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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 Zhengc1e94142017-04-04 19:32:17 +0000309 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
310 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
311 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
312 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
313 the GPE dispatcher.
314 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
315 GPE floodings.
316 Format: <int>
317 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
318
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800319 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
320 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800321 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
322 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
323 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800324 This feature is enabled by default.
325 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800326
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200327 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
328 kernels.
329
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800330 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
331 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
332 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
333 installed automatically and they will appear under
334 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
335 This option turns off this feature.
336 Note that specifying this option does not affect
337 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
338 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700339
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200340 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
341 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
342 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
343 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800344
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700345 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
346 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
347
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200348 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
349 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
350 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
351 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
352 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
353
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700354 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800355 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
356 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800357 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800358 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
359 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800360 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
361 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700362 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
363
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800364 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
365 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
366 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
367 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
368 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
369 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
370 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800371 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
372 care about the state of the feature group strings which
373 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800374 Examples:
375 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
376 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
377 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
378
379 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
380 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
381 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
382 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
383 multiple times through kernel command line is also
384 meaningless.
385 Examples:
386 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
387 FALSE.
388
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800389 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
390 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
391 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
392 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
393 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
394 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
395 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
396 there are quirks related to this string. This command
397 is useful when one want to control the state of the
398 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
399 the OSPM features.
400 Examples:
401 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
402 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
403 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
404 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
405 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
406 equivalent to
407 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
408 and
409 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
410 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
411
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530412 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700413 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
414 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
415 and always returns good values.
416
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700417 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
418 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
419
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700420 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
421 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
422 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
423
424 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
425 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200426 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700427 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
428 s3_bios and s3_mode.
429 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
430 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
431 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
432 used during resume from hibernation.
433 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
434 control method, with respect to putting devices into
435 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
436 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200437 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
438 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800439 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
440 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
441 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700442
443 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
444 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
445 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
446
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700447 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
448 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
449
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700450 agp= [AGP]
451 { off | try_unsupported }
452 off: disable AGP support
453 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
454 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
455
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700456 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
457 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
458
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000459 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
460 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
461 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
462 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
463
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200464 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
465 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
466 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
467 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
468 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
469 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
470 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
471
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100472 32: only for 32-bit processes
473 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200474 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
475 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
476
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500477 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
478 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
479 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
480 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
481 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
482 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
483
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100484 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200485 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
486 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900487 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
488 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
489 flushed before they will be reused, which
490 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200491 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
492 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100493 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
494 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
495 allowed anymore to lift isolation
496 requirements as needed. This option
497 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900498
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600499 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
500 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
501 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
502 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
503 IOMMU initialization.
504
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500505 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
506 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
507 remapping modes:
508 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
509 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
510 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
511 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
512 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
513
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700514 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
515 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
516 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200517 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700518
519 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
520 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
521 connected to one of 16 gameports
522 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
523
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700524 apc= [HW,SPARC]
525 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700526 Format: noidle
527 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
528 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
529 APC and your system crashes randomly.
530
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700531 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700532 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700533 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
534 Change the amount of debugging information output
535 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700536
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100537 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
538 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
539 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
540 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
541 backup of CPU 0
542 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
543 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
544 shot down by NMI
545
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800546 autoconf= [IPV6]
547 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
548
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400549 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
550 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
551 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
552 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
553 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
554 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
555 apic=verbose is specified.
556 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
557
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700558 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700559 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700560
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700561 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
562 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
563
564 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
565
566 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
567
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700568 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
569 EzKey and similar keyboards
570
571 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
572
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700573 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
574 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700575
576 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
577 keyboards
578
579 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
580 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700581
582 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
583 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700584
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400585 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
586 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500587 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
588 until the next reboot
589 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
590 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
591 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
592 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
593 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
594 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400595 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400596
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400597 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
598 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
599 Default: 64
600
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500601 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
602 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
603 Format: { "0" | "1" }
604 0 - Disable the BAU.
605 1 - Enable the BAU.
606 unset - Disable the BAU.
607
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700608 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
609 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700610
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700611 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
612 Format: <io>,<mode>
613 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
614
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700615 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
616 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700617 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
618 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
619
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700620 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
621 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700622 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
623 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
624
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700625 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
626 embedded devices based on command line input.
627 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
628
Channagoud Kadabi85b8fdf2016-08-30 15:08:28 -0700629 boot_cpus= [SMP]
630 Rather than attempting to online all possible CPUs at
631 boot time, only online the specified set of CPUs.
632
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700633 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
634 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
635 no delay (0).
636 Format: integer
637
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700638 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
639
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700640 bert_disable [ACPI]
641 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
642
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700643 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700644 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
645 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700646 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200647 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700648
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000649 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
650 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
651 at a time.
652
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700653 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
654
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700655 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700656 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
657 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
658 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
659 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
660 This option provides an override for these situations.
661
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300662 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
663 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
664 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300665 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300666
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700667 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
668 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
669 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
670 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
671 others).
672
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100673 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
674 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700675
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700676 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
677 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800678 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
679 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
680 a single hierarchy
681 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
682 subsystem
683 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
684 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
685 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700686
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500687 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
688 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
689 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
690 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
691
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800692 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
693 Format: <string>
694 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800695 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800696
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700697 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
698 Format: { "0" | "1" }
699 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700700 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
701 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700702 1 -- check protection requested by application.
703 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700704 Value can be changed at runtime via
705 /selinux/checkreqprot.
706
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100707 cio_ignore= [S390]
708 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700709 clk_ignore_unused
710 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700711 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
712 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
713 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
714 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
715 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
716 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
717 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
718 platform with proper driver support. For more
719 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100720
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700721 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700722 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200723 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700724 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200725 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700726 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
727
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700728 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700729 Format: <string>
730 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
731 with the name specified.
732 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
733 the platform:
734 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
735 [ACPI] acpi_pm
736 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
737 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
738 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700739 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700740 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
741 [MIPS] MIPS
742 [PARISC] cr16
743 [S390] tod
744 [SH] SuperH
745 [SPARC64] tick
746 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
747
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100748 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
749 [ARM,ARM64]
750 Format: <bool>
751 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
752 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
753 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
754 systems.
755
Scott Woodf6dc1572016-09-22 03:35:17 -0500756 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
757 [ARM64]
758 Format: <bool>
759 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
760 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
761 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
762 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
763 enabled based on the device tree.
764
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100765 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
766 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100767 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800768 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100769 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
770 ones should be.
771 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
772 or using the feature without checking anything
773 will still see it. This just prevents it from
774 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
775 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
776 some critical bits.
777
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700778 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
779 [ARM,X86,KNL]
780 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
781 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
782 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700783 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
784 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100785 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
786
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000787 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
788 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
789 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
790 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
791 a hypervisor.
792 Default: yes
793
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100794 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
795 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200796 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100797
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530798 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100799 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100800 Range: 0 - 8192
801 Default: 64
802
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700803 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700804 Format:
805 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700806
807 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
808 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
809
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700810 com90xx= [HW,NET]
811 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700812 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
813
814 condev= [HW,S390] console device
815 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700816
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700817 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
818
819 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
820
821 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800822 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700823 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800824 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
825 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
826 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
827 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700828
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800829 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
830 information. See
831 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
832 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700833
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700834 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
835 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900836 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400837 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
838 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700839 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
840 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400841 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
842 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900843 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
844 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
845 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
846 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400847 the h/w is not re-initialized.
848
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500849 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
850 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700851
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700852 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
853 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
854 console=brl,ttyS0
855 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
856
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700857 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
858 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
859 disables the blank timer.
860
Pavankumar Kondeti1e951a72017-03-21 14:00:09 +0530861 core_ctl_disable_cpumask= [SMP]
862 Exempt the CPUs from being managed by core_ctl.
863 core_ctl operates on a cluster basis. So all the
864 CPUs in a given cluster must be specified to disable
865 core_ctl for that cluster.
866
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800867 coredump_filter=
868 [KNL] Change the default value for
869 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
870 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
871
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400872 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
873 disable the cpuidle sub-system
874
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400875 cpu_init_udelay=N
876 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
877 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
878 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
879 Default: 10000
880
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700881 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700882 Format:
883 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700884
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800885 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
886 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
887 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
888 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
889 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
890 is selected automatically. Check
891 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700892
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700893 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
894 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
895 in the running system. The syntax of range is
896 start-[end] where start and end are both
897 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800898 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700899
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700900 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700901 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
902 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
903 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
904 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
905 available.
906 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700907 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
908 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
909 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700910 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
911 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800912 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
913 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
914 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
915 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700916 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
917 for second kernel instead.
918 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700919 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700920 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700921
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100922 cryptomgr.notests
923 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
924
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700925 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
926 Format: <dma>
927
928 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
929 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700930
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700931 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700932 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
933
934 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
935 (one device per port)
936 Format: <port#>,<type>
937 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
938
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200939 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
940 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600941 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200942
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700943 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
944
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700945 debug_locks_verbose=
946 [KNL] verbose self-tests
947 Format=<0|1>
948 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
949 self-tests.
950 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
951 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
952 only useful to kernel developers.
953
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700954 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
955
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500956 no_debug_objects
957 [KNL] Disable object debugging
958
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc52012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800959 debug_guardpage_minorder=
960 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
961 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
962 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
963 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
964 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
965 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
966 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
967 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
968 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
969 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
970 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
971 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
972 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
973 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
974 bypassed) which are not detectable by
975 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
976 tracking down these problems.
977
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800978 debug_pagealloc=
979 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
980 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
981 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
982 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
983 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
984 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
985 on: enable the feature
986
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200987 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
988
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200989 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700990 Format: <area>[,<node>]
991 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
992
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700993 default_hugepagesz=
994 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
995 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
996 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
997 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
998 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
999 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -07001000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001001 dhash_entries= [KNL]
1002 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001003
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +10001004 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1005 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1006 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1007 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1008 miss to occur.
1009
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -08001010 disable= [IPV6]
1011 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1012
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +05301013 disable_radix [PPC]
1014 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1015
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +09001016 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1017 Format: <int>
1018 The number of initial APIC ID for the
1019 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1020 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1021 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1022 causing system reset or hang due to sending
1023 INIT from AP to BSP.
1024
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +00001025 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
1026 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
1027 to workaround buggy firmware.
1028
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -08001029 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1030 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1031
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001032 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001033 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1034 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001035 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001036
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +01001037 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +01001038 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1039 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1040 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1041 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1042
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301043 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001044 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1045 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1046
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -04001047 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1048
Will Drewry077d23c2010-06-09 17:47:38 -05001049 dm= [DM] Allows early creation of a device-mapper device.
1050 See Documentation/device-mapper/boot.txt.
1051
1052 dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buff
1053
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001054 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1055 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1056
1057 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1058 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1059 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1060 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1061 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1062 architectural default is too low.
1063
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +02001064 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1065 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1066 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1067 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1068 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1069 driver later using sysfs.
1070
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001071 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1072 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1073 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1074 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1075 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001076 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1077 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1078 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1079 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1080 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1081 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
1082 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1083 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001084 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1085 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1086 data set with no connector name will be used for
1087 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001088
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001089 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1090
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -06001091 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1092 module.dyndbg[="val"]
1093 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1094 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
1095
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -07001096 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
1097 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
1098 information about the feature.
1099
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -08001100 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1101 in some Intel CPUs.
1102
Borislav Petkovf29ba612015-03-27 16:15:18 +01001103 eagerfpu= [X86]
1104 on enable eager fpu restore
1105 off disable eager fpu restore
1106 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
1107 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
1108
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -07001109 module.async_probe [KNL]
1110 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1111
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -07001112 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1113 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1114 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1115 which are not unmapped.
1116
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001117 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001118
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -05001119 When used with no options, the early console is
1120 determined by the stdout-path property in device
1121 tree's chosen node.
1122
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +01001123 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1124 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1125 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1126 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1127 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1128 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +02001129
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001130 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1131 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -07001132 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001133 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001134 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001135 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1136 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001137 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001138 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1139 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1140 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1141 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001142 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001143
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001144 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001145 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001146 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1147 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1148 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001149 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1150 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1151 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001152
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +01001153 meson,<addr>
1154 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1155 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1156 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1157 supported.
1158
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -07001159 msm_serial,<addr>
1160 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1161 port at the specified address. The serial port
1162 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1163 yet supported.
1164
1165 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1166 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1167 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1168 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1169 yet supported.
1170
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -05001171 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1172
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +01001173 s3c2410,<addr>
1174 s3c2412,<addr>
1175 s3c2440,<addr>
1176 s3c6400,<addr>
1177 s5pv210,<addr>
1178 exynos4210,<addr>
1179 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1180 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1181 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1182 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1183 Options are not yet supported.
1184
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001185 lpuart,<addr>
1186 lpuart32,<addr>
1187 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1188 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1189 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1190 port must already be setup and configured.
1191
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001192 armada3700_uart,<addr>
1193 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1194 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1195 address. The serial port must already be setup
1196 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1197
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +10001198 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001199 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001200 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001201 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001202 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001203 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001204 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001205 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001206 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001207
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001208 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1209 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1210 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1211
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001212 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001213 takes over.
1214
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001215 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1216 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001217
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001218 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1219 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1220 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1221 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1222 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1223 You can find the port for a given device in
1224 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1225 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001226
1227 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1228 very good.
1229
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001230 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1231 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001232
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001233 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1234
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001235 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1236 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1237 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1238 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1239 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1240 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1241 default: on.
1242
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001243 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1244 ekgdboc=kbd
1245
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001246 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001247 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1248
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001249 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001250 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001251
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001252 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001253 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001254 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1255 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1256 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001257 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1258 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1259 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001260 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001261 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001262
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001263 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1264 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1265 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1266 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1267 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1268
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001269 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1270 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1271 updating original EFI memory map.
1272 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1273 from ss to ss+nn.
1274 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1275 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1276 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1277 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1278
1279 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1280 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1281 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1282 doesn't support it.
1283
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001284 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1285 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1286 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1287 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1288 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1289
1290
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001291 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1292 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1293
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001294 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001295 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001296 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001297
1298 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001299 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001300 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001301 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1302
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001303 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001304 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001305 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1306 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001307 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001308
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001309 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1310 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1311 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1312 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1313
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001314 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001315 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1316 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1317 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1318 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1319
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001320 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1321 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1322 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1323 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1324 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1325 Default value is 0.
1326 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1327
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001328 erst_disable [ACPI]
1329 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1330 support.
1331
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001332 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1333 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1334 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1335
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001336 evm= [EVM]
1337 Format: { "fix" }
1338 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1339 current integrity status.
1340
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001341 failslab=
1342 fail_page_alloc=
1343 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1344 General fault injection mechanism.
1345 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001346 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001347
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001348 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001349 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001350
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001351 force_pal_cache_flush
1352 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1353 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1354 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1355 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1356
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001357 forcepae [X86-32]
1358 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1359 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1360 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1361 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1362 and may cause unknown problems.
1363
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001364 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001365 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001366 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1367 boot debugging.
1368
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001369 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001370 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001371 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1372 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1373 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1374 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001375
1376 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1377 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1378 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1379 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1380 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001381 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001382
1383 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1384 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1385 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1386 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1387 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001388
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001389 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1390 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1391 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1392 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1393 that can be changed at run time by the
1394 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1395
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001396 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1397 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1398 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1399 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1400 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1401
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001402 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1403 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1404 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1405 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1406 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1407
1408 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1409
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001410 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1411 Format: off | on
1412 default: on
1413
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001414 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1415 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1416 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1417 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1418 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1419
Thomas Gleixner2709c2a2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001420 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1421 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1422 android emulator
1423
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001424 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001425 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1426 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1427 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001428
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001429 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1430 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1431 Format: 0 | 1
1432 Default: 0
1433 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1434 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1435 Format: 0 | 1
1436 Default: 0
1437 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1438 Format: 0 | 1
1439 Default: 0
1440 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1441 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1442 Default: 1024
1443 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1444 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1445 Default: 1024
1446
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001447 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1448 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1449 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1450
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001451 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1452 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1453 backtraces on all cpus.
1454 Format: <integer>
1455
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001456 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1457 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001458 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001459 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001460
1461 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1462
1463 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1464 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1465
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001466 hest_disable [ACPI]
1467 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1468 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1469 logic will be disabled.
1470
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001471 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1472 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1473 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1474 size on bigger boxes.
1475
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001476 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1477 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1478 Default: "on"
1479
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001480 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1481 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1482
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001483 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1484
1485 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1486 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1487 verbose }
1488 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1489 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1490 VIA, nVidia)
1491 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1492
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001493 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1494 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1495
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001496 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1497 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001498 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1499 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1500 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1501 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001502 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001503
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001504 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1505 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001506 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1507 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1508 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001509
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001510 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1511 hardware thread id mappings.
1512 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1513
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001514 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1515 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1516 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1517 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1518 the real console.
1519
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001520 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001521 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1522 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001523 Format:
1524 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1525
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001526 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001527 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1528 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1529 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1530 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001531 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001532 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1533 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001534 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1535 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001536 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001537 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1538 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001539 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001540 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001541 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1542 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001543 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e1922016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001544 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1545 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1546 transitions, or never reset
1547 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1548 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1549 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1550 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1551 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001552 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001553 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001554
1555 i810= [HW,DRM]
1556
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001557 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1558 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1559 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001560 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1561 does not match list of supported models.
1562 i8k.power_status
1563 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1564 (disabled by default)
1565 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1566 capability is set.
1567
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001568 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001569 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1570 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001571 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1572 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1573 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1574 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1575 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1576 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1577 value switches the backlight off.
1578 -1 -- never invert brightness
1579 0 -- machine default
1580 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001581
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001582 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1583 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1584
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001585 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1586 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001587 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1588 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001589 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001590
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001591 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1592 Format: <int>
1593 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1594 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1595 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1596 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1597 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1598 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1599 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1600 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1601 was 0x3.
1602
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001603 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1604 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1605
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001606 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001607 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001608 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1609 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1610 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1611 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001612 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001613 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001614 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001615
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001616 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1617 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1618 Default: strict
1619
1620 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1621 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1622 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1623 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1624 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1625 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1626 encoding mode.
1627
1628 Available settings are as follows:
1629 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1630 supported by the FPU
1631 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1632 by the FPU
1633 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1634 by the FPU
1635 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1636 supported by the FPU
1637
1638 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1639 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1640 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1641 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1642 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1643 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1644 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1645 MIPS64 CPUs.
1646
1647 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1648 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1649 except where unsupported by hardware.
1650
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001651 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1652 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1653 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001654 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1655 could change it dynamically, usually by
1656 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001657
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001658 ignore_rlimit_data
1659 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1660 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1661 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1662
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001663 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1664 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1665
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001666 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001667 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001668 default: "enforce"
1669
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001670 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1671 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1672 owned by uid=0.
1673
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001674 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001675 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1676 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001677 default: "sha1"
1678
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001679 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1680 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1681
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001682 ima_policy= [IMA]
1683 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1684 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1685 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1686 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1687 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1688 Format: "tcb"
1689
1690 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001691 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1692 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1693 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1694 opened for read by uid=0.
1695
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001696 ima_template= [IMA]
1697 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001698 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001699 Default: "ima-ng"
1700
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001701 ima_template_fmt=
1702 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1703 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1704
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001705 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1706 Format: <min_file_size>
1707 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1708 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1709
1710 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1711 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1712 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1713
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001714 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1715 Format: <bufsize>
1716 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1717
1718 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1719 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1720 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1721
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001722 init= [KNL]
1723 Format: <full_path>
1724 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1725 process.
1726
1727 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1728 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1729 startup.
1730
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001731 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1732 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1733 modules and initcalls.
1734
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001735 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1736
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001737 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1738 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1739 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1740 override in debugfs after boot.
1741
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001742 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1743 Format: <irq>
1744
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001745 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1746
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001747 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1748 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1749 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1750 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1751
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001752 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001753 on
1754 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001755 off
1756 Disable intel iommu driver.
1757 igfx_off [Default Off]
1758 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1759 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1760 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1761 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1762 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001763 forcedac [x86_64]
1764 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001765 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001766 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001767 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1768 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001769 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001770 strict [Default Off]
1771 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1772 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1773 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001774 sp_off [Default Off]
1775 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1776 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1777 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001778 ecs_off [Default Off]
1779 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1780 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1781 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1782 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1783 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001784
1785 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1786 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001787 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001788
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001789 intel_pstate= [X86]
1790 disable
1791 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1792 scaling driver for the supported processors
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001793 force
1794 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1795 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1796 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1797 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1798 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1799 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1800 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1801 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001802 no_hwp
1803 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1804 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001805 hwp_only
1806 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1807 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001808 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001809 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1810 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1811 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1812 then this feature is turned on by default.
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001813
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001814 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001815 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1816 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1817 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001818 no_x2apic_optout
1819 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001820 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001821
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001822 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1823 strict regions from userspace.
1824 relaxed
1825
1826 iommu= [x86]
1827 off
1828 force
1829 noforce
1830 biomerge
1831 panic
1832 nopanic
1833 merge
1834 nomerge
1835 forcesac
1836 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001837 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001838 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1839 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001840
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001841
1842 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1843 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1844 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1845
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301846 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001847 0x80
1848 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1849 0xed
1850 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001851 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001852 Simple two microseconds delay
1853 none
1854 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001855
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001856 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001857 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001858
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001859 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001860 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001861
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001862 irqfixup [HW]
1863 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1864 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1865 firmware running.
1866
1867 irqpoll [HW]
1868 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1869 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1870 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1871 firmware running.
1872
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001873 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001874 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001875
1876 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001877 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001878
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001879 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1880 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001881 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1882 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001883 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1884 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1885
1886 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001887 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1888 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1889 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001890
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001891 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001892
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001893 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1894 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1895 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1896 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1897 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1898 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1899
1900 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1901 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1902 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1903 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1904 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1905 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1906
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001907 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1908 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1909 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1910 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1911 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1912 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1913
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001914 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1915 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1916
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001917 nokaslr [KNL]
1918 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1919 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1920 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001921
Mark Rutland586b2bd2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001922 kasan_multi_shot
1923 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1924 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1925 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1926 invalid access.
1927
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001928 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1929
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001930 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1931 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1932 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001933 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1934 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1935 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1936 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1937 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1938 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1939 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001940 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001941 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1942 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1943 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1944 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1945 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1946 zone if it does not.
1947
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001948 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1949 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1950 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1951 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1952 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1953 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1954 time.
1955
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001956 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1957 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1958 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1959 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1960 optional and is the number seconds in between
1961 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1962 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1963 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1964 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1965 the kernel debugger.
1966
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001967 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001968 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1969 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001970 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1971 keyboard only format: kbd
1972 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1973 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1974 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1975 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001976
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001977 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1978 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1979
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001980 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1981 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1982 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1983
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001984 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1985 Valid arguments: on, off
1986 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001987 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1988 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001989
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001990 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1991 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1992 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1993 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1994 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1995 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1996
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301997 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001998 in oops dumps.
1999
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002000 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2001 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2002
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08002003 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2004 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002005 Default is 0 (off)
2006
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002007 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08002008 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002009
2010 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2011 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002012 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002013
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002014 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2015 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2016 Default is 1 (enabled)
2017
2018 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2019 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2020 Default is 0 (disabled)
2021
2022 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2023 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2024 Default is 1 (enabled)
2025
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03002026 kvm-intel.nested=
2027 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2028 Default is 0 (disabled)
2029
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002030 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2031 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2032 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2033 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2034
2035 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2036 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2037 Default is 1 (enabled)
2038
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002039 l2cr= [PPC]
2040
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11002041 l3cr= [PPC]
2042
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002043 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002044 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002045
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07002046 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2047 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2048 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2049
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302050 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08002051 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01002052
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002053 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2054 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2055 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2056 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002057 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002058 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2059 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002060
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02002061 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2062 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2063 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002064
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04002065 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2066 when set.
2067 Format: <int>
2068
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002069 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2070 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02002071 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002072 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2073 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2074 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2075 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2076 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2077
2078 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2079 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2080 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2081 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2082 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2083 host link and device attached to it.
2084
2085 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2086 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2087 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2088 The following configurations can be forced.
2089
2090 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2091 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2092
2093 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2094
2095 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2096 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2097 allowed.
2098
2099 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2100
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04002101 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2102
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09002103 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2104 and both resets.
2105
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07002106 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2107 hot-unplug link recovery
2108
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02002109 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2110
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02002111 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2112
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08002113 * disable: Disable this device.
2114
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002115 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2116 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2117
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002118 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002119
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002120 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002121 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002122
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002123 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2124 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002125
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002126 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2127 Format: <integer>
2128
2129 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2130 Format: <integer>
2131
2132 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2133 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002134
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002135 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2136 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2137 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2138 number of online CPUs.
2139
2140 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2141 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2142
2143 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2144 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2145
2146 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2147 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2148 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2149
2150 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2151 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2152 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2153 mode during the locktorture test.
2154
2155 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2156 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2157 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2158
2159 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2160 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2161
2162 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2163 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2164 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2165 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2166 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2167 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2168
2169 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2170 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2171
2172 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2173 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2174
2175 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2176 Enable additional printk() statements.
2177
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002178 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2179 Format: <irq>
2180
2181 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2182 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2183 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2184 loglevels are defined as follows:
2185
2186 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2187 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2188 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2189 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2190 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2191 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2192 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2193 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2194
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002195 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002196 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2197 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2198 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2199 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2200 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2201 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002202
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002203 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2204 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2205 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2206 kernel boot problems.
2207
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002208 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2209 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2210 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2211 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2212 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2213 attached printers to be reset. Using
2214 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2215 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2216 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2217 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2218 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2219 port specification list means that device IDs
2220 from each port should be examined, to see if
2221 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2222 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2223 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2224
2225 lpj=n [KNL]
2226 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2227 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2228 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2229 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2230 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2231 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2232 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2233 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2234 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2235 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2236 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2237 hardware.
2238
2239 ltpc= [NET]
2240 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2241
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002242 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002243 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2244 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002245
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002246 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2247 yeeloong laptop.
2248 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2249
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002250 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2251 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002252
2253 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002254 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2255 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2256 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2257 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2258 only takes effect during system bootup.
2259 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2260 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002261
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002262 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2263 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2264 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2265 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2266 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2267 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002268
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002269 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002270
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002271 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002272
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002273 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2274 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002275
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002276 mdacon= [MDA]
2277 Format: <first>,<last>
2278 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002279
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002280 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2281 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2282 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002283 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2284 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2285 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2286 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002287
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002288 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002289 memory.
2290
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002291 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2292 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2293 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2294
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002295 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2296 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2297 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2298 set according to the
2299 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2300 option.
2301 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2302
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302303 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002304 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2305 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2306 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2307 option description.
2308
2309 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002310 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2311 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002312
2313 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2314 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002315 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002316
2317 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2318 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002319 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002320 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2321 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2322 or
2323 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002324
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002325 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2326 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2327 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2328 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2329 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2330
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002331 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2332 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2333 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2334 Setting this option will scan the memory
2335 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2336 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2337 from using the memory being corrupted.
2338 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2339 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2340 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2341 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2342
2343 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2344 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2345 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2346 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2347 corruption in more or less memory.
2348
2349 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2350 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2351 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2352 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2353
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002354 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002355 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002356 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002357 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2358 performed. Each pass selects another test
2359 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2360 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2361 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2362 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002363
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002364 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2365 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2366
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002367 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2368 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2369 platforms.
2370
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002371 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2372 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2373 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2374 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2375
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002376 mga= [HW,DRM]
2377
Randy Dunlap1c207f92008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002378 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2379 physical address is ignored.
2380
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002381 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2382 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2383 Default: "0tb"
2384 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2385 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2386 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2387 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2388 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2389 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2390 unconfigured.
2391 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2392 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2393 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2394 VGA shield.
2395 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2396 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2397 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2398 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2399 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2400 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2401
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002402 mminit_loglevel=
2403 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2404 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2405 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2406 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2407 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2408 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2409
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002410 module.sig_enforce
2411 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2412 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002413 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002414 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2415
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302416 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2417 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2418
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002419 mousedev.tap_time=
2420 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2421 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2422 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2423 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2424 Format: <msecs>
2425 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2426 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2427 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2428 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2429
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302430 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002431 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2432 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2433 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2434 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2435 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2436 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2437 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2438 is not too small.
2439
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002440 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2441 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2442
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002443 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2444 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2445
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002446 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2447 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002448
2449 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002450 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002451
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002452 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2453 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2454 at a time.
2455
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002456 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2457
2458 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2459
2460 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2461 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2462 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2463 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2464 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2465
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002466 mtdset= [ARM]
2467 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2468
2469 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2470
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002471 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002472 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2473 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002474
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002475 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002476 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002477 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2478
2479 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2480 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2481 Default is 1.
2482 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2483 using up MTRRs.
2484
2485 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2486 Format: <integer>
2487 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2488 Default : 1
2489 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2490 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2491
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002492 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2493
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002494 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2495 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2496 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2497 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002498 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2499 file if at all.
2500
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002501 nf_conntrack.acct=
2502 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2503 0 to disable accounting
2504 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002505 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002506
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002507 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002508 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002509
2510 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002511 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002512
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002513 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2514 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2515
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002516 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2517 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2518 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2519 requests.
2520
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002521 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2522 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2523 channel should listen.
2524
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002525 nfs.cache_getent=
2526 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2527 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2528
2529 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2530 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2531 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2532
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002533 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2534 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2535 entries.
2536
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002537 nfs.enable_ino64=
2538 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2539 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2540 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2541 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2542 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2543
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002544 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2545 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2546 slots the client will assign to the callback
2547 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2548 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2549 a particular server.
2550
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002551 nfs.max_session_slots=
2552 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2553 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2554 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2555 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2556 Note that there is little point in setting this
2557 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2558
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002559 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002560 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2561 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2562 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2563 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2564 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2565 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2566 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2567 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2568 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2569 back to using the idmapper.
2570 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002571 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2572 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2573 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2574 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2575 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002576
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002577 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2578 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2579 information in exchange_id requests.
2580 If zero, no implementation identification information
2581 will be sent.
2582 The default is to send the implementation identification
2583 information.
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002584
2585 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2586 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2587 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2588 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2589 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2590 after the locks are lost.
2591 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2592 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2593 parameter to '1'.
2594 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2595 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002596
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002597 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2598 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2599 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2600
2601 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2602 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2603 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2604 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2605
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002606 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2607 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2608 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2609 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2610 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2611 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002612
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002613 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2614 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2615 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2616 osd-targets. Please see:
2617 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2618
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002619 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002620 when a NMI is triggered.
2621 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2622
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302623 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002624 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002625 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002626 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2627 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002628 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002629 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002630 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2631 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002632 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2633 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002634
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002635 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2636 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2637 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2638 waits 4 seconds.
2639
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002640 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002641 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2642 is present.
2643
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002644 no_console_suspend
2645 [HW] Never suspend the console
2646 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2647 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2648 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2649 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2650 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2651 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2652 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002653 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2654 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2655 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2656 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2657 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002658
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002659 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2660 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2661 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002662
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002663 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2664
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002665 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2666 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2667
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002668 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2669
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002670 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2671 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2672
2673 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002674
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002675 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2676
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002677 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2678
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002679 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2680
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002681 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002682
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002683 noexec [IA-64]
2684
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302685 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002686 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002687 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002688 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2689
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002690 nosmap [X86]
2691 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2692 even if it is supported by processor.
2693
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002694 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002695 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002696 even if it is supported by processor.
2697
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002698 noexec32 [X86-64]
2699 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2700 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2701 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2702 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2703 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002704
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002705 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002706
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002707 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002708 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2709 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002710
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002711 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2712
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002713 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2714 Equivalent to smt=1.
2715
David Woodhouse8f96937ee2018-01-11 21:46:26 +00002716 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2717 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2718 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2719 to spectre_v2=off.
2720
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002721 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2722 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2723 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2724
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002725 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2726 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2727 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2728 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2729 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2730 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2731
2732 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2733 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2734 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2735 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2736 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2737 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2738 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2739
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002740 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2741 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2742 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002743
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002744 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2745 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2746 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2747
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002748 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2749 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2750 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2751 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2752 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2753 real-time systems.
2754
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002755 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2756
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002757 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2758 Valid arguments: on, off
2759 Default: on
2760
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002761 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002762 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002763 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002764 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002765 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2766 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002767 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2768 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002769
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002770 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2771
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002772 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002773 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2774
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302775 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002776 broken timer IRQ sources.
2777
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002778 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2779
2780 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2781 initial RAM disk.
2782
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002783 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2784 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002785 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002786
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002787 nointroute [IA-64]
2788
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002789 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2790
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002791 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002792
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002793 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2794
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002795 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2796 fault handling.
2797
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002798 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2799 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2800 behaviour
2801
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002802 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002803
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002804 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002805
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002806 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002807 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002808
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002809 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2810
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002811 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002812
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002813 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2814 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2815
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002816 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2817 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2818 irq.
2819
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002820 nomodule Disable module load
2821
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002822 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2823 pagetables) support.
2824
Andy Lutomirskie6a29322017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002825 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2826
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002827 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2828 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2829
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002830 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002831 with UP alternatives
2832
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002833 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2834 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2835 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2836 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002837
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002838 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2839 space.
2840
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002841 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2842 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2843 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2844
2845 nosbagart [IA-64]
2846
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002847 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002848
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002849 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2850 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002851
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002852 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2853
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002854 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2855
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002856 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002857
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002858 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2859 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002860
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002861 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002862
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002863 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2864
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002865 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2866 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2867 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2868 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2869 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2870 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2871 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2872 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2873 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2874 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2875 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2876 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2877 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2878
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002879 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002880 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2881 SAL PALO.
2882
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002883 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2884 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002885 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2886 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2887 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2888 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2889 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2890 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002891
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002892 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2893
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002894 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2895 Allowed values are enable and disable
2896
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002897 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2898 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2899 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2900 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2901
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002902 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2903 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2904 info.
2905
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002906 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2907 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2908 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2909 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2910 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2911 interrupts *may* be lost!
2912
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002913 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2914 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2915 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2916 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2917
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002918 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2919 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2920
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002921 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2922 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2923 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002924 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2925 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002926 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2927 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002928 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2929 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2930 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002931
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002932 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2933 process, but there is a small probability of
2934 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002935 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2936 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2937
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002938 OSS [HW,OSS]
2939 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2940
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002941 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2942 Storage of the information about who allocated
2943 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2944 we can turn it on.
2945 on: enable the feature
2946
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002947 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2948 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2949 off: turn off poisoning
2950 on: turn on poisoning
2951
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002952 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002953 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2954 timeout = 0: wait forever
2955 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002956 Format: <timeout>
2957
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002958 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2959 on a WARN().
2960
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002961 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2962 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2963 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2964 succeeds in any situation.
2965 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2966 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2967 kernel more unstable.
2968
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002969 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2970 connected to, default is 0.
2971 Format: <parport#>
2972 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2973 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002974 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002975
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002976 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2977 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2978 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2979 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2980 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2981 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2982 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2983 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2984 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2985 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2986 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2987 are specified on the command line, starting
2988 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002989
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002990 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2991 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2992 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2993 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2994 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2995 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002996 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2997
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002998 pause_on_oops=
2999 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3000 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3001 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3002
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003003 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3004
3005 pcd. [PARIDE]
3006 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003007 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003008
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003009 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07003010 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
3011 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003012 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003013 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003014 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3015 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003016 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003017 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3018 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3019 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01003020 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3021 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3022 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3023 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3024 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3025 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3026 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3027 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3028 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3029 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07003030 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3031 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3032 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04003033 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3034 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05303035 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08003036 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02003037 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3038 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3039 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07003040 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3041 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3042 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02003043 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3044 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3045 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02003046 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3047 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3048 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3049 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02003050 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3051 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3052 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3053 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003054 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003055 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3056 on several machines and they hang the machine
3057 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3058 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3059 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3060 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3061 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003062 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003063 Use with caution as certain devices share
3064 address decoders between ROMs and other
3065 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003066 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07003067 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3068 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07003069 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3070 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003071 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003072 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3073 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3074 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003075 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003076 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3077 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3078 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003079 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003080 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3081 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3082 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003083 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003084 numbers ourselves, overriding
3085 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003086 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003087 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3088 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3089 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3090 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3091 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003092 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003093 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003094 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3095 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3096 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3097 please report a bug.
3098 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3099 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003100 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3101 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3102 so this option is a temporary workaround
3103 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003104 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3105 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003106 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3107 This might help on some broken boards which
3108 machine check when some devices' config space
3109 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3110 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003111 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3112 This sorting is done to get a device
3113 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3114 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003115 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3116 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3117 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3118 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3119 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3120 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3121 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3122 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3123 or bus can support) for best performance.
3124 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3125 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3126 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3127 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3128 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3129 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003130 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3131 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3132 The default value is 256 bytes.
3133 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3134 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3135 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003136 resource_alignment=
3137 Format:
3138 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003139 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3140 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003141 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3142 aligned memory resources.
3143 If <order of align> is not specified,
3144 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3145 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3146 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003147 To specify the alignment for several
3148 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3149 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3150 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003151 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3152 end-to-end CRC checking).
3153 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3154 the default.
3155 off: Turn ECRC off
3156 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003157 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3158 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3159 Default size is 256 bytes.
3160 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3161 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3162 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003163 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3164 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3165 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003166 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3167 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3168 accommodate resources required by all child
3169 devices.
3170 off: Turn realloc off
3171 on: Turn realloc on
3172 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003173 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003174 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3175 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3176 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003177
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003178 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3179 Management.
3180 off Disable ASPM.
3181 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3182 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3183
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003184 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3185 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3186 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3187
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003188 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003189 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3190 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3191 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3192 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3193 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003194 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3195 ports driver.
3196
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003197 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3198 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3199 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3200
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003201 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003202 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003203 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003204
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003205 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3206
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303207 pd_ignore_unused
3208 [PM]
3209 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3210 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3211 for debug and development, but should not be
3212 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3213
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003214 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003215 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003216
3217 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3218 boot time.
3219 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3220 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3221
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003222 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003223 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3224 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3225 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3226 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3227 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003228
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003229 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003230 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003231
3232 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003233 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003234
3235 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003236 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003237
3238 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3239 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3240 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3241
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003242 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003243 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3244 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3245
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003246 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3247 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3248 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3249 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3250 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3251 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003252
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003253 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3254 { off }
3255
3256 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3257 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3258
3259 pnp_reserve_irq=
3260 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3261
3262 pnp_reserve_dma=
3263 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3264
3265 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003266 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003267
3268 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003269 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3270 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003271 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3272
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003273 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3274 Default is 21.
3275 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3276 may be specified.
3277 Format: <port>,<port>....
3278
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003279 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3280 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3281 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3282 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3283 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3284
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003285 print-fatal-signals=
3286 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003287
3288 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3289 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3290 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3291 coredump - etc.
3292
3293 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3294 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3295
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003296 default: off.
3297
Matthew Garrettc22ab332012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003298 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3299 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3300 panics
3301 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3302 default: disabled
3303
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003304 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3305 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3306 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3307 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3308 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3309 Default: ratelimit
3310
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003311 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3312 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3313
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003314 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3315 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3316 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3317
3318 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3319 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3320 instead using the legacy FADT method
3321
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003322 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003323 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3324 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3325 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3326 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003327 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3328 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003329 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003330
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003331 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3332 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003333 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003334
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003335 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3336 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003337 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3338 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003339 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3340 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003341 (0 = never).
3342 psmouse.resolution=
3343 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3344 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003345 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003346 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3347
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003348 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3349
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003350 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003351 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003352
Dave Hansen4e6c2af2018-01-05 09:44:36 -08003353 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3354 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3355 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3356 system calls and interrupts.
3357
3358 on - unconditionally enable
3359 off - unconditionally disable
3360 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3361 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3362
3363 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3364
3365 nopti [X86_64]
3366 Equivalent to pti=off
Borislav Petkov80183072018-01-02 14:19:48 +01003367
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003368 pty.legacy_count=
3369 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3370 default number.
3371
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003372 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003373
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003374 r128= [HW,DRM]
3375
3376 raid= [HW,RAID]
3377 See Documentation/md.txt.
3378
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003379 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003380 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003381
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003382 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003383 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3384
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003385 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3386 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3387 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003388 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3389 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3390 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3391 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003392 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3393 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3394 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3395
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003396 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003397 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3398 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3399 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3400 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3401 This improves the real-time response for the
3402 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3403 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3404 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3405 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3406
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003407 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003408 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3409 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003410
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003411 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3412 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3413 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3414 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3415
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003416 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3417 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3418 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3419 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3420
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003421 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3422 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3423 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003424 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3425 is set.
3426
3427 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3428 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3429 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3430 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3431 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3432 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003433
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003434 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3435 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3436 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3437 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3438 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003439
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003440 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003441 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3442 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3443 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3444 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3445 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3446 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003447
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003448 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3449 Set required age in jiffies for a
3450 given grace period before RCU starts
3451 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3452 rcu_note_context_switch().
3453
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003454 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003455 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3456 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3457 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3458 and maximum value is HZ.
3459
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003460 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003461 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3462 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3463 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3464
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003465 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003466 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3467 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3468 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3469 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3470 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3471 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3472 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3473 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3474 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003475
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003476 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3477 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3478 defaults to the square root of the number of
3479 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3480 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3481 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3482
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003483 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003484 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3485 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003486
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003487 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003488 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3489 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003490
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003491 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003492 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3493 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003494
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003495 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003496 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3497 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3498 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3499 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003500
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003501 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3502 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3503 grace-period primitives.
3504
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003505 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3506 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3507 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3508 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3509 interference.
3510
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003511 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3512 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3513 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3514 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3515 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3516 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3517 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3518 a single reader.
3519
3520 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3521 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3522 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3523 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3524
3525 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3526 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3527
3528 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3529 Shut the system down after performance tests
3530 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3531 testing.
3532
3533 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3534 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3535
3536 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3537 Enable additional printk() statements.
3538
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003539 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3540 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3541 callback-flood tests.
3542
3543 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3544 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3545 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3546 test.
3547
3548 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3549 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3550 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3551 disable callback-flood testing.
3552
3553 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3554 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3555 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3556
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003557 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003558 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3559 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003560
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003561 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003562 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3563 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003564
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003565 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003566 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3567 in seconds.
3568
3569 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3570 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3571 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003572
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003573 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003574 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003575
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003576 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003577 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3578 update-side primitives, if available.
3579
3580 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3581 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3582 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3583 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3584 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3585 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3586 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003587
3588 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003589 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3590
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003591 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003592 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3593 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3594 test, hence the "fake".
3595
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003596 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003597 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3598 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3599 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3600 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3601 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003602
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003603 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3604 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3605
3606 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003607 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3608
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003609 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003610 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3611 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3612
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003613 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003614 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3615 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3616 during the rcutorture test.
3617
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003618 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003619 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3620 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3621
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003622 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003623 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3624 warnings, zero to disable.
3625
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003626 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003627 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3628
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003629 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003630 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3631
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003632 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003633 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3634 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3635 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3636 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3637
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003638 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003639 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3640 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3641 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3642
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003643 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003644 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3645
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003646 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003647 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3648
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003649 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003650 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3651 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3652
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003653 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3654 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3655
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003656 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003657 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3658
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003659 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003660 Enable additional printk() statements.
3661
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003662 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3663 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3664
3665 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3666 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3667
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003668 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3669 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3670 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3671 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3672 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3673 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003674 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003675
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003676 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3677 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3678 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3679 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003680 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3681 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3682 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3683 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3684 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003685
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003686 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3687 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3688 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003689 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3690 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003691
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003692 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3693 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3694 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3695 to zero.
3696
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003697 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3698 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3699
3700 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3701 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3702
3703 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3704 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3705
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003706 rdinit= [KNL]
3707 Format: <full_path>
3708 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3709 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3710
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003711 reboot= [KNL]
3712 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3713 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3714 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3715 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3716 [[,]f[orce]
3717 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3718 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3719 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3720 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3721 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003722
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003723 relax_domain_level=
3724 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003725 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003726
Rafael J. Wysocki0399d4d2014-05-26 13:40:59 +02003727 relative_sleep_states=
3728 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3729 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3730 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3731 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3732 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3733
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003734 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3735
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003736 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9af2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003737 Format: nn[KMG]
3738 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3739 address space.
3740
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003741 reservelow= [X86]
3742 Format: nn[K]
3743 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3744 the bottom of the address space.
3745
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003746 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3747 during initialization.
3748
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003749 resume= [SWSUSP]
3750 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003751 Format:
3752 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003753
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003754 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3755 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3756 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3757 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3758 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3759
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003760 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3761 read the resume files
3762
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003763 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3764 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3765 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3766
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003767 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3768 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3769 present during boot.
3770 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003771 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003772 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3773 (that will set all pages holding image data
3774 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003775
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003776 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3777
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003778 rfkill.default_state=
3779 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3780 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3781 1 Unblocked.
3782
3783 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3784 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3785 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3786 blocked and the previous configuration.
3787 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3788 blocked and everything unblocked.
3789
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003790 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3791 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3792
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003793 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3794
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003795 rodata= [KNL]
3796 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3797 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3798
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003799 rockchip.usb_uart
3800 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3801 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3802 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3803 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3804
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003805 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd2011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003806 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003807
3808 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3809 mount the root filesystem
3810
3811 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3812
3813 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3814
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003815 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3816 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3817 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3818
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003819 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3820 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3821 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3822 managed by CMA.
3823
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003824 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3825
3826 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3827
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003828 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3829 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3830 strict
3831 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3832 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3833 which is faster.
3834
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003835 sa1100ir [NET]
3836 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3837
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003838 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003839
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003840 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3841
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003842 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3843 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3844 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3845 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3846
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003847 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3848 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3849 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3850 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3851 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3852 1 -- enable.
3853 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3854 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3855
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003856 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3857 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3858 security module asking for security registration will be
3859 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3860 as if no module has been chosen.
3861
3862 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003863 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3864 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3865 0 -- disable.
3866 1 -- enable.
3867 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3868 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3869 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3870
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003871 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3872 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3873 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3874 0 -- disable.
3875 1 -- enable.
3876 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3877
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003878 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003879
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003880 shapers= [NET]
3881 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003882
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07003883 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3884 Format: { <integer> }
3885 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3886 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3887 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3888
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003889 simeth= [IA-64]
3890 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003891
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003892 slram= [HW,MTD]
3893
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003894 slab_nomerge [MM]
3895 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3896 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3897 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3898 merging on their own.
3899 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3900
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003901 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3902 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3903 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3904 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3905 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3906
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003907 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3908 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3909 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3910 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3911 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3912 last alloc / free. For more information see
3913 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003914
3915 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003916 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3917 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3918 fragmentation. For more information see
3919 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003920
3921 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003922 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3923 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3924 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3925 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3926 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3927 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003928 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3929
3930 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003931 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003932 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003933 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3934
3935 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003936 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3937 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003938
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003939 smart2= [HW]
3940 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3941
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003942 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3943 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3944 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3945 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3946 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3947 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3948 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3949 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3950 1: Fast pin select (default)
3951 2: ATC IRMode
3952
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003953 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3954 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3955 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3956 actual hardware limit.
3957 Format: <integer>
3958 Default: -1 (no limit)
3959
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003960 softlockup_panic=
3961 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003962 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003963
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003964 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3965 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3966 backtraces on all cpus.
3967 Format: <integer>
3968
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003969 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003970 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003971
David Woodhouse8f96937ee2018-01-11 21:46:26 +00003972 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3973 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3974
3975 on - unconditionally enable
3976 off - unconditionally disable
3977 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3978 vulnerable
3979
3980 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
3981 mitigation method at run time according to the
3982 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
3983 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
3984 compiler with which the kernel was built.
3985
3986 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
3987
3988 retpoline - replace indirect branches
3989 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
3990 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
3991
3992 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3993 spectre_v2=auto.
3994
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003995 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3996 spia_fio_base=
3997 spia_pedr=
3998 spia_peddr=
3999
Hugh Dickinscfc0eb402017-06-19 04:03:24 -07004000 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4001 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4002 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4003 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4004 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4005 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4006
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05004007 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4008 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4009
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05004010 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4011 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4012 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4013 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4014 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4015 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4016 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4017
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004018 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4019 Format: <num>
4020 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4021 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4022 as the initial boot-console.
4023 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4024
4025 sti_font= [HW]
4026 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4027
4028 stifb= [HW]
4029 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4030
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004031 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4032 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4033 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4034 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4035 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4036 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4037 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4038 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4039 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4040 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4041 maximum port values.
4042
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04004043 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4044 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4045 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4046 process in parallel from a single connection.
4047 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4048
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08004049 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4050 [NFS]
4051 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4052 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4053 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4054 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4055 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4056 NFS server is running.
4057
4058 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4059 automatically using heuristics
4060 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4061 percpu one pool for each CPU
4062 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4063 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4064
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004065 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4066 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4067 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4068 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4069 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4070 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4071 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4072 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4073
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004074 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4075 [SUSPEND]
4076 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4077 mode before resuming the system (see
4078 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4079 is set. Default value is 5.
4080
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004081 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004082 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4083 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004084 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004085
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004086 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoeven41c6b3e2016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004087 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004088 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4089 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4090 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoeven41c6b3e2016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004091 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004092
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004093 switches= [HW,M68k]
4094
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004095 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4096 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4097 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4098 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4099 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4100 in older udev will not work anymore.
4101 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4102 the kernel configuration.
4103
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004104 sysrq_always_enabled
4105 [KNL]
4106 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4107 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4108 Useful for debugging.
4109
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004110 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4111 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4112 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4113 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4114 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4115 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4116
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004117 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4118
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004119 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004120 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004121 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4122 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4123 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4124 The system is woken from this state using a
4125 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004126
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004127 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4128 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4129
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004130 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4131 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4132 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4133
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004134 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4135 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004136 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004137
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004138 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4139 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4140 critical and hot trip points.
4141
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004142 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4143 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4144
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004145 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4146 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004147 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4148 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004149
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004150 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4151 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4152 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4153 0: no polling (default)
4154
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004155 threadirqs [KNL]
4156 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004157 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004158
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004159 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4160 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4161
4162 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4163 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4164 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4165
4166 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4167 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004168 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4169 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004170
4171 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4172 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4173 to the hypervisor.
4174
4175 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4176 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4177 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4178 kernel based on different criteria.
4179
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004180 topology= [S390]
4181 Format: {off | on}
4182 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004183 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4184 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004185 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004186 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004187
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004188 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4189 Format: {off}
4190 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4191 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4192 LPAR.
4193
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004194 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4195
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004196 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4197 Format: integer pcr id
4198 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4199 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4200 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4201 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4202 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4203 are saved.
4204
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004205 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004206 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004207
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004208 trace_event=[event-list]
4209 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004210 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4211 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4212 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004213
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004214 trace_options=[option-list]
4215 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4216 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4217 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4218 to echo the option name into
4219
4220 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4221
4222 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4223 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4224
4225 trace_options=stacktrace
4226
4227 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4228 section.
4229
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004230 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4231 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4232 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4233 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4234 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4235 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4236
4237 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4238 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4239 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4240 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4241
4242 ** CAUTION **
4243
4244 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4245 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4246 the system to live lock.
4247
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004248 traceoff_on_warning
4249 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4250 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4251 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4252 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4253
4254 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4255 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4256 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4257
4258 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4259 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4260
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004261 transparent_hugepage=
4262 [KNL]
4263 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4264 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4265 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4266 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4267
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004268 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004269 Format: <string>
4270 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004271 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4272 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4273 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4274 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004275 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4276 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4277 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4278 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004279
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004280 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4281 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4282 Format:
4283 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004284 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4285
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004286 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4287 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4288 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4289 help "seeing" what's going on.
4290
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004291 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4292 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4293
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004294 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4295 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4296 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4297 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4298 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4299 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4300 reported either.
4301
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004302 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004303 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004304
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004305 usbcore.authorized_default=
4306 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4307 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4308 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4309
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004310 usbcore.autosuspend=
4311 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4312 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4313 is the time required before an idle device will be
4314 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004315 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004316
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004317 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4318 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4319
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004320 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4321 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4322 (default = 65536).
4323
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004324 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4325 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4326
4327 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4328 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4329 scheme (default 0 = off).
4330
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004331 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4332 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4333 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4334
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004335 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4336 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4337 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4338
4339 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4340 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4341 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4342 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4343
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004344 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4345
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004346 usbhid.mousepoll=
4347 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004348
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004349 usb-storage.delay_use=
4350 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004351 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004352
4353 usb-storage.quirks=
4354 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4355 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4356 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4357 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4358 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4359 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4360 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004361 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4362 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004363 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4364 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004365 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4366 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004367 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4368 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4369 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4370 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004371 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4372 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004373 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4374 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004375 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4376 reported device capacity by one
4377 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004378 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4379 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004380 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4381 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004382 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4383 unlock ejectable media);
4384 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4385 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004386 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4387 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004388 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4389 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004390 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4391 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004392 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4393 bogus residue values);
4394 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4395 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004396 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4397 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004398 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004399 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4400 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004401 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4402 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004403 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4404
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004405 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4406 Format: <int>
4407 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4408 1 - undefined instruction events
4409 2 - system calls
4410 4 - invalid data aborts
4411 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4412 16 - SIGBUS faults
4413 Example: user_debug=31
4414
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004415 userpte=
4416 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4417
4418 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4419 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4420 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4421
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304422 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004423 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4424
4425 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004426 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4427
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004428 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4429 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4430 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4431
4432 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4433 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4434 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4435
4436 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4437 alias for vdso32=0.
4438
4439 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4440 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004441
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004442 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4443 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4444
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004445 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4446 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4447
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004448 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4449 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4450 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4451 level and then send out the event to user space through
4452 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4453 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4454 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004455 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004456
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004457 virtio_mmio.device=
4458 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4459
4460 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4461 where:
4462 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4463 like K, M and G)
4464 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4465 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4466 request_irq())
4467 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4468 example:
4469 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4470
4471 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4472
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004473 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004474 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004475 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004476 Use vga=ask for menu.
4477 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4478 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4479
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004480 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004481 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4482 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4483 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4484 mapped kernel RAM.
4485
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004486 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4487 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004488
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004489 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4490 Format: <command>
4491
4492 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4493 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004494
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004495 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4496 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4497 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4498 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4499 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4500 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4501 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4502
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004503 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4504 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004505
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004506 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004507 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4508 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4509 better than they would in emulation mode.
4510 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4511
4512 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4513 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4514 might break your system.
4515
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004516 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4517 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4518 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4519
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004520 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4521 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4522 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4523 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4524
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004525 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4526 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4527 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4528 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4529 ranging from 0-255.
4530
4531 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4532 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4533 Change the default green palette of the console.
4534 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4535 ranging from 0-255.
4536
4537 vt.default_red= [VT]
4538 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4539 Change the default red palette of the console.
4540 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4541 ranging from 0-255.
4542
4543 vt.default_utf8=
4544 [VT]
4545 Format=<0|1>
4546 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4547 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4548 newly opened terminals.
4549
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004550 vt.global_cursor_default=
4551 [VT]
4552 Format=<-1|0|1>
4553 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4554 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4555 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4556 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4557 cursors, 1 will display them.
4558
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004559 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4560 Default: 2 = green.
4561
4562 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4563 Default: 3 = cyan.
4564
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004565 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4566 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4567 or other driver-specific files in the
4568 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004569
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004570 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4571 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4572 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4573 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4574 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4575 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4576 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4577 corresponding sysfs file.
4578
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004579 workqueue.disable_numa
4580 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4581 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4582 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4583 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4584 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4585 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4586 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4587
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304588 workqueue.power_efficient
4589 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4590 they show better performance thanks to cache
4591 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4592 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4593
4594 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4595 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4596 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4597 power usage at the cost of small performance
4598 overhead.
4599
4600 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4601 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4602
Tejun Heof303fcc2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004603 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4604 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4605 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4606 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4607 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4608 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4609 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4610 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4611 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4612 impacted.
4613
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004614 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4615 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4616 supporting x2apic.
4617
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004618 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4619 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004620 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4621 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004622 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004623
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004624 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4625 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4626 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4627 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4628 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4629 domains.
4630
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004631 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4632 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4633 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4634 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4635 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4636 nics -- unplug network devices
4637 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004638 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4639 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4640 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004641 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004642
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004643 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4644 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4645 optimizations.
4646
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004647 xen_nopv [X86]
4648 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4649 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4650
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004651 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004652 Format:
4653 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004654
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004655______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004656
4657TODO:
4658
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004659 Add more DRM drivers.