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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
Stefan Richtera901ebb2006-04-01 01:43:18 +020036This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
37"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
38module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
39reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
40parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
41"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
42
Stefan Richter6585fa82006-04-01 01:44:30 +020043The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
44enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
45the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
46parameter is applicable:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047
48 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
Chuck Ebbertc99c1082007-07-27 10:46:20 +100049 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070050 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
51 APIC APIC support is enabled.
52 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070053 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +020054 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070055 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
Robin Getz0ae53642007-10-09 17:24:49 +080056 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -070057 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -070058 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
Alan Cox9cfe2682011-01-25 14:18:38 +000059 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
60 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070061 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
62 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
63 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -040064 EVM Extended Verification Module
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070065 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070066 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -070067 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070068 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070069 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
Mimi Zohar6146f0d2009-02-04 09:06:57 -050070 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070071 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
Adrian Bunk41e2e8b2005-07-12 13:58:33 -070072 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -080073 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070074 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
75 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
76 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -050077 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +020078 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
Kristen Carlson Accardi11ef6972006-09-28 11:29:01 -070079 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070080 LP Printer support is enabled.
81 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
82 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
83 These options have more detailed description inside of
84 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070085 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070086 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070087 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -070088 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -070089 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070090 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
91 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
92 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
93 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -070094 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
95 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070096 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
97 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -070098 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070099 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
100 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
101 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
102 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
103 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
104 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
105 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
106 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap163475f2010-08-14 12:36:14 -0700107 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
108 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -0700109 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700110 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -0700111 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700112 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
Paul Mundte523d932007-02-28 18:30:01 +0900113 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700114 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
115 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -0700116 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
117 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -0300118 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700119 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -0500120 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700121 USB USB support is enabled.
122 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
123 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +0100124 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700125 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
126 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
127 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
128 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700129 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700130 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
131 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700132 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700133 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +0100134 XEN Xen support is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700135
136In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
137
138 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
139 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
140 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
141
142Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
143loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
144Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -0500145need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700146
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100147There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700148See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100149
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700150Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
151a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
152be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
153it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
154running once the system is up.
155
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700156The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
157complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
158a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
159and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
160./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
161
Ahmed S. Darwish7a19a232011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800162Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
163parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
164multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
165bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
166
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700167
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530168 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -0800169 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Len Brown68ca4062010-02-19 00:09:22 -0500170 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700171 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
172 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
173 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700174 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700175 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +0800176 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +0800177 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700178
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200179 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700180
Takao Indoh4996c022011-07-14 18:05:21 -0400181 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
182 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
183 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
184 second kernel for kdump.
185
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400186 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
187 Format: <int>
188 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
189 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -0400190 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400191
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +0200192 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
193 acpi_backlight=vendor
194 acpi_backlight=video
195 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
196 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
197 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
198
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700199 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
200 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700201 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700202 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
203 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
204 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
205 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
206 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
207 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
208 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600209 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
210 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
211 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700212
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600213 Enable processor driver info messages:
214 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
215 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
216 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700217 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
218 object while interpreting AML:
219 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700220 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
221 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +0200222
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700223 Some values produce so much output that the system is
224 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
225 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +0800226
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +0800227 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
228 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
229 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
230 size limitation.
231
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700232 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
233 ACPI will balance active IRQs
234 default in APIC mode
235
236 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
237 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
238 default in PIC mode
239
240 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
241 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
242
243 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
244 use by PCI
245 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
246
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800247 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
248 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800249 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
250 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
251 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800252 This feature is enabled by default.
253 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800254
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800255 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
256 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
257 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
258 installed automatically and they will appear under
259 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
260 This option turns off this feature.
261 Note that specifying this option does not affect
262 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
263 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700264
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800265 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
266 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
267 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
268 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
269 This option is useful for developers to identify the
270 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
271 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
272
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700273 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
274 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
275
276 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800277 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
278 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800279 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800280 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
281 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700282 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
283
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800284 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
285 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
286 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
287 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
288 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
289 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
290 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800291 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
292 care about the state of the feature group strings which
293 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800294 Examples:
295 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
296 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
297 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
298
299 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
300 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
301 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
302 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
303 multiple times through kernel command line is also
304 meaningless.
305 Examples:
306 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
307 FALSE.
308
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800309 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
310 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
311 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
312 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
313 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
314 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
315 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
316 there are quirks related to this string. This command
317 is useful when one want to control the state of the
318 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
319 the OSPM features.
320 Examples:
321 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
322 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
323 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
324 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
325 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
326 equivalent to
327 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
328 and
329 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
330 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
331
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530332 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700333 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
334 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
335 and always returns good values.
336
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700337 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
338 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
339
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700340 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
341 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
342 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
343
344 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
345 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200346 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700347 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
348 s3_bios and s3_mode.
349 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
350 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
351 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
352 used during resume from hibernation.
353 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
354 control method, with respect to putting devices into
355 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
356 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200357 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
358 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800359 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
360 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
361 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700362
363 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
364 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
365 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
366
Luca Tettamanti7e905602009-03-30 00:01:27 +0200367 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
368 { strict | lax | no }
369 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
370 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
371 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
372 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
373 can interfere with legacy drivers.
374 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
375 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
376 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
377 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
378 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
379 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
380 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
381 no further checks are performed.
382
Prarit Bhargava00159a22014-01-14 14:21:13 -0500383 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
384 kernels.
385
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700386 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
387 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
388
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700389 agp= [AGP]
390 { off | try_unsupported }
391 off: disable AGP support
392 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
393 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
394
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700395 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
396 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
397
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000398 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
399 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
400 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
401 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
402
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200403 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
404 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
405 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
406 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
407 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
408 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
409 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
410
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100411 32: only for 32-bit processes
412 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200413 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
414 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
415
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500416 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
417 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
418 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
419 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
420 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
421 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
422
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100423 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200424 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
425 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900426 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
427 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
428 flushed before they will be reused, which
429 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200430 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
431 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100432 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
433 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
434 allowed anymore to lift isolation
435 requirements as needed. This option
436 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900437
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600438 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
439 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
440 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
441 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
442 IOMMU initialization.
443
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700444 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
445 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
446 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200447 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700448
449 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
450 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
451 connected to one of 16 gameports
452 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
453
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700454 apc= [HW,SPARC]
455 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700456 Format: noidle
457 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
458 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
459 APC and your system crashes randomly.
460
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700461 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700462 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700463 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
464 Change the amount of debugging information output
465 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700466
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800467 autoconf= [IPV6]
468 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
469
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400470 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
471 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
472 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
473 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
474 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
475 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
476 apic=verbose is specified.
477 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
478
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700479 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700480 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700481
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700482 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
483 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
484
485 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
486
487 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
488
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700489 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
490 EzKey and similar keyboards
491
492 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
493
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700494 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
495 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700496
497 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
498 keyboards
499
500 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
501 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700502
503 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
504 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700505
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400506 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
507 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500508 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
509 until the next reboot
510 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
511 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
512 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
513 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
514 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
515 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400516 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400517
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400518 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
519 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
520 Default: 64
521
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700522 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
523 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700524
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700525 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
526 Format: <io>,<mode>
527 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
528
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700529 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
530 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700531 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
532 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
533
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700534 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
535 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700536 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
537 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
538
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700539 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
540 embedded devices based on command line input.
541 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
542
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700543 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
544 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
545 no delay (0).
546 Format: integer
547
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700548 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
549
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700550 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700551 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
552 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700553 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200554 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700555
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000556 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
557 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
558 at a time.
559
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700560 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
561
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700562 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700563 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
564 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
565 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
566 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
567 This option provides an override for these situations.
568
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300569 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
570 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
571 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300572 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300573
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700574 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
575 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
576 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
577 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
578 others).
579
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100580 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
581 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700582
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700583 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
584 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800585 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
586 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
587 a single hierarchy
588 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
589 subsystem
590 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
591 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
592 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700593
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700594 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
595 Format: { "0" | "1" }
596 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700597 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
598 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700599 1 -- check protection requested by application.
600 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700601 Value can be changed at runtime via
602 /selinux/checkreqprot.
603
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100604 cio_ignore= [S390]
605 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700606 clk_ignore_unused
607 [CLK]
608 Keep all clocks already enabled by bootloader on,
609 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
610 for debug and development, but should not be
611 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
612 For more information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100613
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700614 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700615 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200616 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700617 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200618 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700619 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
620
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700621 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700622 Format: <string>
623 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
624 with the name specified.
625 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
626 the platform:
627 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
628 [ACPI] acpi_pm
629 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
630 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
631 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700632 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700633 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
634 [MIPS] MIPS
635 [PARISC] cr16
636 [S390] tod
637 [SH] SuperH
638 [SPARC64] tick
639 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
640
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100641 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
642 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800643 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
644 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100645 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
646 ones should be.
647 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
648 or using the feature without checking anything
649 will still see it. This just prevents it from
650 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
651 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
652 some critical bits.
653
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700654 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
655 [ARM,X86,KNL]
656 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
657 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
658 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100659 memory allocations. For more information, see
660 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
661
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000662 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
663 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
664 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
665 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
666 a hypervisor.
667 Default: yes
668
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100669 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
670 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200671 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100672
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530673 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100674 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100675 Range: 0 - 8192
676 Default: 64
677
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700678 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700679 Format:
680 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700681
682 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
683 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
684
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700685 com90xx= [HW,NET]
686 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700687 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
688
689 condev= [HW,S390] console device
690 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700691
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700692 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
693
694 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
695
696 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800697 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700698 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800699 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
700 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
701 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
702 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700703
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800704 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
705 information. See
706 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
707 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700708
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700709 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
710 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700711 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
712 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
713 switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
714 options are the same as for ttyS, above.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500715 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
716 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700717
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700718 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
719 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
720 console=brl,ttyS0
721 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
722
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700723 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
724 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
725 disables the blank timer.
726
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800727 coredump_filter=
728 [KNL] Change the default value for
729 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
730 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
731
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400732 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
733 disable the cpuidle sub-system
734
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700735 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700736 Format:
737 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700738
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800739 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
740 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
741 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
742 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
743 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
744 is selected automatically. Check
745 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700746
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700747 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
748 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
749 in the running system. The syntax of range is
750 start-[end] where start and end are both
751 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800752 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700753
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700754 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700755 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
756 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
757 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
758 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
759 available.
760 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700761 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
762 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
763 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700764 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
765 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
766 requires at least 64M+32K low memory. Kernel would
767 try to allocate 72M below 4G automatically.
768 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
769 for second kernel instead.
770 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700771 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700772 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700773
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700774 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
775 Format: <dma>
776
777 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
778 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700779
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700780 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700781 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
782
783 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
784 (one device per port)
785 Format: <port#>,<type>
786 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
787
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200788 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
789 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600790 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200791
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700792 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
793
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700794 debug_locks_verbose=
795 [KNL] verbose self-tests
796 Format=<0|1>
797 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
798 self-tests.
799 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
800 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
801 only useful to kernel developers.
802
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700803 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
804
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500805 no_debug_objects
806 [KNL] Disable object debugging
807
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc52012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800808 debug_guardpage_minorder=
809 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
810 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
811 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
812 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
813 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
814 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
815 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
816 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
817 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
818 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
819 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
820 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
821 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
822 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
823 bypassed) which are not detectable by
824 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
825 tracking down these problems.
826
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200827 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
828
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200829 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700830 Format: <area>[,<node>]
831 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
832
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700833 default_hugepagesz=
834 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
835 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
836 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
837 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
838 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
839 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700840
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700841 dhash_entries= [KNL]
842 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700843
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800844 disable= [IPV6]
845 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
846
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900847 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
848 Format: <int>
849 The number of initial APIC ID for the
850 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
851 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
852 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
853 causing system reset or hang due to sending
854 INIT from AP to BSP.
855
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000856 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
857 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
858 to workaround buggy firmware.
859
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800860 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
861 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
862
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700863 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700864 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
865 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700866 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700867
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100868 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100869 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
870 memory out of your available memory pool based on
871 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
872 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
873
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530874 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700875 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
876 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
877
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700878 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
879 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
880
881 dma_debug_entries=<number>
882 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
883 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
884 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
885 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
886 architectural default is too low.
887
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200888 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
889 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
890 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
891 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
892 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
893 driver later using sysfs.
894
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100895 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>
896 Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may
897 send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter
898 allows to specify an EDID data set in the
899 /lib/firmware directory that is used instead.
900 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
901 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
902 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
903 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
904 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
905 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
906 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
907 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
908 name.
909
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700910 dscc4.setup= [NET]
911
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600912 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
913 module.dyndbg[="val"]
914 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
915 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
916
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700917 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
918 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
919 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
920 which are not unmapped.
921
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700922 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500923
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200924 cdns,<addr>
925 Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
926 port at the specified address. The cadence serial port
927 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
928 yet supported.
929
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700930 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
931 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700932 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700933 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
934 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700935 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
936 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700937 The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
938
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500939 pl011,<addr>
940 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
941 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
942 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
943 yet supported.
944
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500945 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
946
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +1000947 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700948 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +0100949 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -0500950 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700951 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700952 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -0500953 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -0500954 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700955
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700956 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
957 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
958 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
959
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700960 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700961 takes over.
962
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +0100963 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
964 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700965
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700966 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
967 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
968 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
969 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
970 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
971 You can find the port for a given device in
972 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
973 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700974
975 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
976 very good.
977
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +0100978 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
979 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700980
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -0500981 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
982
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -0500983 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
984 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
985 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
986 by other higher priority error reporting module.
987 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
988 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
989 default: on.
990
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -0500991 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
992 ekgdboc=kbd
993
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -0300994 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -0500995 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
996
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700997 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -0700998 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700999
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001000 efi= [EFI]
1001 Format: { "old_map" }
1002 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1003 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1004 default.
1005
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001006 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1007 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1008 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1009 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1010 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1011
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001012 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1013 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1014
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001015 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001016 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001017 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001018
1019 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001020 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001021 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001022 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1023
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001024 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001025 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001026 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1027 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001028 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001029
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001030 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1031 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1032 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1033 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1034
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001035 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001036 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1037 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1038 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1039 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1040
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001041 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1042 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1043 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1044 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1045 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1046 Default value is 0.
1047 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1048
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001049 erst_disable [ACPI]
1050 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1051 support.
1052
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001053 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1054 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1055 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1056
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001057 evm= [EVM]
1058 Format: { "fix" }
1059 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1060 current integrity status.
1061
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001062 failslab=
1063 fail_page_alloc=
1064 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1065 General fault injection mechanism.
1066 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001067 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001068
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001069 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001070 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001071
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001072 force_pal_cache_flush
1073 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1074 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1075 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1076 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1077
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001078 forcepae [X86-32]
1079 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1080 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1081 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1082 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1083 and may cause unknown problems.
1084
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001085 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001086 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001087 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1088 boot debugging.
1089
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001090 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001091 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001092 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1093 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1094 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1095 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001096
1097 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1098 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1099 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1100 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1101 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001102 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001103
1104 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1105 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1106 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1107 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1108 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001109
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001110 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1111 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1112 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1113 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1114 that can be changed at run time by the
1115 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1116
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001117 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1118 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1119 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1120 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1121 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1122
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001123 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1124 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1125 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1126 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1127 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1128
1129 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1130
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001131 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1132 Format: off | on
1133 default: on
1134
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001135 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1136 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1137 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1138 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1139 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1140
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001141 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001142 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1143 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1144 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001145
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001146 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1147 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1148 Format: 0 | 1
1149 Default: 0
1150 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1151 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1152 Format: 0 | 1
1153 Default: 0
1154 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1155 Format: 0 | 1
1156 Default: 0
1157 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1158 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1159 Default: 1024
1160 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1161 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1162 Default: 1024
1163
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001164 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1165 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001166 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001167 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001168
1169 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1170
1171 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1172 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1173
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001174 hest_disable [ACPI]
1175 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1176 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1177 logic will be disabled.
1178
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001179 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1180 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1181 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1182 size on bigger boxes.
1183
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001184 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1185 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1186 Default: "on"
1187
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001188 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1189 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1190
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001191 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1192
1193 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1194 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1195 verbose }
1196 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1197 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1198 VIA, nVidia)
1199 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1200
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001201 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1202 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1203
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001204 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1205 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001206 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1207 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1208 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1209 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1210 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001211 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
1212 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001213
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001214 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1215 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001216 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1217 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1218 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001219
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001220 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1221 hardware thread id mappings.
1222 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1223
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001224 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1225 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1226 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1227 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1228 the real console.
1229
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001230 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001231 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1232 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001233 Format:
1234 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1235
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001236 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001237 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001238 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1239 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001240 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1241 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001242 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001243 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1244 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001245 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1246 controller
1247 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1248 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001249 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001250 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
1251 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1252
1253 i810= [HW,DRM]
1254
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001255 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1256 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1257 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001258 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1259 does not match list of supported models.
1260 i8k.power_status
1261 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1262 (disabled by default)
1263 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1264 capability is set.
1265
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001266 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001267 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1268 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001269 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1270 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1271 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1272 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1273 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1274 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1275 value switches the backlight off.
1276 -1 -- never invert brightness
1277 0 -- machine default
1278 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001279
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001280 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1281 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1282
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001283 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1284 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001285 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1286 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001287 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001288
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001289 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1290 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1291
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001292 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001293 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001294 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1295 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1296 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1297 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001298 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001299 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001300 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001301
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001302 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1303 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1304 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001305 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1306 could change it dynamically, usually by
1307 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001308
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001309 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1310 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1311
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001312 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1313 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" }
1314 default: "enforce"
1315
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001316 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1317 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1318 owned by uid=0.
1319
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001320 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001321 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1322 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001323 default: "sha1"
1324
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001325 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1326 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1327
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001328 ima_tcb [IMA]
1329 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1330 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1331 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1332 opened for read by uid=0.
1333
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001334 ima_template= [IMA]
1335 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1336 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" }
1337 Default: "ima-ng"
1338
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001339 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1340 Format: <min_file_size>
1341 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1342 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1343
1344 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1345 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1346 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1347
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001348 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1349 Format: <bufsize>
1350 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1351
1352 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1353 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1354 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1355
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001356 init= [KNL]
1357 Format: <full_path>
1358 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1359 process.
1360
1361 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1362 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1363 startup.
1364
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001365 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1366 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1367 modules and initcalls.
1368
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001369 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1370
1371 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1372 Format: <irq>
1373
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001374 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1375
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001376 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1377 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1378 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1379 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1380
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001381 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001382 on
1383 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001384 off
1385 Disable intel iommu driver.
1386 igfx_off [Default Off]
1387 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1388 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1389 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1390 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1391 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001392 forcedac [x86_64]
1393 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001394 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001395 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001396 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1397 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001398 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001399 strict [Default Off]
1400 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1401 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1402 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001403 sp_off [Default Off]
1404 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1405 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1406 not be supported.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001407
1408 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1409 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1410 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1411
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001412 intel_pstate= [X86]
1413 disable
1414 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1415 scaling driver for the supported processors
1416
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001417 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001418 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1419 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1420 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001421 no_x2apic_optout
1422 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001423
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001424 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1425 strict regions from userspace.
1426 relaxed
1427
1428 iommu= [x86]
1429 off
1430 force
1431 noforce
1432 biomerge
1433 panic
1434 nopanic
1435 merge
1436 nomerge
1437 forcesac
1438 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001439 pt [x86, IA-64]
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001440
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001441
1442 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1443 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1444 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1445
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301446 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001447 0x80
1448 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1449 0xed
1450 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001451 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001452 Simple two microseconds delay
1453 none
1454 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001455
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001456 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001457 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001458
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001459 irqfixup [HW]
1460 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1461 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1462 firmware running.
1463
1464 irqpoll [HW]
1465 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1466 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1467 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1468 firmware running.
1469
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001470 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001471 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001472
1473 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -08001474 Format:
1475 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1476 or
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001477 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1478 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -08001479 or a mixture
1480 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001481
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001482 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1483 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001484 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1485 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001486 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1487 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1488
1489 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001490 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1491 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1492 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001493
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001494 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001495
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001496 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1497 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1498 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1499 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1500 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1501 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1502
1503 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1504 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1505 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1506 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1507 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1508 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1509
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001510 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1511 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1512
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001513 kaslr/nokaslr [X86]
1514 Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR
1515 (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into
1516 the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected,
1517 kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled,
1518 hibernation will be disabled.
1519
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001520 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1521
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301522 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001523 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1524 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1525 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1526 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1527 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1528 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1529 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001530 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001531 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1532 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1533 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1534 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1535 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1536 zone if it does not.
1537
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001538 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1539 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1540 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1541 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1542 optional and is the number seconds in between
1543 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1544 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1545 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1546 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1547 the kernel debugger.
1548
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001549 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001550 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1551 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001552 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1553 keyboard only format: kbd
1554 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1555 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1556 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1557 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001558
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001559 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1560 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1561
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001562 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1563 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1564 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1565
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001566 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1567 Valid arguments: on, off
1568 Default: on
1569
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001570 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1571 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1572 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1573 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1574 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1575 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1576
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301577 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001578 in oops dumps.
1579
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001580 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1581 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1582
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001583 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1584 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001585 Default is 0 (off)
1586
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001587 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001588 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001589
1590 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1591 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001592 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001593
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001594 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1595 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1596 Default is 1 (enabled)
1597
1598 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1599 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1600 Default is 0 (disabled)
1601
1602 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1603 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1604 Default is 1 (enabled)
1605
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001606 kvm-intel.nested=
1607 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1608 Default is 0 (disabled)
1609
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001610 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1611 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1612 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1613 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1614
1615 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1616 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1617 Default is 1 (enabled)
1618
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001619 l2cr= [PPC]
1620
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001621 l3cr= [PPC]
1622
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001623 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001624 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001625
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001626 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1627 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1628 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1629
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301630 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001631 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001632
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001633 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1634 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1635 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1636 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001637 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001638 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1639 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001640
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001641 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1642 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1643 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001644
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001645 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1646 when set.
1647 Format: <int>
1648
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001649 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1650 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001651 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001652 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1653 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1654 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1655 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1656 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1657
1658 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1659 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1660 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1661 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1662 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1663 host link and device attached to it.
1664
1665 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1666 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1667 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1668 The following configurations can be forced.
1669
1670 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1671 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1672
1673 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1674
1675 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1676 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1677 allowed.
1678
1679 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1680
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001681 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1682 and both resets.
1683
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001684 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1685 hot-unplug link recovery
1686
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001687 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1688
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001689 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1690
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001691 * disable: Disable this device.
1692
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001693 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1694 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1695
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001696 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001697
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001698 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001699 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001700
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001701 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1702 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001703
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001704 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1705 Format: <integer>
1706
1707 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1708 Format: <integer>
1709
1710 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1711 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001712
1713 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1714 Format: <irq>
1715
1716 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1717 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1718 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1719 loglevels are defined as follows:
1720
1721 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1722 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1723 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1724 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1725 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1726 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1727 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1728 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1729
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08001730 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07001731 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1732 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1733 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1734 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1735 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1736 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001737
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07001738 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1739 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1740 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1741 kernel boot problems.
1742
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001743 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1744 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1745 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1746 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1747 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1748 attached printers to be reset. Using
1749 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1750 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1751 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1752 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1753 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1754 port specification list means that device IDs
1755 from each port should be examined, to see if
1756 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1757 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1758 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1759
1760 lpj=n [KNL]
1761 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1762 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1763 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1764 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1765 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1766 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1767 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1768 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1769 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1770 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1771 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1772 hardware.
1773
1774 ltpc= [NET]
1775 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1776
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001777 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001778 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1779 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001780
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08001781 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
1782 yeeloong laptop.
1783 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
1784
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001785 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1786 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001787
1788 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04001789 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1790 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1791 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1792 the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001793
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02001794 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
1795 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
1796 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
1797 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
1798 devices can be requested on-demand with the
1799 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07001800
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001801 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001802
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07001803 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02001804
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001805 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1806 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001807
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001808 mdacon= [MDA]
1809 Format: <first>,<last>
1810 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001811
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001812 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1813 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1814 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08001815 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
1816 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
1817 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
1818 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001819
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001820 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001821 memory.
1822
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001823 memchunk=nn[KMG]
1824 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1825 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1826
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301827 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001828 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1829 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1830 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1831 option description.
1832
1833 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08001834 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
1835 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001836
1837 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1838 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08001839 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001840
1841 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1842 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08001843 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07001844 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1845 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1846 or
1847 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001848
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07001849 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
1850 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
1851 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
1852 Setting this option will scan the memory
1853 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
1854 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
1855 from using the memory being corrupted.
1856 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
1857 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
1858 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
1859 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
1860
1861 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
1862 By default it checks for corruption in the low
1863 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
1864 use. Use this parameter to scan for
1865 corruption in more or less memory.
1866
1867 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
1868 By default it checks for corruption every 60
1869 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
1870 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
1871
Yinghai Lucaadbdc2008-07-15 00:03:44 -07001872 memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07001873 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07001874 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01001875 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
1876 performed. Each pass selects another test
1877 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
1878 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
1879 memory contents and reserves bad memory
1880 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07001881
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001882 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
1883 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
1884
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02001885 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
1886 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
1887 platforms.
1888
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01001889 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
1890 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
1891 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
1892 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
1893
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001894 mga= [HW,DRM]
1895
Randy Dunlap1c207f92008-11-19 15:36:16 -08001896 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
1897 physical address is ignored.
1898
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01001899 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
1900 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
1901 Default: "0tb"
1902 MINI2440 configuration specification:
1903 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
1904 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
1905 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
1906 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
1907 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
1908 unconfigured.
1909 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
1910 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
1911 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
1912 VGA shield.
1913 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
1914 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
1915 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
1916 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
1917 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
1918 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
1919
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07001920 mminit_loglevel=
1921 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
1922 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
1923 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
1924 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
1925 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
1926 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
1927
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01001928 module.sig_enforce
1929 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
1930 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01001931 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01001932 is always true, so this option does nothing.
1933
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001934 mousedev.tap_time=
1935 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
1936 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
1937 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
1938 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
1939 Format: <msecs>
1940 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
1941 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1942 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
1943 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1944
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301945 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001946 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
1947 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
1948 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
1949 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
1950 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
1951 is specified, the administrator must be careful
1952 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
1953 is not too small.
1954
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08001955 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
1956 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
1957
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001958 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
1959 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
1960
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001961 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
1962 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001963
1964 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07001965 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001966
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00001967 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
1968 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
1969 at a time.
1970
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07001971 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
1972
1973 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
1974
1975 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
1976 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
1977 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
1978 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
1979 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
1980
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01001981 mtdset= [ARM]
1982 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
1983
1984 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
1985
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001986 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001987 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
1988 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001989
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001990 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02001991 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001992 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
1993
1994 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1995 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
1996 Default is 1.
1997 Large value could prevent small alignment from
1998 using up MTRRs.
1999
2000 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2001 Format: <integer>
2002 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2003 Default : 1
2004 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2005 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2006
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002007 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2008
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002009 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2010 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2011 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2012 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002013 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2014 file if at all.
2015
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002016 nf_conntrack.acct=
2017 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2018 0 to disable accounting
2019 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002020 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002021
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002022 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002023 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002024
2025 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002026 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002027
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002028 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2029 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2030
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002031 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2032 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2033 channel should listen.
2034
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002035 nfs.cache_getent=
2036 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2037 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2038
2039 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2040 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2041 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2042
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002043 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2044 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2045 entries.
2046
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002047 nfs.enable_ino64=
2048 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2049 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2050 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2051 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2052 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2053
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002054 nfs.max_session_slots=
2055 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2056 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2057 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2058 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2059 Note that there is little point in setting this
2060 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2061
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002062 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002063 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2064 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2065 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2066 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2067 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2068 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2069 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2070 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2071 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2072 back to using the idmapper.
2073 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002074 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2075 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2076 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2077 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2078 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002079
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002080 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2081 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2082 information in exchange_id requests.
2083 If zero, no implementation identification information
2084 will be sent.
2085 The default is to send the implementation identification
2086 information.
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002087
2088 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2089 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2090 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2091 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2092 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2093 after the locks are lost.
2094 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2095 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2096 parameter to '1'.
2097 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2098 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002099
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002100 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2101 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2102 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2103 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2104 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2105 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002106
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002107 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2108 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2109 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2110 osd-targets. Please see:
2111 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2112
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002113 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002114 when a NMI is triggered.
2115 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2116
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302117 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002118 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Don Zickus5dc30552010-11-29 17:07:17 -05002119 Valid num: 0
Cyrill Gorcunov5b9a0e12008-11-01 18:06:51 +03002120 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002121 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002122 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2123 default).
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002124 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2125 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002126
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002127 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2128 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2129 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2130 waits 4 seconds.
2131
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002132 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002133 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2134 is present.
2135
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002136 no_console_suspend
2137 [HW] Never suspend the console
2138 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2139 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2140 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2141 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2142 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2143 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2144 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002145 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2146 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2147 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2148 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2149 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002150
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002151 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2152 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2153 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002154
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002155 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2156
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002157 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2158 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2159
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002160 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2161
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002162 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2163 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2164
2165 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002166
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002167 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2168
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002169 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2170
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002171 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
2172
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002173 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2174
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302175 noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002176
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002177 noexec [IA-64]
2178
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302179 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002180 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002181 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002182 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2183
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002184 nosmap [X86]
2185 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2186 even if it is supported by processor.
2187
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002188 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002189 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002190 even if it is supported by processor.
2191
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002192 noexec32 [X86-64]
2193 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2194 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2195 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2196 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2197 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002198
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002199 nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2200
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002201 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002202 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2203 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002204
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002205 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2206 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2207 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2208
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002209 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2210 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2211 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2212 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2213 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2214 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2215
2216 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2217 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2218 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2219 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2220 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2221 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2222 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2223
Suresh Siddha5d2bd702012-09-06 14:58:52 -07002224 eagerfpu= [X86]
Suresh Siddhae0022982012-09-10 10:32:32 -07002225 on enable eager fpu restore
Suresh Siddha5d2bd702012-09-06 14:58:52 -07002226 off disable eager fpu restore
Suresh Siddhae0022982012-09-10 10:32:32 -07002227 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
2228 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
Suresh Siddha5d2bd702012-09-06 14:58:52 -07002229
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002230 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2231 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2232 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002233
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002234 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2235 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2236 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2237
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002238 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2239 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2240 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2241 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2242 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2243 real-time systems.
2244
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002245 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2246
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002247 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2248 Valid arguments: on, off
2249 Default: on
2250
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002251 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2252 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002253 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002254 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2255 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002256 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2257 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002258
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002259 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2260
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002261 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002262 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2263
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302264 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002265 broken timer IRQ sources.
2266
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002267 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2268
2269 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2270 initial RAM disk.
2271
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002272 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2273 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002274 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002275
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002276 nointroute [IA-64]
2277
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002278 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002279
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002280 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2281
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002282 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2283 fault handling.
2284
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002285 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2286 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2287 behaviour
2288
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002289 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002290
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002291 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002292
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002293 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2294 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
2295
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002296 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2297
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002298 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002299
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002300 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2301 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2302
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002303 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2304 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2305 irq.
2306
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002307 nomodule Disable module load
2308
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002309 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2310 pagetables) support.
2311
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002312 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2313 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2314
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002315 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002316
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002317 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002318 with UP alternatives
2319
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002320 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2321 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2322 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2323 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002324
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002325 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2326 space.
2327
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002328 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2329 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2330 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2331
2332 nosbagart [IA-64]
2333
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002334 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002335
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002336 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2337 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002338
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002339 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2340
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002341 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2342
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002343 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002344
2345 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
2346
Ben Hutchings55142372011-01-02 23:02:42 +00002347 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002348
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002349 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002350
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002351 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2352
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002353 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2354 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2355 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2356 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2357 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2358 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2359 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2360 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2361 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2362 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2363 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2364 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2365 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2366
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002367 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002368 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2369 SAL PALO.
2370
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002371 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2372 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2373 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
2374 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
2375 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
2376
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002377 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2378
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002379 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2380 Allowed values are enable and disable
2381
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002382 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2383 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2384 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2385 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2386
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002387 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2388 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2389 info.
2390
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002391 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2392 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2393 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2394 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2395 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2396 interrupts *may* be lost!
2397
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002398 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2399 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2400 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2401 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2402
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002403 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2404 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2405
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002406 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2407 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2408 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002409 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2410 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002411 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2412 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002413 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2414 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2415 for generic hr timer mode)
Andreas Krebbeldd3c4672011-11-25 20:03:05 +01002416 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
2417 (report cpu_type "timer")
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002418
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002419 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2420 process, but there is a small probability of
2421 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002422 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2423 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2424
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002425 OSS [HW,OSS]
2426 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2427
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002428 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002429 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2430 timeout = 0: wait forever
2431 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002432 Format: <timeout>
2433
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002434 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2435 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2436 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2437 succeeds in any situation.
2438 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2439 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2440 kernel more unstable.
2441
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002442 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2443 connected to, default is 0.
2444 Format: <parport#>
2445 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2446 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002447 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002448
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002449 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2450 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2451 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2452 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2453 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2454 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2455 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2456 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2457 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2458 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2459 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2460 are specified on the command line, starting
2461 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002462
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002463 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2464 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2465 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2466 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2467 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2468 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002469 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2470
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002471 pause_on_oops=
2472 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2473 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2474 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2475
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002476 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2477
2478 pcd. [PARIDE]
2479 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002480 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002481
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002482 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002483 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2484 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002485 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002486 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002487 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2488 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002489 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002490 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2491 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2492 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002493 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002494 Mechanism 1.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002495 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002496 Mechanism 2.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002497 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2498 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2499 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002500 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2501 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302502 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002503 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002504 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2505 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2506 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002507 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2508 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2509 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002510 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2511 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2512 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002513 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2514 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2515 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2516 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002517 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2518 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2519 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2520 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002521 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002522 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2523 on several machines and they hang the machine
2524 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2525 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2526 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2527 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2528 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002529 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002530 Use with caution as certain devices share
2531 address decoders between ROMs and other
2532 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002533 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002534 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2535 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002536 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2537 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002538 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002539 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2540 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2541 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002542 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002543 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2544 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2545 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002546 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002547 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2548 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2549 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002550 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002551 numbers ourselves, overriding
2552 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002553 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002554 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2555 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2556 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2557 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2558 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002559 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002560 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002561 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2562 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2563 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2564 please report a bug.
2565 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2566 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002567 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2568 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2569 so this option is a temporary workaround
2570 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002571 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2572 handle more pci cards
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002573 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2574 just use the configuration from the
2575 bootloader. This is currently used on
2576 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2577 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002578 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2579 This might help on some broken boards which
2580 machine check when some devices' config space
2581 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2582 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002583 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2584 This sorting is done to get a device
2585 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2586 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08002587 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2588 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2589 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2590 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2591 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2592 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2593 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2594 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2595 or bus can support) for best performance.
2596 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2597 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2598 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2599 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2600 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2601 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08002602 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2603 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2604 The default value is 256 bytes.
2605 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2606 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2607 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002608 resource_alignment=
2609 Format:
2610 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2611 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2612 aligned memory resources.
2613 If <order of align> is not specified,
2614 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2615 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2616 windows need to be expanded.
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06002617 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2618 end-to-end CRC checking).
2619 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2620 the default.
2621 off: Turn ECRC off
2622 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08002623 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2624 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2625 Default size is 256 bytes.
2626 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2627 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2628 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08002629 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2630 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2631 accommodate resources required by all child
2632 devices.
2633 off: Turn realloc off
2634 on: Turn realloc on
2635 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01002636 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06002637 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2638 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2639 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002640
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04002641 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2642 Management.
2643 off Disable ASPM.
2644 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2645 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2646
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05002647 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2648 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2649 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2650
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002651 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002652 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2653 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2654 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2655 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2656 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002657 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2658 ports driver.
2659
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002660 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01002661 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002662 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002663
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002664 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2665
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05302666 pd_ignore_unused
2667 [PM]
2668 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2669 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2670 for debug and development, but should not be
2671 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2672
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002673 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002674 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002675
2676 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2677 boot time.
2678 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2679 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2680
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09002681 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09002682 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2683 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2684 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2685 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2686 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09002687
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002688 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002689 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002690
2691 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002692 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002693
2694 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002695 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002696
2697 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2698 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2699 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2700
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002701 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02002702 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2703 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
2704
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06002705 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
2706 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
2707 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
2708 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
2709 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
2710 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06002711
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002712 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
2713 { off }
2714
2715 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
2716 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2717
2718 pnp_reserve_irq=
2719 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2720
2721 pnp_reserve_dma=
2722 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2723
2724 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002725 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002726
2727 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002728 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2729 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002730 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2731
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07002732 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2733 Default is 21.
2734 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
2735 may be specified.
2736 Format: <port>,<port>....
2737
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07002738 print-fatal-signals=
2739 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09002740
2741 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
2742 related application anomalies: too many signals,
2743 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
2744 coredump - etc.
2745
2746 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
2747 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
2748
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07002749 default: off.
2750
Matthew Garrettc22ab332012-03-05 14:59:10 -08002751 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
2752 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
2753 panics
2754 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2755 default: disabled
2756
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07002757 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
2758 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2759
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002760 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
2761 Limit processor to maximum C-state
2762 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
2763
2764 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
2765 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
2766 instead using the legacy FADT method
2767
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002768 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002769 Format: [schedule,]<number>
2770 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
2771 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
2772 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02002773 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
2774 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02002775 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002776
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002777 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
2778 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002779 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002780
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002781 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
2782 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002783 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
2784 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002785 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
2786 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002787 (0 = never).
2788 psmouse.resolution=
2789 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
2790 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002791 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002792 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
2793
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04002794 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
2795
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002796 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002797 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002798
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02002799 pty.legacy_count=
2800 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
2801 default number.
2802
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07002803 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002804
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002805 r128= [HW,DRM]
2806
2807 raid= [HW,RAID]
2808 See Documentation/md.txt.
2809
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002810 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002811 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002812
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002813 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002814 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002815
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002816 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07002817 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
2818 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
2819 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08002820 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
2821 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
2822 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
2823 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07002824 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
2825 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
2826 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
2827
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002828 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07002829 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
2830 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
2831 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
2832 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
2833 This improves the real-time response for the
2834 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
2835 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
2836 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
2837 periodically wake up to do the polling.
2838
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002839 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07002840 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
2841 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08002842
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002843 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07002844 Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each
2845 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
2846 systems.
2847
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07002848 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
2849 Set required age in jiffies for a
2850 given grace period before RCU starts
2851 soliciting quiescent-state help from
2852 rcu_note_context_switch().
2853
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002854 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08002855 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
2856 first attempt to force quiescent states.
2857 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
2858 and maximum value is HZ.
2859
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002860 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08002861 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
2862 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
2863 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
2864
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07002865 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
2866 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
2867 defaults to the square root of the number of
2868 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
2869 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
2870 that same overhead on each group's leader.
2871
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002872 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07002873 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
2874 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08002875
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002876 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02002877 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
2878 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08002879
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002880 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08002881 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
2882 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07002883
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002884 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08002885 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
2886 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
2887 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
2888 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07002889
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002890 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002891 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
2892
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002893 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002894 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts.
2895
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002896 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002897 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts.
2898
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002899 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
2900 Use expedited update-side primitives.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002901
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002902 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
2903 Use normal (non-expedited) update-side primitives.
2904 If both gp_exp and gp_normal are set, do both.
2905 If neither gp_exp nor gp_normal are set, still
2906 do both.
2907
2908 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002909 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
2910
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002911 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002912 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
2913 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
2914 test, hence the "fake".
2915
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002916 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002917 Set number of RCU readers.
2918
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002919 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
2920 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
2921
2922 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002923 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2924
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002925 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002926 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2927 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2928
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002929 rcutorture.rcutorture_runnable= [BOOT]
2930 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
2931
2932 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002933 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
2934 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
2935 during the rcutorture test.
2936
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002937 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002938 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2939 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2940
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002941 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002942 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
2943 warnings, zero to disable.
2944
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002945 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002946 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
2947
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002948 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002949 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2950
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002951 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002952 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
2953 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
2954 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
2955 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
2956
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002957 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002958 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
2959 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
2960 under test support RCU priority boosting.
2961
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002962 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002963 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
2964
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002965 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002966 Interval (s) between each boost test.
2967
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002968 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002969 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
2970 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
2971
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002972 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002973 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
2974
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002975 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07002976 Enable additional printk() statements.
2977
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07002978 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
2979 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
2980 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
2981 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
2982 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
2983 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
2984
2985 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
2986 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
2987
2988 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
2989 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
2990
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07002991 rdinit= [KNL]
2992 Format: <full_path>
2993 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
2994 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
2995
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07002996 reboot= [KNL]
2997 Format (x86 or x86_64):
2998 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
2999 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3000 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3001 [[,]f[orce]
3002 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3003 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3004 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3005 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3006 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003007
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003008 relax_domain_level=
3009 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +01003010 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003011
Rafael J. Wysocki0399d4d2014-05-26 13:40:59 +02003012 relative_sleep_states=
3013 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3014 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3015 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3016 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3017 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3018
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003019 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3020
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003021 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9af2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003022 Format: nn[KMG]
3023 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3024 address space.
3025
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003026 reservelow= [X86]
3027 Format: nn[K]
3028 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3029 the bottom of the address space.
3030
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003031 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3032 during initialization.
3033
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003034 resume= [SWSUSP]
3035 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003036 Format:
3037 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003038
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003039 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3040 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3041 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3042 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3043 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3044
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003045 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3046 read the resume files
3047
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003048 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3049 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3050 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3051
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003052 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3053 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3054 present during boot.
3055 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003056 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003057
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003058 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3059
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003060 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3061 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3062
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003063 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3064
3065 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd2011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003066 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003067
3068 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3069 mount the root filesystem
3070
3071 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3072
3073 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3074
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003075 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3076 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3077 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3078
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003079 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3080 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3081 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3082 managed by CMA.
3083
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003084 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3085
3086 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3087
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003088 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3089 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3090 strict
3091 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3092 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3093 which is faster.
3094
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003095 sa1100ir [NET]
3096 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3097
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003098 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003099
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003100 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3101
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003102 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3103 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3104 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3105 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3106 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3107 1 -- enable.
3108 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3109 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3110
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003111 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3112 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3113 security module asking for security registration will be
3114 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3115 as if no module has been chosen.
3116
3117 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003118 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3119 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3120 0 -- disable.
3121 1 -- enable.
3122 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3123 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3124 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3125
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003126 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3127 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3128 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3129 0 -- disable.
3130 1 -- enable.
3131 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3132
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003133 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003134
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003135 shapers= [NET]
3136 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003137
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07003138 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3139 Format: { <integer> }
3140 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3141 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3142 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3143
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003144 simeth= [IA-64]
3145 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003146
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003147 slram= [HW,MTD]
3148
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003149 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3150 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3151 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3152 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3153 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3154
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003155 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3156 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3157 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3158 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3159 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3160 last alloc / free. For more information see
3161 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003162
3163 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003164 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3165 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3166 fragmentation. For more information see
3167 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003168
3169 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003170 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3171 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3172 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3173 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3174 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3175 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003176 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3177
3178 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003179 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003180 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003181 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3182
3183 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003184 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003185 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003186 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3187 merging on their own.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003188 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3189
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003190 smart2= [HW]
3191 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3192
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003193 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3194 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3195 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3196 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3197 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3198 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3199 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3200 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3201 1: Fast pin select (default)
3202 2: ATC IRMode
3203
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003204 softlockup_panic=
3205 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003206 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003207
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003208 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3209 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3210 backtraces on all cpus.
3211 Format: <integer>
3212
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003213 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003214 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003215
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003216 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3217 spia_fio_base=
3218 spia_pedr=
3219 spia_peddr=
3220
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003221 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3222 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3223
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003224 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3225 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3226 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3227 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3228 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3229 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3230 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3231
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003232 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3233 Format: <num>
3234 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3235 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3236 as the initial boot-console.
3237 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3238
3239 sti_font= [HW]
3240 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3241
3242 stifb= [HW]
3243 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3244
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003245 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3246 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3247 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3248 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3249 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3250 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3251 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3252 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3253 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3254 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3255 maximum port values.
3256
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003257 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3258 [NFS]
3259 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3260 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3261 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3262 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3263 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3264 NFS server is running.
3265
3266 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3267 automatically using heuristics
3268 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3269 percpu one pool for each CPU
3270 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3271 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3272
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003273 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3274 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3275 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3276 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3277 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3278 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3279 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3280 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3281
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003282 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003283 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3284 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3285 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
3286
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003287 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3288 Format: { <int> | force }
3289 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3290 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3291 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003292
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003293 switches= [HW,M68k]
3294
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02003295 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3296 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3297 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3298 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3299 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3300 in older udev will not work anymore.
3301 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3302 the kernel configuration.
3303
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08003304 sysrq_always_enabled
3305 [KNL]
3306 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3307 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3308 Useful for debugging.
3309
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003310 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3311
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003312 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
3313 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
3314 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
3315 enter during system startup. The system is woken from
3316 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
3317
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003318 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3319 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3320
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04003321 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3322 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3323 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3324
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003325 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3326 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04003327 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003328
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04003329 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3330 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3331 critical and hot trip points.
3332
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04003333 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3334 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3335
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003336 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3337 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08003338 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3339 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003340
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04003341 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3342 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3343 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3344 0: no polling (default)
3345
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003346 threadirqs [KNL]
3347 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003348 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003349
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003350 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3351 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3352
3353 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3354 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3355 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3356
3357 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3358 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04003359 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3360 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003361
3362 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3363 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3364 to the hypervisor.
3365
3366 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3367 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3368 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3369 kernel based on different criteria.
3370
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003371 topology= [S390]
3372 Format: {off | on}
3373 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07003374 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3375 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003376 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02003377 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003378
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003379 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3380
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03003381 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3382 Format: integer pcr id
3383 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3384 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3385 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3386 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3387 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3388 are saved.
3389
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08003390 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3391 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09003392
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003393 trace_event=[event-list]
3394 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
3395 to facilitate early boot debugging.
3396 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
3397
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04003398 trace_options=[option-list]
3399 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3400 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3401 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3402 to echo the option name into
3403
3404 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3405
3406 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3407 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3408
3409 trace_options=stacktrace
3410
3411 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3412 section.
3413
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04003414 traceoff_on_warning
3415 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3416 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3417 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3418 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3419
3420 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3421 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3422 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3423
3424 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3425 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3426
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07003427 transparent_hugepage=
3428 [KNL]
3429 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3430 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3431 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3432 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3433
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003434 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07003435 Format: <string>
3436 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003437 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3438 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
3439 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3440 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07003441 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3442 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3443 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
3444 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07003445
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003446 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
3447 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
3448 Format:
3449 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003450 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
3451
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00003452 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
3453 happen after console_init() and before a proper
3454 console driver takes over, this boot options might
3455 help "seeing" what's going on.
3456
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00003457 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3458 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
3459
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05003460 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
3461 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
3462 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
3463 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
3464 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
3465 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
3466 reported either.
3467
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01003468 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003469 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01003470
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02003471 usbcore.authorized_default=
3472 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
3473 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
3474 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
3475
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05003476 usbcore.autosuspend=
3477 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
3478 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
3479 is the time required before an idle device will be
3480 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04003481 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05003482
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003483 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
3484 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
3485
3486 usbcore.blinkenlights=
3487 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
3488
3489 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
3490 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3491 scheme (default 0 = off).
3492
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05003493 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
3494 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
3495 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
3496
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003497 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
3498 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
3499 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
3500
3501 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
3502 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
3503 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
3504 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
3505
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003506 usbhid.mousepoll=
3507 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003508
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003509 usb-storage.delay_use=
3510 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
3511 scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
3512
3513 usb-storage.quirks=
3514 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
3515 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
3516 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
3517 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
3518 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
3519 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
3520 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05003521 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
3522 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05003523 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
3524 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003525 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
3526 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01003527 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
3528 READ_DISC_INFO command);
3529 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
3530 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05003531 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
3532 reported device capacity by one
3533 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003534 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
3535 device);
3536 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
3537 unlock ejectable media);
3538 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
3539 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04003540 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
3541 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05003542 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
3543 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04003544 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
3545 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003546 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
3547 bogus residue values);
3548 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
3549 Logical Unit);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04003550 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003551 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
3552 medium is write-protected).
3553 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
3554
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07003555 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
3556 Format: <int>
3557 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
3558 1 - undefined instruction events
3559 2 - system calls
3560 4 - invalid data aborts
3561 8 - SIGSEGV faults
3562 16 - SIGBUS faults
3563 Example: user_debug=31
3564
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00003565 userpte=
3566 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
3567
3568 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
3569 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
3570 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
3571
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05303572 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07003573 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
3574
3575 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07003576 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
3577
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07003578 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
3579 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
3580 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
3581
3582 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
3583 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
3584 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
3585
3586 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
3587 alias for vdso32=0.
3588
3589 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
3590 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01003591
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09003592 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
3593 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
3594
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003595 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
3596 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
3597
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08003598 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
3599 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
3600 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
3601 level and then send out the event to user space through
3602 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
3603 will only send out the event without touching backlight
3604 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02003605 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08003606
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01003607 virtio_mmio.device=
3608 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
3609
3610 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
3611 where:
3612 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
3613 like K, M and G)
3614 <baseaddr> := physical base address
3615 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
3616 request_irq())
3617 <id> := (optional) platform device id
3618 example:
3619 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
3620
3621 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
3622
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003623 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05003624 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003625 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003626 Use vga=ask for menu.
3627 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
3628 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
3629
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003630 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003631 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
3632 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
3633 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
3634 mapped kernel RAM.
3635
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02003636 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
3637 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003638
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02003639 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
3640 Format: <command>
3641
3642 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
3643 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003644
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04003645 vsyscall= [X86-64]
3646 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
3647 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
3648 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
3649 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
3650 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
3651 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
3652
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08003653 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
3654 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04003655
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08003656 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04003657 This is a little bit faster than trapping
3658 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
3659 better than they would in emulation mode.
3660 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
3661
3662 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
3663 them quite hard to use for exploits but
3664 might break your system.
3665
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02003666 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
3667 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
3668 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
3669
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08003670 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
3671 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
3672 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
3673 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
3674
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003675 vt.default_blu= [VT]
3676 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
3677 Change the default blue palette of the console.
3678 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3679 ranging from 0-255.
3680
3681 vt.default_grn= [VT]
3682 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
3683 Change the default green palette of the console.
3684 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3685 ranging from 0-255.
3686
3687 vt.default_red= [VT]
3688 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
3689 Change the default red palette of the console.
3690 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3691 ranging from 0-255.
3692
3693 vt.default_utf8=
3694 [VT]
3695 Format=<0|1>
3696 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
3697 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
3698 newly opened terminals.
3699
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05003700 vt.global_cursor_default=
3701 [VT]
3702 Format=<-1|0|1>
3703 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
3704 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
3705 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
3706 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
3707 cursors, 1 will display them.
3708
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02003709 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
3710 Default: 2 = green.
3711
3712 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
3713 Default: 3 = cyan.
3714
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07003715 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
3716 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
3717 or other driver-specific files in the
3718 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003719
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07003720 workqueue.disable_numa
3721 By default, all work items queued to unbound
3722 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
3723 issued on, which results in better behavior in
3724 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
3725 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
3726 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
3727 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
3728
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05303729 workqueue.power_efficient
3730 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
3731 they show better performance thanks to cache
3732 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
3733 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
3734
3735 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
3736 were observed to contribute significantly to power
3737 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
3738 power usage at the cost of small performance
3739 overhead.
3740
3741 The default value of this parameter is determined by
3742 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
3743
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003744 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
3745 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
3746 supporting x2apic.
3747
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07003748 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
3749 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07003750 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
3751 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07003752 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07003753
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01003754 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
3755 Unplug Xen emulated devices
3756 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
3757 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
3758 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
3759 nics -- unplug network devices
3760 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01003761 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
3762 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
3763 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01003764 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01003765
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04003766 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
3767 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
3768 optimizations.
3769
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04003770 xen_nopv [X86]
3771 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
3772 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
3773
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003774 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003775 Format:
3776 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003777
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003778______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003779
3780TODO:
3781
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003782 Add more DRM drivers.