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Mauro Carvalho Chehabe53dd082007-09-15 07:38:47 -03001 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +09304The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
5implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
6and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
7punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
8manner), and with descriptions where known.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093010The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
11if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
12parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
13environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
14Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093016Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
17line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070018
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093019 (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093022Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
23specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
24kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
25when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
26loadable modules too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -070028Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
29 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
30can also be entered as
31 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
32
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093033Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
34 param="spaces in here"
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -070035
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -070036cpu lists:
37----------
38
39Some kernel parameters take a list of CPUs as a value, e.g. isolcpus,
40nohz_full, irqaffinity, rcu_nocbs. The format of this list is:
41
42 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
43
44or
45
46 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
47 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
48
49or a mixture
50
51<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
52
53Note that for the special case of a range one can split the range into equal
54sized groups and for each group use some amount from the beginning of that
55group:
56
57 <cpu number>-cpu number>:<used size>/<group size>
58
59For example one can add to the command line following parameter:
60
61 isolcpus=1,2,10-20,100-2000:2/25
62
63where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,...
64
65
66
Stefan Richtera901ebb2006-04-01 01:43:18 +020067This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
68"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
69module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
70reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
71parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
72"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
73
Stefan Richter6585fa82006-04-01 01:44:30 +020074The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
75enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
76the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
77parameter is applicable:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070078
79 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
Chuck Ebbertc99c1082007-07-27 10:46:20 +100080 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070081 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
82 APIC APIC support is enabled.
83 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070084 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +020085 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070086 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
Robin Getz0ae53642007-10-09 17:24:49 +080087 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -070088 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -070089 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
Will Drewry077d23c2010-06-09 17:47:38 -050090 DM Device mapper support is enabled.
Alan Cox9cfe2682011-01-25 14:18:38 +000091 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
92 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070093 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
94 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
95 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -040096 EVM Extended Verification Module
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070097 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070098 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -070099 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700100 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700101 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
Mimi Zohar6146f0d2009-02-04 09:06:57 -0500102 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700103 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
Adrian Bunk41e2e8b2005-07-12 13:58:33 -0700104 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800105 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700106 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
107 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
108 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -0500109 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +0200110 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
Kristen Carlson Accardi11ef6972006-09-28 11:29:01 -0700111 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700112 LP Printer support is enabled.
113 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
114 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
115 These options have more detailed description inside of
116 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700117 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700118 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700119 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -0700120 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700121 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700122 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
123 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
124 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
125 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700126 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
127 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700128 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
129 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -0700130 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700131 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
132 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
133 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
134 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
135 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
136 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
137 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
138 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap163475f2010-08-14 12:36:14 -0700139 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
140 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -0700141 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700142 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -0700143 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700144 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
Paul Mundte523d932007-02-28 18:30:01 +0900145 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700146 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
147 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -0700148 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
149 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -0300150 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700151 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -0500152 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700153 USB USB support is enabled.
154 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
155 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +0100156 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700157 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
158 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
159 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
160 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700161 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700162 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
163 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700164 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700165 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500166 X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +0100167 XEN Xen support is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700168
169In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
170
171 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
172 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
173 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
174
175Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
176loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
177Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -0500178need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700179
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100180There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700181See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100182
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700183Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
184a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
185be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
186it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
187running once the system is up.
188
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700189The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
190complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
191a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
192and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
193./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
194
Ahmed S. Darwish7a19a232011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800195Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
196parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
197multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
198bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
199
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700200
Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +0000201 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -0800202 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +0200203 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +0300204 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700205 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +0200206 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700207 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
208 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700209 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700210 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +0800211 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +0800212 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +0200213 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
214 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700215
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200216 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700217
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400218 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
219 Format: <int>
220 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
221 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -0400222 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400223
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +0200224 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
225 acpi_backlight=vendor
226 acpi_backlight=video
227 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
228 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
229 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
230
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +0000231 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
232 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
233 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
234 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
235 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
236
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200237 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
238 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
239 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
240 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
241 This option is useful for developers to identify the
242 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
243 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
244
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700245 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
246 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700247 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700248 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
249 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
250 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
251 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
252 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
253 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
254 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600255 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
256 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
257 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700258
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600259 Enable processor driver info messages:
260 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
261 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
262 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700263 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
264 object while interpreting AML:
265 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700266 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
267 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +0200268
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700269 Some values produce so much output that the system is
270 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
271 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +0800272
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200273 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
274 { strict | lax | no }
275 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
276 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
277 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
278 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
279 can interfere with legacy drivers.
280 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
281 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
282 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
283 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
284 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
285 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
286 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
287 no further checks are performed.
288
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +0800289 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
290 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
291 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
292 size limitation.
293
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700294 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
295 ACPI will balance active IRQs
296 default in APIC mode
297
298 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
299 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
300 default in PIC mode
301
302 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
303 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
304
305 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
306 use by PCI
307 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
308
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800309 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
310 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800311 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
312 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
313 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800314 This feature is enabled by default.
315 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800316
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200317 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
318 kernels.
319
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800320 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
321 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
322 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
323 installed automatically and they will appear under
324 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
325 This option turns off this feature.
326 Note that specifying this option does not affect
327 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
328 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700329
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200330 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
331 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
332 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
333 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800334
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700335 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
336 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
337
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200338 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
339 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
340 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
341 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
342 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
343
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700344 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800345 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
346 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800347 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800348 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
349 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800350 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
351 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700352 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
353
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800354 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
355 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
356 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
357 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
358 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
359 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
360 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800361 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
362 care about the state of the feature group strings which
363 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800364 Examples:
365 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
366 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
367 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
368
369 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
370 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
371 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
372 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
373 multiple times through kernel command line is also
374 meaningless.
375 Examples:
376 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
377 FALSE.
378
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800379 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
380 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
381 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
382 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
383 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
384 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
385 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
386 there are quirks related to this string. This command
387 is useful when one want to control the state of the
388 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
389 the OSPM features.
390 Examples:
391 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
392 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
393 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
394 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
395 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
396 equivalent to
397 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
398 and
399 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
400 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
401
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530402 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700403 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
404 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
405 and always returns good values.
406
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700407 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
408 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
409
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700410 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
411 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
412 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
413
414 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
415 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200416 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700417 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
418 s3_bios and s3_mode.
419 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
420 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
421 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
422 used during resume from hibernation.
423 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
424 control method, with respect to putting devices into
425 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
426 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200427 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
428 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800429 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
430 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
431 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700432
433 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
434 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
435 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
436
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700437 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
438 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
439
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700440 agp= [AGP]
441 { off | try_unsupported }
442 off: disable AGP support
443 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
444 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
445
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700446 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
447 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
448
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000449 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
450 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
451 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
452 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
453
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200454 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
455 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
456 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
457 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
458 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
459 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
460 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
461
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100462 32: only for 32-bit processes
463 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200464 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
465 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
466
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500467 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
468 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
469 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
470 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
471 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
472 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
473
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100474 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200475 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
476 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900477 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
478 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
479 flushed before they will be reused, which
480 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200481 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
482 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100483 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
484 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
485 allowed anymore to lift isolation
486 requirements as needed. This option
487 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900488
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600489 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
490 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
491 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
492 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
493 IOMMU initialization.
494
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500495 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
496 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
497 remapping modes:
498 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
499 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
500 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
501 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
502 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
503
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700504 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
505 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
506 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200507 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700508
509 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
510 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
511 connected to one of 16 gameports
512 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
513
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700514 apc= [HW,SPARC]
515 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700516 Format: noidle
517 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
518 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
519 APC and your system crashes randomly.
520
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700521 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700522 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700523 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
524 Change the amount of debugging information output
525 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700526
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100527 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
528 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
529 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
530 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
531 backup of CPU 0
532 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
533 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
534 shot down by NMI
535
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800536 autoconf= [IPV6]
537 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
538
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400539 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
540 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
541 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
542 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
543 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
544 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
545 apic=verbose is specified.
546 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
547
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700548 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700549 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700550
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700551 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
552 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
553
554 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
555
556 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
557
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700558 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
559 EzKey and similar keyboards
560
561 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
562
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700563 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
564 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700565
566 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
567 keyboards
568
569 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
570 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700571
572 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
573 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700574
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400575 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
576 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500577 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
578 until the next reboot
579 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
580 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
581 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
582 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
583 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
584 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400585 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400586
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400587 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
588 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
589 Default: 64
590
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500591 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
592 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
593 Format: { "0" | "1" }
594 0 - Disable the BAU.
595 1 - Enable the BAU.
596 unset - Disable the BAU.
597
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
599 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700600
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700601 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
602 Format: <io>,<mode>
603 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
604
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700605 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
606 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700607 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
608 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
609
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700610 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
611 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700612 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
613 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
614
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700615 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
616 embedded devices based on command line input.
617 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
618
Channagoud Kadabi85b8fdf2016-08-30 15:08:28 -0700619 boot_cpus= [SMP]
620 Rather than attempting to online all possible CPUs at
621 boot time, only online the specified set of CPUs.
622
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700623 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
624 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
625 no delay (0).
626 Format: integer
627
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700628 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
629
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700630 bert_disable [ACPI]
631 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
632
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700633 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700634 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
635 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700636 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200637 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700638
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000639 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
640 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
641 at a time.
642
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700643 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
644
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700645 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700646 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
647 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
648 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
649 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
650 This option provides an override for these situations.
651
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300652 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
653 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
654 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300655 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300656
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700657 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
658 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
659 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
660 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
661 others).
662
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100663 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
664 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700665
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700666 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
667 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800668 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
669 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
670 a single hierarchy
671 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
672 subsystem
673 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
674 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
675 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700676
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500677 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
678 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
679 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
680 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
681
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800682 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
683 Format: <string>
684 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800685 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800686
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700687 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
688 Format: { "0" | "1" }
689 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700690 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
691 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700692 1 -- check protection requested by application.
693 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700694 Value can be changed at runtime via
695 /selinux/checkreqprot.
696
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100697 cio_ignore= [S390]
698 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700699 clk_ignore_unused
700 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700701 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
702 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
703 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
704 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
705 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
706 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
707 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
708 platform with proper driver support. For more
709 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100710
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700711 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700712 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200713 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700714 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200715 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700716 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
717
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700718 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700719 Format: <string>
720 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
721 with the name specified.
722 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
723 the platform:
724 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
725 [ACPI] acpi_pm
726 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
727 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
728 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700729 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700730 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
731 [MIPS] MIPS
732 [PARISC] cr16
733 [S390] tod
734 [SH] SuperH
735 [SPARC64] tick
736 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
737
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100738 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
739 [ARM,ARM64]
740 Format: <bool>
741 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
742 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
743 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
744 systems.
745
Scott Woodf6dc1572016-09-22 03:35:17 -0500746 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
747 [ARM64]
748 Format: <bool>
749 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
750 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
751 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
752 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
753 enabled based on the device tree.
754
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100755 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
756 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100757 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800758 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100759 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
760 ones should be.
761 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
762 or using the feature without checking anything
763 will still see it. This just prevents it from
764 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
765 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
766 some critical bits.
767
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700768 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
769 [ARM,X86,KNL]
770 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
771 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
772 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700773 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
774 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100775 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
776
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000777 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
778 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
779 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
780 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
781 a hypervisor.
782 Default: yes
783
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100784 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
785 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200786 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100787
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530788 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100789 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100790 Range: 0 - 8192
791 Default: 64
792
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700793 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700794 Format:
795 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700796
797 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
798 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
799
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700800 com90xx= [HW,NET]
801 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700802 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
803
804 condev= [HW,S390] console device
805 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700806
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700807 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
808
809 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
810
811 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800812 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700813 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800814 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
815 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
816 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
817 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700818
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800819 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
820 information. See
821 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
822 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700823
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700824 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
825 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900826 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400827 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
828 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700829 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
830 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400831 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
832 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900833 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
834 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
835 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
836 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400837 the h/w is not re-initialized.
838
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500839 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
840 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700841
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700842 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
843 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
844 console=brl,ttyS0
845 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
846
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700847 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
848 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
849 disables the blank timer.
850
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800851 coredump_filter=
852 [KNL] Change the default value for
853 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
854 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
855
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400856 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
857 disable the cpuidle sub-system
858
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400859 cpu_init_udelay=N
860 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
861 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
862 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
863 Default: 10000
864
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700865 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700866 Format:
867 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700868
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800869 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
870 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
871 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
872 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
873 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
874 is selected automatically. Check
875 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700876
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700877 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
878 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
879 in the running system. The syntax of range is
880 start-[end] where start and end are both
881 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800882 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700883
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700884 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700885 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
886 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
887 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
888 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
889 available.
890 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700891 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
892 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
893 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700894 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
895 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800896 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
897 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
898 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
899 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700900 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
901 for second kernel instead.
902 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700903 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700904 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700905
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100906 cryptomgr.notests
907 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
908
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700909 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
910 Format: <dma>
911
912 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
913 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700914
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700915 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700916 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
917
918 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
919 (one device per port)
920 Format: <port#>,<type>
921 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
922
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200923 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
924 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600925 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200926
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700927 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
928
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700929 debug_locks_verbose=
930 [KNL] verbose self-tests
931 Format=<0|1>
932 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
933 self-tests.
934 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
935 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
936 only useful to kernel developers.
937
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700938 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
939
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500940 no_debug_objects
941 [KNL] Disable object debugging
942
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc52012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800943 debug_guardpage_minorder=
944 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
945 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
946 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
947 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
948 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
949 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
950 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
951 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
952 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
953 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
954 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
955 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
956 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
957 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
958 bypassed) which are not detectable by
959 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
960 tracking down these problems.
961
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800962 debug_pagealloc=
963 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
964 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
965 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
966 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
967 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
968 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
969 on: enable the feature
970
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200971 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
972
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200973 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700974 Format: <area>[,<node>]
975 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
976
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700977 default_hugepagesz=
978 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
979 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
980 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
981 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
982 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
983 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700984
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700985 dhash_entries= [KNL]
986 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700987
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000988 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
989 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
990 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
991 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
992 miss to occur.
993
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800994 disable= [IPV6]
995 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
996
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530997 disable_radix [PPC]
998 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
999
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +09001000 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1001 Format: <int>
1002 The number of initial APIC ID for the
1003 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1004 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1005 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1006 causing system reset or hang due to sending
1007 INIT from AP to BSP.
1008
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +00001009 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
1010 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
1011 to workaround buggy firmware.
1012
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -08001013 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1014 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1015
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001016 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001017 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1018 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001019 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001020
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +01001021 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +01001022 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1023 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1024 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1025 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1026
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301027 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001028 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1029 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1030
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -04001031 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1032
Will Drewry077d23c2010-06-09 17:47:38 -05001033 dm= [DM] Allows early creation of a device-mapper device.
1034 See Documentation/device-mapper/boot.txt.
1035
1036 dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buff
1037
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001038 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1039 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1040
1041 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1042 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1043 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1044 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1045 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1046 architectural default is too low.
1047
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +02001048 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1049 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1050 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1051 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1052 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1053 driver later using sysfs.
1054
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001055 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1056 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1057 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1058 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1059 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001060 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1061 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1062 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1063 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1064 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1065 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
1066 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1067 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001068 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1069 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1070 data set with no connector name will be used for
1071 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001072
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001073 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1074
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -06001075 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1076 module.dyndbg[="val"]
1077 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1078 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
1079
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -07001080 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
1081 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
1082 information about the feature.
1083
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -08001084 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1085 in some Intel CPUs.
1086
Borislav Petkovf29ba612015-03-27 16:15:18 +01001087 eagerfpu= [X86]
1088 on enable eager fpu restore
1089 off disable eager fpu restore
1090 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
1091 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
1092
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -07001093 module.async_probe [KNL]
1094 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1095
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -07001096 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1097 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1098 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1099 which are not unmapped.
1100
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001101 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001102
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -05001103 When used with no options, the early console is
1104 determined by the stdout-path property in device
1105 tree's chosen node.
1106
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +01001107 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1108 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1109 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1110 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1111 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1112 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +02001113
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001114 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1115 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -07001116 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001117 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001118 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001119 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1120 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001121 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001122 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1123 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1124 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1125 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001126 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001127
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001128 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001129 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001130 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1131 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1132 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001133 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1134 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1135 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001136
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +01001137 meson,<addr>
1138 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1139 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1140 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1141 supported.
1142
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -07001143 msm_serial,<addr>
1144 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1145 port at the specified address. The serial port
1146 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1147 yet supported.
1148
1149 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1150 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1151 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1152 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1153 yet supported.
1154
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -05001155 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1156
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +01001157 s3c2410,<addr>
1158 s3c2412,<addr>
1159 s3c2440,<addr>
1160 s3c6400,<addr>
1161 s5pv210,<addr>
1162 exynos4210,<addr>
1163 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1164 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1165 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1166 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1167 Options are not yet supported.
1168
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001169 lpuart,<addr>
1170 lpuart32,<addr>
1171 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1172 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1173 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1174 port must already be setup and configured.
1175
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001176 armada3700_uart,<addr>
1177 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1178 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1179 address. The serial port must already be setup
1180 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1181
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +10001182 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001183 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001184 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001185 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001186 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001187 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001188 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001189 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001190 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001191
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001192 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1193 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1194 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1195
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001196 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001197 takes over.
1198
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001199 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1200 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001201
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001202 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1203 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1204 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1205 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1206 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1207 You can find the port for a given device in
1208 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1209 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001210
1211 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1212 very good.
1213
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001214 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1215 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001216
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001217 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1218
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001219 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1220 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1221 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1222 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1223 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1224 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1225 default: on.
1226
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001227 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1228 ekgdboc=kbd
1229
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001230 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001231 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1232
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001233 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001234 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001235
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001236 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001237 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001238 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1239 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1240 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001241 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1242 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1243 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001244 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001245 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001246
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001247 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1248 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1249 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1250 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1251 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1252
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001253 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1254 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1255 updating original EFI memory map.
1256 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1257 from ss to ss+nn.
1258 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1259 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1260 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1261 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1262
1263 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1264 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1265 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1266 doesn't support it.
1267
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001268 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1269 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1270 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1271 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1272 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1273
1274
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001275 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1276 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1277
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001278 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001279 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001280 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001281
1282 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001283 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001284 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001285 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1286
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001287 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001288 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001289 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1290 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001291 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001292
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001293 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1294 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1295 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1296 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1297
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001298 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001299 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1300 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1301 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1302 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1303
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001304 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1305 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1306 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1307 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1308 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1309 Default value is 0.
1310 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1311
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001312 erst_disable [ACPI]
1313 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1314 support.
1315
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001316 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1317 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1318 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1319
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001320 evm= [EVM]
1321 Format: { "fix" }
1322 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1323 current integrity status.
1324
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001325 failslab=
1326 fail_page_alloc=
1327 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1328 General fault injection mechanism.
1329 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001330 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001331
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001332 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001333 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001334
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001335 force_pal_cache_flush
1336 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1337 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1338 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1339 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1340
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001341 forcepae [X86-32]
1342 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1343 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1344 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1345 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1346 and may cause unknown problems.
1347
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001348 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001349 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001350 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1351 boot debugging.
1352
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001353 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001354 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001355 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1356 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1357 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1358 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001359
1360 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1361 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1362 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1363 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1364 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001365 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001366
1367 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1368 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1369 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1370 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1371 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001372
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001373 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1374 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1375 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1376 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1377 that can be changed at run time by the
1378 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1379
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001380 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1381 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1382 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1383 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1384 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1385
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001386 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1387 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1388 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1389 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1390 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1391
1392 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1393
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001394 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1395 Format: off | on
1396 default: on
1397
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001398 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1399 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1400 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1401 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1402 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1403
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001404 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001405 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1406 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1407 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001408
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001409 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1410 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1411 Format: 0 | 1
1412 Default: 0
1413 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1414 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1415 Format: 0 | 1
1416 Default: 0
1417 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1418 Format: 0 | 1
1419 Default: 0
1420 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1421 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1422 Default: 1024
1423 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1424 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1425 Default: 1024
1426
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001427 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1428 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1429 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1430
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001431 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1432 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1433 backtraces on all cpus.
1434 Format: <integer>
1435
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001436 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1437 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001438 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001439 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001440
1441 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1442
1443 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1444 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1445
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001446 hest_disable [ACPI]
1447 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1448 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1449 logic will be disabled.
1450
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001451 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1452 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1453 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1454 size on bigger boxes.
1455
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001456 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1457 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1458 Default: "on"
1459
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001460 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1461 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1462
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001463 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1464
1465 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1466 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1467 verbose }
1468 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1469 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1470 VIA, nVidia)
1471 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1472
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001473 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1474 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1475
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001476 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1477 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001478 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1479 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1480 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1481 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001482 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001483
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001484 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1485 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001486 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1487 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1488 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001489
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001490 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1491 hardware thread id mappings.
1492 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1493
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001494 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1495 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1496 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1497 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1498 the real console.
1499
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001500 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001501 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1502 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001503 Format:
1504 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1505
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001506 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001507 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1508 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1509 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1510 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001511 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001512 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1513 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001514 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1515 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001516 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001517 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1518 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001519 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001520 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001521 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1522 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001523 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e1922016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001524 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1525 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1526 transitions, or never reset
1527 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1528 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1529 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1530 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1531 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001532 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001533 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001534
1535 i810= [HW,DRM]
1536
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001537 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1538 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1539 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001540 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1541 does not match list of supported models.
1542 i8k.power_status
1543 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1544 (disabled by default)
1545 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1546 capability is set.
1547
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001548 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001549 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1550 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001551 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1552 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1553 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1554 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1555 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1556 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1557 value switches the backlight off.
1558 -1 -- never invert brightness
1559 0 -- machine default
1560 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001561
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001562 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1563 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1564
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001565 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1566 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001567 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1568 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001569 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001570
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001571 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1572 Format: <int>
1573 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1574 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1575 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1576 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1577 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1578 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1579 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1580 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1581 was 0x3.
1582
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001583 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1584 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1585
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001586 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001587 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001588 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1589 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1590 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1591 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001592 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001593 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001594 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001595
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001596 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1597 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1598 Default: strict
1599
1600 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1601 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1602 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1603 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1604 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1605 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1606 encoding mode.
1607
1608 Available settings are as follows:
1609 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1610 supported by the FPU
1611 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1612 by the FPU
1613 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1614 by the FPU
1615 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1616 supported by the FPU
1617
1618 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1619 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1620 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1621 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1622 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1623 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1624 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1625 MIPS64 CPUs.
1626
1627 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1628 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1629 except where unsupported by hardware.
1630
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001631 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1632 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1633 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001634 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1635 could change it dynamically, usually by
1636 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001637
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001638 ignore_rlimit_data
1639 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1640 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1641 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1642
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001643 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1644 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1645
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001646 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001647 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001648 default: "enforce"
1649
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001650 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1651 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1652 owned by uid=0.
1653
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001654 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001655 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1656 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001657 default: "sha1"
1658
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001659 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1660 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1661
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001662 ima_policy= [IMA]
1663 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1664 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1665 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1666 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1667 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1668 Format: "tcb"
1669
1670 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001671 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1672 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1673 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1674 opened for read by uid=0.
1675
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001676 ima_template= [IMA]
1677 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001678 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001679 Default: "ima-ng"
1680
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001681 ima_template_fmt=
1682 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1683 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1684
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001685 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1686 Format: <min_file_size>
1687 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1688 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1689
1690 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1691 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1692 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1693
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001694 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1695 Format: <bufsize>
1696 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1697
1698 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1699 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1700 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1701
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001702 init= [KNL]
1703 Format: <full_path>
1704 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1705 process.
1706
1707 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1708 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1709 startup.
1710
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001711 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1712 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1713 modules and initcalls.
1714
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001715 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1716
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001717 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1718 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1719 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1720 override in debugfs after boot.
1721
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001722 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1723 Format: <irq>
1724
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001725 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1726
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001727 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1728 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1729 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1730 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1731
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001732 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001733 on
1734 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001735 off
1736 Disable intel iommu driver.
1737 igfx_off [Default Off]
1738 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1739 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1740 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1741 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1742 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001743 forcedac [x86_64]
1744 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001745 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001746 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001747 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1748 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001749 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001750 strict [Default Off]
1751 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1752 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1753 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001754 sp_off [Default Off]
1755 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1756 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1757 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001758 ecs_off [Default Off]
1759 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1760 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1761 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1762 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1763 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001764
1765 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1766 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001767 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001768
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001769 intel_pstate= [X86]
1770 disable
1771 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1772 scaling driver for the supported processors
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001773 force
1774 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1775 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1776 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1777 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1778 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1779 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1780 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1781 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001782 no_hwp
1783 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1784 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001785 hwp_only
1786 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1787 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001788 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001789 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1790 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1791 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1792 then this feature is turned on by default.
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001793
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001794 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001795 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1796 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1797 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001798 no_x2apic_optout
1799 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001800 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001801
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001802 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1803 strict regions from userspace.
1804 relaxed
1805
1806 iommu= [x86]
1807 off
1808 force
1809 noforce
1810 biomerge
1811 panic
1812 nopanic
1813 merge
1814 nomerge
1815 forcesac
1816 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001817 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001818 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1819 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001820
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001821
1822 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1823 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1824 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1825
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301826 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001827 0x80
1828 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1829 0xed
1830 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001831 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001832 Simple two microseconds delay
1833 none
1834 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001835
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001836 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001837 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001838
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001839 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001840 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001841
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001842 irqfixup [HW]
1843 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1844 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1845 firmware running.
1846
1847 irqpoll [HW]
1848 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1849 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1850 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1851 firmware running.
1852
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001853 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001854 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001855
1856 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001857 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001858
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001859 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1860 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001861 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1862 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001863 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1864 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1865
1866 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001867 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1868 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1869 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001870
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001871 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001872
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001873 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1874 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1875 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1876 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1877 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1878 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1879
1880 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1881 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1882 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1883 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1884 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1885 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1886
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001887 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1888 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1889 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1890 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1891 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1892 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1893
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001894 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1895 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1896
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001897 nokaslr [KNL]
1898 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1899 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1900 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001901
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001902 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1903
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001904 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1905 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1906 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001907 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1908 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1909 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1910 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1911 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1912 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1913 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001914 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001915 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1916 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1917 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1918 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1919 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1920 zone if it does not.
1921
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001922 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1923 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1924 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1925 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1926 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1927 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1928 time.
1929
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001930 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1931 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1932 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1933 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1934 optional and is the number seconds in between
1935 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1936 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1937 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1938 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1939 the kernel debugger.
1940
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001941 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001942 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1943 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001944 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1945 keyboard only format: kbd
1946 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1947 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1948 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1949 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001950
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001951 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1952 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1953
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001954 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1955 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1956 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1957
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001958 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1959 Valid arguments: on, off
1960 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001961 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1962 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001963
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001964 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1965 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1966 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1967 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1968 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1969 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1970
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301971 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001972 in oops dumps.
1973
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001974 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1975 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1976
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001977 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1978 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001979 Default is 0 (off)
1980
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001981 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001982 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001983
1984 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1985 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001986 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001987
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001988 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1989 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1990 Default is 1 (enabled)
1991
1992 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1993 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1994 Default is 0 (disabled)
1995
1996 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1997 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1998 Default is 1 (enabled)
1999
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03002000 kvm-intel.nested=
2001 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2002 Default is 0 (disabled)
2003
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002004 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2005 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2006 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2007 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2008
2009 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2010 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2011 Default is 1 (enabled)
2012
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002013 l2cr= [PPC]
2014
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11002015 l3cr= [PPC]
2016
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002017 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002018 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002019
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07002020 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2021 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2022 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2023
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302024 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08002025 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01002026
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002027 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2028 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2029 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2030 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002031 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002032 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2033 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002034
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02002035 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2036 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2037 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002038
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04002039 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2040 when set.
2041 Format: <int>
2042
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002043 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2044 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02002045 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002046 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2047 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2048 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2049 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2050 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2051
2052 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2053 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2054 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2055 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2056 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2057 host link and device attached to it.
2058
2059 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2060 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2061 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2062 The following configurations can be forced.
2063
2064 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2065 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2066
2067 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2068
2069 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2070 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2071 allowed.
2072
2073 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2074
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04002075 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2076
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09002077 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2078 and both resets.
2079
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07002080 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2081 hot-unplug link recovery
2082
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02002083 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2084
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02002085 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2086
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08002087 * disable: Disable this device.
2088
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002089 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2090 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2091
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002092 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002093
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002094 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002095 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002096
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002097 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2098 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002099
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002100 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2101 Format: <integer>
2102
2103 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2104 Format: <integer>
2105
2106 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2107 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002108
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002109 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2110 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2111 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2112 number of online CPUs.
2113
2114 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2115 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2116
2117 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2118 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2119
2120 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2121 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2122 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2123
2124 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2125 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2126 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2127 mode during the locktorture test.
2128
2129 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2130 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2131 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2132
2133 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2134 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2135
2136 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2137 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2138 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2139 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2140 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2141 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2142
2143 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2144 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2145
2146 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2147 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2148
2149 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2150 Enable additional printk() statements.
2151
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002152 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2153 Format: <irq>
2154
2155 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2156 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2157 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2158 loglevels are defined as follows:
2159
2160 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2161 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2162 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2163 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2164 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2165 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2166 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2167 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2168
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002169 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002170 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2171 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2172 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2173 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2174 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2175 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002176
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002177 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2178 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2179 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2180 kernel boot problems.
2181
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002182 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2183 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2184 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2185 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2186 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2187 attached printers to be reset. Using
2188 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2189 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2190 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2191 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2192 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2193 port specification list means that device IDs
2194 from each port should be examined, to see if
2195 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2196 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2197 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2198
2199 lpj=n [KNL]
2200 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2201 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2202 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2203 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2204 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2205 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2206 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2207 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2208 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2209 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2210 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2211 hardware.
2212
2213 ltpc= [NET]
2214 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2215
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002216 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002217 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2218 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002219
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002220 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2221 yeeloong laptop.
2222 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2223
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002224 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2225 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002226
2227 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002228 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2229 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2230 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2231 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2232 only takes effect during system bootup.
2233 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2234 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002235
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002236 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2237 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2238 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2239 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2240 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2241 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002242
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002243 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002244
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002245 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002246
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002247 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2248 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002249
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002250 mdacon= [MDA]
2251 Format: <first>,<last>
2252 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002253
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002254 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2255 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2256 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002257 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2258 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2259 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2260 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002261
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002262 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002263 memory.
2264
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002265 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2266 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2267 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2268
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002269 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2270 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2271 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2272 set according to the
2273 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2274 option.
2275 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2276
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302277 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002278 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2279 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2280 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2281 option description.
2282
2283 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002284 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2285 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002286
2287 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2288 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002289 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002290
2291 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2292 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002293 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002294 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2295 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2296 or
2297 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002298
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002299 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2300 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2301 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2302 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2303 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2304
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002305 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2306 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2307 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2308 Setting this option will scan the memory
2309 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2310 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2311 from using the memory being corrupted.
2312 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2313 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2314 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2315 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2316
2317 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2318 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2319 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2320 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2321 corruption in more or less memory.
2322
2323 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2324 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2325 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2326 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2327
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002328 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002329 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002330 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002331 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2332 performed. Each pass selects another test
2333 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2334 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2335 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2336 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002337
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002338 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2339 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2340
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002341 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2342 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2343 platforms.
2344
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002345 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2346 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2347 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2348 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2349
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002350 mga= [HW,DRM]
2351
Randy Dunlap1c207f92008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002352 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2353 physical address is ignored.
2354
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002355 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2356 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2357 Default: "0tb"
2358 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2359 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2360 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2361 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2362 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2363 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2364 unconfigured.
2365 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2366 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2367 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2368 VGA shield.
2369 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2370 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2371 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2372 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2373 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2374 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2375
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002376 mminit_loglevel=
2377 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2378 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2379 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2380 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2381 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2382 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2383
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002384 module.sig_enforce
2385 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2386 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002387 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002388 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2389
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302390 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2391 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2392
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002393 mousedev.tap_time=
2394 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2395 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2396 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2397 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2398 Format: <msecs>
2399 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2400 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2401 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2402 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2403
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302404 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002405 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2406 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2407 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2408 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2409 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2410 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2411 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2412 is not too small.
2413
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002414 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2415 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2416
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002417 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2418 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2419
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002420 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2421 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002422
2423 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002424 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002425
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002426 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2427 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2428 at a time.
2429
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002430 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2431
2432 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2433
2434 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2435 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2436 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2437 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2438 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2439
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002440 mtdset= [ARM]
2441 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2442
2443 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2444
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002445 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002446 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2447 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002448
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002449 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002450 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002451 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2452
2453 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2454 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2455 Default is 1.
2456 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2457 using up MTRRs.
2458
2459 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2460 Format: <integer>
2461 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2462 Default : 1
2463 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2464 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2465
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002466 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2467
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002468 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2469 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2470 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2471 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002472 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2473 file if at all.
2474
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002475 nf_conntrack.acct=
2476 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2477 0 to disable accounting
2478 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002479 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002480
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002481 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002482 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002483
2484 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002485 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002486
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002487 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2488 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2489
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002490 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2491 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2492 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2493 requests.
2494
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002495 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2496 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2497 channel should listen.
2498
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002499 nfs.cache_getent=
2500 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2501 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2502
2503 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2504 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2505 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2506
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002507 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2508 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2509 entries.
2510
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002511 nfs.enable_ino64=
2512 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2513 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2514 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2515 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2516 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2517
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002518 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2519 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2520 slots the client will assign to the callback
2521 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2522 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2523 a particular server.
2524
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002525 nfs.max_session_slots=
2526 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2527 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2528 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2529 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2530 Note that there is little point in setting this
2531 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2532
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002533 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002534 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2535 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2536 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2537 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2538 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2539 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2540 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2541 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2542 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2543 back to using the idmapper.
2544 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002545 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2546 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2547 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2548 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2549 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002550
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002551 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2552 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2553 information in exchange_id requests.
2554 If zero, no implementation identification information
2555 will be sent.
2556 The default is to send the implementation identification
2557 information.
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002558
2559 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2560 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2561 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2562 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2563 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2564 after the locks are lost.
2565 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2566 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2567 parameter to '1'.
2568 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2569 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002570
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002571 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2572 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2573 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2574
2575 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2576 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2577 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2578 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2579
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002580 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2581 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2582 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2583 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2584 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2585 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002586
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002587 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2588 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2589 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2590 osd-targets. Please see:
2591 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2592
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002593 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002594 when a NMI is triggered.
2595 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2596
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302597 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002598 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002599 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002600 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2601 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002602 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002603 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002604 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2605 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002606 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2607 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002608
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002609 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2610 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2611 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2612 waits 4 seconds.
2613
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002614 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002615 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2616 is present.
2617
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002618 no_console_suspend
2619 [HW] Never suspend the console
2620 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2621 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2622 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2623 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2624 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2625 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2626 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002627 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2628 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2629 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2630 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2631 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002632
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002633 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2634 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2635 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002636
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002637 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2638
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002639 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2640 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2641
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002642 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2643
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002644 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2645 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2646
2647 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002648
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002649 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2650
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002651 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2652
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002653 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2654
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002655 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002656
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002657 noexec [IA-64]
2658
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302659 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002660 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002661 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002662 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2663
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002664 nosmap [X86]
2665 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2666 even if it is supported by processor.
2667
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002668 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002669 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002670 even if it is supported by processor.
2671
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002672 noexec32 [X86-64]
2673 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2674 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2675 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2676 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2677 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002678
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002679 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002680
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002681 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002682 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2683 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002684
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002685 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2686
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002687 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2688 Equivalent to smt=1.
2689
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002690 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2691 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2692 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2693
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002694 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2695 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2696 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2697 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2698 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2699 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2700
2701 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2702 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2703 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2704 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2705 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2706 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2707 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2708
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002709 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2710 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2711 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002712
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002713 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2714 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2715 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2716
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002717 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2718 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2719 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2720 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2721 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2722 real-time systems.
2723
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002724 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2725
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002726 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2727 Valid arguments: on, off
2728 Default: on
2729
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002730 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002731 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002732 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002733 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002734 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2735 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002736 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2737 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002738
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002739 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2740
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002741 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002742 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2743
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302744 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002745 broken timer IRQ sources.
2746
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002747 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2748
2749 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2750 initial RAM disk.
2751
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002752 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2753 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002754 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002755
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002756 nointroute [IA-64]
2757
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002758 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2759
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002760 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002761
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002762 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2763
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002764 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2765 fault handling.
2766
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002767 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2768 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2769 behaviour
2770
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002771 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002772
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002773 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002774
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002775 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002776 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002777
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002778 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2779
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002780 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002781
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002782 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2783 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2784
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002785 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2786 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2787 irq.
2788
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002789 nomodule Disable module load
2790
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002791 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2792 pagetables) support.
2793
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002794 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2795 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2796
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002797 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002798
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002799 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002800 with UP alternatives
2801
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002802 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2803 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2804 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2805 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002806
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002807 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2808 space.
2809
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002810 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2811 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2812 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2813
2814 nosbagart [IA-64]
2815
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002816 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002817
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002818 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2819 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002820
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002821 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2822
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002823 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2824
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002825 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002826
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002827 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2828 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002829
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002830 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002831
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002832 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2833
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002834 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2835 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2836 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2837 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2838 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2839 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2840 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2841 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2842 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2843 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2844 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2845 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2846 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2847
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002848 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002849 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2850 SAL PALO.
2851
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002852 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2853 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002854 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2855 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2856 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2857 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2858 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2859 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002860
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002861 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2862
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002863 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2864 Allowed values are enable and disable
2865
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002866 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2867 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2868 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2869 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2870
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002871 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2872 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2873 info.
2874
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002875 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2876 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2877 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2878 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2879 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2880 interrupts *may* be lost!
2881
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002882 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2883 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2884 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2885 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2886
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002887 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2888 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2889
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002890 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2891 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2892 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002893 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2894 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002895 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2896 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002897 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2898 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2899 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002900
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002901 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2902 process, but there is a small probability of
2903 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002904 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2905 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2906
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002907 OSS [HW,OSS]
2908 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2909
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002910 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2911 Storage of the information about who allocated
2912 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2913 we can turn it on.
2914 on: enable the feature
2915
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002916 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2917 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2918 off: turn off poisoning
2919 on: turn on poisoning
2920
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002921 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002922 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2923 timeout = 0: wait forever
2924 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002925 Format: <timeout>
2926
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002927 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2928 on a WARN().
2929
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002930 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2931 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2932 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2933 succeeds in any situation.
2934 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2935 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2936 kernel more unstable.
2937
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002938 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2939 connected to, default is 0.
2940 Format: <parport#>
2941 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2942 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002943 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002944
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002945 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2946 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2947 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2948 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2949 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2950 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2951 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2952 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2953 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2954 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2955 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2956 are specified on the command line, starting
2957 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002958
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002959 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2960 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2961 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2962 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2963 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2964 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002965 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2966
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002967 pause_on_oops=
2968 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2969 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2970 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2971
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002972 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2973
2974 pcd. [PARIDE]
2975 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002976 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002977
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002978 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002979 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2980 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002981 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002982 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002983 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2984 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002985 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002986 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2987 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2988 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002989 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2990 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2991 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2992 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2993 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2994 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2995 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2996 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2997 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2998 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002999 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3000 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3001 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04003002 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3003 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05303004 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08003005 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02003006 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3007 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3008 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07003009 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3010 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3011 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02003012 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3013 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3014 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02003015 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3016 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3017 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3018 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02003019 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3020 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3021 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3022 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003023 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003024 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3025 on several machines and they hang the machine
3026 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3027 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3028 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3029 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3030 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003031 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003032 Use with caution as certain devices share
3033 address decoders between ROMs and other
3034 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003035 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07003036 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3037 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07003038 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3039 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003040 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003041 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3042 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3043 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003044 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003045 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3046 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3047 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003048 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003049 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3050 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3051 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003052 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003053 numbers ourselves, overriding
3054 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003055 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003056 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3057 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3058 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3059 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3060 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003061 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003062 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003063 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3064 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3065 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3066 please report a bug.
3067 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3068 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003069 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3070 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3071 so this option is a temporary workaround
3072 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003073 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3074 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003075 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3076 This might help on some broken boards which
3077 machine check when some devices' config space
3078 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3079 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003080 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3081 This sorting is done to get a device
3082 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3083 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003084 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3085 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3086 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3087 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3088 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3089 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3090 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3091 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3092 or bus can support) for best performance.
3093 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3094 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3095 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3096 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3097 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3098 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003099 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3100 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3101 The default value is 256 bytes.
3102 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3103 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3104 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003105 resource_alignment=
3106 Format:
3107 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003108 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3109 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003110 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3111 aligned memory resources.
3112 If <order of align> is not specified,
3113 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3114 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3115 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003116 To specify the alignment for several
3117 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3118 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3119 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003120 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3121 end-to-end CRC checking).
3122 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3123 the default.
3124 off: Turn ECRC off
3125 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003126 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3127 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3128 Default size is 256 bytes.
3129 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3130 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3131 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003132 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3133 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3134 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003135 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3136 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3137 accommodate resources required by all child
3138 devices.
3139 off: Turn realloc off
3140 on: Turn realloc on
3141 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003142 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003143 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3144 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3145 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003146
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003147 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3148 Management.
3149 off Disable ASPM.
3150 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3151 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3152
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003153 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3154 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3155 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3156
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003157 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003158 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3159 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3160 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3161 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3162 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003163 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3164 ports driver.
3165
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003166 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3167 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3168 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3169
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003170 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003171 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003172 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003173
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003174 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3175
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303176 pd_ignore_unused
3177 [PM]
3178 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3179 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3180 for debug and development, but should not be
3181 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3182
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003183 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003184 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003185
3186 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3187 boot time.
3188 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3189 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3190
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003191 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003192 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3193 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3194 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3195 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3196 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003197
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003198 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003199 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003200
3201 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003202 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003203
3204 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003205 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003206
3207 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3208 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3209 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3210
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003211 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003212 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3213 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3214
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003215 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3216 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3217 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3218 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3219 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3220 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003221
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003222 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3223 { off }
3224
3225 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3226 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3227
3228 pnp_reserve_irq=
3229 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3230
3231 pnp_reserve_dma=
3232 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3233
3234 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003235 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003236
3237 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003238 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3239 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003240 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3241
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003242 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3243 Default is 21.
3244 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3245 may be specified.
3246 Format: <port>,<port>....
3247
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003248 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3249 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3250 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3251 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3252 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3253
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003254 print-fatal-signals=
3255 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003256
3257 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3258 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3259 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3260 coredump - etc.
3261
3262 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3263 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3264
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003265 default: off.
3266
Matthew Garrettc22ab332012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003267 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3268 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3269 panics
3270 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3271 default: disabled
3272
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003273 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3274 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3275 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3276 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3277 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3278 Default: ratelimit
3279
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003280 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3281 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3282
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003283 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3284 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3285 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3286
3287 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3288 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3289 instead using the legacy FADT method
3290
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003291 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003292 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3293 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3294 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3295 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003296 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3297 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003298 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003299
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003300 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3301 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003302 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003303
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003304 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3305 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003306 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3307 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003308 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3309 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003310 (0 = never).
3311 psmouse.resolution=
3312 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3313 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003314 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003315 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3316
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003317 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3318
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003319 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003320 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003321
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003322 pty.legacy_count=
3323 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3324 default number.
3325
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003326 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003327
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003328 r128= [HW,DRM]
3329
3330 raid= [HW,RAID]
3331 See Documentation/md.txt.
3332
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003333 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003334 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003335
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003336 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003337 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3338
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003339 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3340 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3341 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003342 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3343 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3344 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3345 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003346 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3347 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3348 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3349
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003350 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003351 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3352 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3353 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3354 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3355 This improves the real-time response for the
3356 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3357 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3358 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3359 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3360
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003361 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003362 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3363 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003364
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003365 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3366 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3367 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3368 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3369
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003370 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3371 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3372 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3373 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3374
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003375 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3376 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3377 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003378 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3379 is set.
3380
3381 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3382 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3383 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3384 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3385 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3386 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003387
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003388 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3389 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3390 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3391 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3392 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003393
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003394 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003395 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3396 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3397 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3398 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3399 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3400 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003401
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003402 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3403 Set required age in jiffies for a
3404 given grace period before RCU starts
3405 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3406 rcu_note_context_switch().
3407
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003408 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003409 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3410 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3411 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3412 and maximum value is HZ.
3413
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003414 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003415 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3416 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3417 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3418
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003419 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003420 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3421 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3422 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3423 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3424 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3425 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3426 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3427 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3428 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003429
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003430 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3431 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3432 defaults to the square root of the number of
3433 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3434 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3435 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3436
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003437 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003438 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3439 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003440
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003441 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003442 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3443 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003444
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003445 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003446 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3447 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003448
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003449 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003450 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3451 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3452 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3453 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003454
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003455 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3456 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3457 grace-period primitives.
3458
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003459 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3460 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3461 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3462 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3463 interference.
3464
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003465 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3466 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3467 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3468 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3469 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3470 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3471 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3472 a single reader.
3473
3474 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3475 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3476 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3477 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3478
3479 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3480 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3481
3482 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3483 Shut the system down after performance tests
3484 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3485 testing.
3486
3487 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3488 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3489
3490 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3491 Enable additional printk() statements.
3492
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003493 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3494 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3495 callback-flood tests.
3496
3497 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3498 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3499 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3500 test.
3501
3502 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3503 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3504 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3505 disable callback-flood testing.
3506
3507 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3508 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3509 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3510
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003511 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003512 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3513 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003514
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003515 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003516 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3517 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003518
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003519 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003520 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3521 in seconds.
3522
3523 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3524 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3525 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003526
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003527 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003528 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003529
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003530 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003531 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3532 update-side primitives, if available.
3533
3534 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3535 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3536 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3537 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3538 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3539 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3540 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003541
3542 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003543 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3544
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003545 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003546 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3547 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3548 test, hence the "fake".
3549
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003550 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003551 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3552 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3553 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3554 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3555 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003556
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003557 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3558 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3559
3560 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003561 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3562
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003563 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003564 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3565 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3566
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003567 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003568 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3569 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3570 during the rcutorture test.
3571
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003572 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003573 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3574 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3575
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003576 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003577 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3578 warnings, zero to disable.
3579
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003580 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003581 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3582
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003583 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003584 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3585
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003586 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003587 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3588 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3589 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3590 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3591
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003592 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003593 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3594 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3595 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3596
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003597 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003598 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3599
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003600 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003601 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3602
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003603 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003604 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3605 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3606
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003607 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3608 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3609
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003610 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003611 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3612
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003613 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003614 Enable additional printk() statements.
3615
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003616 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3617 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3618
3619 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3620 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3621
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003622 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3623 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3624 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3625 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3626 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3627 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003628 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003629
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003630 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3631 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3632 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3633 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003634 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3635 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3636 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3637 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3638 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003639
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003640 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3641 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3642 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003643 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3644 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003645
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003646 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3647 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3648 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3649 to zero.
3650
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003651 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3652 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3653
3654 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3655 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3656
3657 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3658 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3659
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003660 rdinit= [KNL]
3661 Format: <full_path>
3662 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3663 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3664
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003665 reboot= [KNL]
3666 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3667 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3668 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3669 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3670 [[,]f[orce]
3671 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3672 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3673 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3674 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3675 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003676
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003677 relax_domain_level=
3678 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003679 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003680
Rafael J. Wysocki0399d4d2014-05-26 13:40:59 +02003681 relative_sleep_states=
3682 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3683 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3684 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3685 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3686 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3687
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003688 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3689
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003690 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9af2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003691 Format: nn[KMG]
3692 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3693 address space.
3694
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003695 reservelow= [X86]
3696 Format: nn[K]
3697 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3698 the bottom of the address space.
3699
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003700 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3701 during initialization.
3702
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003703 resume= [SWSUSP]
3704 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003705 Format:
3706 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003707
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003708 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3709 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3710 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3711 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3712 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3713
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003714 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3715 read the resume files
3716
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003717 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3718 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3719 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3720
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003721 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3722 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3723 present during boot.
3724 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003725 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003726 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3727 (that will set all pages holding image data
3728 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003729
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003730 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3731
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003732 rfkill.default_state=
3733 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3734 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3735 1 Unblocked.
3736
3737 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3738 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3739 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3740 blocked and the previous configuration.
3741 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3742 blocked and everything unblocked.
3743
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003744 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3745 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3746
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003747 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3748
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003749 rodata= [KNL]
3750 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3751 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3752
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003753 rockchip.usb_uart
3754 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3755 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3756 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3757 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3758
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003759 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd2011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003760 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003761
3762 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3763 mount the root filesystem
3764
3765 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3766
3767 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3768
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003769 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3770 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3771 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3772
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003773 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3774 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3775 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3776 managed by CMA.
3777
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003778 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3779
3780 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3781
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003782 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3783 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3784 strict
3785 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3786 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3787 which is faster.
3788
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003789 sa1100ir [NET]
3790 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3791
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003792 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003793
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003794 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3795
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003796 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3797 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3798 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3799 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3800
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003801 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3802 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3803 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3804 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3805 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3806 1 -- enable.
3807 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3808 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3809
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003810 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3811 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3812 security module asking for security registration will be
3813 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3814 as if no module has been chosen.
3815
3816 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003817 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3818 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3819 0 -- disable.
3820 1 -- enable.
3821 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3822 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3823 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3824
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003825 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3826 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3827 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3828 0 -- disable.
3829 1 -- enable.
3830 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3831
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003832 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003833
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003834 shapers= [NET]
3835 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003836
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07003837 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3838 Format: { <integer> }
3839 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3840 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3841 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3842
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003843 simeth= [IA-64]
3844 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003845
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003846 slram= [HW,MTD]
3847
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003848 slab_nomerge [MM]
3849 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3850 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3851 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3852 merging on their own.
3853 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3854
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003855 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3856 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3857 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3858 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3859 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3860
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003861 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3862 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3863 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3864 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3865 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3866 last alloc / free. For more information see
3867 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003868
3869 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003870 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3871 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3872 fragmentation. For more information see
3873 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003874
3875 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003876 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3877 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3878 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3879 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3880 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3881 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003882 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3883
3884 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003885 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003886 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003887 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3888
3889 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003890 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3891 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003892
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003893 smart2= [HW]
3894 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3895
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003896 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3897 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3898 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3899 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3900 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3901 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3902 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3903 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3904 1: Fast pin select (default)
3905 2: ATC IRMode
3906
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003907 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3908 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3909 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3910 actual hardware limit.
3911 Format: <integer>
3912 Default: -1 (no limit)
3913
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003914 softlockup_panic=
3915 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003916 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003917
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003918 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3919 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3920 backtraces on all cpus.
3921 Format: <integer>
3922
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003923 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003924 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003925
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003926 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3927 spia_fio_base=
3928 spia_pedr=
3929 spia_peddr=
3930
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003931 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3932 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3933
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003934 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3935 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3936 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3937 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3938 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3939 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3940 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3941
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003942 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3943 Format: <num>
3944 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3945 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3946 as the initial boot-console.
3947 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3948
3949 sti_font= [HW]
3950 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3951
3952 stifb= [HW]
3953 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3954
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003955 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3956 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3957 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3958 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3959 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3960 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3961 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3962 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3963 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3964 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3965 maximum port values.
3966
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04003967 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3968 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3969 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3970 process in parallel from a single connection.
3971 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3972
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003973 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3974 [NFS]
3975 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3976 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3977 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3978 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3979 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3980 NFS server is running.
3981
3982 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3983 automatically using heuristics
3984 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3985 percpu one pool for each CPU
3986 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3987 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3988
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003989 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3990 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3991 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3992 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3993 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3994 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3995 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3996 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3997
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003998 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3999 [SUSPEND]
4000 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4001 mode before resuming the system (see
4002 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4003 is set. Default value is 5.
4004
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004005 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004006 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4007 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004008 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004009
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004010 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4011 Format: { <int> | force }
4012 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4013 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4014 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004015
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004016 switches= [HW,M68k]
4017
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004018 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4019 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4020 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4021 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4022 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4023 in older udev will not work anymore.
4024 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4025 the kernel configuration.
4026
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004027 sysrq_always_enabled
4028 [KNL]
4029 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4030 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4031 Useful for debugging.
4032
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004033 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4034 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4035 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4036 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4037 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4038 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4039
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004040 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4041
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004042 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004043 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004044 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4045 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4046 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4047 The system is woken from this state using a
4048 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004049
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004050 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4051 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4052
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004053 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4054 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4055 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4056
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004057 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4058 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004059 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004060
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004061 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4062 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4063 critical and hot trip points.
4064
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004065 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4066 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4067
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004068 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4069 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004070 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4071 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004072
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004073 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4074 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4075 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4076 0: no polling (default)
4077
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004078 threadirqs [KNL]
4079 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004080 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004081
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004082 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4083 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4084
4085 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4086 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4087 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4088
4089 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4090 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004091 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4092 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004093
4094 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4095 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4096 to the hypervisor.
4097
4098 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4099 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4100 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4101 kernel based on different criteria.
4102
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004103 topology= [S390]
4104 Format: {off | on}
4105 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004106 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4107 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004108 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004109 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004110
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004111 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4112 Format: {off}
4113 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4114 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4115 LPAR.
4116
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004117 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4118
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004119 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4120 Format: integer pcr id
4121 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4122 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4123 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4124 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4125 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4126 are saved.
4127
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004128 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004129 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004130
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004131 trace_event=[event-list]
4132 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004133 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4134 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4135 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004136
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004137 trace_options=[option-list]
4138 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4139 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4140 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4141 to echo the option name into
4142
4143 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4144
4145 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4146 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4147
4148 trace_options=stacktrace
4149
4150 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4151 section.
4152
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004153 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4154 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4155 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4156 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4157 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4158 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4159
4160 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4161 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4162 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4163 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4164
4165 ** CAUTION **
4166
4167 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4168 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4169 the system to live lock.
4170
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004171 traceoff_on_warning
4172 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4173 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4174 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4175 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4176
4177 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4178 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4179 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4180
4181 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4182 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4183
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004184 transparent_hugepage=
4185 [KNL]
4186 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4187 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4188 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4189 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4190
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004191 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004192 Format: <string>
4193 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004194 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4195 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4196 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4197 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004198 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4199 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4200 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4201 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004202
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004203 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4204 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4205 Format:
4206 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004207 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4208
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004209 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4210 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4211 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4212 help "seeing" what's going on.
4213
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004214 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4215 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4216
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004217 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4218 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4219 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4220 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4221 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4222 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4223 reported either.
4224
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004225 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004226 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004227
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004228 usbcore.authorized_default=
4229 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4230 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4231 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4232
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004233 usbcore.autosuspend=
4234 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4235 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4236 is the time required before an idle device will be
4237 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004238 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004239
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004240 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4241 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4242
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004243 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4244 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4245 (default = 65536).
4246
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004247 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4248 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4249
4250 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4251 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4252 scheme (default 0 = off).
4253
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004254 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4255 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4256 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4257
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004258 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4259 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4260 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4261
4262 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4263 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4264 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4265 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4266
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004267 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4268
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004269 usbhid.mousepoll=
4270 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004271
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004272 usb-storage.delay_use=
4273 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004274 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004275
4276 usb-storage.quirks=
4277 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4278 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4279 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4280 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4281 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4282 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4283 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004284 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4285 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004286 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4287 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004288 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4289 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004290 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4291 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4292 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4293 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004294 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4295 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004296 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4297 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004298 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4299 reported device capacity by one
4300 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004301 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4302 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004303 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4304 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004305 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4306 unlock ejectable media);
4307 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4308 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004309 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4310 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004311 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4312 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004313 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4314 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004315 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4316 bogus residue values);
4317 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4318 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004319 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4320 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004321 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004322 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4323 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004324 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4325 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004326 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4327
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004328 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4329 Format: <int>
4330 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4331 1 - undefined instruction events
4332 2 - system calls
4333 4 - invalid data aborts
4334 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4335 16 - SIGBUS faults
4336 Example: user_debug=31
4337
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004338 userpte=
4339 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4340
4341 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4342 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4343 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4344
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304345 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004346 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4347
4348 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004349 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4350
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004351 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4352 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4353 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4354
4355 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4356 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4357 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4358
4359 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4360 alias for vdso32=0.
4361
4362 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4363 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004364
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004365 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4366 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4367
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004368 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4369 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4370
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004371 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4372 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4373 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4374 level and then send out the event to user space through
4375 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4376 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4377 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004378 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004379
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004380 virtio_mmio.device=
4381 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4382
4383 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4384 where:
4385 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4386 like K, M and G)
4387 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4388 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4389 request_irq())
4390 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4391 example:
4392 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4393
4394 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4395
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004396 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004397 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004398 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004399 Use vga=ask for menu.
4400 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4401 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4402
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004403 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004404 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4405 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4406 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4407 mapped kernel RAM.
4408
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004409 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4410 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004411
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004412 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4413 Format: <command>
4414
4415 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4416 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004417
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004418 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4419 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4420 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4421 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4422 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4423 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4424 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4425
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004426 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4427 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004428
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004429 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004430 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4431 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4432 better than they would in emulation mode.
4433 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4434
4435 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4436 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4437 might break your system.
4438
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004439 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4440 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4441 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4442
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004443 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4444 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4445 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4446 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4447
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004448 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4449 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4450 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4451 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4452 ranging from 0-255.
4453
4454 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4455 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4456 Change the default green palette of the console.
4457 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4458 ranging from 0-255.
4459
4460 vt.default_red= [VT]
4461 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4462 Change the default red palette of the console.
4463 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4464 ranging from 0-255.
4465
4466 vt.default_utf8=
4467 [VT]
4468 Format=<0|1>
4469 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4470 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4471 newly opened terminals.
4472
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004473 vt.global_cursor_default=
4474 [VT]
4475 Format=<-1|0|1>
4476 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4477 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4478 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4479 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4480 cursors, 1 will display them.
4481
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004482 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4483 Default: 2 = green.
4484
4485 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4486 Default: 3 = cyan.
4487
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004488 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4489 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4490 or other driver-specific files in the
4491 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004492
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004493 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4494 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4495 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4496 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4497 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4498 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4499 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4500 corresponding sysfs file.
4501
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004502 workqueue.disable_numa
4503 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4504 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4505 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4506 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4507 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4508 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4509 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4510
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304511 workqueue.power_efficient
4512 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4513 they show better performance thanks to cache
4514 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4515 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4516
4517 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4518 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4519 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4520 power usage at the cost of small performance
4521 overhead.
4522
4523 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4524 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4525
Tejun Heof303fcc2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004526 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4527 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4528 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4529 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4530 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4531 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4532 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4533 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4534 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4535 impacted.
4536
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004537 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4538 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4539 supporting x2apic.
4540
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004541 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4542 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004543 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4544 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004545 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004546
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004547 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4548 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4549 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4550 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4551 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4552 domains.
4553
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004554 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4555 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4556 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4557 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4558 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4559 nics -- unplug network devices
4560 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004561 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4562 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4563 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004564 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004565
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004566 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4567 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4568 optimizations.
4569
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004570 xen_nopv [X86]
4571 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4572 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4573
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004574 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004575 Format:
4576 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004577
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004578______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004579
4580TODO:
4581
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004582 Add more DRM drivers.