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Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +00001 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -08002 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02003 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +03004 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02006 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07009 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +080011 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +080012 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +020013 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +020016 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040018 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -040022 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040023
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +020024 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +000031 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020037 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070045 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070048 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060055 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060059 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070063 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070066 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +020068
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070069 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +080072
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020073 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +080089 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -070094 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800126
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700139
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800144
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a32011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900298
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700336
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700360
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700384
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400395 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400396
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700410
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200443 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700444
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300462
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700482
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800492
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100516
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700518 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100583
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100585 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700602
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800608 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700614
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +0200615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700619
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400623 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700637
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645 disables the blank timer.
646
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
Leo Yan62a31ce2017-06-05 14:15:12 -0600652 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
653 [ARM,ARM64]
654 Format: <bool>
655 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
656 0: default value, disable debugging
657 1: enable debugging at boot time
658
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400659 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
660 disable the cpuidle sub-system
661
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500662 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
663 disable the cpufreq sub-system
664
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400665 cpu_init_udelay=N
666 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
668 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669 Default: 10000
670
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700671 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700672 Format:
673 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700674
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800675 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680 is selected automatically. Check
681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700682
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700683 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685 in the running system. The syntax of range is
686 start-[end] where start and end are both
687 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800688 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700689
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700690 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700691 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695 available.
696 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700697 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700700 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800702 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700706 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707 for second kernel instead.
708 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700709 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700710 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700711
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100712 cryptomgr.notests
713 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
714
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700715 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
716 Format: <dma>
717
718 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
719 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700720
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700721 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700722 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
723
724 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
725 (one device per port)
726 Format: <port#>,<type>
727 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
728
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200729 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200730 time. See
731 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600732 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200733
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700734 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
735
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700736 debug_locks_verbose=
737 [KNL] verbose self-tests
738 Format=<0|1>
739 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
740 self-tests.
741 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
742 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
743 only useful to kernel developers.
744
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700745 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
746
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500747 no_debug_objects
748 [KNL] Disable object debugging
749
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800750 debug_guardpage_minorder=
751 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
752 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
753 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
754 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
755 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
756 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
757 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
758 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
759 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
760 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
761 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
762 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
763 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
764 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
765 bypassed) which are not detectable by
766 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
767 tracking down these problems.
768
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800769 debug_pagealloc=
770 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
771 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
772 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
773 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
774 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
775 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
776 on: enable the feature
777
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200778 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
779
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200780 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700781 Format: <area>[,<node>]
782 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
783
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700784 default_hugepagesz=
785 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
786 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
787 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
788 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
789 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
790 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700791
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700792 dhash_entries= [KNL]
793 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700794
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000795 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
796 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
797 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
798 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
799 miss to occur.
800
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800801 disable= [IPV6]
802 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
803
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530804 disable_radix [PPC]
805 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
806
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900807 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
808 Format: <int>
809 The number of initial APIC ID for the
810 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
811 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
812 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
813 causing system reset or hang due to sending
814 INIT from AP to BSP.
815
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000816 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
817 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
818 to workaround buggy firmware.
819
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800820 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
821 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
822
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700823 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700824 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
825 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700826 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700827
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100828 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100829 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
830 memory out of your available memory pool based on
831 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
832 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
833
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530834 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700835 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
836 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
837
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400838 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
839
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700840 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
841 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
842
843 dma_debug_entries=<number>
844 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
845 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
846 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
847 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
848 architectural default is too low.
849
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200850 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
851 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
852 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
853 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
854 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
855 driver later using sysfs.
856
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700857 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
858 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
859 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
860 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
861 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100862 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
863 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
864 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
865 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
866 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
867 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
868 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
869 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700870 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
871 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
872 data set with no connector name will be used for
873 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100874
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700875 dscc4.setup= [NET]
876
Nicholas Piggina2b05b72017-05-11 21:24:41 +1000877 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
878 Format: {"off" | "known"}
879 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
880 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
881 exists).
882 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
883 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
884 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
885
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000886 dump_apple_properties [X86]
887 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
888 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
889 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
890
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600891 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
892 module.dyndbg[="val"]
893 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200894 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
895 for details.
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600896
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700897 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
898 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
899 information about the feature.
900
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800901 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
902 in some Intel CPUs.
903
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700904 module.async_probe [KNL]
905 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
906
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700907 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
908 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
909 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
910 which are not unmapped.
911
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700912 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500913
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500914 When used with no options, the early console is
915 determined by the stdout-path property in device
916 tree's chosen node.
917
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100918 cdns,<addr>[,options]
919 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
920 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
921 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
922 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
923 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200924
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700925 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
926 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700927 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300928 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400929 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700930 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
931 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700932 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300933 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
934 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
935 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
936 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400937 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700938
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500939 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600940 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500941 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
942 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
943 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600944 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
945 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
946 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500947
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100948 meson,<addr>
949 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
950 port at the specified address. The serial port must
951 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
952 supported.
953
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700954 msm_serial,<addr>
955 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
956 port at the specified address. The serial port
957 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
958 yet supported.
959
960 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
961 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
962 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
963 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
964 yet supported.
965
Andreas Färbere36361d2017-06-19 03:46:40 +0200966 owl,<addr>
967 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
968 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
969 specified address. The serial port must already be
970 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
971
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500972 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
973
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100974 s3c2410,<addr>
975 s3c2412,<addr>
976 s3c2440,<addr>
977 s3c6400,<addr>
978 s5pv210,<addr>
979 exynos4210,<addr>
980 Use early console provided by serial driver available
981 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
982 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
983 serial port must already be setup and configured.
984 Options are not yet supported.
985
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +0100986 lantiq,<addr>
987 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
988 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
989 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
990 yet supported.
991
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -0700992 lpuart,<addr>
993 lpuart32,<addr>
994 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
995 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
996 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
997 port must already be setup and configured.
998
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +0100999 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001000 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1001 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1002 address. The serial port must already be setup
1003 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1004
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001005 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001006 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001007 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001008 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001009 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001010 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001011 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001012 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001013 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001014 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +08001015 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001016
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001017 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1018 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1019 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1020
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001021 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001022 takes over.
1023
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001024 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1025 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001026
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001027 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1028 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1029 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1030 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1031 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1032 You can find the port for a given device in
1033 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1034 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001035
1036 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1037 very good.
1038
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001039 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1040 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001041
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001042 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1043
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001044 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1045
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001046 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1047 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1048 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1049 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1050 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1051 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1052 default: on.
1053
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001054 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1055 ekgdboc=kbd
1056
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001057 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001058 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1059
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001060 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001061 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001062
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001063 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001064 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001065 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1066 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1067 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001068 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1069 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1070 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001071 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001072 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001073
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001074 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1075 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1076 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1077 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1078 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1079
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001080 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1081 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1082 updating original EFI memory map.
1083 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1084 from ss to ss+nn.
1085 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1086 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1087 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1088 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1089
1090 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1091 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1092 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1093 doesn't support it.
1094
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001095 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1096 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1097 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1098 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1099 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1100
1101
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001102 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1103 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1104
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001105 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001106 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001107 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001108
1109 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001110 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001111 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001112 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1113
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001114 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001115 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001116 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1117 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001118 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001119
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001120 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1121 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1122 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1123 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1124
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001125 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001126 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1127 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1128 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1129 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1130
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001131 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1132 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1133 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1134 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1135 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1136 Default value is 0.
1137 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1138
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001139 erst_disable [ACPI]
1140 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1141 support.
1142
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001143 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1144 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1145 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1146
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001147 evm= [EVM]
1148 Format: { "fix" }
1149 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1150 current integrity status.
1151
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001152 failslab=
1153 fail_page_alloc=
1154 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1155 General fault injection mechanism.
1156 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001157 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001158
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001159 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001160 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001161
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001162 force_pal_cache_flush
1163 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1164 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1165 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1166 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1167
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001168 forcepae [X86-32]
1169 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1170 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1171 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1172 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1173 and may cause unknown problems.
1174
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001175 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001176 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001177 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1178 boot debugging.
1179
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001180 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001181 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001182 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1183 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1184 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1185 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001186
1187 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1188 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1189 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1190 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1191 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001192 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001193
1194 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1195 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1196 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1197 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1198 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001199
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001200 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1201 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1202 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1203 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1204 that can be changed at run time by the
1205 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1206
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001207 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1208 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1209 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1210 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1211 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1212
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001213 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1214 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1215 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1216 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1217 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1218
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001219 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1220 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1221 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1222 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1223 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1224
1225 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1226
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001227 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1228 Format: off | on
1229 default: on
1230
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001231 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1232 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1233 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1234 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1235 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1236
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001237 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1238 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1239 android emulator
1240
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001241 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001242 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1243 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1244 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001245
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001246 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1247 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1248 Format: 0 | 1
1249 Default: 0
1250 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1251 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1252 Format: 0 | 1
1253 Default: 0
1254 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1255 Format: 0 | 1
1256 Default: 0
1257 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1258 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1259 Default: 1024
1260 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1261 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1262 Default: 1024
1263
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001264 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1265 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1266 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1267
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001268 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1269 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1270 backtraces on all cpus.
1271 Format: <integer>
1272
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001273 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1274 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001275 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001276 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001277
1278 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1279
1280 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1281 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1282
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001283 hest_disable [ACPI]
1284 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1285 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1286 logic will be disabled.
1287
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001288 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1289 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1290 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1291 size on bigger boxes.
1292
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001293 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1294 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1295 Default: "on"
1296
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001297 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1298 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1299
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001300 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1301
1302 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1303 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1304 verbose }
1305 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1306 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1307 VIA, nVidia)
1308 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1309
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001310 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1311 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1312
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001313 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1314 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001315 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1316 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1317 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1318 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001319 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001320
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001321 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1322 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001323 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1324 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1325 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001326
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001327 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1328 hardware thread id mappings.
1329 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1330
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001331 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1332 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1333 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1334 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1335 the real console.
1336
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001337 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001338 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1339 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001340 Format:
1341 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1342
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001343 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001344 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1345 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1346 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1347 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001348 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001349 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1350 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001351 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1352 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001353 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001354 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1355 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001356 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001357 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001358 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1359 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001360 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001361 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1362 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1363 transitions, or never reset
1364 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1365 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1366 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1367 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1368 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001369 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001370 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001371
1372 i810= [HW,DRM]
1373
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001374 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1375 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1376 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001377 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1378 does not match list of supported models.
1379 i8k.power_status
1380 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1381 (disabled by default)
1382 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1383 capability is set.
1384
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001385 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001386 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1387 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001388 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1389 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1390 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1391 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1392 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1393 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1394 value switches the backlight off.
1395 -1 -- never invert brightness
1396 0 -- machine default
1397 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001398
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001399 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1400 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1401
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001402 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1403 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001404 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1405 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001406 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001407
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001408 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1409 Format: <int>
1410 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1411 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1412 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1413 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1414 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1415 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1416 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1417 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1418 was 0x3.
1419
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001420 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1421 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1422
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001423 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001424 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001425 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1426 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1427 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1428 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001429 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001430 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001431 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001432
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001433 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1434 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1435 Default: strict
1436
1437 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1438 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1439 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1440 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1441 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1442 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1443 encoding mode.
1444
1445 Available settings are as follows:
1446 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1447 supported by the FPU
1448 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1449 by the FPU
1450 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1451 by the FPU
1452 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1453 supported by the FPU
1454
1455 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1456 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1457 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1458 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1459 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1460 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1461 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1462 MIPS64 CPUs.
1463
1464 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1465 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1466 except where unsupported by hardware.
1467
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001468 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1469 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1470 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001471 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1472 could change it dynamically, usually by
1473 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001474
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001475 ignore_rlimit_data
1476 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1477 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1478 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1479
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001480 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1481 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1482
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001483 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001484 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001485 default: "enforce"
1486
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001487 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1488 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1489 owned by uid=0.
1490
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001491 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1492 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1493 measurements, instead of host native format.
1494
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001495 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001496 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1497 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001498 default: "sha1"
1499
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001500 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1501 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1502
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001503 ima_policy= [IMA]
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001504 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001505 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001506
1507 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1508 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1509 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1510 uid=0.
1511
1512 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1513 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1514 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001515
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001516 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1517 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1518 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001519
1520 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001521 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1522 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1523 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1524 opened for read by uid=0.
1525
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001526 ima_template= [IMA]
1527 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001528 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001529 Default: "ima-ng"
1530
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001531 ima_template_fmt=
1532 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1533 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1534
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001535 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1536 Format: <min_file_size>
1537 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1538 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1539
1540 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1541 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1542 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1543
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001544 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1545 Format: <bufsize>
1546 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1547
1548 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1549 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1550 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1551
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001552 init= [KNL]
1553 Format: <full_path>
1554 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1555 process.
1556
1557 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1558 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1559 startup.
1560
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001561 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1562 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1563 modules and initcalls.
1564
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001565 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1566
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001567 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1568 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1569 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1570 override in debugfs after boot.
1571
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001572 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1573 Format: <irq>
1574
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001575 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1576
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001577 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1578 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1579 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1580 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1581
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001582 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001583 on
1584 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001585 off
1586 Disable intel iommu driver.
1587 igfx_off [Default Off]
1588 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1589 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1590 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1591 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1592 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001593 forcedac [x86_64]
1594 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001595 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001596 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001597 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1598 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001599 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001600 strict [Default Off]
1601 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1602 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1603 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001604 sp_off [Default Off]
1605 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1606 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1607 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001608 ecs_off [Default Off]
1609 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1610 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1611 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1612 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1613 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001614 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1615 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1616 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1617 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1618 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1619 mapping is enabled.
1620 Note that using this option lowers the security
1621 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1622 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001623
1624 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1625 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001626 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001627
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001628 intel_pstate= [X86]
1629 disable
1630 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1631 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001632 passive
1633 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1634 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1635 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1636 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1637 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001638 force
1639 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1640 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1641 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1642 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1643 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1644 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1645 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1646 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001647 no_hwp
1648 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1649 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001650 hwp_only
1651 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1652 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001653 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001654 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1655 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1656 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1657 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001658 per_cpu_perf_limits
1659 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1660 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001661
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001662 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001663 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1664 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1665 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001666 no_x2apic_optout
1667 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001668 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001669
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001670 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1671 strict regions from userspace.
1672 relaxed
1673
1674 iommu= [x86]
1675 off
1676 force
1677 noforce
1678 biomerge
1679 panic
1680 nopanic
1681 merge
1682 nomerge
1683 forcesac
1684 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001685 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001686 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1687 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001688
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001689 iommu.passthrough=
1690 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1691 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1692 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1693 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1694 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001695
1696 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1697 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1698 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1699
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301700 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001701 0x80
1702 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1703 0xed
1704 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001705 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001706 Simple two microseconds delay
1707 none
1708 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001709
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001710 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001711 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001712
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001713 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001714 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001715
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001716 irqfixup [HW]
1717 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1718 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1719 firmware running.
1720
1721 irqpoll [HW]
1722 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1723 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1724 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1725 firmware running.
1726
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001727 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001728 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001729
1730 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001731 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001732
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001733 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1734 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001735 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1736 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001737 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1738 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1739
1740 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001741 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1742 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1743 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001744
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001745 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001746
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001747 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1748 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1749 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1750 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1751 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1752 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1753
1754 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1755 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1756 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1757 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1758 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1759 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1760
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001761 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1762 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1763 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1764 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1765 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1766 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1767
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001768 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1769 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1770
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001771 nokaslr [KNL]
1772 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1773 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1774 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001775
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001776 kasan_multi_shot
1777 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1778 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1779 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1780 invalid access.
1781
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001782 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1783
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001784 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1785 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1786 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001787 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1788 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1789 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1790 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1791 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1792 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1793 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001794 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001795 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1796 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1797 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1798 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1799 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1800 zone if it does not.
1801
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001802 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1803 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1804 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1805 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1806 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1807 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1808 time.
1809
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001810 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1811 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1812 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1813 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1814 optional and is the number seconds in between
1815 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1816 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1817 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1818 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1819 the kernel debugger.
1820
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001821 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001822 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1823 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001824 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1825 keyboard only format: kbd
1826 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1827 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1828 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1829 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001830
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001831 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1832 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1833
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001834 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1835 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1836 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1837
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001838 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1839 Valid arguments: on, off
1840 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001841 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1842 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001843
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001844 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1845 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1846 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1847 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1848 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1849 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1850
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001851 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1852 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1853
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001854 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1855 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001856 Default is 0 (off)
1857
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001858 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001859 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001860
1861 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1862 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001863 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001864
Marc Zyngiere23f62f2017-06-09 12:49:46 +01001865 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1866 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1867 system registers
1868
Marc Zyngier182936e2017-06-09 12:49:41 +01001869 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1870 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1871 system registers
1872
Marc Zyngierff895112017-06-09 12:49:53 +01001873 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1874 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1875 system registers
1876
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001877 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1878 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1879 Default is 1 (enabled)
1880
1881 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1882 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1883 Default is 0 (disabled)
1884
1885 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1886 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1887 Default is 1 (enabled)
1888
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001889 kvm-intel.nested=
1890 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1891 Default is 0 (disabled)
1892
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001893 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1894 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1895 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1896 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1897
1898 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1899 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1900 Default is 1 (enabled)
1901
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001902 l2cr= [PPC]
1903
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001904 l3cr= [PPC]
1905
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001906 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001907 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001908
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001909 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1910 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1911 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1912
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301913 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001914 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001915
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001916 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1917 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1918 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1919 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001920 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001921 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1922 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001923
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001924 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1925 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1926 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001927
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001928 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1929 when set.
1930 Format: <int>
1931
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001932 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1933 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001934 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001935 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1936 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1937 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1938 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1939 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1940
1941 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1942 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1943 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1944 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1945 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1946 host link and device attached to it.
1947
1948 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1949 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1950 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1951 The following configurations can be forced.
1952
1953 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1954 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1955
1956 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1957
1958 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1959 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1960 allowed.
1961
1962 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1963
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001964 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1965
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001966 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1967 and both resets.
1968
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001969 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1970 hot-unplug link recovery
1971
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001972 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1973
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001974 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1975
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001976 * disable: Disable this device.
1977
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001978 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1979 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1980
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001981 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001982
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001983 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001984 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001985
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001986 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1987 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001988
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001989 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1990 Format: <integer>
1991
1992 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1993 Format: <integer>
1994
1995 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1996 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001997
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07001998 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1999 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2000 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2001 number of online CPUs.
2002
2003 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2004 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2005
2006 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2007 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2008
2009 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2010 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2011 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2012
2013 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2014 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2015 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2016 mode during the locktorture test.
2017
2018 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2019 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2020 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2021
2022 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2023 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2024
2025 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2026 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2027 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2028 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2029 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2030 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2031
2032 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2033 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2034
2035 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2036 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2037
2038 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2039 Enable additional printk() statements.
2040
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002041 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2042 Format: <irq>
2043
2044 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2045 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2046 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2047 loglevels are defined as follows:
2048
2049 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2050 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2051 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2052 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2053 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2054 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2055 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2056 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2057
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002058 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002059 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2060 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2061 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2062 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2063 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2064 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002065
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002066 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2067 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2068 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2069 kernel boot problems.
2070
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002071 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2072 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2073 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2074 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2075 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2076 attached printers to be reset. Using
2077 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2078 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2079 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2080 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2081 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2082 port specification list means that device IDs
2083 from each port should be examined, to see if
2084 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2085 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2086 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2087
2088 lpj=n [KNL]
2089 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2090 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2091 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2092 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2093 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2094 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2095 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2096 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2097 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2098 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2099 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2100 hardware.
2101
2102 ltpc= [NET]
2103 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2104
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002105 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002106 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2107 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002108
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002109 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2110 yeeloong laptop.
2111 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2112
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002113 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2114 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002115
2116 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002117 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2118 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2119 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2120 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2121 only takes effect during system bootup.
2122 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2123 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002124
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002125 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2126 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2127 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2128 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2129 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2130 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002131
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002132 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002133
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002134 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002135
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002136 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002137 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002138
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002139 mdacon= [MDA]
2140 Format: <first>,<last>
2141 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002142
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002143 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2144 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2145 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002146 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2147 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2148 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2149 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002150
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002151 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002152 memory.
2153
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002154 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2155 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2156 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2157
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002158 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2159 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2160 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2161 set according to the
2162 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2163 option.
2164 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2165
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302166 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002167 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2168 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2169 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2170 option description.
2171
2172 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002173 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2174 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002175 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2176 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2177 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2178 comma delimited.
2179 Example:
2180 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002181
2182 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2183 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002184 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002185
2186 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2187 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002188 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002189 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2190 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2191 or
2192 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002193 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2194 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2195 will be eaten.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002196
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002197 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2198 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2199 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2200 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2201 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2202
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002203 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2204 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2205 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2206 Setting this option will scan the memory
2207 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2208 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2209 from using the memory being corrupted.
2210 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2211 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2212 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2213 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2214
2215 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2216 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2217 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2218 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2219 corruption in more or less memory.
2220
2221 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2222 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2223 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2224 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2225
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002226 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002227 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002228 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002229 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2230 performed. Each pass selects another test
2231 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2232 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2233 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2234 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002235
Tom Lendackyc262f3b2017-07-17 16:09:58 -05002236 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2237 Valid arguments: on, off
2238 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2239 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2240 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2241 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2242 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2243
2244 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2245 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2246
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002247 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2248 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2249 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2250 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2251 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2252
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002253 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2254 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2255
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002256 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2257 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2258 platforms.
2259
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002260 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2261 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2262 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2263 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2264
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002265 mga= [HW,DRM]
2266
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002267 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2268 physical address is ignored.
2269
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002270 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2271 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2272 Default: "0tb"
2273 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2274 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2275 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2276 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2277 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2278 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2279 unconfigured.
2280 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2281 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2282 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2283 VGA shield.
2284 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2285 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2286 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2287 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2288 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2289 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2290
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002291 mminit_loglevel=
2292 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2293 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2294 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2295 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2296 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2297 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2298
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002299 module.sig_enforce
2300 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2301 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002302 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002303 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2304
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302305 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2306 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2307
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002308 mousedev.tap_time=
2309 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2310 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2311 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2312 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2313 Format: <msecs>
2314 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2315 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2316 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2317 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2318
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302319 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002320 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2321 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2322 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2323 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2324 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2325 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2326 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2327 is not too small.
2328
Michal Hockof70029b2017-07-06 15:41:02 -07002329 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2330 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2331 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2332 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2333 allocations. Use with caution!
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002334
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002335 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2336 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2337
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002338 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2339 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002340
2341 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002342 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002343
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002344 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2345 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2346 at a time.
2347
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002348 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2349
2350 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2351
2352 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2353 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2354 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2355 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2356 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2357
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002358 mtdset= [ARM]
2359 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2360
2361 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2362
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002363 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002364 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2365 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002366
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002367 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002368 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002369 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2370
2371 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2372 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2373 Default is 1.
2374 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2375 using up MTRRs.
2376
2377 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2378 Format: <integer>
2379 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2380 Default : 1
2381 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2382 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2383
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002384 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2385
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002386 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2387 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2388 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2389 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002390 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2391 file if at all.
2392
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002393 nf_conntrack.acct=
2394 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2395 0 to disable accounting
2396 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002397 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002398
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002399 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002400 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002401
2402 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002403 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002404
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002405 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2406 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2407
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002408 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2409 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2410 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2411 requests.
2412
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002413 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2414 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2415 channel should listen.
2416
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002417 nfs.cache_getent=
2418 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2419 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2420
2421 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2422 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2423 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2424
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002425 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2426 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2427 entries.
2428
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002429 nfs.enable_ino64=
2430 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2431 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2432 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2433 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2434 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2435
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002436 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2437 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2438 slots the client will assign to the callback
2439 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2440 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2441 a particular server.
2442
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002443 nfs.max_session_slots=
2444 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2445 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2446 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2447 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2448 Note that there is little point in setting this
2449 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2450
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002451 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002452 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2453 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2454 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2455 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2456 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2457 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2458 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2459 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2460 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2461 back to using the idmapper.
2462 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002463 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2464 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2465 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2466 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2467 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002468
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002469 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2470 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2471 information in exchange_id requests.
2472 If zero, no implementation identification information
2473 will be sent.
2474 The default is to send the implementation identification
2475 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002476
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002477 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2478 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2479 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2480 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2481 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2482 after the locks are lost.
2483 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2484 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2485 parameter to '1'.
2486 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2487 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002488
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002489 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2490 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2491 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2492
2493 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2494 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2495 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2496 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2497
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002498 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2499 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2500 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2501 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2502 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2503 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002504
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002505 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002506 when a NMI is triggered.
2507 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2508
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302509 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002510 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002511 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002512 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2513 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002514 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002515 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002516 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2517 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002518 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2519 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002520
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002521 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2522 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2523 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2524 waits 4 seconds.
2525
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002526 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002527 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2528 is present.
2529
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002530 no_console_suspend
2531 [HW] Never suspend the console
2532 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2533 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2534 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2535 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2536 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2537 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2538 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002539 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2540 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2541 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2542 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2543 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002544
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002545 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2546 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2547 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002548
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002549 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2550
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002551 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2552 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2553
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002554 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2555
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002556 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2557 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2558
2559 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002560
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002561 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2562
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002563 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2564
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002565 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2566
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002567 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002568
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002569 noexec [IA-64]
2570
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302571 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002572 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002573 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002574 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2575
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002576 nosmap [X86]
2577 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2578 even if it is supported by processor.
2579
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002580 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002581 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002582 even if it is supported by processor.
2583
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002584 noexec32 [X86-64]
2585 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2586 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2587 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2588 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2589 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002590
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002591 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002592
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002593 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002594 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2595 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002596
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002597 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2598
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002599 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2600 Equivalent to smt=1.
2601
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002602 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2603 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2604 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2605
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002606 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2607 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2608 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2609 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2610 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2611 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2612
2613 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2614 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2615 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2616 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2617 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2618 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2619 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2620
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002621 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2622 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2623 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002624
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002625 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2626 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2627 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2628
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002629 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2630 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2631 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2632 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2633 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2634 real-time systems.
2635
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002636 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2637
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002638 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2639 Valid arguments: on, off
2640 Default: on
2641
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002642 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002643 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002644 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002645 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002646 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
Paul E. McKenneyf99bcb22017-06-02 11:26:43 -07002647 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2648 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2649 just as if they had also been called out in the
2650 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002651
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002652 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2653
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002654 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002655 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2656
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302657 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002658 broken timer IRQ sources.
2659
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002660 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2661
2662 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2663 initial RAM disk.
2664
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002665 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2666 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002667 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002668
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002669 nointroute [IA-64]
2670
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002671 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2672
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002673 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002674
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002675 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2676
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002677 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2678 fault handling.
2679
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002680 no-vmw-sched-clock
2681 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2682 clock and use the default one.
2683
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002684 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2685 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2686 behaviour
2687
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002688 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002689
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002690 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002691
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002692 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002693 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002694
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002695 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2696
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002697 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002698
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002699 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2700 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2701
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002702 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2703 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2704 irq.
2705
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002706 nomodule Disable module load
2707
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002708 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2709 pagetables) support.
2710
Andy Lutomirski0790c9a2017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002711 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2712
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002713 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2714 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2715
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002716 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002717
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002718 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002719 with UP alternatives
2720
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002721 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2722 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2723 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2724 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002725
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002726 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2727 space.
2728
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002729 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2730 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2731 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2732
2733 nosbagart [IA-64]
2734
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002735 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002736
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002737 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2738 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002739
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002740 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2741
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002742 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2743
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002744 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002745
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002746 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2747 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002748
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002749 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002750
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002751 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2752
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002753 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2754 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2755 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2756 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2757 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2758 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2759 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2760 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2761 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2762 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2763 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2764 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2765 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2766
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002767 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002768 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2769 SAL PALO.
2770
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002771 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2772 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002773 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2774 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2775 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2776 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2777 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2778 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002779
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002780 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2781
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002782 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2783 Allowed values are enable and disable
2784
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002785 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
Michal Hockoc9bff3e2017-09-06 16:20:13 -07002786 'node', 'default' can be specified
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002787 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2788 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2789
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002790 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2791 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2792 info.
2793
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002794 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2795 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2796 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2797 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2798 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2799 interrupts *may* be lost!
2800
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002801 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2802 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2803 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2804 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2805
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002806 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2807 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2808
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002809 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2810 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2811 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002812 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2813 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002814 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2815 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002816 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2817 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2818 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002819
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002820 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2821 process, but there is a small probability of
2822 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002823 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2824 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2825
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002826 OSS [HW,OSS]
2827 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2828
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002829 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2830 Storage of the information about who allocated
2831 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2832 we can turn it on.
2833 on: enable the feature
2834
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002835 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2836 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2837 off: turn off poisoning
2838 on: turn on poisoning
2839
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002840 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002841 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2842 timeout = 0: wait forever
2843 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002844 Format: <timeout>
2845
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002846 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2847 on a WARN().
2848
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002849 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2850 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2851 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2852 succeeds in any situation.
2853 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2854 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2855 kernel more unstable.
2856
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002857 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2858 connected to, default is 0.
2859 Format: <parport#>
2860 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2861 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002862 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002863
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002864 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2865 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2866 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2867 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2868 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2869 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2870 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2871 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2872 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2873 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2874 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2875 are specified on the command line, starting
2876 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002877
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002878 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2879 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2880 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2881 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2882 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2883 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002884 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2885
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002886 pause_on_oops=
2887 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2888 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2889 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2890
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002891 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2892
2893 pcd. [PARIDE]
2894 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002895 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002896
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002897 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002898 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2899 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002900 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002901 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002902 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2903 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002904 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002905 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2906 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2907 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002908 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2909 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2910 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2911 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2912 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2913 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2914 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2915 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2916 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2917 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002918 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2919 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2920 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002921 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2922 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302923 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002924 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002925 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2926 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2927 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002928 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2929 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2930 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002931 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2932 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2933 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002934 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2935 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2936 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2937 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002938 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2939 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2940 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2941 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002942 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002943 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2944 on several machines and they hang the machine
2945 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2946 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2947 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2948 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2949 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002950 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002951 Use with caution as certain devices share
2952 address decoders between ROMs and other
2953 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002954 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002955 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2956 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002957 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2958 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002959 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002960 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2961 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2962 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002963 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002964 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2965 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2966 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002967 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002968 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2969 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2970 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002971 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002972 numbers ourselves, overriding
2973 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002974 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002975 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2976 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2977 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2978 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2979 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002980 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002981 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002982 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2983 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2984 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2985 please report a bug.
2986 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2987 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002988 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2989 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2990 so this option is a temporary workaround
2991 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002992 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2993 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002994 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2995 This might help on some broken boards which
2996 machine check when some devices' config space
2997 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2998 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002999 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3000 This sorting is done to get a device
3001 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3002 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003003 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3004 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3005 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3006 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3007 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3008 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3009 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3010 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3011 or bus can support) for best performance.
3012 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3013 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3014 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3015 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3016 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3017 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003018 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3019 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3020 The default value is 256 bytes.
3021 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3022 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3023 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003024 resource_alignment=
3025 Format:
3026 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003027 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3028 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003029 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3030 aligned memory resources.
3031 If <order of align> is not specified,
3032 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3033 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3034 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003035 To specify the alignment for several
3036 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3037 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3038 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003039 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3040 end-to-end CRC checking).
3041 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3042 the default.
3043 off: Turn ECRC off
3044 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003045 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3046 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3047 Default size is 256 bytes.
3048 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3049 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3050 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003051 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3052 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3053 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003054 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3055 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3056 accommodate resources required by all child
3057 devices.
3058 off: Turn realloc off
3059 on: Turn realloc on
3060 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003061 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003062 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3063 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3064 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003065
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003066 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3067 Management.
3068 off Disable ASPM.
3069 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3070 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3071
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003072 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3073 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3074 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3075
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003076 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003077 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3078 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3079 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3080 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3081 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003082 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3083 ports driver.
3084
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003085 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3086 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3087 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3088
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003089 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003090 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003091 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003092
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003093 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3094
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303095 pd_ignore_unused
3096 [PM]
3097 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3098 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3099 for debug and development, but should not be
3100 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3101
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003102 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003103 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003104
3105 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3106 boot time.
3107 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3108 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3109
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003110 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003111 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3112 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3113 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3114 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3115 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003116
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003117 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003118 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003119
3120 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003121 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003122
3123 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003124 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003125
3126 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3127 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3128 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3129
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003130 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003131 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3132 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3133
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003134 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3135 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3136 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3137 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3138 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3139 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003140
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003141 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3142 { off }
3143
3144 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3145 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3146
3147 pnp_reserve_irq=
3148 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3149
3150 pnp_reserve_dma=
3151 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3152
3153 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003154 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003155
3156 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003157 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3158 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003159 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3160
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003161 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3162 Default is 21.
3163 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3164 may be specified.
3165 Format: <port>,<port>....
3166
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003167 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3168 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3169 platform machine description specific power_save
3170 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3171 execution priority.
3172
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003173 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3174 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3175 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3176 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3177 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3178
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003179 print-fatal-signals=
3180 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003181
3182 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3183 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3184 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3185 coredump - etc.
3186
3187 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3188 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3189
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003190 default: off.
3191
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003192 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3193 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3194 panics
3195 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3196 default: disabled
3197
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003198 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3199 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3200 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3201 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3202 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3203 Default: ratelimit
3204
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003205 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3206 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3207
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003208 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3209 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3210 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3211
3212 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3213 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3214 instead using the legacy FADT method
3215
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003216 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003217 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3218 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3219 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3220 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003221 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3222 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003223 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003224
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003225 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3226 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003227 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003228
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003229 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3230 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003231 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3232 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003233 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3234 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003235 (0 = never).
3236 psmouse.resolution=
3237 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3238 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003239 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003240 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3241
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003242 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3243
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003244 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003245 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003246
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003247 pty.legacy_count=
3248 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3249 default number.
3250
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003251 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003252
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003253 r128= [HW,DRM]
3254
3255 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003256 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003257
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003258 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003259 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003260
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003261 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3262
3263 cec_disable [X86]
3264 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3265 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3266
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003267 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003268 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3269
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003270 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3271 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3272 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003273 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3274 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3275 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3276 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003277 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3278 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3279 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3280
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003281 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003282 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3283 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3284 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3285 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3286 This improves the real-time response for the
3287 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3288 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3289 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3290 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3291
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003292 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003293 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3294 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003295
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003296 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3297 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3298 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3299 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3300
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003301 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3302 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003303 RCU grace-period cleanup.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003304
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003305 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3306 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003307 RCU grace-period initialization.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003308
3309 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3310 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3311 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3312 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003313 the rcu_node combining tree.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003314
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003315 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3316 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3317 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3318 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3319 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003320
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003321 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003322 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3323 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3324 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3325 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3326 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3327 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003328
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003329 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3330 Set required age in jiffies for a
3331 given grace period before RCU starts
3332 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3333 rcu_note_context_switch().
3334
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003335 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003336 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3337 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3338 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3339 and maximum value is HZ.
3340
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003341 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003342 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3343 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3344 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3345
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003346 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003347 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3348 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3349 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3350 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3351 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3352 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3353 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3354 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3355 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003356
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003357 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3358 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3359 defaults to the square root of the number of
3360 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3361 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3362 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3363
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003364 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003365 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3366 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003367
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003368 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003369 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3370 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003371
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003372 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003373 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3374 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003375
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003376 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003377 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3378 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3379 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3380 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003381
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003382 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3383 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3384 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3385 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3386 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3387 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3388
Paul E. McKenney881ed592017-04-17 12:47:10 -07003389 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3390 Measure performance of asynchronous
3391 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3392
3393 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3394 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3395 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3396 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3397 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3398 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3399
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003400 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3401 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3402 grace-period primitives.
3403
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003404 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3405 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3406 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3407 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3408 interference.
3409
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003410 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3411 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3412 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3413 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3414 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3415 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3416 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3417 a single reader.
3418
3419 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3420 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3421 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3422 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3423
3424 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3425 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3426
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003427 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3428 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3429
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003430 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3431 Shut the system down after performance tests
3432 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3433 testing.
3434
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003435 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3436 Enable additional printk() statements.
3437
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003438 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3439 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3440 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3441 no holdoff.
3442
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003443 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3444 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3445 callback-flood tests.
3446
3447 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3448 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3449 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3450 test.
3451
3452 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3453 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3454 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3455 disable callback-flood testing.
3456
3457 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3458 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3459 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3460
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003461 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003462 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3463 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003464
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003465 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003466 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3467 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003468
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003469 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003470 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3471 in seconds.
3472
3473 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3474 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3475 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003476
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003477 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003478 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003479
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003480 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003481 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3482 update-side primitives, if available.
3483
3484 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3485 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3486 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3487 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3488 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3489 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3490 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003491
3492 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003493 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3494
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003495 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003496 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3497 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3498 test, hence the "fake".
3499
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003500 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003501 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3502 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3503 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3504 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3505 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003506
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003507 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3508 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3509
3510 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003511 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3512
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003513 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003514 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3515 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3516
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003517 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003518 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3519 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3520 during the rcutorture test.
3521
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003522 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003523 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3524 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3525
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003526 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003527 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3528 warnings, zero to disable.
3529
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003530 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003531 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3532
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003533 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003534 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3535
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003536 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003537 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3538 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3539 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3540 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3541
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003542 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003543 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3544 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3545 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3546
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003547 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003548 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3549
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003550 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003551 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3552
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003553 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003554 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3555 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3556
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003557 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3558 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3559
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003560 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003561 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3562
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003563 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003564 Enable additional printk() statements.
3565
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003566 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3567 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3568
3569 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3570 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3571
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003572 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3573 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3574 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3575 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3576 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3577 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003578 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003579
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003580 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3581 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3582 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3583 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003584 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3585 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3586 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3587 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3588 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003589
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003590 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3591 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3592 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003593 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3594 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003595
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003596 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3597 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3598 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3599 to zero.
3600
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003601 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3602 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3603
3604 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3605 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3606
3607 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3608 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3609
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003610 rdinit= [KNL]
3611 Format: <full_path>
3612 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3613 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3614
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003615 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3616 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3617 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3618 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3619 rdt=cmt,!mba
3620
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003621 reboot= [KNL]
3622 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3623 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3624 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3625 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3626 [[,]f[orce]
3627 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3628 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3629 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3630 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3631 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003632
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003633 relax_domain_level=
3634 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003635 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003636
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003637 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3638
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003639 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003640 Format: nn[KMG]
3641 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3642 address space.
3643
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003644 reservelow= [X86]
3645 Format: nn[K]
3646 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3647 the bottom of the address space.
3648
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003649 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3650 during initialization.
3651
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003652 resume= [SWSUSP]
3653 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003654 Format:
3655 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003656
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003657 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3658 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3659 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3660 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3661 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3662
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003663 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3664 read the resume files
3665
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003666 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3667 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3668 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3669
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003670 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3671 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3672 present during boot.
3673 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003674 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003675 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3676 (that will set all pages holding image data
3677 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003678
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003679 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3680
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003681 rfkill.default_state=
3682 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3683 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3684 1 Unblocked.
3685
3686 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3687 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3688 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3689 blocked and the previous configuration.
3690 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3691 blocked and everything unblocked.
3692
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003693 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3694 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3695
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003696 ring3mwait=disable
3697 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3698 CPUs.
3699
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003700 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3701
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003702 rodata= [KNL]
3703 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3704 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3705
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003706 rockchip.usb_uart
3707 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3708 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3709 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3710 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3711
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003712 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003713 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003714
3715 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3716 mount the root filesystem
3717
3718 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3719
3720 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3721
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003722 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3723 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3724 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3725
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003726 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3727 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3728 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3729 managed by CMA.
3730
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003731 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3732
3733 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3734
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003735 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3736 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3737 strict
3738 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3739 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3740 which is faster.
3741
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003742 sa1100ir [NET]
3743 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3744
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003745 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003746
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003747 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3748
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003749 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3750 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3751 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3752 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3753
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003754 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3755 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3756 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3757 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3758 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3759 1 -- enable.
3760 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3761 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3762
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003763 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3764 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3765 security module asking for security registration will be
3766 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3767 as if no module has been chosen.
3768
3769 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003770 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3771 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3772 0 -- disable.
3773 1 -- enable.
3774 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3775 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3776 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3777
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003778 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3779 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3780 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3781 0 -- disable.
3782 1 -- enable.
3783 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3784
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003785 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003786
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003787 shapers= [NET]
3788 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003789
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003790 simeth= [IA-64]
3791 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003792
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003793 slram= [HW,MTD]
3794
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003795 slab_nomerge [MM]
3796 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3797 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Kees Cook7660a6f2017-07-06 15:36:40 -07003798 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3799 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3800 layout control by attackers can usually be
3801 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3802 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3803 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3804 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3805 own.
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003806 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3807
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003808 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3809 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3810 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3811 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3812 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3813
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003814 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3815 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3816 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3817 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3818 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3819 last alloc / free. For more information see
3820 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003821
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003822 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3823 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3824 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3825 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3826 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3827 directories and files being created under
3828 /sys/kernel/slub.
3829
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003830 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003831 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3832 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3833 fragmentation. For more information see
3834 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003835
3836 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003837 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3838 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3839 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3840 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3841 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3842 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003843 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3844
3845 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003846 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003847 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003848 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3849
3850 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003851 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3852 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003853
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003854 smart2= [HW]
3855 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3856
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003857 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3858 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3859 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3860 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3861 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3862 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3863 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3864 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3865 1: Fast pin select (default)
3866 2: ATC IRMode
3867
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003868 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3869 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3870 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3871 actual hardware limit.
3872 Format: <integer>
3873 Default: -1 (no limit)
3874
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003875 softlockup_panic=
3876 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003877 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003878
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003879 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3880 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3881 backtraces on all cpus.
3882 Format: <integer>
3883
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003884 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003885 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003886
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003887 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3888 spia_fio_base=
3889 spia_pedr=
3890 spia_peddr=
3891
Paul E. McKenneyc350c002017-05-03 15:35:32 -07003892 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3893 Specifies how frequently to check for
3894 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3895 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3896 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3897 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3898 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3899 are ignored.
3900
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07003901 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3902 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3903 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3904 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3905 grace period will be considered for automatic
3906 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3907 expediting.
3908
Hugh Dickins1be71072017-06-19 04:03:24 -07003909 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
3910 override the default stack gap protection. The value
3911 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3912 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3913 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3914 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3915
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003916 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3917 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3918
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003919 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3920 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3921 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3922 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3923 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3924 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3925 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3926
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003927 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3928 Format: <num>
3929 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3930 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3931 as the initial boot-console.
3932 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3933
3934 sti_font= [HW]
3935 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3936
3937 stifb= [HW]
3938 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3939
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003940 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3941 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3942 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3943 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3944 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3945 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3946 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3947 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3948 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3949 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3950 maximum port values.
3951
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04003952 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3953 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3954 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3955 process in parallel from a single connection.
3956 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3957
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003958 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3959 [NFS]
3960 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3961 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3962 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3963 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3964 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3965 NFS server is running.
3966
3967 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3968 automatically using heuristics
3969 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3970 percpu one pool for each CPU
3971 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3972 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3973
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003974 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3975 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3976 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3977 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3978 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3979 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3980 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3981 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3982
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003983 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3984 [SUSPEND]
3985 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3986 mode before resuming the system (see
3987 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3988 is set. Default value is 5.
3989
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003990 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003991 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3992 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003993 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003994
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003995 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01003996 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003997 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3998 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3999 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004000 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004001
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004002 switches= [HW,M68k]
4003
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004004 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4005 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4006 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4007 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4008 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4009 in older udev will not work anymore.
4010 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4011 the kernel configuration.
4012
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004013 sysrq_always_enabled
4014 [KNL]
4015 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4016 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4017 Useful for debugging.
4018
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004019 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4020 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4021 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4022 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4023 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4024 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4025
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004026 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4027
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004028 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004029 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004030 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4031 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4032 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4033 The system is woken from this state using a
4034 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004035
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004036 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4037 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4038
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004039 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4040 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4041 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4042
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004043 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4044 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004045 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004046
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004047 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4048 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4049 critical and hot trip points.
4050
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004051 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4052 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4053
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004054 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4055 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004056 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4057 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004058
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004059 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4060 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4061 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4062 0: no polling (default)
4063
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004064 threadirqs [KNL]
4065 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004066 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004067
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004068 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4069 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4070
4071 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4072 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4073 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4074
4075 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4076 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004077 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4078 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004079
4080 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4081 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4082 to the hypervisor.
4083
4084 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4085 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4086 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4087 kernel based on different criteria.
4088
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004089 topology= [S390]
4090 Format: {off | on}
4091 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004092 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4093 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004094 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004095 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004096
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004097 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4098 Format: {off}
4099 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4100 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4101 LPAR.
4102
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004103 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4104
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004105 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4106 Format: integer pcr id
4107 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4108 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4109 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4110 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4111 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4112 are saved.
4113
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004114 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004115 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004116
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004117 trace_event=[event-list]
4118 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004119 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4120 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4121 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004122
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004123 trace_options=[option-list]
4124 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4125 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4126 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4127 to echo the option name into
4128
4129 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4130
4131 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4132 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4133
4134 trace_options=stacktrace
4135
4136 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4137 section.
4138
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004139 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4140 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4141 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4142 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4143 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4144 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4145
4146 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4147 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4148 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4149 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4150
4151 ** CAUTION **
4152
4153 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4154 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4155 the system to live lock.
4156
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004157 traceoff_on_warning
4158 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4159 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4160 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4161 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4162
4163 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4164 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4165 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4166
4167 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4168 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4169
Jiri Kosinafcf4d8212012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004170 transparent_hugepage=
4171 [KNL]
4172 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4173 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4174 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4175 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4176
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004177 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004178 Format: <string>
4179 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004180 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4181 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4182 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4183 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004184 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4185 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4186 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4187 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004188
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004189 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4190 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4191 Format:
4192 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004193 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4194
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004195 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004196 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004197 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4198 help "seeing" what's going on.
4199
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004200 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4201 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4202
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004203 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4204 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4205 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4206 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4207 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4208 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4209 reported either.
4210
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004211 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004212 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004213
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004214 usbcore.authorized_default=
4215 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4216 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4217 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4218
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004219 usbcore.autosuspend=
4220 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4221 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4222 is the time required before an idle device will be
4223 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004224 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004225
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004226 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4227 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4228
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004229 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4230 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4231 (default = 65536).
4232
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004233 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4234 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4235
4236 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4237 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4238 scheme (default 0 = off).
4239
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004240 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4241 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4242 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4243
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004244 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4245 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4246 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4247
4248 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4249 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4250 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4251 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4252
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004253 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4254
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004255 usbhid.mousepoll=
4256 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004257
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004258 usbhid.jspoll=
4259 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4260
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004261 usb-storage.delay_use=
4262 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004263 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004264
4265 usb-storage.quirks=
4266 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4267 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4268 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4269 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4270 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4271 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4272 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004273 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4274 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004275 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4276 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004277 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4278 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004279 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4280 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4281 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4282 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004283 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4284 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004285 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4286 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004287 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4288 reported device capacity by one
4289 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004290 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4291 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004292 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4293 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004294 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4295 unlock ejectable media);
4296 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4297 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004298 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4299 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004300 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4301 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004302 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4303 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004304 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4305 bogus residue values);
4306 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4307 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004308 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4309 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004310 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004311 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4312 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004313 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4314 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004315 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4316
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004317 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4318 Format: <int>
4319 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4320 1 - undefined instruction events
4321 2 - system calls
4322 4 - invalid data aborts
4323 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4324 16 - SIGBUS faults
4325 Example: user_debug=31
4326
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004327 userpte=
4328 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4329
4330 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4331 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4332 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4333
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304334 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004335 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4336
4337 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004338 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4339
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004340 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4341 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4342 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4343
4344 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4345 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4346 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4347
4348 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4349 alias for vdso32=0.
4350
4351 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4352 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004353
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004354 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4355 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4356
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004357 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4358 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4359
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004360 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4361 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4362 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4363 level and then send out the event to user space through
4364 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4365 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4366 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004367 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004368
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004369 virtio_mmio.device=
4370 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4371
4372 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4373 where:
4374 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4375 like K, M and G)
4376 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4377 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4378 request_irq())
4379 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4380 example:
4381 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4382
4383 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4384
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004385 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004386 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004387 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004388 Use vga=ask for menu.
4389 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4390 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4391
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004392 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004393 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4394 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4395 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4396 mapped kernel RAM.
4397
Heiko Carstens3f429842017-08-07 15:16:15 +02004398 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4399 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4400 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4401
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004402 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4403 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004404
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004405 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4406 Format: <command>
4407
4408 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4409 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004410
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004411 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4412 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4413 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4414 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4415 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4416 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4417 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4418
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004419 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4420 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004421
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004422 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004423 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4424 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4425 better than they would in emulation mode.
4426 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4427
4428 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4429 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4430 might break your system.
4431
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004432 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4433 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4434 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4435
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004436 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4437 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4438 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4439 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4440
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004441 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4442 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4443 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4444 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4445 ranging from 0-255.
4446
4447 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4448 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4449 Change the default green palette of the console.
4450 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4451 ranging from 0-255.
4452
4453 vt.default_red= [VT]
4454 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4455 Change the default red palette of the console.
4456 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4457 ranging from 0-255.
4458
4459 vt.default_utf8=
4460 [VT]
4461 Format=<0|1>
4462 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4463 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4464 newly opened terminals.
4465
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004466 vt.global_cursor_default=
4467 [VT]
4468 Format=<-1|0|1>
4469 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4470 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4471 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4472 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4473 cursors, 1 will display them.
4474
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004475 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4476 Default: 2 = green.
4477
4478 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4479 Default: 3 = cyan.
4480
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004481 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4482 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4483 or other driver-specific files in the
4484 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004485
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004486 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4487 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4488 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4489 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4490 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4491 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4492 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4493 corresponding sysfs file.
4494
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004495 workqueue.disable_numa
4496 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4497 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4498 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4499 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4500 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4501 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4502 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4503
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304504 workqueue.power_efficient
4505 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4506 they show better performance thanks to cache
4507 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4508 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4509
4510 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4511 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4512 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4513 power usage at the cost of small performance
4514 overhead.
4515
4516 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4517 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4518
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004519 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4520 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4521 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4522 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4523 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4524 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4525 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4526 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4527 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4528 impacted.
4529
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004530 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4531 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4532 supporting x2apic.
4533
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004534 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4535 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004536 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4537 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004538 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004539
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004540 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4541 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4542 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4543 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4544 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4545 domains.
4546
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004547 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4548 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4549 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4550 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4551 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4552 nics -- unplug network devices
4553 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004554 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4555 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4556 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004557 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004558
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004559 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4560 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4561 optimizations.
4562
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004563 xen_nopv [X86]
4564 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4565 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4566
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004567 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004568 Format:
4569 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]