_event=[event-list]
3868 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
3869 to facilitate early boot debugging.
3870 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
3871
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04003872 trace_options=[option-list]
3873 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3874 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3875 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3876 to echo the option name into
3877
3878 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3879
3880 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3881 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3882
3883 trace_options=stacktrace
3884
3885 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3886 section.
3887
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05003888 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3889 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3890 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3891 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3892 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3893 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3894
3895 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3896 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3897 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3898 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3899
3900 ** CAUTION **
3901
3902 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3903 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3904 the system to live lock.
3905
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04003906 traceoff_on_warning
3907 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3908 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3909 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3910 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3911
3912 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3913 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3914 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3915
3916 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3917 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3918
Jiri Kosinafcf4d8212012-03-21 16:34:02 -07003919 transparent_hugepage=
3920 [KNL]
3921 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3922 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3923 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3924 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3925
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003926 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07003927 Format: <string>
3928 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003929 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3930 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
3931 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3932 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07003933 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3934 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3935 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
3936 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07003937
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003938 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
3939 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
3940 Format:
3941 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003942 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
3943
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00003944 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
3945 happen after console_init() and before a proper
3946 console driver takes over, this boot options might
3947 help "seeing" what's going on.
3948
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00003949 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3950 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
3951
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05003952 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
3953 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
3954 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
3955 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
3956 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
3957 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
3958 reported either.
3959
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01003960 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003961 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01003962
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02003963 usbcore.authorized_default=
3964 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
3965 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
3966 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
3967
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05003968 usbcore.autosuspend=
3969 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
3970 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
3971 is the time required before an idle device will be
3972 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04003973 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05003974
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003975 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
3976 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
3977
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05003978 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
3979 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
3980 (default = 65536).
3981
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003982 usbcore.blinkenlights=
3983 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
3984
3985 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
3986 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3987 scheme (default 0 = off).
3988
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05003989 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
3990 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
3991 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
3992
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003993 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
3994 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
3995 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
3996
3997 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
3998 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
3999 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4000 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4001
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004002 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4003
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004004 usbhid.mousepoll=
4005 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004006
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004007 usb-storage.delay_use=
4008 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004009 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004010
4011 usb-storage.quirks=
4012 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4013 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4014 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4015 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4016 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4017 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4018 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004019 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4020 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004021 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4022 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004023 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4024 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004025 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4026 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4027 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4028 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004029 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4030 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004031 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4032 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004033 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4034 reported device capacity by one
4035 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004036 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4037 device);
4038 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4039 unlock ejectable media);
4040 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4041 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004042 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4043 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004044 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4045 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004046 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4047 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004048 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4049 bogus residue values);
4050 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4051 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004052 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4053 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004054 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004055 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4056 medium is write-protected).
4057 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4058
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004059 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4060 Format: <int>
4061 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4062 1 - undefined instruction events
4063 2 - system calls
4064 4 - invalid data aborts
4065 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4066 16 - SIGBUS faults
4067 Example: user_debug=31
4068
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004069 userpte=
4070 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4071
4072 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4073 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4074 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4075
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304076 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004077 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4078
4079 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004080 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4081
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004082 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4083 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4084 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4085
4086 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4087 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4088 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4089
4090 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4091 alias for vdso32=0.
4092
4093 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4094 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004095
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004096 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4097 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4098
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004099 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4100 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4101
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004102 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4103 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4104 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4105 level and then send out the event to user space through
4106 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4107 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4108 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004109 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004110
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004111 virtio_mmio.device=
4112 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4113
4114 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4115 where:
4116 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4117 like K, M and G)
4118 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4119 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4120 request_irq())
4121 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4122 example:
4123 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4124
4125 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4126
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004127 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004128 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004129 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004130 Use vga=ask for menu.
4131 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4132 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4133
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004134 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004135 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4136 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4137 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4138 mapped kernel RAM.
4139
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004140 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4141 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004142
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004143 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4144 Format: <command>
4145
4146 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4147 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004148
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004149 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4150 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4151 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4152 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4153 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4154 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4155 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4156
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004157 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4158 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004159
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004160 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004161 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4162 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4163 better than they would in emulation mode.
4164 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4165
4166 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4167 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4168 might break your system.
4169
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004170 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4171 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4172 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4173
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004174 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4175 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4176 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4177 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4178
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004179 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4180 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4181 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4182 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4183 ranging from 0-255.
4184
4185 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4186 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4187 Change the default green palette of the console.
4188 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4189 ranging from 0-255.
4190
4191 vt.default_red= [VT]
4192 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4193 Change the default red palette of the console.
4194 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4195 ranging from 0-255.
4196
4197 vt.default_utf8=
4198 [VT]
4199 Format=<0|1>
4200 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4201 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4202 newly opened terminals.
4203
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004204 vt.global_cursor_default=
4205 [VT]
4206 Format=<-1|0|1>
4207 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4208 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4209 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4210 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4211 cursors, 1 will display them.
4212
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004213 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4214 Default: 2 = green.
4215
4216 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4217 Default: 3 = cyan.
4218
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004219 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4220 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4221 or other driver-specific files in the
4222 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004223
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004224 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4225 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4226 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4227 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4228 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4229 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4230 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4231 corresponding sysfs file.
4232
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004233 workqueue.disable_numa
4234 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4235 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4236 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4237 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4238 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4239 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4240 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4241
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304242 workqueue.power_efficient
4243 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4244 they show better performance thanks to cache
4245 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4246 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4247
4248 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4249 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4250 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4251 power usage at the cost of small performance
4252 overhead.
4253
4254 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4255 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4256
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004257 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4258 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4259 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4260 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4261 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4262 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4263 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4264 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4265 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4266 impacted.
4267
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004268 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4269 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4270 supporting x2apic.
4271
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004272 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4273 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004274 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4275 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004276 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004277
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004278 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4279 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4280 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4281 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4282 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4283 domains.
4284
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004285 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4286 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4287 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4288 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4289 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4290 nics -- unplug network devices
4291 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004292 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4293 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4294 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004295 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004296
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004297 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4298 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4299 optimizations.
4300
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004301 xen_nopv [X86]
4302 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4303 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4304
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004305 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004306 Format:
4307 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004308
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004309______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004310
4311TODO:
4312
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004313 Add more DRM drivers.