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Mauro Carvalho Chehabe53dd082007-09-15 07:38:47 -03001 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +09304The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
5implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
6and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
7punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
8manner), and with descriptions where known.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093010The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
11if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
12parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
13environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
14Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093016Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
17line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070018
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093019 (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093022Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
23specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
24kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
25when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
26loadable modules too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -070028Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
29 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
30can also be entered as
31 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
32
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093033Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
34 param="spaces in here"
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -070035
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -070036cpu lists:
37----------
38
39Some kernel parameters take a list of CPUs as a value, e.g. isolcpus,
40nohz_full, irqaffinity, rcu_nocbs. The format of this list is:
41
42 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
43
44or
45
46 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
47 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
48
49or a mixture
50
51<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
52
53Note that for the special case of a range one can split the range into equal
54sized groups and for each group use some amount from the beginning of that
55group:
56
57 <cpu number>-cpu number>:<used size>/<group size>
58
59For example one can add to the command line following parameter:
60
61 isolcpus=1,2,10-20,100-2000:2/25
62
63where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,...
64
65
66
Stefan Richtera901ebb2006-04-01 01:43:18 +020067This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
68"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
69module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
70reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
71parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
72"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
73
Stefan Richter6585fa82006-04-01 01:44:30 +020074The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
75enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
76the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
77parameter is applicable:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070078
79 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
Chuck Ebbertc99c1082007-07-27 10:46:20 +100080 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070081 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
82 APIC APIC support is enabled.
83 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070084 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +020085 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070086 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
Robin Getz0ae53642007-10-09 17:24:49 +080087 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -070088 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -070089 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
Will Drewry077d23c2010-06-09 17:47:38 -050090 DM Device mapper support is enabled.
Alan Cox9cfe2682011-01-25 14:18:38 +000091 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
92 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070093 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
94 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
95 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -040096 EVM Extended Verification Module
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070097 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070098 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -070099 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700100 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700101 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
Mimi Zohar6146f0d2009-02-04 09:06:57 -0500102 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700103 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
Adrian Bunk41e2e8b2005-07-12 13:58:33 -0700104 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800105 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700106 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
107 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
108 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -0500109 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +0200110 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
Kristen Carlson Accardi11ef6972006-09-28 11:29:01 -0700111 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700112 LP Printer support is enabled.
113 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
114 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
115 These options have more detailed description inside of
116 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700117 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700118 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700119 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -0700120 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700121 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700122 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
123 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
124 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
125 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700126 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
127 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700128 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
129 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -0700130 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700131 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
132 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
133 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
134 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
135 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
136 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
137 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
138 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap163475f2010-08-14 12:36:14 -0700139 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
140 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -0700141 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700142 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -0700143 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700144 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
Paul Mundte523d932007-02-28 18:30:01 +0900145 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700146 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
147 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -0700148 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
149 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -0300150 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700151 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -0500152 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700153 USB USB support is enabled.
154 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
155 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +0100156 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700157 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
158 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
159 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
160 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700161 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700162 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
163 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700164 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700165 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500166 X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +0100167 XEN Xen support is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700168
169In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
170
171 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
172 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
173 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
174
175Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
176loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
177Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -0500178need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700179
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100180There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700181See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100182
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700183Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
184a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
185be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
186it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
187running once the system is up.
188
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700189The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
190complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
191a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
192and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
193./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
194
Ahmed S. Darwish7a19a232011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800195Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
196parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
197multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
198bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
199
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700200
Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +0000201 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -0800202 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +0200203 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +0300204 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700205 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +0200206 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700207 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
208 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700209 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700210 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +0800211 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +0800212 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +0200213 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
214 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700215
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200216 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700217
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400218 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
219 Format: <int>
220 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
221 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -0400222 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400223
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +0200224 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
225 acpi_backlight=vendor
226 acpi_backlight=video
227 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
228 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
229 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
230
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +0000231 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
232 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
233 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
234 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
235 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
236
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200237 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
238 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
239 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
240 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
241 This option is useful for developers to identify the
242 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
243 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
244
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700245 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
246 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700247 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700248 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
249 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
250 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
251 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
252 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
253 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
254 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600255 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
256 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
257 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700258
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600259 Enable processor driver info messages:
260 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
261 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
262 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700263 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
264 object while interpreting AML:
265 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700266 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
267 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +0200268
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700269 Some values produce so much output that the system is
270 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
271 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +0800272
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200273 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
274 { strict | lax | no }
275 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
276 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
277 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
278 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
279 can interfere with legacy drivers.
280 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
281 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
282 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
283 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
284 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
285 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
286 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
287 no further checks are performed.
288
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +0800289 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
290 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
291 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
292 size limitation.
293
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700294 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
295 ACPI will balance active IRQs
296 default in APIC mode
297
298 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
299 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
300 default in PIC mode
301
302 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
303 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
304
305 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
306 use by PCI
307 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
308
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800309 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
310 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800311 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
312 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
313 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800314 This feature is enabled by default.
315 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800316
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200317 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
318 kernels.
319
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800320 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
321 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
322 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
323 installed automatically and they will appear under
324 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
325 This option turns off this feature.
326 Note that specifying this option does not affect
327 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
328 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700329
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200330 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
331 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
332 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
333 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800334
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700335 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
336 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
337
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200338 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
339 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
340 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
341 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
342 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
343
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700344 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800345 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
346 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800347 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800348 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
349 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800350 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
351 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700352 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
353
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800354 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
355 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
356 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
357 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
358 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
359 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
360 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800361 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
362 care about the state of the feature group strings which
363 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800364 Examples:
365 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
366 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
367 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
368
369 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
370 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
371 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
372 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
373 multiple times through kernel command line is also
374 meaningless.
375 Examples:
376 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
377 FALSE.
378
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800379 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
380 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
381 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
382 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
383 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
384 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
385 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
386 there are quirks related to this string. This command
387 is useful when one want to control the state of the
388 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
389 the OSPM features.
390 Examples:
391 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
392 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
393 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
394 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
395 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
396 equivalent to
397 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
398 and
399 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
400 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
401
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530402 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700403 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
404 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
405 and always returns good values.
406
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700407 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
408 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
409
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700410 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
411 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
412 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
413
414 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
415 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200416 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700417 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
418 s3_bios and s3_mode.
419 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
420 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
421 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
422 used during resume from hibernation.
423 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
424 control method, with respect to putting devices into
425 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
426 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200427 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
428 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800429 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
430 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
431 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700432
433 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
434 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
435 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
436
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700437 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
438 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
439
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700440 agp= [AGP]
441 { off | try_unsupported }
442 off: disable AGP support
443 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
444 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
445
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700446 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
447 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
448
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000449 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
450 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
451 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
452 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
453
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200454 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
455 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
456 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
457 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
458 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
459 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
460 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
461
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100462 32: only for 32-bit processes
463 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200464 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
465 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
466
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500467 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
468 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
469 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
470 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
471 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
472 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
473
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100474 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200475 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
476 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900477 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
478 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
479 flushed before they will be reused, which
480 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200481 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
482 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100483 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
484 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
485 allowed anymore to lift isolation
486 requirements as needed. This option
487 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900488
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600489 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
490 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
491 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
492 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
493 IOMMU initialization.
494
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500495 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
496 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
497 remapping modes:
498 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
499 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
500 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
501 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
502 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
503
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700504 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
505 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
506 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200507 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700508
509 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
510 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
511 connected to one of 16 gameports
512 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
513
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700514 apc= [HW,SPARC]
515 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700516 Format: noidle
517 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
518 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
519 APC and your system crashes randomly.
520
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700521 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700522 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700523 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
524 Change the amount of debugging information output
525 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700526
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100527 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
528 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
529 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
530 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
531 backup of CPU 0
532 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
533 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
534 shot down by NMI
535
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800536 autoconf= [IPV6]
537 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
538
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400539 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
540 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
541 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
542 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
543 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
544 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
545 apic=verbose is specified.
546 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
547
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700548 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700549 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700550
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700551 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
552 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
553
554 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
555
556 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
557
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700558 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
559 EzKey and similar keyboards
560
561 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
562
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700563 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
564 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700565
566 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
567 keyboards
568
569 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
570 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700571
572 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
573 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700574
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400575 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
576 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500577 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
578 until the next reboot
579 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
580 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
581 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
582 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
583 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
584 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400585 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400586
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400587 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
588 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
589 Default: 64
590
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500591 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
592 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
593 Format: { "0" | "1" }
594 0 - Disable the BAU.
595 1 - Enable the BAU.
596 unset - Disable the BAU.
597
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
599 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700600
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700601 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
602 Format: <io>,<mode>
603 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
604
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700605 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
606 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700607 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
608 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
609
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700610 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
611 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700612 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
613 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
614
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700615 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
616 embedded devices based on command line input.
617 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
618
Channagoud Kadabi85b8fdf2016-08-30 15:08:28 -0700619 boot_cpus= [SMP]
620 Rather than attempting to online all possible CPUs at
621 boot time, only online the specified set of CPUs.
622
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700623 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
624 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
625 no delay (0).
626 Format: integer
627
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700628 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
629
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700630 bert_disable [ACPI]
631 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
632
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700633 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700634 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
635 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700636 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200637 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700638
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000639 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
640 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
641 at a time.
642
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700643 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
644
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700645 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700646 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
647 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
648 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
649 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
650 This option provides an override for these situations.
651
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300652 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
653 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
654 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300655 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300656
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700657 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
658 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
659 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
660 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
661 others).
662
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100663 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
664 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700665
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700666 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
667 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800668 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
669 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
670 a single hierarchy
671 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
672 subsystem
673 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
674 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
675 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700676
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500677 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
678 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
679 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
680 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
681
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800682 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
683 Format: <string>
684 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800685 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800686
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700687 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
688 Format: { "0" | "1" }
689 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700690 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
691 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700692 1 -- check protection requested by application.
693 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700694 Value can be changed at runtime via
695 /selinux/checkreqprot.
696
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100697 cio_ignore= [S390]
698 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700699 clk_ignore_unused
700 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700701 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
702 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
703 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
704 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
705 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
706 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
707 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
708 platform with proper driver support. For more
709 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100710
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700711 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700712 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200713 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700714 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200715 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700716 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
717
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700718 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700719 Format: <string>
720 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
721 with the name specified.
722 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
723 the platform:
724 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
725 [ACPI] acpi_pm
726 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
727 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
728 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700729 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700730 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
731 [MIPS] MIPS
732 [PARISC] cr16
733 [S390] tod
734 [SH] SuperH
735 [SPARC64] tick
736 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
737
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100738 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
739 [ARM,ARM64]
740 Format: <bool>
741 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
742 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
743 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
744 systems.
745
Scott Woodf6dc1572016-09-22 03:35:17 -0500746 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
747 [ARM64]
748 Format: <bool>
749 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
750 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
751 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
752 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
753 enabled based on the device tree.
754
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100755 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
756 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100757 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800758 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100759 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
760 ones should be.
761 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
762 or using the feature without checking anything
763 will still see it. This just prevents it from
764 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
765 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
766 some critical bits.
767
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700768 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
769 [ARM,X86,KNL]
770 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
771 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
772 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700773 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
774 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100775 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
776
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000777 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
778 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
779 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
780 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
781 a hypervisor.
782 Default: yes
783
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100784 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
785 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200786 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100787
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530788 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100789 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100790 Range: 0 - 8192
791 Default: 64
792
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700793 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700794 Format:
795 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700796
797 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
798 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
799
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700800 com90xx= [HW,NET]
801 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700802 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
803
804 condev= [HW,S390] console device
805 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700806
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700807 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
808
809 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
810
811 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800812 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700813 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800814 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
815 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
816 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
817 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700818
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800819 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
820 information. See
821 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
822 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700823
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700824 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
825 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900826 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400827 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
828 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700829 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
830 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400831 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
832 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900833 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
834 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
835 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
836 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400837 the h/w is not re-initialized.
838
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500839 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
840 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700841
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700842 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
843 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
844 console=brl,ttyS0
845 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
846
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700847 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
848 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
849 disables the blank timer.
850
Pavankumar Kondeti1e951a72017-03-21 14:00:09 +0530851 core_ctl_disable_cpumask= [SMP]
852 Exempt the CPUs from being managed by core_ctl.
853 core_ctl operates on a cluster basis. So all the
854 CPUs in a given cluster must be specified to disable
855 core_ctl for that cluster.
856
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800857 coredump_filter=
858 [KNL] Change the default value for
859 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
860 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
861
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400862 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
863 disable the cpuidle sub-system
864
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400865 cpu_init_udelay=N
866 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
867 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
868 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
869 Default: 10000
870
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700871 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700872 Format:
873 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700874
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800875 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
876 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
877 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
878 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
879 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
880 is selected automatically. Check
881 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700882
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700883 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
884 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
885 in the running system. The syntax of range is
886 start-[end] where start and end are both
887 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800888 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700889
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700890 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700891 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
892 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
893 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
894 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
895 available.
896 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700897 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
898 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
899 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700900 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
901 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800902 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
903 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
904 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
905 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700906 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
907 for second kernel instead.
908 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700909 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700910 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700911
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100912 cryptomgr.notests
913 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
914
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700915 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
916 Format: <dma>
917
918 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
919 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700920
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700921 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700922 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
923
924 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
925 (one device per port)
926 Format: <port#>,<type>
927 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
928
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200929 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
930 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600931 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200932
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700933 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
934
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700935 debug_locks_verbose=
936 [KNL] verbose self-tests
937 Format=<0|1>
938 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
939 self-tests.
940 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
941 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
942 only useful to kernel developers.
943
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700944 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
945
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500946 no_debug_objects
947 [KNL] Disable object debugging
948
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc52012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800949 debug_guardpage_minorder=
950 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
951 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
952 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
953 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
954 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
955 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
956 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
957 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
958 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
959 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
960 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
961 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
962 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
963 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
964 bypassed) which are not detectable by
965 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
966 tracking down these problems.
967
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800968 debug_pagealloc=
969 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
970 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
971 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
972 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
973 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
974 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
975 on: enable the feature
976
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200977 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
978
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200979 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700980 Format: <area>[,<node>]
981 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
982
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700983 default_hugepagesz=
984 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
985 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
986 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
987 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
988 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
989 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700990
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700991 dhash_entries= [KNL]
992 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700993
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000994 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
995 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
996 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
997 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
998 miss to occur.
999
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -08001000 disable= [IPV6]
1001 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1002
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +05301003 disable_radix [PPC]
1004 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1005
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +09001006 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1007 Format: <int>
1008 The number of initial APIC ID for the
1009 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1010 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1011 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1012 causing system reset or hang due to sending
1013 INIT from AP to BSP.
1014
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +00001015 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
1016 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
1017 to workaround buggy firmware.
1018
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -08001019 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1020 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1021
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001022 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001023 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1024 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001025 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001026
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +01001027 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +01001028 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1029 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1030 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1031 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1032
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301033 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001034 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1035 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1036
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -04001037 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1038
Will Drewry077d23c2010-06-09 17:47:38 -05001039 dm= [DM] Allows early creation of a device-mapper device.
1040 See Documentation/device-mapper/boot.txt.
1041
1042 dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buff
1043
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001044 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1045 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1046
1047 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1048 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1049 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1050 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1051 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1052 architectural default is too low.
1053
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +02001054 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1055 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1056 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1057 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1058 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1059 driver later using sysfs.
1060
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001061 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1062 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1063 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1064 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1065 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001066 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1067 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1068 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1069 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1070 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1071 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
1072 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1073 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001074 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1075 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1076 data set with no connector name will be used for
1077 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001078
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001079 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1080
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -06001081 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1082 module.dyndbg[="val"]
1083 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1084 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
1085
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -07001086 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
1087 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
1088 information about the feature.
1089
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -08001090 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1091 in some Intel CPUs.
1092
Borislav Petkovf29ba612015-03-27 16:15:18 +01001093 eagerfpu= [X86]
1094 on enable eager fpu restore
1095 off disable eager fpu restore
1096 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
1097 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
1098
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -07001099 module.async_probe [KNL]
1100 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1101
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -07001102 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1103 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1104 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1105 which are not unmapped.
1106
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001107 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001108
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -05001109 When used with no options, the early console is
1110 determined by the stdout-path property in device
1111 tree's chosen node.
1112
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +01001113 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1114 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1115 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1116 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1117 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1118 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +02001119
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001120 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1121 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -07001122 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001123 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001124 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001125 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1126 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001127 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001128 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1129 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1130 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1131 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001132 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001133
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001134 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001135 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001136 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1137 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1138 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001139 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1140 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1141 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001142
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +01001143 meson,<addr>
1144 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1145 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1146 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1147 supported.
1148
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -07001149 msm_serial,<addr>
1150 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1151 port at the specified address. The serial port
1152 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1153 yet supported.
1154
1155 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1156 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1157 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1158 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1159 yet supported.
1160
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -05001161 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1162
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +01001163 s3c2410,<addr>
1164 s3c2412,<addr>
1165 s3c2440,<addr>
1166 s3c6400,<addr>
1167 s5pv210,<addr>
1168 exynos4210,<addr>
1169 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1170 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1171 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1172 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1173 Options are not yet supported.
1174
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001175 lpuart,<addr>
1176 lpuart32,<addr>
1177 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1178 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1179 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1180 port must already be setup and configured.
1181
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001182 armada3700_uart,<addr>
1183 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1184 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1185 address. The serial port must already be setup
1186 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1187
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +10001188 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001189 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001190 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001191 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001192 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001193 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001194 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001195 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001196 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001197
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001198 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1199 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1200 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1201
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001202 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001203 takes over.
1204
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001205 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1206 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001207
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001208 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1209 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1210 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1211 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1212 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1213 You can find the port for a given device in
1214 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1215 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001216
1217 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1218 very good.
1219
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001220 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1221 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001222
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001223 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1224
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001225 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1226 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1227 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1228 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1229 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1230 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1231 default: on.
1232
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001233 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1234 ekgdboc=kbd
1235
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001236 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001237 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1238
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001239 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001240 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001241
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001242 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001243 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001244 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1245 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1246 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001247 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1248 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1249 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001250 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001251 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001252
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001253 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1254 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1255 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1256 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1257 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1258
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001259 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1260 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1261 updating original EFI memory map.
1262 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1263 from ss to ss+nn.
1264 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1265 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1266 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1267 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1268
1269 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1270 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1271 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1272 doesn't support it.
1273
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001274 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1275 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1276 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1277 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1278 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1279
1280
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001281 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1282 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1283
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001284 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001285 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001286 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001287
1288 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001289 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001290 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001291 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1292
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001293 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001294 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001295 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1296 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001297 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001298
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001299 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1300 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1301 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1302 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1303
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001304 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001305 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1306 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1307 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1308 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1309
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001310 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1311 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1312 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1313 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1314 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1315 Default value is 0.
1316 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1317
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001318 erst_disable [ACPI]
1319 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1320 support.
1321
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001322 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1323 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1324 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1325
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001326 evm= [EVM]
1327 Format: { "fix" }
1328 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1329 current integrity status.
1330
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001331 failslab=
1332 fail_page_alloc=
1333 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1334 General fault injection mechanism.
1335 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001336 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001337
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001338 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001339 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001340
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001341 force_pal_cache_flush
1342 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1343 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1344 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1345 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1346
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001347 forcepae [X86-32]
1348 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1349 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1350 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1351 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1352 and may cause unknown problems.
1353
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001354 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001355 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001356 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1357 boot debugging.
1358
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001359 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001360 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001361 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1362 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1363 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1364 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001365
1366 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1367 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1368 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1369 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1370 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001371 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001372
1373 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1374 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1375 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1376 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1377 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001378
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001379 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1380 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1381 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1382 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1383 that can be changed at run time by the
1384 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1385
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001386 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1387 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1388 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1389 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1390 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1391
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001392 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1393 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1394 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1395 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1396 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1397
1398 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1399
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001400 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1401 Format: off | on
1402 default: on
1403
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001404 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1405 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1406 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1407 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1408 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1409
Thomas Gleixner2709c2a2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001410 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1411 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1412 android emulator
1413
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001414 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001415 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1416 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1417 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001418
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001419 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1420 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1421 Format: 0 | 1
1422 Default: 0
1423 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1424 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1425 Format: 0 | 1
1426 Default: 0
1427 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1428 Format: 0 | 1
1429 Default: 0
1430 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1431 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1432 Default: 1024
1433 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1434 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1435 Default: 1024
1436
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001437 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1438 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1439 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1440
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001441 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1442 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1443 backtraces on all cpus.
1444 Format: <integer>
1445
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001446 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1447 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001448 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001449 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001450
1451 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1452
1453 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1454 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1455
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001456 hest_disable [ACPI]
1457 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1458 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1459 logic will be disabled.
1460
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001461 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1462 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1463 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1464 size on bigger boxes.
1465
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001466 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1467 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1468 Default: "on"
1469
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001470 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1471 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1472
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001473 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1474
1475 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1476 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1477 verbose }
1478 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1479 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1480 VIA, nVidia)
1481 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1482
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001483 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1484 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1485
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001486 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1487 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001488 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1489 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1490 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1491 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001492 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001493
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001494 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1495 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001496 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1497 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1498 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001499
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001500 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1501 hardware thread id mappings.
1502 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1503
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001504 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1505 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1506 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1507 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1508 the real console.
1509
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001510 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001511 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1512 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001513 Format:
1514 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1515
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001516 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001517 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1518 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1519 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1520 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001521 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001522 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1523 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001524 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1525 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001526 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001527 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1528 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001529 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001530 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001531 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1532 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001533 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e1922016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001534 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1535 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1536 transitions, or never reset
1537 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1538 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1539 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1540 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1541 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001542 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001543 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001544
1545 i810= [HW,DRM]
1546
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001547 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1548 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1549 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001550 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1551 does not match list of supported models.
1552 i8k.power_status
1553 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1554 (disabled by default)
1555 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1556 capability is set.
1557
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001558 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001559 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1560 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001561 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1562 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1563 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1564 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1565 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1566 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1567 value switches the backlight off.
1568 -1 -- never invert brightness
1569 0 -- machine default
1570 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001571
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001572 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1573 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1574
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001575 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1576 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001577 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1578 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001579 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001580
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001581 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1582 Format: <int>
1583 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1584 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1585 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1586 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1587 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1588 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1589 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1590 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1591 was 0x3.
1592
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001593 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1594 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1595
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001596 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001597 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001598 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1599 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1600 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1601 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001602 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001603 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001604 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001605
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001606 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1607 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1608 Default: strict
1609
1610 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1611 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1612 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1613 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1614 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1615 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1616 encoding mode.
1617
1618 Available settings are as follows:
1619 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1620 supported by the FPU
1621 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1622 by the FPU
1623 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1624 by the FPU
1625 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1626 supported by the FPU
1627
1628 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1629 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1630 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1631 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1632 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1633 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1634 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1635 MIPS64 CPUs.
1636
1637 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1638 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1639 except where unsupported by hardware.
1640
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001641 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1642 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1643 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001644 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1645 could change it dynamically, usually by
1646 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001647
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001648 ignore_rlimit_data
1649 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1650 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1651 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1652
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001653 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1654 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1655
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001656 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001657 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001658 default: "enforce"
1659
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001660 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1661 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1662 owned by uid=0.
1663
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001664 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001665 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1666 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001667 default: "sha1"
1668
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001669 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1670 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1671
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001672 ima_policy= [IMA]
1673 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1674 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1675 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1676 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1677 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1678 Format: "tcb"
1679
1680 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001681 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1682 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1683 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1684 opened for read by uid=0.
1685
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001686 ima_template= [IMA]
1687 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001688 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001689 Default: "ima-ng"
1690
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001691 ima_template_fmt=
1692 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1693 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1694
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001695 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1696 Format: <min_file_size>
1697 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1698 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1699
1700 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1701 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1702 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1703
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001704 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1705 Format: <bufsize>
1706 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1707
1708 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1709 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1710 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1711
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001712 init= [KNL]
1713 Format: <full_path>
1714 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1715 process.
1716
1717 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1718 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1719 startup.
1720
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001721 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1722 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1723 modules and initcalls.
1724
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001725 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1726
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001727 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1728 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1729 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1730 override in debugfs after boot.
1731
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001732 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1733 Format: <irq>
1734
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001735 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1736
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001737 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1738 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1739 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1740 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1741
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001742 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001743 on
1744 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001745 off
1746 Disable intel iommu driver.
1747 igfx_off [Default Off]
1748 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1749 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1750 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1751 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1752 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001753 forcedac [x86_64]
1754 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001755 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001756 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001757 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1758 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001759 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001760 strict [Default Off]
1761 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1762 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1763 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001764 sp_off [Default Off]
1765 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1766 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1767 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001768 ecs_off [Default Off]
1769 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1770 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1771 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1772 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1773 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001774
1775 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1776 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001777 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001778
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001779 intel_pstate= [X86]
1780 disable
1781 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1782 scaling driver for the supported processors
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001783 force
1784 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1785 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1786 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1787 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1788 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1789 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1790 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1791 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001792 no_hwp
1793 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1794 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001795 hwp_only
1796 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1797 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001798 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001799 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1800 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1801 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1802 then this feature is turned on by default.
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001803
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001804 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001805 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1806 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1807 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001808 no_x2apic_optout
1809 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001810 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001811
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001812 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1813 strict regions from userspace.
1814 relaxed
1815
1816 iommu= [x86]
1817 off
1818 force
1819 noforce
1820 biomerge
1821 panic
1822 nopanic
1823 merge
1824 nomerge
1825 forcesac
1826 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001827 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001828 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1829 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001830
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001831
1832 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1833 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1834 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1835
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301836 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001837 0x80
1838 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1839 0xed
1840 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001841 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001842 Simple two microseconds delay
1843 none
1844 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001845
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001846 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001847 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001848
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001849 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001850 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001851
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001852 irqfixup [HW]
1853 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1854 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1855 firmware running.
1856
1857 irqpoll [HW]
1858 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1859 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1860 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1861 firmware running.
1862
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001863 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001864 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001865
1866 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001867 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001868
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001869 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1870 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001871 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1872 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001873 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1874 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1875
1876 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001877 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1878 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1879 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001880
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001881 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001882
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001883 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1884 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1885 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1886 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1887 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1888 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1889
1890 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1891 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1892 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1893 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1894 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1895 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1896
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001897 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1898 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1899 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1900 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1901 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1902 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1903
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001904 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1905 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1906
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001907 nokaslr [KNL]
1908 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1909 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1910 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001911
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001912 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1913
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001914 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1915 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1916 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001917 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1918 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1919 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1920 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1921 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1922 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1923 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001924 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001925 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1926 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1927 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1928 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1929 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1930 zone if it does not.
1931
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001932 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1933 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1934 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1935 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1936 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1937 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1938 time.
1939
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001940 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1941 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1942 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1943 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1944 optional and is the number seconds in between
1945 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1946 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1947 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1948 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1949 the kernel debugger.
1950
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001951 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001952 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1953 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001954 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1955 keyboard only format: kbd
1956 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1957 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1958 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1959 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001960
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001961 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1962 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1963
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001964 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1965 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1966 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1967
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001968 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1969 Valid arguments: on, off
1970 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001971 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1972 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001973
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001974 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1975 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1976 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1977 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1978 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1979 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1980
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301981 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001982 in oops dumps.
1983
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001984 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1985 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1986
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001987 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1988 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001989 Default is 0 (off)
1990
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001991 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001992 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001993
1994 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1995 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001996 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001997
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001998 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1999 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2000 Default is 1 (enabled)
2001
2002 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2003 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2004 Default is 0 (disabled)
2005
2006 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2007 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2008 Default is 1 (enabled)
2009
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03002010 kvm-intel.nested=
2011 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2012 Default is 0 (disabled)
2013
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002014 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2015 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2016 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2017 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2018
2019 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2020 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2021 Default is 1 (enabled)
2022
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002023 l2cr= [PPC]
2024
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11002025 l3cr= [PPC]
2026
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002027 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002028 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002029
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07002030 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2031 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2032 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2033
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302034 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08002035 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01002036
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002037 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2038 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2039 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2040 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002041 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002042 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2043 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002044
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02002045 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2046 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2047 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002048
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04002049 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2050 when set.
2051 Format: <int>
2052
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002053 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2054 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02002055 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002056 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2057 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2058 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2059 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2060 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2061
2062 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2063 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2064 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2065 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2066 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2067 host link and device attached to it.
2068
2069 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2070 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2071 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2072 The following configurations can be forced.
2073
2074 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2075 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2076
2077 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2078
2079 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2080 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2081 allowed.
2082
2083 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2084
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04002085 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2086
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09002087 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2088 and both resets.
2089
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07002090 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2091 hot-unplug link recovery
2092
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02002093 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2094
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02002095 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2096
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08002097 * disable: Disable this device.
2098
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002099 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2100 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2101
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002102 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002103
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002104 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002105 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002106
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002107 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2108 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002109
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002110 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2111 Format: <integer>
2112
2113 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2114 Format: <integer>
2115
2116 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2117 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002118
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002119 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2120 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2121 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2122 number of online CPUs.
2123
2124 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2125 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2126
2127 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2128 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2129
2130 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2131 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2132 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2133
2134 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2135 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2136 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2137 mode during the locktorture test.
2138
2139 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2140 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2141 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2142
2143 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2144 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2145
2146 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2147 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2148 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2149 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2150 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2151 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2152
2153 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2154 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2155
2156 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2157 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2158
2159 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2160 Enable additional printk() statements.
2161
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002162 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2163 Format: <irq>
2164
2165 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2166 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2167 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2168 loglevels are defined as follows:
2169
2170 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2171 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2172 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2173 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2174 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2175 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2176 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2177 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2178
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002179 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002180 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2181 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2182 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2183 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2184 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2185 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002186
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002187 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2188 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2189 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2190 kernel boot problems.
2191
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002192 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2193 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2194 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2195 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2196 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2197 attached printers to be reset. Using
2198 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2199 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2200 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2201 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2202 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2203 port specification list means that device IDs
2204 from each port should be examined, to see if
2205 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2206 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2207 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2208
2209 lpj=n [KNL]
2210 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2211 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2212 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2213 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2214 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2215 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2216 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2217 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2218 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2219 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2220 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2221 hardware.
2222
2223 ltpc= [NET]
2224 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2225
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002226 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002227 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2228 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002229
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002230 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2231 yeeloong laptop.
2232 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2233
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002234 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2235 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002236
2237 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002238 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2239 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2240 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2241 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2242 only takes effect during system bootup.
2243 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2244 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002245
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002246 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2247 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2248 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2249 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2250 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2251 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002252
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002253 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002254
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002255 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002256
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002257 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2258 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002259
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002260 mdacon= [MDA]
2261 Format: <first>,<last>
2262 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002263
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002264 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2265 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2266 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002267 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2268 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2269 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2270 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002271
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002272 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002273 memory.
2274
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002275 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2276 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2277 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2278
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002279 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2280 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2281 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2282 set according to the
2283 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2284 option.
2285 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2286
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302287 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002288 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2289 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2290 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2291 option description.
2292
2293 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002294 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2295 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002296
2297 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2298 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002299 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002300
2301 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2302 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002303 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002304 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2305 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2306 or
2307 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002308
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002309 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2310 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2311 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2312 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2313 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2314
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002315 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2316 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2317 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2318 Setting this option will scan the memory
2319 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2320 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2321 from using the memory being corrupted.
2322 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2323 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2324 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2325 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2326
2327 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2328 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2329 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2330 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2331 corruption in more or less memory.
2332
2333 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2334 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2335 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2336 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2337
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002338 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002339 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002340 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002341 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2342 performed. Each pass selects another test
2343 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2344 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2345 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2346 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002347
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002348 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2349 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2350
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002351 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2352 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2353 platforms.
2354
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002355 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2356 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2357 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2358 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2359
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002360 mga= [HW,DRM]
2361
Randy Dunlap1c207f92008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002362 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2363 physical address is ignored.
2364
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002365 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2366 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2367 Default: "0tb"
2368 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2369 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2370 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2371 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2372 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2373 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2374 unconfigured.
2375 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2376 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2377 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2378 VGA shield.
2379 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2380 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2381 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2382 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2383 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2384 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2385
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002386 mminit_loglevel=
2387 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2388 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2389 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2390 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2391 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2392 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2393
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002394 module.sig_enforce
2395 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2396 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002397 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002398 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2399
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302400 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2401 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2402
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002403 mousedev.tap_time=
2404 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2405 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2406 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2407 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2408 Format: <msecs>
2409 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2410 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2411 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2412 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2413
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302414 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002415 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2416 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2417 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2418 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2419 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2420 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2421 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2422 is not too small.
2423
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002424 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2425 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2426
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002427 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2428 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2429
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002430 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2431 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002432
2433 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002434 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002435
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002436 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2437 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2438 at a time.
2439
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002440 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2441
2442 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2443
2444 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2445 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2446 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2447 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2448 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2449
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002450 mtdset= [ARM]
2451 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2452
2453 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2454
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002455 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002456 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2457 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002458
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002459 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002460 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002461 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2462
2463 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2464 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2465 Default is 1.
2466 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2467 using up MTRRs.
2468
2469 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2470 Format: <integer>
2471 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2472 Default : 1
2473 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2474 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2475
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002476 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2477
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002478 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2479 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2480 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2481 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002482 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2483 file if at all.
2484
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002485 nf_conntrack.acct=
2486 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2487 0 to disable accounting
2488 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002489 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002490
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002491 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002492 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002493
2494 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002495 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002496
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002497 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2498 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2499
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002500 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2501 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2502 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2503 requests.
2504
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002505 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2506 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2507 channel should listen.
2508
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002509 nfs.cache_getent=
2510 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2511 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2512
2513 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2514 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2515 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2516
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002517 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2518 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2519 entries.
2520
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002521 nfs.enable_ino64=
2522 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2523 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2524 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2525 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2526 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2527
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002528 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2529 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2530 slots the client will assign to the callback
2531 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2532 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2533 a particular server.
2534
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002535 nfs.max_session_slots=
2536 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2537 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2538 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2539 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2540 Note that there is little point in setting this
2541 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2542
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002543 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002544 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2545 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2546 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2547 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2548 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2549 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2550 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2551 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2552 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2553 back to using the idmapper.
2554 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002555 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2556 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2557 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2558 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2559 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002560
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002561 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2562 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2563 information in exchange_id requests.
2564 If zero, no implementation identification information
2565 will be sent.
2566 The default is to send the implementation identification
2567 information.
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002568
2569 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2570 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2571 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2572 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2573 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2574 after the locks are lost.
2575 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2576 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2577 parameter to '1'.
2578 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2579 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002580
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002581 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2582 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2583 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2584
2585 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2586 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2587 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2588 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2589
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002590 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2591 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2592 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2593 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2594 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2595 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002596
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002597 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2598 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2599 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2600 osd-targets. Please see:
2601 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2602
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002603 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002604 when a NMI is triggered.
2605 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2606
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302607 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002608 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002609 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002610 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2611 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002612 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002613 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002614 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2615 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002616 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2617 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002618
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002619 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2620 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2621 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2622 waits 4 seconds.
2623
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002624 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002625 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2626 is present.
2627
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002628 no_console_suspend
2629 [HW] Never suspend the console
2630 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2631 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2632 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2633 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2634 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2635 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2636 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002637 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2638 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2639 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2640 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2641 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002642
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002643 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2644 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2645 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002646
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002647 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2648
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002649 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2650 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2651
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002652 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2653
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002654 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2655 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2656
2657 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002658
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002659 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2660
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002661 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2662
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002663 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2664
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002665 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002666
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002667 noexec [IA-64]
2668
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302669 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002670 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002671 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002672 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2673
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002674 nosmap [X86]
2675 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2676 even if it is supported by processor.
2677
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002678 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002679 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002680 even if it is supported by processor.
2681
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002682 noexec32 [X86-64]
2683 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2684 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2685 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2686 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2687 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002688
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002689 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002690
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002691 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002692 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2693 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002694
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002695 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2696
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002697 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2698 Equivalent to smt=1.
2699
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002700 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2701 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2702 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2703
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002704 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2705 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2706 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2707 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2708 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2709 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2710
2711 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2712 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2713 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2714 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2715 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2716 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2717 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2718
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002719 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2720 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2721 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002722
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002723 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2724 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2725 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2726
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002727 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2728 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2729 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2730 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2731 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2732 real-time systems.
2733
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002734 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2735
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002736 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2737 Valid arguments: on, off
2738 Default: on
2739
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002740 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002741 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002742 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002743 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002744 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2745 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002746 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2747 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002748
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002749 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2750
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002751 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002752 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2753
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302754 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002755 broken timer IRQ sources.
2756
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002757 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2758
2759 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2760 initial RAM disk.
2761
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002762 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2763 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002764 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002765
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002766 nointroute [IA-64]
2767
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002768 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2769
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002770 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002771
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002772 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2773
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002774 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2775 fault handling.
2776
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002777 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2778 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2779 behaviour
2780
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002781 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002782
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002783 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002784
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002785 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002786 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002787
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002788 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2789
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002790 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002791
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002792 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2793 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2794
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002795 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2796 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2797 irq.
2798
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002799 nomodule Disable module load
2800
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002801 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2802 pagetables) support.
2803
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002804 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2805 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2806
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002807 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002808
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002809 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002810 with UP alternatives
2811
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002812 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2813 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2814 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2815 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002816
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002817 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2818 space.
2819
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002820 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2821 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2822 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2823
2824 nosbagart [IA-64]
2825
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002826 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002827
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002828 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2829 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002830
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002831 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2832
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002833 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2834
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002835 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002836
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002837 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2838 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002839
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002840 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002841
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002842 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2843
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002844 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2845 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2846 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2847 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2848 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2849 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2850 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2851 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2852 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2853 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2854 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2855 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2856 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2857
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002858 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002859 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2860 SAL PALO.
2861
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002862 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2863 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002864 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2865 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2866 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2867 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2868 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2869 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002870
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002871 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2872
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002873 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2874 Allowed values are enable and disable
2875
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002876 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2877 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2878 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2879 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2880
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002881 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2882 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2883 info.
2884
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002885 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2886 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2887 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2888 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2889 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2890 interrupts *may* be lost!
2891
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002892 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2893 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2894 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2895 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2896
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002897 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2898 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2899
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002900 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2901 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2902 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002903 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2904 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002905 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2906 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002907 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2908 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2909 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002910
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002911 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2912 process, but there is a small probability of
2913 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002914 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2915 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2916
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002917 OSS [HW,OSS]
2918 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2919
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002920 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2921 Storage of the information about who allocated
2922 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2923 we can turn it on.
2924 on: enable the feature
2925
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002926 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2927 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2928 off: turn off poisoning
2929 on: turn on poisoning
2930
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002931 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002932 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2933 timeout = 0: wait forever
2934 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002935 Format: <timeout>
2936
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002937 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2938 on a WARN().
2939
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002940 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2941 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2942 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2943 succeeds in any situation.
2944 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2945 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2946 kernel more unstable.
2947
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002948 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2949 connected to, default is 0.
2950 Format: <parport#>
2951 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2952 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002953 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002954
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002955 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2956 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2957 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2958 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2959 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2960 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2961 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2962 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2963 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2964 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2965 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2966 are specified on the command line, starting
2967 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002968
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002969 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2970 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2971 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2972 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2973 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2974 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002975 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2976
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002977 pause_on_oops=
2978 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2979 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2980 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2981
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002982 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2983
2984 pcd. [PARIDE]
2985 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002986 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002987
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002988 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002989 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2990 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002991 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002992 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002993 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2994 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002995 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002996 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2997 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2998 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002999 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3000 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3001 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3002 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3003 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3004 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3005 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3006 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3007 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3008 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07003009 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3010 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3011 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04003012 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3013 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05303014 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08003015 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02003016 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3017 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3018 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07003019 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3020 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3021 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02003022 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3023 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3024 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02003025 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3026 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3027 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3028 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02003029 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3030 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3031 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3032 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003033 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003034 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3035 on several machines and they hang the machine
3036 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3037 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3038 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3039 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3040 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003041 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003042 Use with caution as certain devices share
3043 address decoders between ROMs and other
3044 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003045 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07003046 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3047 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07003048 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3049 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003050 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003051 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3052 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3053 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003054 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003055 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3056 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3057 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003058 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003059 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3060 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3061 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003062 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003063 numbers ourselves, overriding
3064 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003065 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003066 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3067 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3068 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3069 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3070 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003071 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003072 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003073 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3074 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3075 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3076 please report a bug.
3077 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3078 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003079 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3080 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3081 so this option is a temporary workaround
3082 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003083 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3084 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003085 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3086 This might help on some broken boards which
3087 machine check when some devices' config space
3088 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3089 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003090 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3091 This sorting is done to get a device
3092 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3093 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003094 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3095 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3096 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3097 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3098 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3099 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3100 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3101 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3102 or bus can support) for best performance.
3103 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3104 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3105 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3106 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3107 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3108 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003109 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3110 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3111 The default value is 256 bytes.
3112 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3113 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3114 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003115 resource_alignment=
3116 Format:
3117 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003118 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3119 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003120 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3121 aligned memory resources.
3122 If <order of align> is not specified,
3123 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3124 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3125 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003126 To specify the alignment for several
3127 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3128 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3129 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003130 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3131 end-to-end CRC checking).
3132 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3133 the default.
3134 off: Turn ECRC off
3135 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003136 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3137 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3138 Default size is 256 bytes.
3139 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3140 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3141 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003142 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3143 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3144 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003145 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3146 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3147 accommodate resources required by all child
3148 devices.
3149 off: Turn realloc off
3150 on: Turn realloc on
3151 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003152 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003153 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3154 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3155 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003156
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003157 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3158 Management.
3159 off Disable ASPM.
3160 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3161 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3162
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003163 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3164 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3165 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3166
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003167 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003168 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3169 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3170 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3171 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3172 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003173 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3174 ports driver.
3175
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003176 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3177 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3178 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3179
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003180 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003181 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003182 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003183
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003184 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3185
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303186 pd_ignore_unused
3187 [PM]
3188 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3189 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3190 for debug and development, but should not be
3191 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3192
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003193 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003194 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003195
3196 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3197 boot time.
3198 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3199 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3200
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003201 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003202 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3203 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3204 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3205 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3206 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003207
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003208 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003209 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003210
3211 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003212 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003213
3214 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003215 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003216
3217 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3218 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3219 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3220
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003221 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003222 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3223 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3224
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003225 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3226 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3227 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3228 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3229 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3230 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003231
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003232 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3233 { off }
3234
3235 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3236 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3237
3238 pnp_reserve_irq=
3239 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3240
3241 pnp_reserve_dma=
3242 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3243
3244 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003245 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003246
3247 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003248 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3249 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003250 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3251
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003252 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3253 Default is 21.
3254 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3255 may be specified.
3256 Format: <port>,<port>....
3257
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003258 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3259 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3260 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3261 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3262 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3263
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003264 print-fatal-signals=
3265 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003266
3267 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3268 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3269 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3270 coredump - etc.
3271
3272 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3273 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3274
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003275 default: off.
3276
Matthew Garrettc22ab332012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003277 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3278 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3279 panics
3280 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3281 default: disabled
3282
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003283 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3284 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3285 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3286 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3287 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3288 Default: ratelimit
3289
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003290 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3291 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3292
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003293 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3294 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3295 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3296
3297 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3298 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3299 instead using the legacy FADT method
3300
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003301 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003302 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3303 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3304 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3305 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003306 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3307 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003308 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003309
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003310 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3311 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003312 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003313
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003314 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3315 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003316 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3317 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003318 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3319 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003320 (0 = never).
3321 psmouse.resolution=
3322 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3323 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003324 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003325 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3326
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003327 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3328
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003329 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003330 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003331
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003332 pty.legacy_count=
3333 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3334 default number.
3335
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003336 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003337
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003338 r128= [HW,DRM]
3339
3340 raid= [HW,RAID]
3341 See Documentation/md.txt.
3342
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003343 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003344 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003345
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003346 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003347 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3348
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003349 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3350 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3351 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003352 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3353 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3354 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3355 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003356 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3357 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3358 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3359
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003360 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003361 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3362 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3363 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3364 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3365 This improves the real-time response for the
3366 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3367 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3368 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3369 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3370
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003371 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003372 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3373 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003374
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003375 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3376 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3377 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3378 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3379
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003380 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3381 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3382 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3383 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3384
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003385 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3386 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3387 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003388 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3389 is set.
3390
3391 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3392 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3393 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3394 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3395 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3396 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003397
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003398 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3399 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3400 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3401 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3402 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003403
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003404 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003405 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3406 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3407 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3408 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3409 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3410 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003411
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003412 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3413 Set required age in jiffies for a
3414 given grace period before RCU starts
3415 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3416 rcu_note_context_switch().
3417
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003418 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003419 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3420 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3421 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3422 and maximum value is HZ.
3423
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003424 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003425 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3426 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3427 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3428
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003429 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003430 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3431 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3432 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3433 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3434 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3435 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3436 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3437 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3438 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003439
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003440 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3441 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3442 defaults to the square root of the number of
3443 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3444 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3445 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3446
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003447 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003448 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3449 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003450
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003451 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003452 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3453 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003454
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003455 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003456 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3457 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003458
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003459 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003460 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3461 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3462 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3463 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003464
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003465 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3466 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3467 grace-period primitives.
3468
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003469 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3470 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3471 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3472 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3473 interference.
3474
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003475 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3476 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3477 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3478 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3479 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3480 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3481 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3482 a single reader.
3483
3484 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3485 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3486 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3487 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3488
3489 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3490 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3491
3492 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3493 Shut the system down after performance tests
3494 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3495 testing.
3496
3497 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3498 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3499
3500 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3501 Enable additional printk() statements.
3502
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003503 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3504 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3505 callback-flood tests.
3506
3507 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3508 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3509 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3510 test.
3511
3512 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3513 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3514 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3515 disable callback-flood testing.
3516
3517 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3518 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3519 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3520
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003521 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003522 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3523 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003524
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003525 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003526 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3527 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003528
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003529 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003530 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3531 in seconds.
3532
3533 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3534 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3535 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003536
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003537 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003538 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003539
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003540 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003541 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3542 update-side primitives, if available.
3543
3544 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3545 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3546 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3547 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3548 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3549 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3550 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003551
3552 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003553 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3554
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003555 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003556 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3557 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3558 test, hence the "fake".
3559
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003560 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003561 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3562 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3563 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3564 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3565 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003566
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003567 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3568 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3569
3570 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003571 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3572
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003573 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003574 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3575 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3576
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003577 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003578 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3579 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3580 during the rcutorture test.
3581
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003582 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003583 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3584 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3585
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003586 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003587 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3588 warnings, zero to disable.
3589
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003590 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003591 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3592
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003593 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003594 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3595
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003596 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003597 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3598 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3599 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3600 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3601
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003602 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003603 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3604 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3605 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3606
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003607 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003608 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3609
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003610 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003611 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3612
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003613 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003614 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3615 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3616
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003617 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3618 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3619
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003620 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003621 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3622
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003623 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003624 Enable additional printk() statements.
3625
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003626 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3627 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3628
3629 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3630 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3631
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003632 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3633 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3634 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3635 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3636 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3637 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003638 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003639
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003640 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3641 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3642 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3643 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003644 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3645 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3646 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3647 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3648 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003649
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003650 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3651 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3652 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003653 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3654 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003655
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003656 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3657 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3658 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3659 to zero.
3660
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003661 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3662 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3663
3664 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3665 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3666
3667 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3668 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3669
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003670 rdinit= [KNL]
3671 Format: <full_path>
3672 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3673 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3674
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003675 reboot= [KNL]
3676 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3677 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3678 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3679 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3680 [[,]f[orce]
3681 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3682 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3683 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3684 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3685 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003686
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003687 relax_domain_level=
3688 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003689 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003690
Rafael J. Wysocki0399d4d2014-05-26 13:40:59 +02003691 relative_sleep_states=
3692 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3693 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3694 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3695 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3696 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3697
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003698 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3699
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003700 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9af2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003701 Format: nn[KMG]
3702 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3703 address space.
3704
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003705 reservelow= [X86]
3706 Format: nn[K]
3707 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3708 the bottom of the address space.
3709
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003710 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3711 during initialization.
3712
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003713 resume= [SWSUSP]
3714 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003715 Format:
3716 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003717
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003718 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3719 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3720 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3721 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3722 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3723
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003724 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3725 read the resume files
3726
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003727 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3728 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3729 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3730
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003731 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3732 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3733 present during boot.
3734 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003735 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003736 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3737 (that will set all pages holding image data
3738 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003739
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003740 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3741
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003742 rfkill.default_state=
3743 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3744 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3745 1 Unblocked.
3746
3747 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3748 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3749 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3750 blocked and the previous configuration.
3751 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3752 blocked and everything unblocked.
3753
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003754 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3755 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3756
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003757 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3758
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003759 rodata= [KNL]
3760 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3761 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3762
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003763 rockchip.usb_uart
3764 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3765 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3766 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3767 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3768
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003769 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd2011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003770 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003771
3772 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3773 mount the root filesystem
3774
3775 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3776
3777 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3778
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003779 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3780 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3781 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3782
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003783 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3784 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3785 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3786 managed by CMA.
3787
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003788 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3789
3790 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3791
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003792 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3793 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3794 strict
3795 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3796 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3797 which is faster.
3798
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003799 sa1100ir [NET]
3800 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3801
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003802 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003803
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003804 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3805
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003806 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3807 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3808 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3809 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3810
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003811 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3812 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3813 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3814 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3815 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3816 1 -- enable.
3817 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3818 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3819
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003820 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3821 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3822 security module asking for security registration will be
3823 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3824 as if no module has been chosen.
3825
3826 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003827 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3828 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3829 0 -- disable.
3830 1 -- enable.
3831 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3832 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3833 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3834
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003835 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3836 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3837 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3838 0 -- disable.
3839 1 -- enable.
3840 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3841
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003842 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003843
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003844 shapers= [NET]
3845 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003846
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07003847 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3848 Format: { <integer> }
3849 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3850 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3851 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3852
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003853 simeth= [IA-64]
3854 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003855
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003856 slram= [HW,MTD]
3857
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003858 slab_nomerge [MM]
3859 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3860 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3861 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3862 merging on their own.
3863 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3864
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003865 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3866 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3867 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3868 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3869 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3870
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003871 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3872 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3873 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3874 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3875 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3876 last alloc / free. For more information see
3877 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003878
3879 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003880 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3881 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3882 fragmentation. For more information see
3883 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003884
3885 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003886 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3887 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3888 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3889 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3890 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3891 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003892 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3893
3894 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003895 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003896 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003897 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3898
3899 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003900 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3901 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003902
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003903 smart2= [HW]
3904 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3905
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003906 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3907 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3908 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3909 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3910 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3911 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3912 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3913 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3914 1: Fast pin select (default)
3915 2: ATC IRMode
3916
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003917 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3918 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3919 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3920 actual hardware limit.
3921 Format: <integer>
3922 Default: -1 (no limit)
3923
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003924 softlockup_panic=
3925 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003926 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003927
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003928 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3929 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3930 backtraces on all cpus.
3931 Format: <integer>
3932
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003933 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003934 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003935
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003936 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3937 spia_fio_base=
3938 spia_pedr=
3939 spia_peddr=
3940
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003941 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3942 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3943
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003944 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3945 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3946 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3947 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3948 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3949 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3950 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3951
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003952 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3953 Format: <num>
3954 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3955 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3956 as the initial boot-console.
3957 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3958
3959 sti_font= [HW]
3960 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3961
3962 stifb= [HW]
3963 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3964
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003965 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3966 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3967 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3968 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3969 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3970 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3971 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3972 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3973 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3974 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3975 maximum port values.
3976
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04003977 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3978 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3979 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3980 process in parallel from a single connection.
3981 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3982
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003983 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3984 [NFS]
3985 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3986 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3987 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3988 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3989 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3990 NFS server is running.
3991
3992 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3993 automatically using heuristics
3994 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3995 percpu one pool for each CPU
3996 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3997 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3998
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003999 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4000 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4001 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4002 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4003 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4004 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4005 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4006 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4007
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004008 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4009 [SUSPEND]
4010 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4011 mode before resuming the system (see
4012 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4013 is set. Default value is 5.
4014
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004015 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004016 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4017 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004018 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004019
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004020 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoeven41c6b3e2016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004021 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004022 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4023 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4024 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoeven41c6b3e2016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004025 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004026
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004027 switches= [HW,M68k]
4028
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004029 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4030 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4031 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4032 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4033 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4034 in older udev will not work anymore.
4035 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4036 the kernel configuration.
4037
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004038 sysrq_always_enabled
4039 [KNL]
4040 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4041 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4042 Useful for debugging.
4043
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004044 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4045 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4046 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4047 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4048 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4049 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4050
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004051 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4052
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004053 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004054 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004055 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4056 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4057 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4058 The system is woken from this state using a
4059 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004060
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004061 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4062 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4063
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004064 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4065 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4066 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4067
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004068 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4069 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004070 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004071
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004072 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4073 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4074 critical and hot trip points.
4075
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004076 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4077 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4078
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004079 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4080 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004081 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4082 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004083
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004084 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4085 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4086 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4087 0: no polling (default)
4088
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004089 threadirqs [KNL]
4090 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004091 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004092
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004093 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4094 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4095
4096 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4097 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4098 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4099
4100 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4101 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004102 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4103 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004104
4105 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4106 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4107 to the hypervisor.
4108
4109 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4110 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4111 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4112 kernel based on different criteria.
4113
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004114 topology= [S390]
4115 Format: {off | on}
4116 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004117 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4118 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004119 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004120 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004121
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004122 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4123 Format: {off}
4124 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4125 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4126 LPAR.
4127
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004128 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4129
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004130 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4131 Format: integer pcr id
4132 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4133 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4134 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4135 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4136 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4137 are saved.
4138
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004139 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004140 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004141
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004142 trace_event=[event-list]
4143 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004144 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4145 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4146 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004147
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004148 trace_options=[option-list]
4149 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4150 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4151 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4152 to echo the option name into
4153
4154 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4155
4156 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4157 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4158
4159 trace_options=stacktrace
4160
4161 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4162 section.
4163
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004164 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4165 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4166 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4167 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4168 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4169 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4170
4171 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4172 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4173 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4174 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4175
4176 ** CAUTION **
4177
4178 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4179 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4180 the system to live lock.
4181
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004182 traceoff_on_warning
4183 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4184 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4185 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4186 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4187
4188 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4189 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4190 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4191
4192 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4193 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4194
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004195 transparent_hugepage=
4196 [KNL]
4197 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4198 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4199 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4200 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4201
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004202 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004203 Format: <string>
4204 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004205 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4206 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4207 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4208 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004209 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4210 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4211 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4212 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004213
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004214 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4215 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4216 Format:
4217 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004218 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4219
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004220 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4221 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4222 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4223 help "seeing" what's going on.
4224
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004225 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4226 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4227
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004228 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4229 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4230 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4231 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4232 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4233 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4234 reported either.
4235
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004236 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004237 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004238
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004239 usbcore.authorized_default=
4240 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4241 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4242 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4243
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004244 usbcore.autosuspend=
4245 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4246 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4247 is the time required before an idle device will be
4248 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004249 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004250
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004251 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4252 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4253
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004254 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4255 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4256 (default = 65536).
4257
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004258 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4259 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4260
4261 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4262 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4263 scheme (default 0 = off).
4264
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004265 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4266 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4267 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4268
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004269 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4270 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4271 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4272
4273 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4274 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4275 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4276 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4277
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004278 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4279
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004280 usbhid.mousepoll=
4281 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004282
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004283 usb-storage.delay_use=
4284 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004285 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004286
4287 usb-storage.quirks=
4288 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4289 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4290 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4291 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4292 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4293 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4294 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004295 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4296 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004297 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4298 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004299 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4300 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004301 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4302 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4303 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4304 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004305 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4306 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004307 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4308 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004309 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4310 reported device capacity by one
4311 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004312 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4313 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004314 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4315 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004316 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4317 unlock ejectable media);
4318 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4319 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004320 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4321 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004322 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4323 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004324 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4325 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004326 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4327 bogus residue values);
4328 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4329 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004330 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4331 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004332 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004333 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4334 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004335 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4336 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004337 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4338
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004339 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4340 Format: <int>
4341 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4342 1 - undefined instruction events
4343 2 - system calls
4344 4 - invalid data aborts
4345 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4346 16 - SIGBUS faults
4347 Example: user_debug=31
4348
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004349 userpte=
4350 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4351
4352 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4353 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4354 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4355
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304356 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004357 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4358
4359 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004360 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4361
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004362 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4363 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4364 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4365
4366 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4367 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4368 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4369
4370 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4371 alias for vdso32=0.
4372
4373 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4374 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004375
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004376 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4377 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4378
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004379 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4380 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4381
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004382 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4383 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4384 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4385 level and then send out the event to user space through
4386 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4387 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4388 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004389 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004390
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004391 virtio_mmio.device=
4392 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4393
4394 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4395 where:
4396 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4397 like K, M and G)
4398 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4399 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4400 request_irq())
4401 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4402 example:
4403 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4404
4405 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4406
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004407 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004408 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004409 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004410 Use vga=ask for menu.
4411 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4412 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4413
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004414 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004415 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4416 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4417 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4418 mapped kernel RAM.
4419
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004420 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4421 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004422
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004423 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4424 Format: <command>
4425
4426 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4427 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004428
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004429 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4430 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4431 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4432 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4433 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4434 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4435 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4436
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004437 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4438 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004439
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004440 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004441 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4442 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4443 better than they would in emulation mode.
4444 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4445
4446 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4447 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4448 might break your system.
4449
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004450 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4451 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4452 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4453
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004454 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4455 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4456 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4457 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4458
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004459 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4460 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4461 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4462 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4463 ranging from 0-255.
4464
4465 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4466 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4467 Change the default green palette of the console.
4468 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4469 ranging from 0-255.
4470
4471 vt.default_red= [VT]
4472 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4473 Change the default red palette of the console.
4474 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4475 ranging from 0-255.
4476
4477 vt.default_utf8=
4478 [VT]
4479 Format=<0|1>
4480 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4481 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4482 newly opened terminals.
4483
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004484 vt.global_cursor_default=
4485 [VT]
4486 Format=<-1|0|1>
4487 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4488 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4489 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4490 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4491 cursors, 1 will display them.
4492
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004493 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4494 Default: 2 = green.
4495
4496 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4497 Default: 3 = cyan.
4498
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004499 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4500 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4501 or other driver-specific files in the
4502 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004503
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004504 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4505 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4506 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4507 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4508 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4509 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4510 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4511 corresponding sysfs file.
4512
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004513 workqueue.disable_numa
4514 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4515 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4516 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4517 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4518 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4519 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4520 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4521
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304522 workqueue.power_efficient
4523 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4524 they show better performance thanks to cache
4525 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4526 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4527
4528 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4529 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4530 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4531 power usage at the cost of small performance
4532 overhead.
4533
4534 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4535 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4536
Tejun Heof303fcc2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004537 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4538 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4539 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4540 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4541 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4542 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4543 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4544 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4545 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4546 impacted.
4547
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004548 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4549 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4550 supporting x2apic.
4551
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004552 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4553 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004554 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4555 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004556 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004557
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004558 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4559 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4560 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4561 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4562 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4563 domains.
4564
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004565 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4566 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4567 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4568 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4569 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4570 nics -- unplug network devices
4571 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004572 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4573 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4574 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004575 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004576
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004577 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4578 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4579 optimizations.
4580
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004581 xen_nopv [X86]
4582 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4583 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4584
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004585 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004586 Format:
4587 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004588
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004589______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004590
4591TODO:
4592
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004593 Add more DRM drivers.