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Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +00001 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -08002 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02003 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +03004 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02006 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07009 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +080011 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +080012 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +020013 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +020016 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040018 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -040022 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040023
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +020024 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +000031 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020037 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070045 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070048 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060055 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060059 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070063 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070066 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +020068
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070069 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +080072
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020073 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +080089 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -070094 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800126
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700139
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800144
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a32011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900298
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700336
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700360
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700384
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400395 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400396
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700410
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200443 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700444
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300462
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700482
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800492
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100516
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700518 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100583
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100585 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700602
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800608 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700614
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +0200615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700619
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400623 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700637
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645 disables the blank timer.
646
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400652 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
653 disable the cpuidle sub-system
654
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500655 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
656 disable the cpufreq sub-system
657
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400658 cpu_init_udelay=N
659 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
660 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
661 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
662 Default: 10000
663
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700664 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700665 Format:
666 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700667
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800668 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
669 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
670 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
671 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
672 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
673 is selected automatically. Check
674 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700675
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700676 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
677 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
678 in the running system. The syntax of range is
679 start-[end] where start and end are both
680 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700682
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700683 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700684 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
685 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
686 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
687 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
688 available.
689 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700690 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
691 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
692 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700693 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
694 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800695 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
696 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
697 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
698 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700699 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
700 for second kernel instead.
701 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700702 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700703 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700704
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100705 cryptomgr.notests
706 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
707
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700708 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
709 Format: <dma>
710
711 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
712 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700713
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700714 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700715 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
716
717 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
718 (one device per port)
719 Format: <port#>,<type>
720 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
721
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200722 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
723 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600724 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200725
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700726 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
727
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700728 debug_locks_verbose=
729 [KNL] verbose self-tests
730 Format=<0|1>
731 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
732 self-tests.
733 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
734 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
735 only useful to kernel developers.
736
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700737 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
738
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500739 no_debug_objects
740 [KNL] Disable object debugging
741
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800742 debug_guardpage_minorder=
743 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
744 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
745 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
746 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
747 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
748 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
749 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
750 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
751 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
752 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
753 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
754 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
755 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
756 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
757 bypassed) which are not detectable by
758 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
759 tracking down these problems.
760
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800761 debug_pagealloc=
762 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
763 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
764 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
765 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
766 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
767 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
768 on: enable the feature
769
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200770 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
771
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200772 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700773 Format: <area>[,<node>]
774 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
775
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700776 default_hugepagesz=
777 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
778 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
779 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
780 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
781 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
782 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700783
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700784 dhash_entries= [KNL]
785 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700786
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000787 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
788 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
789 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
790 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
791 miss to occur.
792
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800793 disable= [IPV6]
794 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
795
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530796 disable_radix [PPC]
797 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
798
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900799 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
800 Format: <int>
801 The number of initial APIC ID for the
802 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
803 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
804 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
805 causing system reset or hang due to sending
806 INIT from AP to BSP.
807
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000808 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
809 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
810 to workaround buggy firmware.
811
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800812 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
813 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
814
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700815 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700816 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
817 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700818 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700819
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100820 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100821 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
822 memory out of your available memory pool based on
823 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
824 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
825
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530826 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700827 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
828 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
829
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400830 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
831
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700832 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
833 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
834
835 dma_debug_entries=<number>
836 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
837 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
838 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
839 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
840 architectural default is too low.
841
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200842 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
843 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
844 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
845 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
846 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
847 driver later using sysfs.
848
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700849 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
850 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
851 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
852 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
853 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100854 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
855 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
856 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
857 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
858 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
859 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
860 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
861 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700862 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
863 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
864 data set with no connector name will be used for
865 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100866
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700867 dscc4.setup= [NET]
868
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000869 dump_apple_properties [X86]
870 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
871 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
872 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
873
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600874 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
875 module.dyndbg[="val"]
876 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
877 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
878
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700879 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
880 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
881 information about the feature.
882
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800883 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
884 in some Intel CPUs.
885
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700886 module.async_probe [KNL]
887 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
888
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700889 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
890 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
891 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
892 which are not unmapped.
893
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700894 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500895
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500896 When used with no options, the early console is
897 determined by the stdout-path property in device
898 tree's chosen node.
899
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100900 cdns,<addr>[,options]
901 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
902 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
903 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
904 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
905 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200906
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700907 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
908 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700909 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300910 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400911 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700912 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
913 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700914 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300915 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
916 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
917 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
918 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400919 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700920
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500921 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600922 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500923 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
924 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
925 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600926 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
927 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
928 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500929
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100930 meson,<addr>
931 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
932 port at the specified address. The serial port must
933 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
934 supported.
935
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700936 msm_serial,<addr>
937 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
938 port at the specified address. The serial port
939 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
940 yet supported.
941
942 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
943 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
944 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
945 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
946 yet supported.
947
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500948 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
949
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100950 s3c2410,<addr>
951 s3c2412,<addr>
952 s3c2440,<addr>
953 s3c6400,<addr>
954 s5pv210,<addr>
955 exynos4210,<addr>
956 Use early console provided by serial driver available
957 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
958 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
959 serial port must already be setup and configured.
960 Options are not yet supported.
961
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +0100962 lantiq,<addr>
963 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
964 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
965 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
966 yet supported.
967
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -0700968 lpuart,<addr>
969 lpuart32,<addr>
970 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
971 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
972 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
973 port must already be setup and configured.
974
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +0100975 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +0100976 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
977 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
978 address. The serial port must already be setup
979 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
980
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +0100981 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700982 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +0100983 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +0100984 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -0500985 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700986 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700987 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -0500988 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -0500989 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +0600990 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +0800991 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700992
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700993 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
994 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
995 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
996
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700997 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700998 takes over.
999
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001000 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1001 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001002
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001003 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1004 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1005 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1006 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1007 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1008 You can find the port for a given device in
1009 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1010 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001011
1012 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1013 very good.
1014
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001015 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1016 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001017
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001018 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1019
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001020 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1021
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001022 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1023 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1024 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1025 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1026 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1027 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1028 default: on.
1029
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001030 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1031 ekgdboc=kbd
1032
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001033 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001034 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1035
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001036 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001037 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001038
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001039 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001040 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001041 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1042 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1043 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001044 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1045 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1046 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001047 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001048 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001049
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001050 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1051 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1052 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1053 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1054 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1055
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001056 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1057 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1058 updating original EFI memory map.
1059 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1060 from ss to ss+nn.
1061 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1062 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1063 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1064 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1065
1066 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1067 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1068 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1069 doesn't support it.
1070
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001071 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1072 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1073 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1074 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1075 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1076
1077
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001078 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1079 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1080
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001081 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001082 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001083 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001084
1085 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001086 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001087 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001088 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1089
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001090 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001091 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001092 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1093 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001094 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001095
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001096 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1097 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1098 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1099 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1100
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001101 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001102 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1103 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1104 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1105 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1106
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001107 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1108 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1109 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1110 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1111 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1112 Default value is 0.
1113 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1114
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001115 erst_disable [ACPI]
1116 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1117 support.
1118
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001119 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1120 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1121 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1122
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001123 evm= [EVM]
1124 Format: { "fix" }
1125 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1126 current integrity status.
1127
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001128 failslab=
1129 fail_page_alloc=
1130 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1131 General fault injection mechanism.
1132 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001133 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001134
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001135 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001136 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001137
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001138 force_pal_cache_flush
1139 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1140 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1141 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1142 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1143
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001144 forcepae [X86-32]
1145 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1146 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1147 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1148 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1149 and may cause unknown problems.
1150
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001151 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001152 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001153 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1154 boot debugging.
1155
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001156 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001157 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001158 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1159 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1160 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1161 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001162
1163 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1164 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1165 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1166 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1167 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001168 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001169
1170 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1171 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1172 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1173 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1174 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001175
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001176 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1177 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1178 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1179 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1180 that can be changed at run time by the
1181 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1182
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001183 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1184 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1185 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1186 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1187 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1188
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001189 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1190 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1191 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1192 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1193 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1194
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001195 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1196 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1197 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1198 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1199 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1200
1201 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1202
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001203 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1204 Format: off | on
1205 default: on
1206
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001207 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1208 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1209 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1210 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1211 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1212
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001213 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1214 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1215 android emulator
1216
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001217 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001218 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1219 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1220 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001221
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001222 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1223 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1224 Format: 0 | 1
1225 Default: 0
1226 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1227 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1228 Format: 0 | 1
1229 Default: 0
1230 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1231 Format: 0 | 1
1232 Default: 0
1233 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1234 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1235 Default: 1024
1236 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1237 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1238 Default: 1024
1239
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001240 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1241 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1242 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1243
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001244 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1245 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1246 backtraces on all cpus.
1247 Format: <integer>
1248
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001249 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1250 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001251 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001252 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001253
1254 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1255
1256 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1257 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1258
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001259 hest_disable [ACPI]
1260 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1261 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1262 logic will be disabled.
1263
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001264 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1265 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1266 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1267 size on bigger boxes.
1268
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001269 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1270 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1271 Default: "on"
1272
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001273 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1274 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1275
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001276 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1277
1278 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1279 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1280 verbose }
1281 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1282 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1283 VIA, nVidia)
1284 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1285
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001286 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1287 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1288
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001289 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1290 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001291 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1292 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1293 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1294 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001295 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001296
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001297 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1298 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001299 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1300 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1301 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001302
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001303 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1304 hardware thread id mappings.
1305 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1306
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001307 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1308 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1309 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1310 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1311 the real console.
1312
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001313 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001314 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1315 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001316 Format:
1317 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1318
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001319 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001320 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1321 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1322 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1323 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001324 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001325 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1326 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001327 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1328 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001329 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001330 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1331 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001332 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001333 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001334 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1335 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001336 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001337 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1338 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1339 transitions, or never reset
1340 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1341 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1342 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1343 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1344 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001345 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001346 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001347
1348 i810= [HW,DRM]
1349
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001350 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1351 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1352 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001353 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1354 does not match list of supported models.
1355 i8k.power_status
1356 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1357 (disabled by default)
1358 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1359 capability is set.
1360
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001361 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001362 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1363 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001364 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1365 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1366 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1367 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1368 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1369 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1370 value switches the backlight off.
1371 -1 -- never invert brightness
1372 0 -- machine default
1373 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001374
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001375 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1376 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1377
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001378 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1379 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001380 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1381 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001382 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001383
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001384 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1385 Format: <int>
1386 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1387 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1388 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1389 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1390 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1391 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1392 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1393 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1394 was 0x3.
1395
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001396 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1397 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1398
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001399 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001400 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001401 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1402 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1403 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1404 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001405 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001406 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001407 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001408
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001409 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1410 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1411 Default: strict
1412
1413 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1414 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1415 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1416 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1417 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1418 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1419 encoding mode.
1420
1421 Available settings are as follows:
1422 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1423 supported by the FPU
1424 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1425 by the FPU
1426 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1427 by the FPU
1428 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1429 supported by the FPU
1430
1431 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1432 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1433 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1434 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1435 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1436 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1437 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1438 MIPS64 CPUs.
1439
1440 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1441 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1442 except where unsupported by hardware.
1443
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001444 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1445 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1446 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001447 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1448 could change it dynamically, usually by
1449 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001450
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001451 ignore_rlimit_data
1452 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1453 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1454 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1455
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001456 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1457 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1458
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001459 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001460 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001461 default: "enforce"
1462
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001463 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1464 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1465 owned by uid=0.
1466
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001467 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1468 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1469 measurements, instead of host native format.
1470
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001471 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001472 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1473 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001474 default: "sha1"
1475
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001476 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1477 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1478
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001479 ima_policy= [IMA]
1480 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1481 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1482 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1483 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1484 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1485 Format: "tcb"
1486
1487 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001488 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1489 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1490 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1491 opened for read by uid=0.
1492
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001493 ima_template= [IMA]
1494 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001495 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001496 Default: "ima-ng"
1497
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001498 ima_template_fmt=
1499 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1500 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1501
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001502 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1503 Format: <min_file_size>
1504 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1505 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1506
1507 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1508 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1509 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1510
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001511 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1512 Format: <bufsize>
1513 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1514
1515 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1516 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1517 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1518
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001519 init= [KNL]
1520 Format: <full_path>
1521 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1522 process.
1523
1524 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1525 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1526 startup.
1527
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001528 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1529 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1530 modules and initcalls.
1531
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001532 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1533
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001534 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1535 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1536 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1537 override in debugfs after boot.
1538
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001539 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1540 Format: <irq>
1541
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001542 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1543
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001544 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1545 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1546 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1547 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1548
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001549 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001550 on
1551 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001552 off
1553 Disable intel iommu driver.
1554 igfx_off [Default Off]
1555 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1556 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1557 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1558 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1559 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001560 forcedac [x86_64]
1561 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001562 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001563 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001564 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1565 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001566 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001567 strict [Default Off]
1568 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1569 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1570 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001571 sp_off [Default Off]
1572 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1573 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1574 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001575 ecs_off [Default Off]
1576 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1577 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1578 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1579 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1580 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001581 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1582 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1583 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1584 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1585 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1586 mapping is enabled.
1587 Note that using this option lowers the security
1588 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1589 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001590
1591 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1592 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001593 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001594
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001595 intel_pstate= [X86]
1596 disable
1597 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1598 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001599 passive
1600 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1601 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1602 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1603 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1604 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001605 force
1606 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1607 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1608 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1609 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1610 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1611 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1612 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1613 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001614 no_hwp
1615 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1616 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001617 hwp_only
1618 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1619 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001620 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001621 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1622 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1623 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1624 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001625 per_cpu_perf_limits
1626 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1627 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001628
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001629 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001630 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1631 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1632 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001633 no_x2apic_optout
1634 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001635 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001636
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001637 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1638 strict regions from userspace.
1639 relaxed
1640
1641 iommu= [x86]
1642 off
1643 force
1644 noforce
1645 biomerge
1646 panic
1647 nopanic
1648 merge
1649 nomerge
1650 forcesac
1651 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001652 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001653 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1654 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001655
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001656 iommu.passthrough=
1657 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1658 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1659 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1660 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1661 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001662
1663 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1664 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1665 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1666
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301667 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001668 0x80
1669 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1670 0xed
1671 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001672 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001673 Simple two microseconds delay
1674 none
1675 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001676
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001677 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001678 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001679
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001680 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001681 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001682
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001683 irqfixup [HW]
1684 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1685 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1686 firmware running.
1687
1688 irqpoll [HW]
1689 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1690 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1691 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1692 firmware running.
1693
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001694 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001695 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001696
1697 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001698 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001699
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001700 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1701 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001702 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1703 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001704 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1705 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1706
1707 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001708 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1709 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1710 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001711
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001712 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001713
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001714 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1715 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1716 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1717 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1718 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1719 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1720
1721 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1722 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1723 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1724 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1725 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1726 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1727
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001728 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1729 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1730 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1731 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1732 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1733 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1734
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001735 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1736 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1737
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001738 nokaslr [KNL]
1739 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1740 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1741 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001742
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001743 kasan_multi_shot
1744 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1745 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1746 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1747 invalid access.
1748
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001749 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1750
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001751 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1752 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1753 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001754 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1755 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1756 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1757 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1758 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1759 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1760 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001761 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001762 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1763 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1764 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1765 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1766 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1767 zone if it does not.
1768
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001769 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1770 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1771 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1772 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1773 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1774 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1775 time.
1776
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001777 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1778 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1779 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1780 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1781 optional and is the number seconds in between
1782 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1783 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1784 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1785 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1786 the kernel debugger.
1787
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001788 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001789 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1790 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001791 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1792 keyboard only format: kbd
1793 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1794 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1795 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1796 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001797
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001798 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1799 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1800
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001801 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1802 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1803 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1804
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001805 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1806 Valid arguments: on, off
1807 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001808 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1809 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001810
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001811 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1812 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1813 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1814 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1815 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1816 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1817
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001818 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1819 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1820
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001821 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1822 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001823 Default is 0 (off)
1824
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001825 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001826 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001827
1828 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1829 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001830 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001831
Marc Zyngiere23f62f2017-06-09 12:49:46 +01001832 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1833 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1834 system registers
1835
Marc Zyngier182936e2017-06-09 12:49:41 +01001836 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1837 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1838 system registers
1839
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001840 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1841 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1842 Default is 1 (enabled)
1843
1844 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1845 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1846 Default is 0 (disabled)
1847
1848 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1849 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1850 Default is 1 (enabled)
1851
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001852 kvm-intel.nested=
1853 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1854 Default is 0 (disabled)
1855
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001856 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1857 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1858 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1859 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1860
1861 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1862 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1863 Default is 1 (enabled)
1864
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001865 l2cr= [PPC]
1866
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001867 l3cr= [PPC]
1868
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001869 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001870 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001871
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001872 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1873 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1874 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1875
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301876 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001877 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001878
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001879 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1880 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1881 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1882 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001883 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001884 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1885 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001886
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001887 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1888 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1889 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001890
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001891 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1892 when set.
1893 Format: <int>
1894
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001895 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1896 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001897 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001898 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1899 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1900 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1901 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1902 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1903
1904 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1905 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1906 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1907 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1908 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1909 host link and device attached to it.
1910
1911 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1912 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1913 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1914 The following configurations can be forced.
1915
1916 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1917 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1918
1919 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1920
1921 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1922 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1923 allowed.
1924
1925 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1926
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001927 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1928
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001929 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1930 and both resets.
1931
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001932 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1933 hot-unplug link recovery
1934
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001935 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1936
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001937 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1938
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001939 * disable: Disable this device.
1940
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001941 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1942 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1943
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001944 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001945
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001946 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001947 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001948
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001949 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1950 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001951
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001952 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1953 Format: <integer>
1954
1955 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1956 Format: <integer>
1957
1958 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1959 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001960
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07001961 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1962 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1963 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1964 number of online CPUs.
1965
1966 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1967 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1968
1969 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1970 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1971
1972 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1973 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1974 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1975
1976 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1977 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1978 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1979 mode during the locktorture test.
1980
1981 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1982 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1983 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1984
1985 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1986 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1987
1988 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1989 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1990 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1991 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1992 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1993 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1994
1995 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1996 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1997
1998 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1999 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2000
2001 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2002 Enable additional printk() statements.
2003
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002004 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2005 Format: <irq>
2006
2007 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2008 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2009 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2010 loglevels are defined as follows:
2011
2012 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2013 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2014 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2015 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2016 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2017 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2018 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2019 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2020
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002021 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002022 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2023 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2024 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2025 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2026 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2027 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002028
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002029 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2030 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2031 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2032 kernel boot problems.
2033
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002034 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2035 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2036 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2037 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2038 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2039 attached printers to be reset. Using
2040 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2041 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2042 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2043 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2044 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2045 port specification list means that device IDs
2046 from each port should be examined, to see if
2047 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2048 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2049 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2050
2051 lpj=n [KNL]
2052 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2053 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2054 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2055 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2056 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2057 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2058 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2059 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2060 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2061 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2062 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2063 hardware.
2064
2065 ltpc= [NET]
2066 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2067
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002068 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002069 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2070 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002071
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002072 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2073 yeeloong laptop.
2074 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2075
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002076 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2077 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002078
2079 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002080 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2081 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2082 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2083 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2084 only takes effect during system bootup.
2085 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2086 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002087
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002088 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2089 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2090 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2091 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2092 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2093 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002094
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002095 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002096
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002097 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002098
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002099 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002100 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002101
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002102 mdacon= [MDA]
2103 Format: <first>,<last>
2104 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002105
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002106 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2107 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2108 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002109 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2110 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2111 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2112 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002113
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002114 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002115 memory.
2116
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002117 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2118 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2119 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2120
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002121 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2122 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2123 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2124 set according to the
2125 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2126 option.
2127 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2128
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302129 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002130 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2131 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2132 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2133 option description.
2134
2135 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002136 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2137 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002138
2139 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2140 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002141 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002142
2143 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2144 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002145 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002146 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2147 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2148 or
2149 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002150
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002151 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2152 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2153 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2154 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2155 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2156
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002157 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2158 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2159 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2160 Setting this option will scan the memory
2161 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2162 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2163 from using the memory being corrupted.
2164 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2165 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2166 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2167 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2168
2169 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2170 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2171 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2172 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2173 corruption in more or less memory.
2174
2175 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2176 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2177 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2178 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2179
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002180 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002181 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002182 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002183 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2184 performed. Each pass selects another test
2185 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2186 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2187 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2188 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002189
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002190 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2191 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2192 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2193 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2194 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2195
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002196 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2197 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2198
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002199 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2200 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2201 platforms.
2202
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002203 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2204 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2205 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2206 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2207
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002208 mga= [HW,DRM]
2209
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002210 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2211 physical address is ignored.
2212
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002213 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2214 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2215 Default: "0tb"
2216 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2217 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2218 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2219 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2220 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2221 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2222 unconfigured.
2223 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2224 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2225 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2226 VGA shield.
2227 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2228 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2229 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2230 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2231 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2232 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2233
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002234 mminit_loglevel=
2235 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2236 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2237 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2238 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2239 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2240 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2241
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002242 module.sig_enforce
2243 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2244 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002245 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002246 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2247
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302248 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2249 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2250
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002251 mousedev.tap_time=
2252 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2253 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2254 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2255 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2256 Format: <msecs>
2257 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2258 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2259 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2260 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2261
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302262 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002263 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2264 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2265 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2266 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2267 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2268 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2269 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2270 is not too small.
2271
Reza Arbab39fa104d2016-12-12 16:42:55 -08002272 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002273 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2274
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002275 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2276 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2277
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002278 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2279 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002280
2281 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002282 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002283
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002284 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2285 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2286 at a time.
2287
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002288 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2289
2290 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2291
2292 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2293 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2294 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2295 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2296 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2297
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002298 mtdset= [ARM]
2299 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2300
2301 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2302
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002303 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002304 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2305 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002306
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002307 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002308 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002309 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2310
2311 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2312 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2313 Default is 1.
2314 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2315 using up MTRRs.
2316
2317 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2318 Format: <integer>
2319 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2320 Default : 1
2321 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2322 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2323
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002324 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2325
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002326 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2327 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2328 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2329 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002330 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2331 file if at all.
2332
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002333 nf_conntrack.acct=
2334 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2335 0 to disable accounting
2336 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002337 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002338
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002339 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002340 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002341
2342 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002343 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002344
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002345 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2346 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2347
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002348 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2349 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2350 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2351 requests.
2352
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002353 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2354 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2355 channel should listen.
2356
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002357 nfs.cache_getent=
2358 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2359 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2360
2361 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2362 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2363 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2364
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002365 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2366 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2367 entries.
2368
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002369 nfs.enable_ino64=
2370 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2371 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2372 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2373 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2374 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2375
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002376 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2377 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2378 slots the client will assign to the callback
2379 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2380 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2381 a particular server.
2382
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002383 nfs.max_session_slots=
2384 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2385 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2386 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2387 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2388 Note that there is little point in setting this
2389 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2390
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002391 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002392 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2393 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2394 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2395 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2396 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2397 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2398 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2399 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2400 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2401 back to using the idmapper.
2402 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002403 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2404 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2405 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2406 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2407 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002408
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002409 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2410 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2411 information in exchange_id requests.
2412 If zero, no implementation identification information
2413 will be sent.
2414 The default is to send the implementation identification
2415 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002416
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002417 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2418 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2419 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2420 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2421 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2422 after the locks are lost.
2423 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2424 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2425 parameter to '1'.
2426 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2427 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002428
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002429 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2430 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2431 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2432
2433 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2434 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2435 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2436 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2437
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002438 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2439 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2440 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2441 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2442 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2443 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002444
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002445 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002446 when a NMI is triggered.
2447 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2448
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302449 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002450 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002451 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002452 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2453 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002454 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002455 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002456 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2457 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002458 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2459 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002460
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002461 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2462 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2463 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2464 waits 4 seconds.
2465
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002466 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002467 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2468 is present.
2469
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002470 no_console_suspend
2471 [HW] Never suspend the console
2472 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2473 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2474 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2475 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2476 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2477 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2478 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002479 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2480 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2481 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2482 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2483 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002484
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002485 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2486 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2487 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002488
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002489 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2490
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002491 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2492 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2493
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002494 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2495
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002496 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2497 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2498
2499 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002500
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002501 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2502
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002503 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2504
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002505 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2506
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002507 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002508
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002509 noexec [IA-64]
2510
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302511 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002512 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002513 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002514 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2515
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002516 nosmap [X86]
2517 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2518 even if it is supported by processor.
2519
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002520 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002521 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002522 even if it is supported by processor.
2523
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002524 noexec32 [X86-64]
2525 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2526 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2527 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2528 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2529 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002530
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002531 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002532
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002533 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002534 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2535 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002536
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002537 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2538
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002539 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2540 Equivalent to smt=1.
2541
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002542 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2543 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2544 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2545
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002546 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2547 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2548 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2549 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2550 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2551 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2552
2553 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2554 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2555 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2556 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2557 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2558 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2559 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2560
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002561 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2562 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2563 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002564
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002565 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2566 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2567 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2568
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002569 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2570 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2571 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2572 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2573 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2574 real-time systems.
2575
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002576 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2577
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002578 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2579 Valid arguments: on, off
2580 Default: on
2581
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002582 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002583 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002584 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002585 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002586 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2587 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002588 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2589 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002590
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002591 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2592
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002593 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002594 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2595
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302596 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002597 broken timer IRQ sources.
2598
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002599 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2600
2601 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2602 initial RAM disk.
2603
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002604 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2605 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002606 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002607
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002608 nointroute [IA-64]
2609
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002610 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2611
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002612 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002613
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002614 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2615
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002616 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2617 fault handling.
2618
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002619 no-vmw-sched-clock
2620 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2621 clock and use the default one.
2622
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002623 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2624 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2625 behaviour
2626
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002627 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002628
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002629 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002630
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002631 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002632 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002633
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002634 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2635
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002636 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002637
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002638 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2639 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2640
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002641 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2642 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2643 irq.
2644
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002645 nomodule Disable module load
2646
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002647 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2648 pagetables) support.
2649
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002650 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2651 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2652
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002653 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002654
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002655 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002656 with UP alternatives
2657
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002658 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2659 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2660 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2661 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002662
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002663 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2664 space.
2665
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002666 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2667 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2668 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2669
2670 nosbagart [IA-64]
2671
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002672 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002673
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002674 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2675 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002676
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002677 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2678
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002679 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2680
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002681 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002682
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002683 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2684 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002685
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002686 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002687
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002688 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2689
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002690 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2691 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2692 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2693 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2694 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2695 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2696 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2697 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2698 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2699 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2700 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2701 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2702 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2703
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002704 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002705 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2706 SAL PALO.
2707
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002708 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2709 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002710 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2711 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2712 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2713 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2714 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2715 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002716
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002717 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2718
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002719 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2720 Allowed values are enable and disable
2721
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002722 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2723 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2724 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2725 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2726
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002727 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2728 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2729 info.
2730
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002731 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2732 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2733 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2734 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2735 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2736 interrupts *may* be lost!
2737
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002738 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2739 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2740 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2741 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2742
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002743 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2744 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2745
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002746 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2747 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2748 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002749 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2750 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002751 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2752 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002753 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2754 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2755 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002756
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002757 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2758 process, but there is a small probability of
2759 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002760 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2761 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2762
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002763 OSS [HW,OSS]
2764 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2765
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002766 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2767 Storage of the information about who allocated
2768 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2769 we can turn it on.
2770 on: enable the feature
2771
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002772 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2773 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2774 off: turn off poisoning
2775 on: turn on poisoning
2776
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002777 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002778 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2779 timeout = 0: wait forever
2780 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002781 Format: <timeout>
2782
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002783 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2784 on a WARN().
2785
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002786 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2787 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2788 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2789 succeeds in any situation.
2790 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2791 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2792 kernel more unstable.
2793
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002794 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2795 connected to, default is 0.
2796 Format: <parport#>
2797 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2798 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002799 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002800
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002801 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2802 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2803 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2804 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2805 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2806 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2807 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2808 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2809 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2810 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2811 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2812 are specified on the command line, starting
2813 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002814
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002815 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2816 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2817 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2818 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2819 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2820 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002821 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2822
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002823 pause_on_oops=
2824 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2825 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2826 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2827
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002828 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2829
2830 pcd. [PARIDE]
2831 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002832 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002833
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002834 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002835 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2836 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002837 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002838 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002839 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2840 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002841 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002842 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2843 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2844 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002845 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2846 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2847 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2848 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2849 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2850 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2851 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2852 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2853 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2854 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002855 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2856 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2857 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002858 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2859 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302860 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002861 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002862 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2863 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2864 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002865 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2866 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2867 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002868 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2869 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2870 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002871 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2872 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2873 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2874 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002875 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2876 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2877 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2878 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002879 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002880 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2881 on several machines and they hang the machine
2882 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2883 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2884 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2885 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2886 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002887 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002888 Use with caution as certain devices share
2889 address decoders between ROMs and other
2890 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002891 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002892 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2893 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002894 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2895 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002896 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002897 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2898 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2899 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002900 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002901 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2902 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2903 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002904 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002905 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2906 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2907 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002908 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002909 numbers ourselves, overriding
2910 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002911 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002912 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2913 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2914 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2915 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2916 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002917 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002918 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002919 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2920 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2921 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2922 please report a bug.
2923 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2924 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002925 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2926 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2927 so this option is a temporary workaround
2928 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002929 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2930 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002931 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2932 This might help on some broken boards which
2933 machine check when some devices' config space
2934 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2935 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002936 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2937 This sorting is done to get a device
2938 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2939 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08002940 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2941 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2942 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2943 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2944 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2945 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2946 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2947 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2948 or bus can support) for best performance.
2949 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2950 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2951 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2952 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2953 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2954 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08002955 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2956 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2957 The default value is 256 bytes.
2958 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2959 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2960 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002961 resource_alignment=
2962 Format:
2963 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00002964 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2965 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002966 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2967 aligned memory resources.
2968 If <order of align> is not specified,
2969 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2970 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2971 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02002972 To specify the alignment for several
2973 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2974 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2975 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06002976 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2977 end-to-end CRC checking).
2978 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2979 the default.
2980 off: Turn ECRC off
2981 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08002982 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2983 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2984 Default size is 256 bytes.
2985 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2986 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2987 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06002988 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2989 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2990 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08002991 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2992 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2993 accommodate resources required by all child
2994 devices.
2995 off: Turn realloc off
2996 on: Turn realloc on
2997 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01002998 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06002999 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3000 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3001 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003002
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003003 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3004 Management.
3005 off Disable ASPM.
3006 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3007 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3008
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003009 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3010 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3011 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3012
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003013 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003014 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3015 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3016 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3017 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3018 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003019 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3020 ports driver.
3021
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003022 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3023 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3024 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3025
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003026 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003027 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003028 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003029
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003030 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3031
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303032 pd_ignore_unused
3033 [PM]
3034 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3035 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3036 for debug and development, but should not be
3037 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3038
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003039 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003040 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003041
3042 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3043 boot time.
3044 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3045 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3046
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003047 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003048 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3049 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3050 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3051 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3052 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003053
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003054 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003055 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003056
3057 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003058 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003059
3060 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003061 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003062
3063 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3064 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3065 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3066
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003067 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003068 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3069 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3070
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003071 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3072 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3073 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3074 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3075 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3076 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003077
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003078 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3079 { off }
3080
3081 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3082 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3083
3084 pnp_reserve_irq=
3085 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3086
3087 pnp_reserve_dma=
3088 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3089
3090 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003091 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003092
3093 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003094 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3095 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003096 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3097
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003098 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3099 Default is 21.
3100 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3101 may be specified.
3102 Format: <port>,<port>....
3103
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003104 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3105 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3106 platform machine description specific power_save
3107 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3108 execution priority.
3109
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003110 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3111 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3112 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3113 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3114 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3115
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003116 print-fatal-signals=
3117 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003118
3119 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3120 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3121 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3122 coredump - etc.
3123
3124 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3125 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3126
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003127 default: off.
3128
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003129 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3130 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3131 panics
3132 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3133 default: disabled
3134
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003135 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3136 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3137 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3138 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3139 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3140 Default: ratelimit
3141
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003142 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3143 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3144
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003145 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3146 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3147 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3148
3149 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3150 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3151 instead using the legacy FADT method
3152
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003153 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003154 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3155 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3156 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3157 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003158 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3159 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003160 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003161
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003162 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3163 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003164 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003165
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003166 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3167 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003168 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3169 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003170 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3171 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003172 (0 = never).
3173 psmouse.resolution=
3174 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3175 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003176 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003177 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3178
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003179 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3180
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003181 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003182 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003183
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003184 pty.legacy_count=
3185 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3186 default number.
3187
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003188 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003189
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003190 r128= [HW,DRM]
3191
3192 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003193 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003194
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003195 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003196 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003197
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003198 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3199
3200 cec_disable [X86]
3201 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3202 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3203
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003204 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003205 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3206
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003207 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3208 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3209 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003210 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3211 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3212 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3213 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003214 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3215 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3216 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3217
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003218 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003219 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3220 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3221 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3222 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3223 This improves the real-time response for the
3224 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3225 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3226 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3227 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3228
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003229 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003230 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3231 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003232
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003233 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3234 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3235 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3236 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3237
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003238 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3239 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3240 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3241 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3242
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003243 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3244 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3245 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003246 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3247 is set.
3248
3249 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3250 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3251 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3252 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3253 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3254 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003255
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003256 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3257 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3258 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3259 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3260 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003261
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003262 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003263 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3264 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3265 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3266 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3267 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3268 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003269
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003270 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3271 Set required age in jiffies for a
3272 given grace period before RCU starts
3273 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3274 rcu_note_context_switch().
3275
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003276 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003277 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3278 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3279 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3280 and maximum value is HZ.
3281
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003282 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003283 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3284 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3285 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3286
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003287 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003288 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3289 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3290 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3291 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3292 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3293 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3294 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3295 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3296 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003297
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003298 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3299 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3300 defaults to the square root of the number of
3301 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3302 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3303 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3304
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003305 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003306 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3307 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003308
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003309 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003310 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3311 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003312
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003313 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003314 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3315 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003316
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003317 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003318 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3319 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3320 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3321 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003322
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003323 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3324 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3325 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3326 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3327 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3328 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3329
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003330 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3331 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3332 grace-period primitives.
3333
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003334 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3335 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3336 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3337 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3338 interference.
3339
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003340 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3341 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3342 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3343 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3344 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3345 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3346 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3347 a single reader.
3348
3349 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3350 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3351 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3352 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3353
3354 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3355 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3356
3357 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3358 Shut the system down after performance tests
3359 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3360 testing.
3361
3362 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3363 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3364
3365 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3366 Enable additional printk() statements.
3367
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003368 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3369 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3370 callback-flood tests.
3371
3372 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3373 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3374 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3375 test.
3376
3377 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3378 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3379 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3380 disable callback-flood testing.
3381
3382 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3383 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3384 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3385
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003386 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003387 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3388 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003389
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003390 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003391 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3392 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003393
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003394 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003395 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3396 in seconds.
3397
3398 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3399 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3400 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003401
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003402 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003403 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003404
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003405 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003406 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3407 update-side primitives, if available.
3408
3409 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3410 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3411 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3412 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3413 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3414 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3415 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003416
3417 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003418 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3419
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003420 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003421 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3422 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3423 test, hence the "fake".
3424
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003425 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003426 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3427 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3428 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3429 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3430 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003431
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003432 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3433 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3434
3435 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003436 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3437
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003438 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003439 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3440 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3441
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003442 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003443 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3444 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3445 during the rcutorture test.
3446
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003447 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003448 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3449 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3450
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003451 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003452 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3453 warnings, zero to disable.
3454
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003455 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003456 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3457
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003458 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003459 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3460
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003461 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003462 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3463 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3464 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3465 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3466
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003467 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003468 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3469 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3470 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3471
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003472 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003473 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3474
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003475 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003476 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3477
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003478 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003479 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3480 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3481
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003482 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3483 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3484
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003485 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003486 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3487
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003488 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003489 Enable additional printk() statements.
3490
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003491 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3492 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3493
3494 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3495 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3496
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003497 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3498 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3499 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3500 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3501 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3502 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003503 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003504
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003505 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3506 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3507 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3508 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003509 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3510 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3511 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3512 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3513 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003514
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003515 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3516 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3517 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003518 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3519 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003520
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003521 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3522 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3523 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3524 to zero.
3525
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003526 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3527 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3528
3529 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3530 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3531
3532 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3533 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3534
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003535 rdinit= [KNL]
3536 Format: <full_path>
3537 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3538 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3539
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003540 reboot= [KNL]
3541 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3542 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3543 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3544 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3545 [[,]f[orce]
3546 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3547 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3548 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3549 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3550 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003551
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003552 relax_domain_level=
3553 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003554 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003555
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003556 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3557
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003558 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003559 Format: nn[KMG]
3560 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3561 address space.
3562
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003563 reservelow= [X86]
3564 Format: nn[K]
3565 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3566 the bottom of the address space.
3567
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003568 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3569 during initialization.
3570
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003571 resume= [SWSUSP]
3572 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003573 Format:
3574 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003575
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003576 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3577 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3578 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3579 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3580 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3581
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003582 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3583 read the resume files
3584
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003585 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3586 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3587 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3588
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003589 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3590 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3591 present during boot.
3592 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003593 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003594 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3595 (that will set all pages holding image data
3596 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003597
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003598 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3599
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003600 rfkill.default_state=
3601 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3602 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3603 1 Unblocked.
3604
3605 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3606 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3607 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3608 blocked and the previous configuration.
3609 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3610 blocked and everything unblocked.
3611
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003612 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3613 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3614
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003615 ring3mwait=disable
3616 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3617 CPUs.
3618
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003619 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3620
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003621 rodata= [KNL]
3622 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3623 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3624
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003625 rockchip.usb_uart
3626 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3627 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3628 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3629 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3630
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003631 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003632 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003633
3634 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3635 mount the root filesystem
3636
3637 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3638
3639 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3640
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003641 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3642 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3643 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3644
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003645 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3646 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3647 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3648 managed by CMA.
3649
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003650 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3651
3652 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3653
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003654 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3655 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3656 strict
3657 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3658 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3659 which is faster.
3660
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003661 sa1100ir [NET]
3662 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3663
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003664 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003665
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003666 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3667
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003668 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3669 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3670 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3671 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3672
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003673 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3674 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3675 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3676 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3677 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3678 1 -- enable.
3679 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3680 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3681
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003682 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3683 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3684 security module asking for security registration will be
3685 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3686 as if no module has been chosen.
3687
3688 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003689 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3690 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3691 0 -- disable.
3692 1 -- enable.
3693 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3694 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3695 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3696
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003697 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3698 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3699 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3700 0 -- disable.
3701 1 -- enable.
3702 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3703
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003704 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003705
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003706 shapers= [NET]
3707 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003708
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003709 simeth= [IA-64]
3710 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003711
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003712 slram= [HW,MTD]
3713
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003714 slab_nomerge [MM]
3715 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3716 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3717 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3718 merging on their own.
3719 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3720
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003721 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3722 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3723 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3724 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3725 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3726
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003727 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3728 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3729 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3730 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3731 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3732 last alloc / free. For more information see
3733 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003734
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003735 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3736 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3737 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3738 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3739 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3740 directories and files being created under
3741 /sys/kernel/slub.
3742
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003743 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003744 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3745 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3746 fragmentation. For more information see
3747 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003748
3749 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003750 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3751 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3752 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3753 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3754 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3755 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003756 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3757
3758 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003759 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003760 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003761 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3762
3763 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003764 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3765 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003766
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003767 smart2= [HW]
3768 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3769
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003770 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3771 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3772 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3773 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3774 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3775 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3776 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3777 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3778 1: Fast pin select (default)
3779 2: ATC IRMode
3780
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003781 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3782 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3783 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3784 actual hardware limit.
3785 Format: <integer>
3786 Default: -1 (no limit)
3787
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003788 softlockup_panic=
3789 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003790 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003791
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003792 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3793 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3794 backtraces on all cpus.
3795 Format: <integer>
3796
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003797 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003798 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003799
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003800 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3801 spia_fio_base=
3802 spia_pedr=
3803 spia_peddr=
3804
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07003805 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3806 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3807 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3808 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3809 grace period will be considered for automatic
3810 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3811 expediting.
3812
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003813 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3814 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3815
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003816 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3817 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3818 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3819 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3820 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3821 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3822 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3823
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003824 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3825 Format: <num>
3826 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3827 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3828 as the initial boot-console.
3829 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3830
3831 sti_font= [HW]
3832 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3833
3834 stifb= [HW]
3835 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3836
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003837 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3838 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3839 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3840 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3841 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3842 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3843 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3844 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3845 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3846 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3847 maximum port values.
3848
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04003849 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3850 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3851 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3852 process in parallel from a single connection.
3853 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3854
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003855 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3856 [NFS]
3857 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3858 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3859 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3860 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3861 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3862 NFS server is running.
3863
3864 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3865 automatically using heuristics
3866 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3867 percpu one pool for each CPU
3868 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3869 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3870
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003871 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3872 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3873 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3874 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3875 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3876 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3877 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3878 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3879
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003880 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3881 [SUSPEND]
3882 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3883 mode before resuming the system (see
3884 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3885 is set. Default value is 5.
3886
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003887 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003888 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3889 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003890 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003891
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003892 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01003893 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003894 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3895 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3896 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01003897 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003898
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003899 switches= [HW,M68k]
3900
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02003901 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3902 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3903 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3904 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3905 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3906 in older udev will not work anymore.
3907 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3908 the kernel configuration.
3909
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08003910 sysrq_always_enabled
3911 [KNL]
3912 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3913 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3914 Useful for debugging.
3915
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01003916 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3917 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3918 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3919 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3920 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3921 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3922
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003923 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3924
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003925 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003926 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003927 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3928 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3929 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3930 The system is woken from this state using a
3931 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003932
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003933 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3934 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3935
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04003936 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3937 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3938 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3939
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003940 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3941 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04003942 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003943
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04003944 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3945 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3946 critical and hot trip points.
3947
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04003948 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3949 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3950
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003951 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3952 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08003953 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3954 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003955
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04003956 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3957 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3958 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3959 0: no polling (default)
3960
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003961 threadirqs [KNL]
3962 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003963 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003964
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003965 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3966 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3967
3968 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3969 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3970 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3971
3972 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3973 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04003974 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3975 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003976
3977 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3978 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3979 to the hypervisor.
3980
3981 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3982 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3983 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3984 kernel based on different criteria.
3985
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003986 topology= [S390]
3987 Format: {off | on}
3988 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07003989 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3990 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003991 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02003992 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003993
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07003994 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3995 Format: {off}
3996 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3997 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3998 LPAR.
3999
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004000 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4001
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004002 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4003 Format: integer pcr id
4004 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4005 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4006 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4007 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4008 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4009 are saved.
4010
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004011 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004012 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004013
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004014 trace_event=[event-list]
4015 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004016 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4017 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4018 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004019
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004020 trace_options=[option-list]
4021 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4022 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4023 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4024 to echo the option name into
4025
4026 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4027
4028 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4029 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4030
4031 trace_options=stacktrace
4032
4033 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4034 section.
4035
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004036 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4037 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4038 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4039 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4040 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4041 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4042
4043 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4044 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4045 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4046 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4047
4048 ** CAUTION **
4049
4050 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4051 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4052 the system to live lock.
4053
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004054 traceoff_on_warning
4055 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4056 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4057 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4058 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4059
4060 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4061 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4062 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4063
4064 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4065 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4066
Jiri Kosinafcf4d8212012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004067 transparent_hugepage=
4068 [KNL]
4069 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4070 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4071 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4072 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4073
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004074 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004075 Format: <string>
4076 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004077 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4078 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4079 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4080 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004081 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4082 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4083 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4084 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004085
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004086 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4087 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4088 Format:
4089 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004090 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4091
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004092 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004093 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004094 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4095 help "seeing" what's going on.
4096
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004097 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4098 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4099
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004100 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4101 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4102 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4103 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4104 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4105 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4106 reported either.
4107
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004108 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004109 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004110
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004111 usbcore.authorized_default=
4112 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4113 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4114 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4115
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004116 usbcore.autosuspend=
4117 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4118 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4119 is the time required before an idle device will be
4120 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004121 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004122
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004123 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4124 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4125
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004126 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4127 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4128 (default = 65536).
4129
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004130 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4131 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4132
4133 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4134 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4135 scheme (default 0 = off).
4136
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004137 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4138 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4139 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4140
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004141 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4142 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4143 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4144
4145 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4146 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4147 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4148 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4149
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004150 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4151
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004152 usbhid.mousepoll=
4153 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004154
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004155 usbhid.jspoll=
4156 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4157
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004158 usb-storage.delay_use=
4159 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004160 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004161
4162 usb-storage.quirks=
4163 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4164 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4165 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4166 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4167 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4168 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4169 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004170 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4171 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004172 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4173 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004174 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4175 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004176 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4177 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4178 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4179 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004180 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4181 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004182 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4183 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004184 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4185 reported device capacity by one
4186 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004187 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4188 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004189 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4190 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004191 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4192 unlock ejectable media);
4193 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4194 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004195 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4196 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004197 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4198 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004199 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4200 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004201 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4202 bogus residue values);
4203 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4204 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004205 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4206 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004207 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004208 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4209 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004210 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4211 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004212 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4213
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004214 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4215 Format: <int>
4216 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4217 1 - undefined instruction events
4218 2 - system calls
4219 4 - invalid data aborts
4220 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4221 16 - SIGBUS faults
4222 Example: user_debug=31
4223
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004224 userpte=
4225 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4226
4227 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4228 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4229 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4230
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304231 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004232 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4233
4234 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004235 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4236
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004237 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4238 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4239 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4240
4241 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4242 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4243 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4244
4245 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4246 alias for vdso32=0.
4247
4248 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4249 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004250
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004251 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4252 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4253
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004254 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4255 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4256
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004257 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4258 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4259 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4260 level and then send out the event to user space through
4261 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4262 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4263 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004264 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004265
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004266 virtio_mmio.device=
4267 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4268
4269 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4270 where:
4271 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4272 like K, M and G)
4273 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4274 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4275 request_irq())
4276 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4277 example:
4278 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4279
4280 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4281
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004282 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004283 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004284 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004285 Use vga=ask for menu.
4286 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4287 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4288
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004289 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004290 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4291 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4292 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4293 mapped kernel RAM.
4294
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004295 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4296 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004297
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004298 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4299 Format: <command>
4300
4301 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4302 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004303
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004304 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4305 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4306 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4307 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4308 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4309 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4310 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4311
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004312 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4313 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004314
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004315 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004316 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4317 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4318 better than they would in emulation mode.
4319 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4320
4321 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4322 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4323 might break your system.
4324
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004325 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4326 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4327 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4328
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004329 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4330 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4331 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4332 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4333
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004334 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4335 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4336 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4337 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4338 ranging from 0-255.
4339
4340 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4341 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4342 Change the default green palette of the console.
4343 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4344 ranging from 0-255.
4345
4346 vt.default_red= [VT]
4347 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4348 Change the default red palette of the console.
4349 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4350 ranging from 0-255.
4351
4352 vt.default_utf8=
4353 [VT]
4354 Format=<0|1>
4355 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4356 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4357 newly opened terminals.
4358
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004359 vt.global_cursor_default=
4360 [VT]
4361 Format=<-1|0|1>
4362 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4363 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4364 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4365 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4366 cursors, 1 will display them.
4367
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004368 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4369 Default: 2 = green.
4370
4371 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4372 Default: 3 = cyan.
4373
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004374 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4375 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4376 or other driver-specific files in the
4377 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004378
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004379 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4380 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4381 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4382 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4383 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4384 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4385 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4386 corresponding sysfs file.
4387
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004388 workqueue.disable_numa
4389 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4390 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4391 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4392 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4393 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4394 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4395 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4396
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304397 workqueue.power_efficient
4398 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4399 they show better performance thanks to cache
4400 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4401 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4402
4403 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4404 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4405 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4406 power usage at the cost of small performance
4407 overhead.
4408
4409 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4410 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4411
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004412 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4413 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4414 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4415 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4416 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4417 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4418 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4419 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4420 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4421 impacted.
4422
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004423 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4424 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4425 supporting x2apic.
4426
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004427 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4428 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004429 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4430 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004431 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004432
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004433 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4434 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4435 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4436 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4437 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4438 domains.
4439
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004440 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4441 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4442 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4443 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4444 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4445 nics -- unplug network devices
4446 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004447 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4448 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4449 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004450 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004451
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004452 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4453 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4454 optimizations.
4455
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004456 xen_nopv [X86]
4457 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4458 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4459
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004460 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004461 Format:
4462 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]