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Mauro Carvalho Chehabe53dd082007-09-15 07:38:47 -03001 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003
4The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented
5(mostly) by the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order
6(defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a
7case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known.
8
9Module parameters for loadable modules are specified only as the
10parameter name with optional '=' and value as appropriate, such as:
11
12 modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
13
14Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image
15are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus
16'.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as:
17
18 usbcore.blinkenlights=1
19
Stefan Richtera901ebb2006-04-01 01:43:18 +020020This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
21"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
22module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
23reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
24parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
25"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
26
Stefan Richter6585fa82006-04-01 01:44:30 +020027The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
28enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
29the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
30parameter is applicable:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070031
32 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
Chuck Ebbertc99c1082007-07-27 10:46:20 +100033 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070034 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
35 APIC APIC support is enabled.
36 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +020037 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070038 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
Robin Getz0ae53642007-10-09 17:24:49 +080039 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -070040 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070041 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
42 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
43 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
44 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
45 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070046 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
Mimi Zohar6146f0d2009-02-04 09:06:57 -050047 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070048 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
Adrian Bunk41e2e8b2005-07-12 13:58:33 -070049 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070050 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
51 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
52 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanub9ce08c2008-08-10 20:14:03 +030053 KMEMTRACE kmemtrace is enabled.
Kristen Carlson Accardi11ef6972006-09-28 11:29:01 -070054 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070055 LP Printer support is enabled.
56 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
57 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
58 These options have more detailed description inside of
59 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
60 MCA MCA bus support is enabled.
61 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
62 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -070063 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -070064 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070065 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
66 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -070067 GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070068 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
69 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -070070 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
71 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070072 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
73 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -070074 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070075 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
76 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
77 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
78 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
79 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
80 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -070081 ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070082 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
83 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
84 A lot of drivers has their options described inside of
85 Documentation/scsi/.
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -070086 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070087 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
88 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
Paul Mundte523d932007-02-28 18:30:01 +090089 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070090 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
91 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -070092 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
93 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -050094 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070095 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -050096 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070097 USB USB support is enabled.
98 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
99 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
100 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
101 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
102 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
103 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700104 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700105 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
106 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700107 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +0200108 X86 Either 32bit or 64bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700109
110In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
111
112 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
113 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
114 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
115
116Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
117loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
118Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -0500119need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700120
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100121There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700122See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100123
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700124Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
125a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
126be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
127it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
128running once the system is up.
129
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700130The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
131complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
132a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
133and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
134./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
135
136
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -0800137 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386]
138 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Randy Dunlapaf23f572009-02-22 17:05:22 -0800139 Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq | rsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700140 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
141 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
142 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
143 ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700144 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700145 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +0800146 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700147
Randy Dunlap53471122008-03-12 18:10:51 -0400148 See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700149
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400150 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
151 Format: <int>
152 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
153 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -0400154 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400155
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +0200156 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
157 acpi_backlight=vendor
158 acpi_backlight=video
159 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
160 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
161 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
162
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700163 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
164 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700165 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700166 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
167 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
168 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
169 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
170 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
171 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
172 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600173 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
174 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
175 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700176
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600177 Enable processor driver info messages:
178 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
179 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
180 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700181 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
182 object while interpreting AML:
183 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700184 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
185 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +0200186
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700187 Some values produce so much output that the system is
188 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
189 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +0800190
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700191 acpi_display_output= [HW,ACPI]
192 acpi_display_output=vendor
193 acpi_display_output=video
194 See above.
195
196 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
197 ACPI will balance active IRQs
198 default in APIC mode
199
200 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
201 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
202 default in PIC mode
203
204 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
205 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
206
207 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
208 use by PCI
209 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
210
211 acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
212
213 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
214 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
215
216 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
217 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 -- only one string
218 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove built-in string2
219 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
220
221 acpi_pm_good [X86-32,X86-64]
222 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
223 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
224 and always returns good values.
225
Zhao Yakuif5adfaa2008-08-11 14:57:50 +0800226 acpi.power_nocheck= [HW,ACPI]
227 Format: 1/0 enable/disable the check of power state.
228 On some bogus BIOS the _PSC object/_STA object of
229 power resource can't return the correct device power
230 state. In such case it is unneccessary to check its
231 power state again in power transition.
232 1 : disable the power state check
233
Luca Tettamanti7e905602009-03-30 00:01:27 +0200234 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
235 { strict | lax | no }
236 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
237 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
238 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
239 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
240 can interfere with legacy drivers.
241 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
242 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
243 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
244 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
245 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
246 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
247 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
248 no further checks are performed.
249
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700250 ad1848= [HW,OSS]
251 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<type>
252
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700253 advansys= [HW,SCSI]
254 See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c.
255
256 advwdt= [HW,WDT] Advantech WDT
257 Format: <iostart>,<iostop>
258
259 aedsp16= [HW,OSS] Audio Excel DSP 16
260 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mss_io>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
261 See also header of sound/oss/aedsp16.c.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700262
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700263 agp= [AGP]
264 { off | try_unsupported }
265 off: disable AGP support
266 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
267 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
268
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700269 aha152x= [HW,SCSI]
270 See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt.
271
272 aha1542= [HW,SCSI]
273 Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]]
274
275 aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI]
276 See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt.
277
278 aic79xx= [HW,SCSI]
279 See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.
280
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200281 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84]
282 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
283 Possible values are:
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200284 isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far
285 as possible, will get its own protection
Joerg Roedel3ce1f932008-11-17 15:09:20 +0100286 domain) [default]
Joerg Roedele5e1f602008-11-17 15:07:17 +0100287 share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the
288 same protection domain
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
293
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200294 amd_iommu_size= [HW,X86-64]
295 Define the size of the aperture for the AMD IOMMU
296 driver. Possible values are:
297 '32M', '64M' (default), '128M', '256M', '512M', '1G'
298
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700299 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
300 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
301 Format: <a>,<b>
302 See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
303
304 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
305 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
306 connected to one of 16 gameports
307 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
308
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700309 apc= [HW,SPARC]
310 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700311 Format: noidle
312 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
313 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
314 APC and your system crashes randomly.
315
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700316 apic= [APIC,i386] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
317 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700318 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
319 Change the amount of debugging information output
320 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700321
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700322 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700323 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700324
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700325 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
326 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
327
328 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
329
330 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
331
332 atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI
333
334 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
335 EzKey and similar keyboards
336
337 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
338
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700339 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
340 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700341
342 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
343 keyboards
344
345 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
346 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700347
348 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
349 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700350
351 autotest [IA64]
352
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700353 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
354 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700355
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700356 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
357 Format: <io>,<mode>
358 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
359
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700360 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
361 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
363 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
364
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700365 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
366 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700367 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
368 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
369
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700370 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
371 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
372 no delay (0).
373 Format: integer
374
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700375 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
376
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700377 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700378 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
379 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700380 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
381 bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
382
383 BusLogic= [HW,SCSI]
384 See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function
385 BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions().
386
387 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
388
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700389 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700390 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
391 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
392 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
393 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
394 This option provides an override for these situations.
395
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -0700396 capability.disable=
397 [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
398 be used only if an alternative security model is to be
399 configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
400 used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
401
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100402 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
403 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700404
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700405 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
406 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
407 {Currently supported controllers - "memory"}
408
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700409 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
410 Format: { "0" | "1" }
411 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700412 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
413 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700414 1 -- check protection requested by application.
415 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700416 Value can be changed at runtime via
417 /selinux/checkreqprot.
418
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100419 cio_ignore= [S390]
420 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
421
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700422 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700423 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200424 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700425 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200426 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700427 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
428
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700429 clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource
430 Format: <string>
431 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
432 with the name specified.
433 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
434 the platform:
435 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
436 [ACPI] acpi_pm
437 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
438 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
439 [AVR32] avr32
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700440 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc,vmi-timer;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700441 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
442 [MIPS] MIPS
443 [PARISC] cr16
444 [S390] tod
445 [SH] SuperH
446 [SPARC64] tick
447 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
448
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100449 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
450 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800451 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
452 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100453 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
454 ones should be.
455 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
456 or using the feature without checking anything
457 will still see it. This just prevents it from
458 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
459 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
460 some critical bits.
461
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100462 code_bytes [IA32/X86_64] How many bytes of object code to print
463 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100464 Range: 0 - 8192
465 Default: 64
466
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700467 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700468 Format:
469 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700470
471 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
472 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
473
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700474 com90xx= [HW,NET]
475 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700476 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
477
478 condev= [HW,S390] console device
479 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700480
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700481 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
482
483 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
484
485 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800486 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700487 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800488 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
489 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
490 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
491 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700492
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800493 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
494 information. See
495 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
496 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700497
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700498 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
499 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700500 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
501 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
502 switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
503 options are the same as for ttyS, above.
504
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700505 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
506 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
507 console=brl,ttyS0
508 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
509
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800510 coredump_filter=
511 [KNL] Change the default value for
512 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
513 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
514
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700515 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700516 Format:
517 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700518
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700519 crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
520 [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
521 hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
522
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700523 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
524 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
525 in the running system. The syntax of range is
526 start-[end] where start and end are both
527 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
528 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example.
529
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700530 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
531 Format: <dma>
532
533 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
534 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700535
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700536 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700537 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
538
539 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
540 (one device per port)
541 Format: <port#>,<type>
542 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
543
544 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
545
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700546 debug_locks_verbose=
547 [KNL] verbose self-tests
548 Format=<0|1>
549 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
550 self-tests.
551 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
552 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
553 only useful to kernel developers.
554
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700555 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
556
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500557 no_debug_objects
558 [KNL] Disable object debugging
559
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200560 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
561
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200562 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700563 Format: <area>[,<node>]
564 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
565
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700566 default_hugepagesz=
567 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
568 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
569 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
570 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
571 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
572 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700573
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700574 dhash_entries= [KNL]
575 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700576
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700577 digi= [HW,SERIAL]
578 IO parameters + enable/disable command.
579
580 digiepca= [HW,SERIAL]
581 See drivers/char/README.epca and
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +0000582 Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700583
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700584 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700585 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
586 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700587 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700588
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100589 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100590 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
591 memory out of your available memory pool based on
592 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
593 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
594
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700595 disable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64]
596 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
597 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
598
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700599 dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buffers
600
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700601 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
602 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
603
604 dma_debug_entries=<number>
605 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
606 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
607 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
608 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
609 architectural default is too low.
610
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700611 dscc4.setup= [NET]
612
613 dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI]
614
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700615 dynamic_printk Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
616 CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled.
617 These can also be switched on/off via
618 <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules
619
620 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
621 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
622 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
623 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
624 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
625 The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
626
Robin Getz0ae53642007-10-09 17:24:49 +0800627 earlyprintk= [X86-32,X86-64,SH,BLACKFIN]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700628 earlyprintk=vga
629 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Yinghai Lu5c059172008-07-24 17:29:40 -0700630 earlyprintk=dbgp
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700631
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700632 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700633 takes over.
634
Yinghai Lu5c059172008-07-24 17:29:40 -0700635 Only vga or serial or usb debug port at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700636
637 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
638
639 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
640 very good.
641
642 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
643 console.
644
645 eata= [HW,SCSI]
646
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700647 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -0700648 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700649
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700650 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
651 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
652
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700653 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700654 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700655 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700656
657 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap16ab3ad2006-01-14 13:21:20 -0800658 Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700659 See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
660 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
661
Simon Hormane515a0d2008-10-18 20:28:27 -0700662 elfcorehdr= [IA64,PPC,SH,X86-32,X86_64]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700663 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -0800664 image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
665 pass this option to capture kernel.
666 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700667
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700668 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
669 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
670 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
671 entry later. This parameter enables that.
672
673 enable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64]
674 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
675 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
676 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
677 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
678
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700679 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
680 Format: {"0" | "1"}
681 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
682 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
683 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
684 Default value is 0.
685 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
686
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700687 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
688 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
689 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
690
691 eurwdt= [HW,WDT] Eurotech CPU-1220/1410 onboard watchdog.
692 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
693
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -0800694 failslab=
695 fail_page_alloc=
696 fail_make_request=[KNL]
697 General fault injection mechanism.
698 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
699 See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
700
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700701 fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI]
702 See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c.
703
704 fdomain= [HW,SCSI]
705 See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c.
706
707 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +0000708 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700709
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -0600710 force_pal_cache_flush
711 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
712 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
713 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
714 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
715
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +0100716 ftrace=[tracer]
717 [ftrace] will set and start the specified tracer
718 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
719 boot debugging.
720
721 ftrace_dump_on_oops
722 [ftrace] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
723
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700724 gamecon.map[2|3]=
725 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
726 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
727 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
728 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
729
730 gamma= [HW,DRM]
731
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +0100732 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
733 Format: off | on
734 default: on
735
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700736 gdth= [HW,SCSI]
737 See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c.
738
739 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
740 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
741
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700742 gvp11= [HW,SCSI]
743
744 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
745 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
746 for IA-64, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700747 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700748
749 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
750
751 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
752 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
753
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700754 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
755 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
756 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
757 size on bigger boxes.
758
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -0800759 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
760 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
761 Default: "on"
762
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700763 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
764 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
765
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700766 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
767
768 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
769 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
770 verbose }
771 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
772 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
773 VIA, nVidia)
774 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
775
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -0700776 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
777 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -0700778 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
779 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
780 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
781 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
782 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -0700783 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
784 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +0900785
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +0100786 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
787 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +0100788 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
789 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
790 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +0100791
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -0700792 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -0700793 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
794 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -0700795 Format:
796 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
797
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -0400798 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700799 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +0200800 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
801 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700802 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
803 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -0500804 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -0400805 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
806 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700807 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
808 controller
809 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
810 controllers
811 i8042.panicblink=
812 [HW] Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink
813 when kernel panics (default is 0.5 sec)
814 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
815 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
816
817 i810= [HW,DRM]
818
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -0700819 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
820 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
821 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700822 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
823 does not match list of supported models.
824 i8k.power_status
825 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
826 (disabled by default)
827 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
828 capability is set.
829
830 ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter
831 See Documentation/mca.txt.
832
833 icn= [HW,ISDN]
834 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
835
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +0100836 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
837 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
838 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .noprobe .nowerr .cdrom
839 .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +0100840 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700841
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700842 idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +0100843 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700844
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700845 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
846 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
847
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +0200848 idle= [X86]
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -0800849 Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
850 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
851 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
852 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
853 Not recommended.
854 idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
855 the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save
856 as much power as a normal idle loop, use the
857 MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be
858 the same as idle=poll.
859 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +0800860 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -0800861 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700862
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -0800863 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
864 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
865 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
866
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700867 ihash_entries= [KNL]
868 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
869
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -0500870 ima_audit= [IMA]
871 Format: { "0" | "1" }
872 0 -- integrity auditing messages. (Default)
873 1 -- enable informational integrity auditing messages.
874
875 ima_hash= [IMA]
876 Formt: { "sha1" | "md5" }
877 default: "sha1"
878
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700879 in2000= [HW,SCSI]
880 See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c.
881
882 init= [KNL]
883 Format: <full_path>
884 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
885 process.
886
887 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
888 for working out where the kernel is dying during
889 startup.
890
891 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
892
893 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
894 Format: <irq>
895
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -0700896 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -0800897 on
898 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -0700899 off
900 Disable intel iommu driver.
901 igfx_off [Default Off]
902 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
903 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
904 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
905 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
906 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -0700907 forcedac [x86_64]
908 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
909 for io virtual address below 32 bit forcing dual
910 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
911 than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
912 for translation below 32 bit and if not available
913 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -0800914 strict [Default Off]
915 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
916 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
917 to batching them for performance.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -0700918
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700919 inttest= [IA64]
920
921 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
922 strict regions from userspace.
923 relaxed
924
925 iommu= [x86]
926 off
927 force
928 noforce
929 biomerge
930 panic
931 nopanic
932 merge
933 nomerge
934 forcesac
935 soft
936
937 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
938 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
939 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
940
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100941 io_delay= [X86-32,X86-64] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100942 0x80
943 Standard port 0x80 based delay
944 0xed
945 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100946 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100947 Simple two microseconds delay
948 none
949 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +0100950
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700951 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fields6ded55d2008-04-07 15:59:03 -0400952 See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700953
954 ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700955 See comment before ip2_setup() in
956 drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700957
958 ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
959 See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.
960
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -0700961 irqfixup [HW]
962 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
963 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
964 firmware running.
965
966 irqpoll [HW]
967 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
968 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
969 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
970 firmware running.
971
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700972 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700973 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700974
975 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -0800976 Format:
977 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
978 or
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -0800979 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
980 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -0800981 or a mixture
982 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -0800983
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700984 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
985 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -0800986 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
987 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700988 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
989 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
990
991 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700992 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
993 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
994 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700995
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700996 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700997
998 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
999 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1000
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001001 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1002
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001003 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001004 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1005 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1006 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1007 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1008 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1009 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1010 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1011 of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the
1012 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1013 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1014 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1015 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1016 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1017 zone if it does not.
1018
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanub9ce08c2008-08-10 20:14:03 +03001019 kmemtrace.enable= [KNL,KMEMTRACE] Format: { yes | no }
1020 Controls whether kmemtrace is enabled
1021 at boot-time.
1022
1023 kmemtrace.subbufs=n [KNL,KMEMTRACE] Overrides the number of
1024 subbufs kmemtrace's relay channel has. Set this
1025 higher than default (KMEMTRACE_N_SUBBUFS in code) if
1026 you experience buffer overruns.
1027
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001028 kgdboc= [HW] kgdb over consoles.
1029 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling.
1030 (only serial suported for now)
1031 Format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1032
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001033 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1034 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1035 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1036
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001037 kstack=N [X86-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack
1038 in oops dumps.
1039
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001040 l2cr= [PPC]
1041
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001042 l3cr= [PPC]
1043
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001044 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001045 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001046
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001047 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1048 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001049
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001050 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1051 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1052 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1053 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1054 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
1055 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1056 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1057
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001058 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1059 when set.
1060 Format: <int>
1061
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001062 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1063 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1064 PORT[:DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1065 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1066 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1067 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1068 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1069 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1070
1071 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1072 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1073 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1074 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1075 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1076 host link and device attached to it.
1077
1078 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1079 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1080 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1081 The following configurations can be forced.
1082
1083 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1084 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1085
1086 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1087
1088 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1089 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1090 allowed.
1091
1092 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1093
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001094 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1095 and both resets.
1096
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001097 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1098 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1099
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001100 lmb=debug [KNL] Enable lmb debug messages.
1101
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001102 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001103 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001104
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001105 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1106 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001107
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001108 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1109 Format: <integer>
1110
1111 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1112 Format: <integer>
1113
1114 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1115 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001116
1117 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1118 Format: <irq>
1119
1120 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1121 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1122 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1123 loglevels are defined as follows:
1124
1125 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1126 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1127 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1128 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1129 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1130 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1131 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1132 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1133
1134 log_buf_len=n Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001135 Format: { n | nk | nM }
1136 n must be a power of two. The default size
1137 is set in the kernel config file.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001138
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07001139 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1140 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1141 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1142 kernel boot problems.
1143
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001144 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1145 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1146 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1147 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1148 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1149 attached printers to be reset. Using
1150 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1151 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1152 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1153 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1154 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1155 port specification list means that device IDs
1156 from each port should be examined, to see if
1157 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1158 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1159 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1160
1161 lpj=n [KNL]
1162 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1163 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1164 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1165 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1166 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1167 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1168 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1169 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1170 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1171 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1172 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1173 hardware.
1174
1175 ltpc= [NET]
1176 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1177
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001178 mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format:
1179 <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001180
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001181 machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
1182 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1183 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001184
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001185 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1186 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001187
1188 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04001189 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1190 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1191 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1192 the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001193
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001194 max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can
1195 be mounted
1196 Format: <1-256>
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07001197
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001198 max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001199 Should be between 1 and 2^32-1.
1200
1201 max_report_luns=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001202 [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001203 Should be between 1 and 16384.
1204
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001205 mcatest= [IA-64]
1206
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001207 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001208
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07001209 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02001210
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001211 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1212 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001213
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001214 mdacon= [MDA]
1215 Format: <first>,<last>
1216 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001217
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001218 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1219 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1220 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001221 [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001222 address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
1223 could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
1224
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001225 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001226 memory.
1227
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001228 memchunk=nn[KMG]
1229 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1230 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1231
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001232 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86-32,X86_64] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001233 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1234 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1235 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1236 option description.
1237
1238 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
1239 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
1240 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1241
1242 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1243 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
1244 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1245
1246 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1247 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
1248 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07001249 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1250 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1251 or
1252 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001253
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07001254 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
1255 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
1256 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
1257 Setting this option will scan the memory
1258 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
1259 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
1260 from using the memory being corrupted.
1261 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
1262 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
1263 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
1264 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
1265
1266 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
1267 By default it checks for corruption in the low
1268 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
1269 use. Use this parameter to scan for
1270 corruption in more or less memory.
1271
1272 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
1273 By default it checks for corruption every 60
1274 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
1275 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
1276
Yinghai Lucaadbdc2008-07-15 00:03:44 -07001277 memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07001278 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07001279 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01001280 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
1281 performed. Each pass selects another test
1282 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
1283 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
1284 memory contents and reserves bad memory
1285 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07001286
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001287 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
1288 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
1289
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02001290 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
1291 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
1292 platforms.
1293
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01001294 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
1295 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
1296 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
1297 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
1298
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001299 mga= [HW,DRM]
1300
Randy Dunlap1c207f92008-11-19 15:36:16 -08001301 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
1302 physical address is ignored.
1303
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07001304 mminit_loglevel=
1305 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
1306 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
1307 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
1308 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
1309 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
1310 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
1311
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001312 mousedev.tap_time=
1313 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
1314 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
1315 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
1316 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
1317 Format: <msecs>
1318 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
1319 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1320 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
1321 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1322
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001323 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter
1324 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
1325 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
1326 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
1327 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
1328 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
1329 is specified, the administrator must be careful
1330 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
1331 is not too small.
1332
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001333 mpu401= [HW,OSS]
1334 Format: <io>,<irq>
1335
1336 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
1337 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
1338
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001339 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
1340 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001341
1342 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07001343 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001344
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01001345 mtdset= [ARM]
1346 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
1347
1348 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
1349
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001350 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001351 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
1352 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001353
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001354 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1355 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continous chunk
1356 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
1357
1358 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1359 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
1360 Default is 1.
1361 Large value could prevent small alignment from
1362 using up MTRRs.
1363
1364 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
1365 Format: <integer>
1366 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
1367 Default : 1
1368 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
1369 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
1370
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001371 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
1372
1373 NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI]
1374 See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c.
1375
1376 ncr5380= [HW,SCSI]
1377
1378 ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI]
1379
1380 ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI]
1381
1382 ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI]
1383
1384 ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI]
1385
1386 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
1387 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
1388 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
1389 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001390 This usage is only documented in each driver source
1391 file if at all.
1392
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07001393 nf_conntrack.acct=
1394 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
1395 0 to disable accounting
1396 1 to enable accounting
1397 Default value depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT that is
1398 going to be removed in 2.6.29.
1399
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001400 nfsaddrs= [NFS]
J. Bruce Fields6ded55d2008-04-07 15:59:03 -04001401 See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001402
1403 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fields6ded55d2008-04-07 15:59:03 -04001404 See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001405
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01001406 nfs.callback_tcpport=
1407 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
1408 channel should listen.
1409
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01001410 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
1411 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
1412 entries.
1413
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04001414 nfs.enable_ino64=
1415 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
1416 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
1417 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
1418 of returning the full 64-bit number.
1419 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
1420
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02001421 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32] Specify one or more actions to take
1422 when a NMI is triggered.
1423 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
1424
Cyrill Gorcunov5b9a0e12008-11-01 18:06:51 +03001425 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32,X86-64] Debugging features for SMP kernels
1426 Format: [panic,][num]
1427 Valid num: 0,1,2
1428 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
1429 1 - use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
1430 2 - use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001431 a performance counter. Note: This will use one
1432 performance counter and the local APIC's performance
1433 vector.
1434 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
1435 timeout occurs.
1436 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
1437 need the box quickly up again.
Cyrill Gorcunov5b9a0e12008-11-01 18:06:51 +03001438 Instead of 1 and 2 it is possible to use the following
1439 symbolic names: lapic and ioapic
1440 Example: nmi_watchdog=2 or nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001441
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001442 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001443 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
1444 is present.
1445
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001446 no_console_suspend
1447 [HW] Never suspend the console
1448 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
1449 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
1450 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
1451 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
1452 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
1453 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
1454 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
1455
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07001456 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
1457 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
1458 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08001459
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001460 noalign [KNL,ARM]
1461
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001462 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
1463 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
1464
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001465 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
1466 on "Classic" PPC cores.
1467
1468 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001469
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001470 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
1471
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07001472 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
1473
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001474 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
1475
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001476 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
1477
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01001478 noefi [X86-32,X86-64] Disable EFI runtime services support.
1479
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001480 noexec [IA-64]
1481
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001482 noexec [X86-32,X86-64]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02001483 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001484 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02001485 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
1486
1487 noexec32 [X86-64]
1488 This affects only 32-bit executables.
1489 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1490 read doesn't imply executable mappings
1491 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
1492 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001493
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001494 nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
1495
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001496 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08001497 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
1498 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001499
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01001500 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
1501 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1502 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001503
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001504 no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001505 instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1506 use it.
1507
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06001508 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
1509 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
1510 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
1511
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001512 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
1513 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
1514 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
1515 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
1516 in certain environments such as networked servers or
1517 real-time systems.
1518
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08001519 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
1520 Valid arguments: on, off
1521 Default: on
1522
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09001523 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
1524
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001525 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001526 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
1527
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001528 no_timer_check [X86-32,X86_64,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01001529 broken timer IRQ sources.
1530
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001531 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
1532
1533 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
1534 initial RAM disk.
1535
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08001536 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
1537 remapping.
1538
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001539 nointroute [IA-64]
1540
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07001541 nojitter [IA64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
1542
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001543 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001544
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001545 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08001546
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001547 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
1548 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
1549
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09001550 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
1551
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001552 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02001553
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02001554 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
1555 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
1556
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001557 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
1558 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
1559
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001560 noreplace-paravirt [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02001561
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001562 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02001563 with UP alternatives
1564
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001565 noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
1566
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001567 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
1568 space.
1569
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001570 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
1571 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
1572 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
1573
1574 nosbagart [IA-64]
1575
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001576 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08001577
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04001578 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
1579 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001580
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07001581 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
1582
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -08001583 noswapaccount [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +01001584 controller. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukic0777192009-01-07 18:07:57 -08001585
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001586 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
1587
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001588 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001589
1590 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
1591
1592 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001593
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08001594 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
1595
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07001596 nptcg= [IA64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
1597 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
1598 SAL PALO.
1599
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001600 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
1601
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07001602 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
1603 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
1604 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
1605 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
1606
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001607 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
1608 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
1609 info.
1610
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07001611 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
1612 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
1613 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
1614 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
1615 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
1616 interrupts *may* be lost!
1617
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001618 opl3= [HW,OSS]
1619 Format: <io>
1620
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001621 oprofile.timer= [HW]
1622 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
1623
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001624 osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver
1625 Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold>
1626 See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
1627
1628 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic
1629 Format: <timeout>
1630
1631 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
1632 connected to, default is 0.
1633 Format: <parport#>
1634 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
1635 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001636 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001637
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001638 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
1639 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
1640 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
1641 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
1642 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
1643 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
1644 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
1645 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
1646 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
1647 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
1648 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
1649 are specified on the command line, starting
1650 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001651
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001652 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
1653 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
1654 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
1655 computer where firmware has no options for setting
1656 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
1657 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001658 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
1659
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001660 pas2= [HW,OSS] Format:
1661 <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma16>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<sb_dma16>
1662
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001663 pas16= [HW,SCSI]
1664 See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c.
1665
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08001666 pause_on_oops=
1667 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
1668 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
1669 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
1670
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001671 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
1672
1673 pcd. [PARIDE]
1674 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001675 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001676
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001677 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07001678 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
1679 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001680 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001681 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001682 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
1683 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001684 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001685 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
1686 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
1687 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001688 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001689 Mechanism 1.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001690 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001691 Mechanism 2.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07001692 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
1693 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
1694 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04001695 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
1696 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001697 nommconf [X86-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08001698 Configuration
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07001699 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
1700 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
1701 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02001702 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
1703 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
1704 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02001705 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
1706 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
1707 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
1708 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02001709 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
1710 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
1711 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
1712 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001713 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001714 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
1715 on several machines and they hang the machine
1716 when used, but on other computers it's the only
1717 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
1718 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
1719 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
1720 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001721 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001722 Use with caution as certain devices share
1723 address decoders between ROMs and other
1724 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001725 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07001726 expansion ROMs that do not already have
1727 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001728 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001729 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
1730 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
1731 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001732 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001733 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
1734 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
1735 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001736 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001737 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
1738 secondary buses and you want to tell it
1739 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001740 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001741 numbers ourselves, overriding
1742 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001743 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001744 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
1745 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
1746 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
1747 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
1748 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001749 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001750 or for PCI scanning.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02001751 use_crs [X86] Use _CRS for PCI resource
Gary Hade62f420f2007-10-03 15:56:51 -07001752 allocation.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001753 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
1754 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
1755 so this option is a temporary workaround
1756 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07001757 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
1758 handle more pci cards
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001759 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
1760 just use the configuration from the
1761 bootloader. This is currently used on
1762 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
1763 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02001764 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
1765 This might help on some broken boards which
1766 machine check when some devices' config space
1767 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
1768 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05001769 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
1770 This sorting is done to get a device
1771 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
1772 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08001773 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
1774 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
1775 The default value is 256 bytes.
1776 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
1777 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
1778 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09001779 resource_alignment=
1780 Format:
1781 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
1782 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
1783 aligned memory resources.
1784 If <order of align> is not specified,
1785 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
1786 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
1787 windows need to be expanded.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05001788
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04001789 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
1790 Management.
1791 off Disable ASPM.
1792 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
1793 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
1794
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001795 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
1796
1797 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001798 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001799
1800 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
1801 boot time.
1802 Format: { 0 | 1 }
1803 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
1804
1805 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001806 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001807
1808 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001809 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001810
1811 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07001812 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001813
1814 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
1815 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
1816 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
1817
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02001818 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
1819 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
1820 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
1821
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06001822 pnp.debug [PNP]
1823 Enable PNP debug messages. This depends on the
1824 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option.
1825
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001826 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
1827 { off }
1828
1829 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
1830 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
1831
1832 pnp_reserve_irq=
1833 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
1834
1835 pnp_reserve_dma=
1836 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
1837
1838 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001839 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001840
1841 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001842 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
1843 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001844 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
1845
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07001846 print-fatal-signals=
1847 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
1848 print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to
1849 the kernel console.
1850 default: off.
1851
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07001852 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
1853 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
1854
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001855 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
1856 Limit processor to maximum C-state
1857 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
1858
1859 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
1860 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
1861 instead using the legacy FADT method
1862
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001863 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001864 Format: [schedule,]<number>
1865 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
1866 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
1867 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02001868 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
1869 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02001870 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001871
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001872 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
1873 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001874 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001875
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001876 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
1877 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001878 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
1879 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001880 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
1881 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001882 (0 = never).
1883 psmouse.resolution=
1884 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
1885 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001886 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001887 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
1888
1889 pss= [HW,OSS] Personal Sound System (ECHO ESC614)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001890 Format:
1891 <io>,<mss_io>,<mss_irq>,<mss_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001892
1893 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001894 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001895
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02001896 pty.legacy_count=
1897 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
1898 default number.
1899
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07001900 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001901
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001902 r128= [HW,DRM]
1903
1904 raid= [HW,RAID]
1905 See Documentation/md.txt.
1906
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001907 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001908 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001909
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001910 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001911 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001912
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02001913 rcupdate.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
1914 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
1915 in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08001916
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02001917 rcupdate.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
1918 Set threshold of queued
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08001919 RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
1920
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02001921 rcupdate.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
1922 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
1923 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08001924
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07001925 rdinit= [KNL]
1926 Format: <full_path>
1927 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
1928 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
1929
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001930 reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001931 Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
Randy Dunlapecb08d82009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001932 See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001933
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07001934 relax_domain_level=
1935 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +01001936 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07001937
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001938 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
1939
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001940 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9af2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07001941 Format: nn[KMG]
1942 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
1943 address space.
1944
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07001945 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
1946 during initialization.
1947
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001948 resume= [SWSUSP]
1949 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001950
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08001951 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
1952 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
1953 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
1954 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
1955 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
1956
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08001957 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
1958
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001959 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
1960 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
1961
1962 riscom8= [HW,SERIAL]
1963 Format: <io_board1>[,<io_board2>[,...<io_boardN>]]
1964
1965 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
1966
1967 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
1968
1969 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
1970 mount the root filesystem
1971
1972 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
1973
1974 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
1975
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07001976 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
1977 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
1978 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
1979
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -07001980 root_plug.vendor_id=
1981 [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID
1982
1983 root_plug.product_id=
1984 [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID
1985
1986 root_plug.debug=
1987 [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output
1988
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001989 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
1990
1991 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
1992
1993 sa1100ir [NET]
1994 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
1995
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001996 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001997
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001998 sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver
1999 Format: <io>[,<timeout>[,<isapnp>]]
2000
2001 scsi_debug_*= [SCSI]
2002 See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c.
2003
2004 scsi_default_dev_flags=
2005 [SCSI] SCSI default device flags
2006 Format: <integer>
2007
2008 scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model
2009 Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags>
2010 (flags are integer value)
2011
Randy Dunlap6af66322007-11-14 16:52:25 -08002012 scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels
2013 See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also
2014 settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level
2015 (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level).
2016 There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the
2017 S390-tools package, available for download at
2018 http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002019
Matthew Wilcox3e082a92006-09-28 15:19:20 -06002020 scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are
2021 discovered. async scans them in kernel threads,
2022 allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting
2023 user space to do the scan.
2024
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002025 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
2026 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
2027 security module asking for security registration will be
2028 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
2029 as if no module has been chosen.
2030
2031 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002032 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2033 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
2034 0 -- disable.
2035 1 -- enable.
2036 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2037 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
2038 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
2039
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002040 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002041
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002042 shapers= [NET]
2043 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002044
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07002045 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
2046 Format: { <integer> }
2047 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
2048 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
2049 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
2050
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002051 sim710= [SCSI,HW]
2052 See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c.
2053
2054 simeth= [IA-64]
2055 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002056
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002057 slram= [HW,MTD]
2058
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07002059 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
2060 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
2061 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
2062 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
2063 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
2064 last alloc / free. For more information see
2065 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002066
2067 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07002068 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
2069 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
2070 fragmentation. For more information see
2071 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002072
2073 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07002074 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
2075 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
2076 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
2077 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
2078 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
2079 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002080 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2081
2082 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
2083 Determines the mininum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07002084 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002085 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2086
2087 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07002088 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002089 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07002090 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
2091 merging on their own.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002092 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2093
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002094 smart2= [HW]
2095 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
2096
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002097 smp-alt-once [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002098 attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot.
2099
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07002100 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
2101 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
2102 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
2103 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
2104 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
2105 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
2106 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
2107 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
2108 1: Fast pin select (default)
2109 2: ATC IRMode
2110
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002111 snd-ad1816a= [HW,ALSA]
2112
2113 snd-ad1848= [HW,ALSA]
2114
2115 snd-ali5451= [HW,ALSA]
2116
2117 snd-als100= [HW,ALSA]
2118
2119 snd-als4000= [HW,ALSA]
2120
2121 snd-azt2320= [HW,ALSA]
2122
2123 snd-cmi8330= [HW,ALSA]
2124
2125 snd-cmipci= [HW,ALSA]
2126
2127 snd-cs4231= [HW,ALSA]
2128
2129 snd-cs4232= [HW,ALSA]
2130
2131 snd-cs4236= [HW,ALSA]
2132
2133 snd-cs4281= [HW,ALSA]
2134
2135 snd-cs46xx= [HW,ALSA]
2136
2137 snd-dt019x= [HW,ALSA]
2138
2139 snd-dummy= [HW,ALSA]
2140
2141 snd-emu10k1= [HW,ALSA]
2142
2143 snd-ens1370= [HW,ALSA]
2144
2145 snd-ens1371= [HW,ALSA]
2146
2147 snd-es968= [HW,ALSA]
2148
2149 snd-es1688= [HW,ALSA]
2150
2151 snd-es18xx= [HW,ALSA]
2152
2153 snd-es1938= [HW,ALSA]
2154
2155 snd-es1968= [HW,ALSA]
2156
2157 snd-fm801= [HW,ALSA]
2158
2159 snd-gusclassic= [HW,ALSA]
2160
2161 snd-gusextreme= [HW,ALSA]
2162
2163 snd-gusmax= [HW,ALSA]
2164
2165 snd-hdsp= [HW,ALSA]
2166
2167 snd-ice1712= [HW,ALSA]
2168
2169 snd-intel8x0= [HW,ALSA]
2170
2171 snd-interwave= [HW,ALSA]
2172
2173 snd-interwave-stb=
2174 [HW,ALSA]
2175
2176 snd-korg1212= [HW,ALSA]
2177
2178 snd-maestro3= [HW,ALSA]
2179
2180 snd-mpu401= [HW,ALSA]
2181
2182 snd-mtpav= [HW,ALSA]
2183
2184 snd-nm256= [HW,ALSA]
2185
2186 snd-opl3sa2= [HW,ALSA]
2187
2188 snd-opti92x-ad1848=
2189 [HW,ALSA]
2190
2191 snd-opti92x-cs4231=
2192 [HW,ALSA]
2193
2194 snd-opti93x= [HW,ALSA]
2195
2196 snd-pmac= [HW,ALSA]
2197
2198 snd-rme32= [HW,ALSA]
2199
2200 snd-rme96= [HW,ALSA]
2201
2202 snd-rme9652= [HW,ALSA]
2203
2204 snd-sb8= [HW,ALSA]
2205
2206 snd-sb16= [HW,ALSA]
2207
2208 snd-sbawe= [HW,ALSA]
2209
2210 snd-serial= [HW,ALSA]
2211
2212 snd-sgalaxy= [HW,ALSA]
2213
2214 snd-sonicvibes= [HW,ALSA]
2215
2216 snd-sun-amd7930=
2217 [HW,ALSA]
2218
2219 snd-sun-cs4231= [HW,ALSA]
2220
2221 snd-trident= [HW,ALSA]
2222
2223 snd-usb-audio= [HW,ALSA,USB]
2224
2225 snd-via82xx= [HW,ALSA]
2226
2227 snd-virmidi= [HW,ALSA]
2228
2229 snd-wavefront= [HW,ALSA]
2230
2231 snd-ymfpci= [HW,ALSA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002232
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02002233 softlockup_panic=
2234 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
2235
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002236 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
2237 See Documentation/sonypi.txt
2238
2239 specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002240 See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002241
2242 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
2243 spia_fio_base=
2244 spia_pedr=
2245 spia_peddr=
2246
2247 sscape= [HW,OSS]
2248 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002249
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002250 st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.)
2251 See Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
2252
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05002253 stacktrace [FTRACE]
2254 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
2255
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002256 sti= [PARISC,HW]
2257 Format: <num>
2258 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
2259 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
2260 as the initial boot-console.
2261 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2262
2263 sti_font= [HW]
2264 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2265
2266 stifb= [HW]
2267 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
2268
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08002269 sunrpc.pool_mode=
2270 [NFS]
2271 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
2272 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
2273 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
2274 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
2275 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
2276 NFS server is running.
2277
2278 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
2279 automatically using heuristics
2280 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
2281 percpu one pool for each CPU
2282 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
2283 to global on non-NUMA machines)
2284
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002285 swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002286
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002287 switches= [HW,M68k]
2288
2289 sym53c416= [HW,SCSI]
2290 See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c.
2291
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08002292 sysrq_always_enabled
2293 [KNL]
2294 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
2295 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
2296 Useful for debugging.
2297
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002298 t128= [HW,SCSI]
2299 See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c.
2300
2301 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
2302
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07002303 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
2304 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
2305 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
2306 enter during system startup. The system is woken from
2307 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
2308
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002309 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2310 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
2311
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04002312 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
2313 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
2314 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
2315
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04002316 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
2317 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04002318 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04002319
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04002320 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
2321 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
2322 critical and hot trip points.
2323
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04002324 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
2325 1: disable ACPI thermal control
2326
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04002327 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
2328 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08002329 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
2330 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04002331
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04002332 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
2333 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
2334 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
2335 0: no polling (default)
2336
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002337 tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
2338 See comment before function dc390_setup() in
2339 drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.
2340
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01002341 topology= [S390]
2342 Format: {off | on}
2343 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
2344 topology informations if the hardware supports these.
2345 The scheduler will make use of these informations and
2346 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
2347 Default is off.
2348
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002349 tp720= [HW,PS2]
2350
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09002351 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] [ftrace] will set tracing buffer size.
2352
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002353 trix= [HW,OSS] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002354 Format:
2355 <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
2356
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07002357 tsc= Disable clocksource-must-verify flag for TSC.
2358 Format: <string>
2359 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
2360 disables clocksource verification at runtime.
2361 Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older
2362 hardware, and in virtualized environment.
2363
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002364 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
2365 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
2366 Format:
2367 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002368 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
2369
2370 u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter
2371 See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c.
2372
2373 uart401= [HW,OSS]
2374 Format: <io>,<irq>
2375
2376 uart6850= [HW,OSS]
2377 Format: <io>,<irq>
2378
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05002379 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
2380 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
2381 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
2382 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
2383 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
2384 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
2385 reported either.
2386
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01002387 unknown_nmi_panic
2388 [X86-32,X86-64]
2389 Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot.
2390
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05002391 usbcore.autosuspend=
2392 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
2393 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
2394 is the time required before an idle device will be
2395 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04002396 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05002397
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02002398 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
2399 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
2400
2401 usbcore.blinkenlights=
2402 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
2403
2404 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
2405 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
2406 scheme (default 0 = off).
2407
2408 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
2409 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
2410 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
2411
2412 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
2413 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
2414 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
2415 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
2416
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002417 usbhid.mousepoll=
2418 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002419
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05002420 usb-storage.delay_use=
2421 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
2422 scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
2423
2424 usb-storage.quirks=
2425 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
2426 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
2427 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
2428 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
2429 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
2430 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
2431 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05002432 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
2433 of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05002434 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
2435 device capacity by one sector);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05002436 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
2437 reported device capacity by one
2438 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05002439 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
2440 device);
2441 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
2442 unlock ejectable media);
2443 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
2444 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05002445 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
2446 reported by the device);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05002447 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
2448 bogus residue values);
2449 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
2450 Logical Unit);
2451 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
2452 medium is write-protected).
2453 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
2454
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002455 vdso= [X86-32,SH,x86-64]
Jeremy Fitzhardinge1dbf527c2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02002456 vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07002457 vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
2458 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
2459
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01002460 vdso32= [X86-32,X86-64]
2461 vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
2462 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
2463 vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
2464
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09002465 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
2466 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
2467
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002468 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
2469 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
2470
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002471 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05002472 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002473 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002474 Use vga=ask for menu.
2475 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
2476 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
2477
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002478 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002479 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
2480 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
2481 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
2482 mapped kernel RAM.
2483
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02002484 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
2485 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002486
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02002487 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
2488 Format: <command>
2489
2490 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
2491 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002492
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002493 vt.default_blu= [VT]
2494 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
2495 Change the default blue palette of the console.
2496 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2497 ranging from 0-255.
2498
2499 vt.default_grn= [VT]
2500 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
2501 Change the default green palette of the console.
2502 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2503 ranging from 0-255.
2504
2505 vt.default_red= [VT]
2506 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
2507 Change the default red palette of the console.
2508 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2509 ranging from 0-255.
2510
2511 vt.default_utf8=
2512 [VT]
2513 Format=<0|1>
2514 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
2515 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
2516 newly opened terminals.
2517
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002518 waveartist= [HW,OSS]
2519 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002520
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002521 wd33c93= [HW,SCSI]
2522 See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c.
2523
2524 wd7000= [HW,SCSI]
2525 See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c.
2526
2527 wdt= [WDT] Watchdog
Gabriel C8dfe9c22007-08-10 13:01:00 -07002528 See Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002529
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002530 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
2531 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
2532 supporting x2apic.
2533
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002534 xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
2535 xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
2536
2537 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002538 Format:
2539 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002540
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002541______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002542
2543TODO:
2544
2545 Add documentation for ALSA options.
2546 Add more DRM drivers.