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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>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500317 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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.
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -0500442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
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
Sergey Senozhatskycca10d52017-12-21 14:41:49 +0900643 console_msg_format=
644 [KNL] Change console messages format
645 default
646 By default we print messages on consoles in
647 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
648 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
649 `printk_time' param).
650 syslog
651 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
652 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
653 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
654 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
655 from /proc/kmsg.
656
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700657 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
Daniel Xuac0a3142017-09-18 22:21:25 -0700658 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
659 Defaults to 0.
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700660
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800661 coredump_filter=
662 [KNL] Change the default value for
663 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
664 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
665
Leo Yan62a31ce2017-06-05 14:15:12 -0600666 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
667 [ARM,ARM64]
668 Format: <bool>
669 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
670 0: default value, disable debugging
671 1: enable debugging at boot time
672
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400673 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
674 disable the cpuidle sub-system
675
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500676 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
677 disable the cpufreq sub-system
678
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400679 cpu_init_udelay=N
680 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
681 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
682 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
683 Default: 10000
684
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700685 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700686 Format:
687 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700688
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800689 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
690 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
691 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
692 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
693 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
694 is selected automatically. Check
695 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700696
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700697 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
698 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
699 in the running system. The syntax of range is
700 start-[end] where start and end are both
701 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800702 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700703
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700704 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700705 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
706 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
707 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
708 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
709 available.
710 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700711 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
712 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
713 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700714 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
715 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800716 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
717 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
718 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
719 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700720 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
721 for second kernel instead.
722 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700723 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700724 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700725
Byungchul Parkd141bab2017-10-25 17:56:00 +0900726 crossrelease_fullstack
727 [KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release
728
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100729 cryptomgr.notests
730 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
731
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700732 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
733 Format: <dma>
734
735 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
736 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700737
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700738 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700739 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
740
741 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
742 (one device per port)
743 Format: <port#>,<type>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500744 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700745
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200746 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200747 time. See
748 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600749 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200750
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700751 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
752
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700753 debug_locks_verbose=
754 [KNL] verbose self-tests
755 Format=<0|1>
756 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
757 self-tests.
758 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
759 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
760 only useful to kernel developers.
761
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700762 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
763
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500764 no_debug_objects
765 [KNL] Disable object debugging
766
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800767 debug_guardpage_minorder=
768 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
769 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
770 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
771 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
772 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
773 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
774 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
775 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
776 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
777 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
778 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
779 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
780 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
781 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
782 bypassed) which are not detectable by
783 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
784 tracking down these problems.
785
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800786 debug_pagealloc=
787 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
788 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
789 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
790 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
791 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
792 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
793 on: enable the feature
794
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200795 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
796
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200797 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700798 Format: <area>[,<node>]
799 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
800
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700801 default_hugepagesz=
802 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
803 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
804 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
805 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
806 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
807 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700808
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700809 dhash_entries= [KNL]
810 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700811
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000812 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
813 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
814 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
815 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
816 miss to occur.
817
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800818 disable= [IPV6]
819 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
820
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530821 disable_radix [PPC]
822 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
823
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900824 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
825 Format: <int>
826 The number of initial APIC ID for the
827 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
828 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
829 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
830 causing system reset or hang due to sending
831 INIT from AP to BSP.
832
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000833 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
834 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
835 to workaround buggy firmware.
836
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800837 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
838 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
839
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700840 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700841 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
842 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700843 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700844
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100845 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100846 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
847 memory out of your available memory pool based on
848 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
849 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
850
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530851 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700852 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
853 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
854
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400855 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
856
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700857 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
858 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
859
860 dma_debug_entries=<number>
861 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
862 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
863 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
864 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
865 architectural default is too low.
866
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200867 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
868 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
869 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
870 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
871 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
872 driver later using sysfs.
873
Jani Nikula53fd40a2017-09-12 11:19:26 +0300874 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700875 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
876 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
877 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
878 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100879 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
880 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
881 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
882 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
883 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
884 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
885 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
886 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700887 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
888 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
889 data set with no connector name will be used for
890 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100891
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700892 dscc4.setup= [NET]
893
Nicholas Piggina2b05b72017-05-11 21:24:41 +1000894 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
895 Format: {"off" | "known"}
896 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
897 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
898 exists).
899 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
900 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
901 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
902
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000903 dump_apple_properties [X86]
904 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
905 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
906 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
907
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600908 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
909 module.dyndbg[="val"]
910 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200911 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
912 for details.
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600913
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700914 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
915 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
916 information about the feature.
917
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800918 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
919 in some Intel CPUs.
920
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700921 module.async_probe [KNL]
922 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
923
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700924 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
925 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
926 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
927 which are not unmapped.
928
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700929 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500930
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500931 When used with no options, the early console is
932 determined by the stdout-path property in device
933 tree's chosen node.
934
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100935 cdns,<addr>[,options]
936 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
937 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
938 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
939 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
940 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200941
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700942 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
943 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700944 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300945 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400946 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700947 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
948 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700949 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300950 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
951 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
952 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
953 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400954 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700955
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500956 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600957 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500958 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
959 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
960 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600961 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
962 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
963 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500964
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100965 meson,<addr>
966 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
967 port at the specified address. The serial port must
968 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
969 supported.
970
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700971 msm_serial,<addr>
972 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
973 port at the specified address. The serial port
974 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
975 yet supported.
976
977 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
978 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
979 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
980 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
981 yet supported.
982
Andreas Färbere36361d2017-06-19 03:46:40 +0200983 owl,<addr>
984 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
985 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
986 specified address. The serial port must already be
987 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
988
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500989 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
990
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100991 s3c2410,<addr>
992 s3c2412,<addr>
993 s3c2440,<addr>
994 s3c6400,<addr>
995 s5pv210,<addr>
996 exynos4210,<addr>
997 Use early console provided by serial driver available
998 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
999 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1000 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1001 Options are not yet supported.
1002
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +01001003 lantiq,<addr>
1004 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1005 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1006 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1007 yet supported.
1008
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001009 lpuart,<addr>
1010 lpuart32,<addr>
1011 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1012 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1013 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1014 port must already be setup and configured.
1015
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +01001016 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001017 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1018 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1019 address. The serial port must already be setup
1020 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1021
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001022 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001023 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001024 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001025 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001026 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001027 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001028 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001029 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001030 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001031 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +08001032 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001033
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001034 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1035 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1036 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1037
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001038 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001039 takes over.
1040
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001041 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1042 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001043
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001044 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1045 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1046 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1047 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1048 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1049 You can find the port for a given device in
1050 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1051 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001052
1053 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1054 very good.
1055
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001056 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1057 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001058
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001059 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1060
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001061 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1062
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001063 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1064 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1065 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1066 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1067 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1068 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1069 default: on.
1070
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001071 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1072 ekgdboc=kbd
1073
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001074 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001075 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1076
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001077 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001078 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001079
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001080 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001081 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001082 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1083 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1084 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001085 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1086 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1087 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001088 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001089 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001090
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001091 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1092 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1093 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1094 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1095 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1096
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001097 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1098 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1099 updating original EFI memory map.
1100 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1101 from ss to ss+nn.
1102 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1103 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1104 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1105 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1106
1107 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1108 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1109 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1110 doesn't support it.
1111
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001112 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1113 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1114 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1115 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1116 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1117
1118
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001119 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1120 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1121
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001122 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001123 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001124 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001125
1126 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001127 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001128 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001129 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1130
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001131 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001132 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001133 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1134 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001135 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001136
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001137 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1138 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1139 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1140 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1141
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001142 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001143 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1144 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1145 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1146 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1147
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001148 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1149 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1150 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1151 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1152 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1153 Default value is 0.
1154 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1155
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001156 erst_disable [ACPI]
1157 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1158 support.
1159
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001160 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1161 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1162 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1163
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001164 evm= [EVM]
1165 Format: { "fix" }
1166 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1167 current integrity status.
1168
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001169 failslab=
1170 fail_page_alloc=
1171 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1172 General fault injection mechanism.
1173 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001174 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001175
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001176 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001177 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001178
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001179 force_pal_cache_flush
1180 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1181 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1182 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1183 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1184
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001185 forcepae [X86-32]
1186 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1187 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1188 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1189 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1190 and may cause unknown problems.
1191
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001192 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001193 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001194 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1195 boot debugging.
1196
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001197 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001198 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001199 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1200 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1201 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1202 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001203
1204 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1205 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1206 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1207 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1208 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001209 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001210
1211 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1212 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1213 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1214 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1215 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001216
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001217 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1218 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1219 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1220 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1221 that can be changed at run time by the
1222 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1223
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001224 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1225 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1226 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1227 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1228 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1229
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001230 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1231 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1232 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1233 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1234 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1235
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001236 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1237 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1238 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1239 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001240 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001241
1242 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1243
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001244 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1245 Format: off | on
1246 default: on
1247
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001248 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1249 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1250 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1251 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1252 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1253
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001254 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1255 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1256 android emulator
1257
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001258 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001259 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1260 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1261 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001262
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001263 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1264 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1265 Format: 0 | 1
1266 Default: 0
1267 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1268 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1269 Format: 0 | 1
1270 Default: 0
1271 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1272 Format: 0 | 1
1273 Default: 0
1274 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1275 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1276 Default: 1024
1277 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1278 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1279 Default: 1024
1280
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001281 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1282 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1283 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1284
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001285 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1286 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1287 backtraces on all cpus.
1288 Format: <integer>
1289
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001290 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1291 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001292 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001293 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001294
1295 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1296
1297 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1298 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1299
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001300 hest_disable [ACPI]
1301 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1302 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1303 logic will be disabled.
1304
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001305 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1306 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1307 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1308 size on bigger boxes.
1309
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001310 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1311 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1312 Default: "on"
1313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001314 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1315 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1316
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001317 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1318
1319 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1320 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1321 verbose }
1322 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1323 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1324 VIA, nVidia)
1325 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1326
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001327 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1328 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1329
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001330 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1331 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001332 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1333 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1334 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1335 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001336 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001337
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001338 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1339 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001340 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1341 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1342 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001343
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001344 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1345 hardware thread id mappings.
1346 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1347
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001348 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1349 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1350 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1351 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1352 the real console.
1353
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001354 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001355 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1356 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001357 Format:
1358 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1359
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001360 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001361 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1362 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1363 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1364 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001365 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001366 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1367 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001368 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1369 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001370 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001371 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1372 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001373 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001374 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001375 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1376 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001377 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001378 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1379 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1380 transitions, or never reset
1381 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1382 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1383 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1384 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1385 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001386 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001387 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001388
1389 i810= [HW,DRM]
1390
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001391 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1392 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1393 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001394 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1395 does not match list of supported models.
1396 i8k.power_status
1397 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1398 (disabled by default)
1399 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1400 capability is set.
1401
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001402 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001403 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1404 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001405 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1406 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1407 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1408 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1409 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1410 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1411 value switches the backlight off.
1412 -1 -- never invert brightness
1413 0 -- machine default
1414 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001415
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001416 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1417 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1418
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001419 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1420 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001421 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1422 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001423 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001424
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001425 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1426 Format: <int>
1427 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1428 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1429 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1430 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1431 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1432 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1433 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1434 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1435 was 0x3.
1436
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001437 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1438 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1439
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001440 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001441 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001442 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1443 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1444 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1445 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001446 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001447 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001448 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001449
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001450 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1451 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1452 Default: strict
1453
1454 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1455 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1456 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1457 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1458 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1459 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1460 encoding mode.
1461
1462 Available settings are as follows:
1463 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1464 supported by the FPU
1465 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1466 by the FPU
1467 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1468 by the FPU
1469 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1470 supported by the FPU
1471
1472 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1473 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1474 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1475 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1476 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1477 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1478 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1479 MIPS64 CPUs.
1480
1481 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1482 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1483 except where unsupported by hardware.
1484
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001485 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1486 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1487 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001488 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1489 could change it dynamically, usually by
1490 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001491
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001492 ignore_rlimit_data
1493 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1494 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1495 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1496
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001497 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1498 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1499
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001500 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001501 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001502 default: "enforce"
1503
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001504 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1505 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1506 owned by uid=0.
1507
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001508 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1509 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1510 measurements, instead of host native format.
1511
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001512 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001513 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1514 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001515 default: "sha1"
1516
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001517 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1518 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1519
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001520 ima_policy= [IMA]
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001521 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001522 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001523
1524 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1525 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1526 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1527 uid=0.
1528
1529 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1530 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1531 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001532
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001533 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1534 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1535 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001536
1537 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001538 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1539 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1540 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1541 opened for read by uid=0.
1542
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001543 ima_template= [IMA]
1544 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001545 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001546 Default: "ima-ng"
1547
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001548 ima_template_fmt=
1549 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1550 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1551
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001552 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1553 Format: <min_file_size>
1554 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1555 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1556
1557 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1558 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1559 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1560
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001561 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1562 Format: <bufsize>
1563 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1564
1565 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1566 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1567 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1568
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001569 init= [KNL]
1570 Format: <full_path>
1571 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1572 process.
1573
1574 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1575 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1576 startup.
1577
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001578 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1579 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1580 modules and initcalls.
1581
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001582 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1583
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001584 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1585 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1586 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1587 override in debugfs after boot.
1588
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001589 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1590 Format: <irq>
1591
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001592 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1593
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001594 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1595 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1596 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1597 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1598
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001599 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001600 on
1601 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001602 off
1603 Disable intel iommu driver.
1604 igfx_off [Default Off]
1605 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1606 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1607 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1608 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1609 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001610 forcedac [x86_64]
1611 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001612 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001613 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001614 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1615 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001616 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001617 strict [Default Off]
1618 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1619 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1620 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001621 sp_off [Default Off]
1622 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1623 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1624 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001625 ecs_off [Default Off]
1626 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1627 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1628 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1629 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1630 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001631 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1632 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1633 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1634 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1635 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1636 mapping is enabled.
1637 Note that using this option lowers the security
1638 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1639 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001640
1641 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1642 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001643 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001644
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001645 intel_pstate= [X86]
1646 disable
1647 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1648 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001649 passive
1650 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1651 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1652 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1653 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1654 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001655 force
1656 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1657 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1658 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1659 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1660 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1661 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1662 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1663 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001664 no_hwp
1665 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1666 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001667 hwp_only
1668 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1669 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001670 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001671 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1672 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1673 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1674 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001675 per_cpu_perf_limits
1676 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1677 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001678
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001679 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001680 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1681 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1682 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001683 no_x2apic_optout
1684 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001685 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001686
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001687 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1688 strict regions from userspace.
1689 relaxed
1690
1691 iommu= [x86]
1692 off
1693 force
1694 noforce
1695 biomerge
1696 panic
1697 nopanic
1698 merge
1699 nomerge
1700 forcesac
1701 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001702 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001703 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1704 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001705
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001706 iommu.passthrough=
1707 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1708 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1709 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1710 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1711 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001712
1713 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1714 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1715 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1716
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301717 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001718 0x80
1719 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1720 0xed
1721 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001722 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001723 Simple two microseconds delay
1724 none
1725 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001726
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001727 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001728 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001729
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001730 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001731 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001732
Marc Zyngier09622892017-10-27 10:34:22 +02001733 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1734 [ARM, ARM64]
1735 Format: <bool>
1736 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1737 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1738 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1739
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001740 irqfixup [HW]
1741 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1742 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1743 firmware running.
1744
1745 irqpoll [HW]
1746 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1747 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1748 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1749 firmware running.
1750
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001751 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001752 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001753
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001754 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1755 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1756 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001757
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001758 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1759 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001760
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001761 nohz
1762 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1763 domain
1764 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1765 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1766 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1767 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1768 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1769 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1770 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1771 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1772
1773 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1774 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1775 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1776 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1777
1778 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1779
1780
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001781
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001782 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001783
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001784 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1785 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1786 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1787 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1788 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1789 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1790
1791 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1792 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1793 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1794 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1795 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1796 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1797
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001798 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1799 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1800 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1801 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1802 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1803 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1804
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001805 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001806 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001807
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001808 nokaslr [KNL]
1809 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1810 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1811 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001812
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001813 kasan_multi_shot
1814 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1815 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1816 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1817 invalid access.
1818
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001819 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1820
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001821 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1822 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1823 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001824 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1825 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1826 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1827 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1828 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1829 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1830 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001831 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001832 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1833 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1834 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1835 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1836 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1837 zone if it does not.
1838
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001839 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1840 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1841 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1842 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1843 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1844 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1845 time.
1846
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001847 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1848 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1849 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1850 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1851 optional and is the number seconds in between
1852 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1853 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1854 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1855 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1856 the kernel debugger.
1857
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001858 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001859 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1860 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001861 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1862 keyboard only format: kbd
1863 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1864 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1865 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1866 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001867
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001868 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1869 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1870
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001871 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1872 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1873 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1874
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001875 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1876 Valid arguments: on, off
1877 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001878 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1879 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001880
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001881 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1882 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1883
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001884 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1885 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001886 Default is 0 (off)
1887
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001888 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001889 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001890
1891 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1892 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001893 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001894
Marc Zyngiere23f62f2017-06-09 12:49:46 +01001895 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1896 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1897 system registers
1898
Marc Zyngier182936e2017-06-09 12:49:41 +01001899 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1900 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1901 system registers
1902
Marc Zyngierff895112017-06-09 12:49:53 +01001903 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1904 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1905 system registers
1906
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001907 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1908 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1909 Default is 1 (enabled)
1910
1911 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1912 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1913 Default is 0 (disabled)
1914
1915 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1916 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1917 Default is 1 (enabled)
1918
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001919 kvm-intel.nested=
1920 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1921 Default is 0 (disabled)
1922
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001923 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1924 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1925 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1926 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1927
1928 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1929 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1930 Default is 1 (enabled)
1931
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001932 l2cr= [PPC]
1933
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001934 l3cr= [PPC]
1935
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001936 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001937 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001938
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001939 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1940 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1941 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1942
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301943 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001944 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001945
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001946 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1947 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1948 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1949 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001950 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001951 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1952 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001953
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001954 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1955 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1956 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001957
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001958 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1959 when set.
1960 Format: <int>
1961
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001962 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1963 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001964 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001965 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1966 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1967 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1968 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1969 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1970
1971 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1972 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1973 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1974 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1975 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1976 host link and device attached to it.
1977
1978 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1979 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1980 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1981 The following configurations can be forced.
1982
1983 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1984 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1985
1986 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1987
1988 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1989 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1990 allowed.
1991
1992 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1993
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001994 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1995
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001996 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1997 and both resets.
1998
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001999 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2000 hot-unplug link recovery
2001
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02002002 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2003
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02002004 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2005
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08002006 * disable: Disable this device.
2007
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002008 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2009 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2010
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002011 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002012
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002013 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002014 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002015
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002016 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2017 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002018
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002019 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2020 Format: <integer>
2021
2022 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2023 Format: <integer>
2024
2025 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2026 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002027
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002028 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2029 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2030 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2031 number of online CPUs.
2032
2033 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2034 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2035
2036 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2037 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2038
2039 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2040 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2041 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2042
2043 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2044 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2045 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2046 mode during the locktorture test.
2047
2048 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2049 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2050 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2051
2052 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2053 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2054
2055 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2056 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2057 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2058 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2059 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2060 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2061
2062 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2063 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2064
2065 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2066 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2067
2068 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2069 Enable additional printk() statements.
2070
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002071 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2072 Format: <irq>
2073
2074 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2075 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2076 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2077 loglevels are defined as follows:
2078
2079 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2080 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2081 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2082 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2083 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2084 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2085 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2086 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2087
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002088 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002089 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2090 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2091 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2092 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2093 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2094 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002095
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002096 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2097 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2098 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2099 kernel boot problems.
2100
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002101 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2102 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2103 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2104 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2105 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2106 attached printers to be reset. Using
2107 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2108 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2109 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2110 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2111 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2112 port specification list means that device IDs
2113 from each port should be examined, to see if
2114 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2115 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2116 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2117
2118 lpj=n [KNL]
2119 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2120 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2121 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2122 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2123 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2124 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2125 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2126 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2127 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2128 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2129 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2130 hardware.
2131
2132 ltpc= [NET]
2133 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2134
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002135 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002136 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2137 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002138
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002139 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2140 yeeloong laptop.
2141 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2142
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002143 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2144 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002145
2146 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002147 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2148 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2149 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2150 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2151 only takes effect during system bootup.
2152 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2153 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002154
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002155 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2156 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2157 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2158 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2159 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2160 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002161
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002162 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002163
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002164 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002165
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002166 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002167 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002168
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002169 mdacon= [MDA]
2170 Format: <first>,<last>
2171 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002172
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002173 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2174 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2175 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002176 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2177 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2178 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2179 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002180
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002181 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002182 memory.
2183
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002184 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2185 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2186 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2187
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002188 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2189 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2190 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2191 set according to the
2192 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2193 option.
2194 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2195
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302196 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002197 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2198 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2199 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2200 option description.
2201
2202 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002203 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2204 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002205 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2206 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2207 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2208 comma delimited.
2209 Example:
2210 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002211
2212 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2213 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002214 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002215
2216 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2217 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002218 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002219 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2220 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2221 or
2222 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002223 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2224 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2225 will be eaten.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002226
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002227 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2228 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2229 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2230 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2231 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2232
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002233 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2234 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2235 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2236 Setting this option will scan the memory
2237 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2238 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2239 from using the memory being corrupted.
2240 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2241 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2242 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2243 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2244
2245 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2246 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2247 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2248 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2249 corruption in more or less memory.
2250
2251 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2252 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2253 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2254 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2255
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002256 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002257 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002258 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002259 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2260 performed. Each pass selects another test
2261 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2262 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2263 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2264 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002265
Tom Lendackyc262f3b2017-07-17 16:09:58 -05002266 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2267 Valid arguments: on, off
2268 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2269 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2270 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2271 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2272 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2273
2274 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2275 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2276
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002277 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2278 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2279 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2280 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
Rafael J. Wysocki58e7cb92017-10-06 00:38:49 +02002281 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002282
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002283 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -05002284 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002285
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002286 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2287 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2288 platforms.
2289
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002290 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2291 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2292 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2293 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2294
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002295 mga= [HW,DRM]
2296
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002297 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2298 physical address is ignored.
2299
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002300 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2301 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2302 Default: "0tb"
2303 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2304 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2305 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2306 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2307 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2308 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2309 unconfigured.
2310 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2311 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2312 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2313 VGA shield.
2314 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2315 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2316 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2317 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2318 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2319 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2320
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002321 mminit_loglevel=
2322 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2323 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2324 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2325 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2326 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2327 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2328
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002329 module.sig_enforce
2330 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2331 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002332 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002333 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2334
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302335 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2336 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2337
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002338 mousedev.tap_time=
2339 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2340 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2341 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2342 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2343 Format: <msecs>
2344 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2345 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2346 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2347 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2348
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302349 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002350 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2351 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2352 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2353 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2354 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2355 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2356 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2357 is not too small.
2358
Michal Hockof70029b2017-07-06 15:41:02 -07002359 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2360 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2361 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2362 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2363 allocations. Use with caution!
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002364
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002365 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2366 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2367
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002368 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2369 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002370
2371 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002372 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002373
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002374 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2375 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2376 at a time.
2377
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002378 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2379
2380 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2381
2382 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2383 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2384 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2385 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2386 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2387
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002388 mtdset= [ARM]
2389 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2390
2391 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2392
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002393 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002394 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2395 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002396
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002397 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002398 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002399 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2400
2401 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2402 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2403 Default is 1.
2404 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2405 using up MTRRs.
2406
2407 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2408 Format: <integer>
2409 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2410 Default : 1
2411 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2412 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2413
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002414 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2415
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002416 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2417 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2418 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2419 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002420 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2421 file if at all.
2422
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002423 nf_conntrack.acct=
2424 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2425 0 to disable accounting
2426 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002427 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002428
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002429 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002430 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002431
2432 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002433 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002434
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002435 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2436 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2437
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002438 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2439 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2440 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2441 requests.
2442
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002443 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2444 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2445 channel should listen.
2446
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002447 nfs.cache_getent=
2448 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2449 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2450
2451 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2452 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2453 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2454
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002455 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2456 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2457 entries.
2458
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002459 nfs.enable_ino64=
2460 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2461 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2462 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2463 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2464 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2465
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002466 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2467 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2468 slots the client will assign to the callback
2469 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2470 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2471 a particular server.
2472
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002473 nfs.max_session_slots=
2474 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2475 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2476 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2477 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2478 Note that there is little point in setting this
2479 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2480
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002481 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002482 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2483 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2484 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2485 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2486 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2487 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2488 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2489 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2490 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2491 back to using the idmapper.
2492 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002493 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2494 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2495 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2496 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2497 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002498
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002499 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2500 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2501 information in exchange_id requests.
2502 If zero, no implementation identification information
2503 will be sent.
2504 The default is to send the implementation identification
2505 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002506
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002507 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2508 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2509 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2510 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2511 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2512 after the locks are lost.
2513 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2514 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2515 parameter to '1'.
2516 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2517 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002518
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002519 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2520 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2521 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2522
2523 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2524 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2525 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2526 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2527
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002528 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2529 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2530 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2531 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2532 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2533 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002534
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002535 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002536 when a NMI is triggered.
2537 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2538
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302539 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002540 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002541 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002542 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2543 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002544 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002545 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002546 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2547 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002548 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2549 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002550
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002551 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2552 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2553 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2554 waits 4 seconds.
2555
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002556 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002557 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2558 is present.
2559
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002560 no_console_suspend
2561 [HW] Never suspend the console
2562 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2563 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2564 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2565 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2566 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2567 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2568 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002569 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2570 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2571 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2572 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2573 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002574
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002575 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2576 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2577 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002578
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002579 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2580
Vasily Gorbik686140a2017-10-12 13:01:47 +02002581 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2582 (CPU alternatives feature).
2583
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002584 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2585 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2586
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002587 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2588
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002589 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2590 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2591
2592 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002593
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002594 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2595
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002596 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2597
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002598 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2599
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002600 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002601
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002602 noexec [IA-64]
2603
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302604 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002605 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002606 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002607 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2608
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002609 nosmap [X86]
2610 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2611 even if it is supported by processor.
2612
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002613 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002614 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002615 even if it is supported by processor.
2616
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002617 noexec32 [X86-64]
2618 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2619 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2620 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2621 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2622 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002623
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002624 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002625
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002626 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002627 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2628 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002629
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002630 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2631
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002632 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2633 Equivalent to smt=1.
2634
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002635 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2636 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2637 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2638
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002639 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2640 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2641 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2642 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2643 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2644 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2645
2646 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2647 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2648 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2649 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2650 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2651 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2652 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2653
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002654 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2655 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2656 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002657
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002658 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2659 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2660 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2661
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002662 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2663 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2664 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2665 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2666 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2667 real-time systems.
2668
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002669 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2670
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002671 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2672 Valid arguments: on, off
2673 Default: on
2674
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002675 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002676 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002677 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002678 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002679 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
Paul E. McKenneyf99bcb22017-06-02 11:26:43 -07002680 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2681 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2682 just as if they had also been called out in the
2683 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002684
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002685 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2686
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002687 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002688 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2689
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302690 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002691 broken timer IRQ sources.
2692
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002693 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2694
2695 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2696 initial RAM disk.
2697
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002698 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2699 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002700 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002701
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002702 nointroute [IA-64]
2703
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002704 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2705
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002706 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002707
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002708 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2709
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002710 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2711 fault handling.
2712
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002713 no-vmw-sched-clock
2714 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2715 clock and use the default one.
2716
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002717 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2718 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2719 behaviour
2720
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002721 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002722
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002723 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002724
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002725 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002726 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002727
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002728 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2729
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002730 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002731
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002732 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2733 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2734
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002735 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2736 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2737 irq.
2738
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002739 nomodule Disable module load
2740
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002741 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2742 pagetables) support.
2743
Andy Lutomirski0790c9a2017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002744 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2745
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002746 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2747 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2748
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002749 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002750
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002751 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002752 with UP alternatives
2753
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002754 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2755 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2756 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2757 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002758
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002759 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2760 space.
2761
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002762 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2763 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2764 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2765
2766 nosbagart [IA-64]
2767
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002768 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002769
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002770 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2771 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002772
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002773 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2774
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002775 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2776
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002777 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002778
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002779 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2780 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002781
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002782 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002783
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002784 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2785
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002786 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2787 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2788 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2789 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2790 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2791 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2792 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2793 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2794 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2795 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2796 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2797 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2798 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2799
Noam Camus35b55ef2017-06-15 11:43:57 +03002800 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2801 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2802 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2803 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2804 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2805 parameter's value.
2806 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2807 Default: 255
2808
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002809 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002810 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2811 SAL PALO.
2812
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002813 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2814 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002815 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2816 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2817 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2818 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2819 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2820 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002821
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002822 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2823
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002824 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2825 Allowed values are enable and disable
2826
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002827 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
Michal Hockoc9bff3e2017-09-06 16:20:13 -07002828 'node', 'default' can be specified
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002829 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2830 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2831
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002832 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2833 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2834 info.
2835
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002836 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2837 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2838 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2839 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2840 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2841 interrupts *may* be lost!
2842
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002843 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2844 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2845 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2846 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2847
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002848 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2849 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2850
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002851 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2852 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2853 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002854 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2855 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002856 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2857 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002858 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2859 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2860 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002861
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002862 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2863 process, but there is a small probability of
2864 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002865 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2866 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2867
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002868 OSS [HW,OSS]
2869 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2870
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002871 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2872 Storage of the information about who allocated
2873 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2874 we can turn it on.
2875 on: enable the feature
2876
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002877 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2878 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2879 off: turn off poisoning
2880 on: turn on poisoning
2881
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002882 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002883 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2884 timeout = 0: wait forever
2885 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002886 Format: <timeout>
2887
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002888 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2889 on a WARN().
2890
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002891 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2892 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2893 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2894 succeeds in any situation.
2895 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2896 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2897 kernel more unstable.
2898
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002899 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2900 connected to, default is 0.
2901 Format: <parport#>
2902 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2903 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002904 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002905
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002906 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2907 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2908 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2909 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2910 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2911 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2912 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2913 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2914 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2915 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2916 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2917 are specified on the command line, starting
2918 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002919
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002920 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2921 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2922 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2923 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2924 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2925 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002926 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2927
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002928 pause_on_oops=
2929 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2930 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2931 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2932
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002933 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2934
2935 pcd. [PARIDE]
2936 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002937 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002938
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002939 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002940 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2941 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002942 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002943 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002944 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2945 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002946 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002947 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2948 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2949 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002950 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2951 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2952 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2953 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2954 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2955 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2956 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2957 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2958 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2959 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002960 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2961 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2962 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002963 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2964 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302965 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002966 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002967 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2968 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2969 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002970 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2971 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2972 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002973 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2974 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2975 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002976 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2977 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2978 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2979 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002980 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2981 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2982 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2983 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002984 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002985 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2986 on several machines and they hang the machine
2987 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2988 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2989 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2990 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2991 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002992 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002993 Use with caution as certain devices share
2994 address decoders between ROMs and other
2995 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002996 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002997 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2998 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002999 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3000 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003001 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003002 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3003 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3004 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003005 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003006 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3007 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3008 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003009 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003010 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3011 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3012 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003013 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003014 numbers ourselves, overriding
3015 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003016 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003017 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3018 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3019 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3020 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3021 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003022 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003023 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003024 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3025 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3026 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3027 please report a bug.
3028 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3029 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003030 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3031 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3032 so this option is a temporary workaround
3033 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003034 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3035 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003036 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3037 This might help on some broken boards which
3038 machine check when some devices' config space
3039 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3040 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003041 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3042 This sorting is done to get a device
3043 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3044 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003045 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3046 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3047 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3048 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3049 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3050 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3051 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3052 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3053 or bus can support) for best performance.
3054 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3055 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3056 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3057 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3058 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3059 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003060 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3061 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3062 The default value is 256 bytes.
3063 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3064 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3065 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003066 resource_alignment=
3067 Format:
3068 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003069 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3070 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003071 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3072 aligned memory resources.
3073 If <order of align> is not specified,
3074 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3075 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3076 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003077 To specify the alignment for several
3078 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3079 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3080 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003081 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3082 end-to-end CRC checking).
3083 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3084 the default.
3085 off: Turn ECRC off
3086 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003087 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3088 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3089 Default size is 256 bytes.
3090 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3091 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3092 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003093 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3094 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3095 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003096 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3097 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3098 accommodate resources required by all child
3099 devices.
3100 off: Turn realloc off
3101 on: Turn realloc on
3102 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003103 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003104 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3105 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3106 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003107
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003108 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3109 Management.
3110 off Disable ASPM.
3111 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3112 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3113
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003114 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3115 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3116 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3117
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003118 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003119 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3120 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3121 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3122 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3123 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003124 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3125 ports driver.
3126
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003127 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3128 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3129 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3130
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003131 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003132 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003133 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003134
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003135 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3136
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303137 pd_ignore_unused
3138 [PM]
3139 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3140 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3141 for debug and development, but should not be
3142 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3143
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003144 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003145 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003146
3147 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3148 boot time.
3149 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3150 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3151
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003152 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003153 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3154 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3155 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3156 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3157 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003158
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003159 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003160 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003161
3162 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003163 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003164
3165 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003166 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003167
3168 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3169 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
Tom Saeger3ba9b1b2017-10-10 12:36:16 -05003170 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003171
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003172 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003173 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3174 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3175
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003176 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3177 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3178 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3179 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3180 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3181 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003182
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003183 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3184 { off }
3185
3186 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3187 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3188
3189 pnp_reserve_irq=
3190 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3191
3192 pnp_reserve_dma=
3193 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3194
3195 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003196 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003197
3198 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003199 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3200 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003201 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3202
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003203 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3204 Default is 21.
3205 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3206 may be specified.
3207 Format: <port>,<port>....
3208
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003209 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3210 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3211 platform machine description specific power_save
3212 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3213 execution priority.
3214
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003215 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3216 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3217 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3218 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3219 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3220
Cyril Bur07fd1762017-10-12 21:17:16 +11003221 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3222 Format: {"off"}
3223 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3224
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003225 print-fatal-signals=
3226 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003227
3228 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3229 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3230 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3231 coredump - etc.
3232
3233 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3234 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3235
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003236 default: off.
3237
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003238 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3239 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3240 panics
3241 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3242 default: disabled
3243
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003244 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3245 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3246 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3247 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3248 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3249 Default: ratelimit
3250
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003251 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3252 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3253
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003254 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3255 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3256 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3257
3258 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3259 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3260 instead using the legacy FADT method
3261
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003262 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003263 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3264 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3265 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3266 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003267 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3268 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003269 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003270
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003271 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3272 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003273 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003274
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003275 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3276 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003277 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3278 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003279 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3280 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003281 (0 = never).
3282 psmouse.resolution=
3283 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3284 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003285 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003286 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3287
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003288 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3289
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003290 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003291 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003292
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003293 pty.legacy_count=
3294 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3295 default number.
3296
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003297 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003298
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003299 r128= [HW,DRM]
3300
3301 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003302 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003303
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003304 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003305 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003306
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003307 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3308
3309 cec_disable [X86]
3310 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3311 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3312
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003313 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003314 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3315
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003316 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3317 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3318 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003319 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3320 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3321 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3322 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003323 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3324 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3325 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3326
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003327 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003328 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3329 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3330 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3331 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3332 This improves the real-time response for the
3333 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3334 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3335 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3336 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3337
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003338 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003339 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3340 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003341
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003342 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3343 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3344 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3345 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3346
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003347 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3348 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003349 RCU grace-period cleanup.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003350
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003351 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3352 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003353 RCU grace-period initialization.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003354
3355 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3356 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3357 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3358 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003359 the rcu_node combining tree.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003360
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003361 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3362 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3363 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3364 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3365 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003366
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003367 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003368 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3369 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3370 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3371 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3372 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3373 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003374
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003375 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3376 Set required age in jiffies for a
3377 given grace period before RCU starts
3378 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3379 rcu_note_context_switch().
3380
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003381 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003382 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3383 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3384 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3385 and maximum value is HZ.
3386
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003387 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003388 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3389 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3390 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3391
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003392 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003393 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3394 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3395 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3396 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3397 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3398 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3399 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3400 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3401 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003402
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003403 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3404 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3405 defaults to the square root of the number of
3406 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3407 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3408 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3409
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003410 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003411 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3412 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003413
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003414 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003415 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3416 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003417
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003418 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003419 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3420 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003421
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003422 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003423 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3424 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3425 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3426 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003427
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003428 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3429 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3430 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3431 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3432 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3433 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3434
Paul E. McKenney881ed592017-04-17 12:47:10 -07003435 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3436 Measure performance of asynchronous
3437 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3438
3439 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3440 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3441 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3442 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3443 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3444 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3445
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003446 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3447 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3448 grace-period primitives.
3449
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003450 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3451 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3452 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3453 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3454 interference.
3455
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003456 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3457 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3458 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3459 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3460 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3461 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3462 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3463 a single reader.
3464
3465 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3466 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3467 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3468 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3469
3470 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3471 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3472
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003473 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3474 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3475
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003476 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3477 Shut the system down after performance tests
3478 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3479 testing.
3480
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003481 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3482 Enable additional printk() statements.
3483
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003484 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3485 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3486 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3487 no holdoff.
3488
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003489 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3490 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3491 callback-flood tests.
3492
3493 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3494 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3495 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3496 test.
3497
3498 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3499 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3500 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3501 disable callback-flood testing.
3502
3503 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3504 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3505 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3506
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003507 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003508 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3509 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003510
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003511 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003512 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3513 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003514
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003515 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003516 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3517 in seconds.
3518
3519 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3520 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3521 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003522
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003523 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003524 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003525
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003526 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003527 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3528 update-side primitives, if available.
3529
3530 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3531 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3532 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3533 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3534 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3535 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3536 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003537
3538 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003539 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3540
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003541 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003542 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3543 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3544 test, hence the "fake".
3545
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003546 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003547 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3548 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3549 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3550 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3551 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003552
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003553 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3554 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3555
3556 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003557 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3558
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003559 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003560 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3561 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3562
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003563 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003564 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3565 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3566 during the rcutorture test.
3567
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003568 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003569 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3570 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3571
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003572 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003573 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3574 warnings, zero to disable.
3575
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003576 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003577 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3578
Paul E. McKenney2b1516e2017-08-18 16:11:37 -07003579 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3580 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3581
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003582 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003583 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3584
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003585 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003586 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3587 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3588 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3589 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3590
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003591 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003592 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3593 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3594 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3595
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003596 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003597 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3598
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003599 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003600 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3601
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003602 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003603 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3604 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3605
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003606 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3607 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3608
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003609 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003610 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3611
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003612 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003613 Enable additional printk() statements.
3614
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003615 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3616 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3617
3618 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3619 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3620
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003621 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3622 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3623 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3624 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3625 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3626 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003627 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003628
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003629 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3630 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3631 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3632 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003633 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3634 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3635 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3636 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3637 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003638
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003639 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3640 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3641 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003642 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3643 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003644
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003645 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3646 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3647 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3648 to zero.
3649
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003650 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3651 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3652
3653 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3654 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3655
3656 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3657 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3658
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003659 rdinit= [KNL]
3660 Format: <full_path>
3661 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3662 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3663
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003664 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3665 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3666 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3667 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3668 rdt=cmt,!mba
3669
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003670 reboot= [KNL]
3671 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3672 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3673 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3674 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3675 [[,]f[orce]
3676 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3677 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3678 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3679 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3680 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003681
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003682 relax_domain_level=
3683 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003684 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003685
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003686 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3687
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003688 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003689 Format: nn[KMG]
3690 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3691 address space.
3692
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003693 reservelow= [X86]
3694 Format: nn[K]
3695 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3696 the bottom of the address space.
3697
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003698 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3699 during initialization.
3700
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003701 resume= [SWSUSP]
3702 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003703 Format:
3704 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003705
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003706 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3707 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3708 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3709 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3710 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3711
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003712 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3713 read the resume files
3714
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003715 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3716 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3717 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3718
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003719 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3720 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3721 present during boot.
3722 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003723 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003724 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3725 (that will set all pages holding image data
3726 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003727
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003728 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3729
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003730 rfkill.default_state=
3731 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3732 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3733 1 Unblocked.
3734
3735 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3736 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3737 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3738 blocked and the previous configuration.
3739 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3740 blocked and everything unblocked.
3741
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003742 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3743 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3744
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003745 ring3mwait=disable
3746 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3747 CPUs.
3748
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003749 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3750
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003751 rodata= [KNL]
3752 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3753 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3754
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003755 rockchip.usb_uart
3756 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3757 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3758 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3759 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3760
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003761 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003762 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003763
3764 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3765 mount the root filesystem
3766
3767 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3768
3769 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3770
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003771 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3772 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3773 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3774
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003775 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3776 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3777 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3778 managed by CMA.
3779
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003780 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3781
3782 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3783
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003784 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3785 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3786 strict
3787 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3788 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3789 which is faster.
3790
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003791 sa1100ir [NET]
3792 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3793
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003794 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003795
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003796 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3797
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003798 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3799 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3800 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3801 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3802
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003803 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3804 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3805 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3806 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3807 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3808 1 -- enable.
3809 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3810 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3811
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003812 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3813 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3814 security module asking for security registration will be
3815 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3816 as if no module has been chosen.
3817
3818 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003819 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3820 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3821 0 -- disable.
3822 1 -- enable.
3823 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3824 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3825 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3826
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003827 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3828 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3829 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3830 0 -- disable.
3831 1 -- enable.
3832 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3833
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003834 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003835
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003836 shapers= [NET]
3837 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003838
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003839 simeth= [IA-64]
3840 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003841
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003842 slram= [HW,MTD]
3843
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003844 slab_nomerge [MM]
3845 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3846 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Kees Cook7660a6f2017-07-06 15:36:40 -07003847 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3848 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3849 layout control by attackers can usually be
3850 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3851 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3852 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3853 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3854 own.
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003855 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3856
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003857 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3858 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3859 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3860 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3861 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3862
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003863 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3864 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3865 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3866 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3867 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3868 last alloc / free. For more information see
3869 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003870
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003871 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3872 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3873 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3874 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3875 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3876 directories and files being created under
3877 /sys/kernel/slub.
3878
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003879 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003880 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3881 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3882 fragmentation. For more information see
3883 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003884
3885 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003886 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3887 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3888 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3889 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3890 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3891 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003892 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3893
3894 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003895 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003896 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003897 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3898
3899 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003900 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3901 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003902
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003903 smart2= [HW]
3904 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3905
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003906 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3907 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3908 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3909 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3910 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3911 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3912 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3913 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3914 1: Fast pin select (default)
3915 2: ATC IRMode
3916
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003917 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3918 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3919 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3920 actual hardware limit.
3921 Format: <integer>
3922 Default: -1 (no limit)
3923
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003924 softlockup_panic=
3925 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003926 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003927
Borislav Petkov3ce62382017-10-03 17:54:07 +02003928 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3929 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3930 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3931 which is the respective build-time switch to that
3932 functionality.
3933
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003934 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3935 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3936 backtraces on all cpus.
3937 Format: <integer>
3938
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003939 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003940 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003941
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003942 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3943 spia_fio_base=
3944 spia_pedr=
3945 spia_peddr=
3946
Paul E. McKenneyc350c002017-05-03 15:35:32 -07003947 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3948 Specifies how frequently to check for
3949 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3950 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3951 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3952 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3953 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3954 are ignored.
3955
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07003956 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3957 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3958 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3959 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3960 grace period will be considered for automatic
3961 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3962 expediting.
3963
Hugh Dickins1be71072017-06-19 04:03:24 -07003964 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
3965 override the default stack gap protection. The value
3966 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3967 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3968 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3969 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3970
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003971 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3972 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3973
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003974 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3975 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3976 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3977 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3978 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3979 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3980 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3981
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003982 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3983 Format: <num>
3984 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3985 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3986 as the initial boot-console.
3987 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3988
3989 sti_font= [HW]
3990 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3991
3992 stifb= [HW]
3993 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3994
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003995 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3996 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3997 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3998 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3999 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4000 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4001 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4002 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4003 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4004 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4005 maximum port values.
4006
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04004007 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4008 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4009 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4010 process in parallel from a single connection.
4011 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4012
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08004013 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4014 [NFS]
4015 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4016 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4017 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4018 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4019 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4020 NFS server is running.
4021
4022 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4023 automatically using heuristics
4024 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4025 percpu one pool for each CPU
4026 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4027 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4028
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004029 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4030 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4031 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4032 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4033 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4034 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4035 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4036 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4037
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004038 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4039 [SUSPEND]
4040 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4041 mode before resuming the system (see
4042 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4043 is set. Default value is 5.
4044
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004045 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004046 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4047 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004048 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004049
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004050 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004051 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004052 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4053 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4054 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004055 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004056
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004057 switches= [HW,M68k]
4058
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004059 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4060 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4061 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4062 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4063 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4064 in older udev will not work anymore.
4065 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4066 the kernel configuration.
4067
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004068 sysrq_always_enabled
4069 [KNL]
4070 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4071 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4072 Useful for debugging.
4073
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004074 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4075 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4076 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4077 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4078 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4079 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4080
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004081 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4082
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004083 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004084 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004085 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4086 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4087 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4088 The system is woken from this state using a
4089 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004090
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004091 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4092 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4093
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004094 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4095 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4096 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4097
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004098 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4099 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004100 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004101
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004102 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4103 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4104 critical and hot trip points.
4105
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004106 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4107 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4108
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004109 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4110 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004111 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4112 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004113
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004114 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4115 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4116 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4117 0: no polling (default)
4118
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004119 threadirqs [KNL]
4120 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004121 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004122
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004123 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4124 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4125
4126 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4127 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4128 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4129
4130 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4131 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004132 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4133 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004134
4135 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4136 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4137 to the hypervisor.
4138
4139 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4140 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4141 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4142 kernel based on different criteria.
4143
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004144 topology= [S390]
4145 Format: {off | on}
4146 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004147 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4148 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004149 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004150 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004151
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004152 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4153 Format: {off}
4154 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4155 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4156 LPAR.
4157
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004158 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4159
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004160 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4161 Format: integer pcr id
4162 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4163 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4164 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4165 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4166 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4167 are saved.
4168
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004169 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004170 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004171
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004172 trace_event=[event-list]
4173 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004174 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4175 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4176 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004177
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004178 trace_options=[option-list]
4179 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4180 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4181 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4182 to echo the option name into
4183
4184 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4185
4186 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4187 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4188
4189 trace_options=stacktrace
4190
4191 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4192 section.
4193
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004194 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4195 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4196 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4197 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4198 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4199 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4200
4201 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4202 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4203 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4204 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4205
4206 ** CAUTION **
4207
4208 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4209 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4210 the system to live lock.
4211
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004212 traceoff_on_warning
4213 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4214 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4215 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4216 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4217
4218 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4219 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4220 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4221
4222 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4223 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4224
Jiri Kosinafcf4d8212012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004225 transparent_hugepage=
4226 [KNL]
4227 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4228 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4229 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4230 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4231
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004232 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004233 Format: <string>
4234 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004235 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4236 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4237 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4238 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004239 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4240 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4241 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4242 can add overhead.
Dou Liyang6be53522017-10-09 17:03:33 +08004243 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4244 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4245 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004246
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004247 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4248 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4249 Format:
4250 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05004251 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004252
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004253 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004254 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004255 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4256 help "seeing" what's going on.
4257
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004258 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4259 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4260
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004261 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4262 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4263 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4264 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4265 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4266 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4267 reported either.
4268
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004269 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004270 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004271
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004272 usbcore.authorized_default=
4273 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4274 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4275 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4276
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004277 usbcore.autosuspend=
4278 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4279 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4280 is the time required before an idle device will be
4281 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004282 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004283
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004284 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4285 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4286
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004287 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4288 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4289 (default = 65536).
4290
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004291 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4292 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4293
4294 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4295 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4296 scheme (default 0 = off).
4297
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004298 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4299 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4300 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4301
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004302 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4303 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4304 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4305
4306 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4307 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4308 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4309 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4310
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004311 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4312
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004313 usbhid.mousepoll=
4314 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004315
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004316 usbhid.jspoll=
4317 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4318
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004319 usb-storage.delay_use=
4320 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004321 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004322
4323 usb-storage.quirks=
4324 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4325 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4326 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4327 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4328 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4329 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4330 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004331 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4332 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004333 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4334 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004335 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4336 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004337 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4338 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4339 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4340 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004341 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4342 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004343 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4344 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004345 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4346 reported device capacity by one
4347 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004348 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4349 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004350 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4351 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004352 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4353 unlock ejectable media);
4354 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4355 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004356 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4357 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004358 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4359 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004360 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4361 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004362 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4363 bogus residue values);
4364 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4365 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004366 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4367 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004368 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004369 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4370 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004371 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4372 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004373 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4374
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004375 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4376 Format: <int>
4377 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4378 1 - undefined instruction events
4379 2 - system calls
4380 4 - invalid data aborts
4381 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4382 16 - SIGBUS faults
4383 Example: user_debug=31
4384
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004385 userpte=
4386 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4387
4388 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4389 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4390 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4391
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304392 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004393 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4394
4395 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004396 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4397
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004398 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4399 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4400 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4401
4402 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4403 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4404 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4405
4406 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4407 alias for vdso32=0.
4408
4409 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4410 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004411
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004412 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4413 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4414
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004415 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4416 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4417
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004418 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4419 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4420 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4421 level and then send out the event to user space through
4422 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4423 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4424 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004425 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004426
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004427 virtio_mmio.device=
4428 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4429
4430 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4431 where:
4432 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4433 like K, M and G)
4434 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4435 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4436 request_irq())
4437 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4438 example:
4439 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4440
4441 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4442
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004443 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004444 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004445 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004446 Use vga=ask for menu.
4447 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4448 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4449
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004450 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004451 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4452 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4453 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4454 mapped kernel RAM.
4455
Heiko Carstens3f429842017-08-07 15:16:15 +02004456 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4457 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4458 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4459
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004460 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4461 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004462
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004463 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4464 Format: <command>
4465
4466 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4467 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004468
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004469 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4470 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4471 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4472 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4473 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4474 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4475 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4476
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004477 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4478 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004479
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004480 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004481 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4482 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4483 better than they would in emulation mode.
4484 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4485
4486 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4487 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4488 might break your system.
4489
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004490 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4491 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4492 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4493
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004494 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4495 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4496 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4497 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4498
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004499 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4500 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4501 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4502 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4503 ranging from 0-255.
4504
4505 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4506 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4507 Change the default green palette of the console.
4508 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4509 ranging from 0-255.
4510
4511 vt.default_red= [VT]
4512 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4513 Change the default red palette of the console.
4514 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4515 ranging from 0-255.
4516
4517 vt.default_utf8=
4518 [VT]
4519 Format=<0|1>
4520 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4521 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4522 newly opened terminals.
4523
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004524 vt.global_cursor_default=
4525 [VT]
4526 Format=<-1|0|1>
4527 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4528 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4529 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4530 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4531 cursors, 1 will display them.
4532
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004533 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4534 Default: 2 = green.
4535
4536 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4537 Default: 3 = cyan.
4538
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004539 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4540 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4541 or other driver-specific files in the
4542 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004543
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004544 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4545 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4546 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4547 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4548 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4549 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4550 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4551 corresponding sysfs file.
4552
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004553 workqueue.disable_numa
4554 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4555 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4556 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4557 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4558 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4559 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4560 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4561
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304562 workqueue.power_efficient
4563 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4564 they show better performance thanks to cache
4565 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4566 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4567
4568 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4569 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4570 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4571 power usage at the cost of small performance
4572 overhead.
4573
4574 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4575 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4576
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004577 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4578 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4579 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4580 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4581 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4582 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4583 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4584 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4585 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4586 impacted.
4587
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004588 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4589 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4590 supporting x2apic.
4591
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004592 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4593 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004594 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4595 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004596 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004597
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004598 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4599 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4600 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4601 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4602 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4603 domains.
4604
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004605 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4606 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4607 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4608 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4609 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4610 nics -- unplug network devices
4611 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004612 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4613 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4614 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004615 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004616
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004617 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4618 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4619 optimizations.
4620
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004621 xen_nopv [X86]
4622 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4623 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4624
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004625 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004626 Format:
4627 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]