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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 Drewrya058da82010-06-09 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
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700629 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
630 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
631 no delay (0).
632 Format: integer
633
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700634 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
635
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700636 bert_disable [ACPI]
637 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
638
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700639 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700640 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
641 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700642 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200643 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700644
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000645 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
646 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
647 at a time.
648
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700649 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
650
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700651 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700652 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
653 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
654 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
655 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
656 This option provides an override for these situations.
657
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300658 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
659 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
660 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300661 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300662
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700663 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
664 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
665 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
666 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
667 others).
668
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100669 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
670 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700671
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700672 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
673 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800674 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
675 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
676 a single hierarchy
677 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
678 subsystem
679 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
680 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
681 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700682
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500683 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
684 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
685 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
686 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
687
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800688 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
689 Format: <string>
690 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800691 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800692
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700693 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
694 Format: { "0" | "1" }
695 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700696 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
697 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700698 1 -- check protection requested by application.
699 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700700 Value can be changed at runtime via
701 /selinux/checkreqprot.
702
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100703 cio_ignore= [S390]
704 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700705 clk_ignore_unused
706 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700707 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
708 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
709 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
710 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
711 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
712 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
713 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
714 platform with proper driver support. For more
715 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100716
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700717 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700718 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200719 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700720 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200721 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700722 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
723
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700724 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700725 Format: <string>
726 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
727 with the name specified.
728 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
729 the platform:
730 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
731 [ACPI] acpi_pm
732 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
733 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
734 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700735 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700736 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
737 [MIPS] MIPS
738 [PARISC] cr16
739 [S390] tod
740 [SH] SuperH
741 [SPARC64] tick
742 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
743
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100744 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
745 [ARM,ARM64]
746 Format: <bool>
747 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
748 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
749 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
750 systems.
751
Scott Woodf6dc1572016-09-22 03:35:17 -0500752 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
753 [ARM64]
754 Format: <bool>
755 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
756 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
757 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
758 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
759 enabled based on the device tree.
760
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100761 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
762 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100763 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800764 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100765 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
766 ones should be.
767 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
768 or using the feature without checking anything
769 will still see it. This just prevents it from
770 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
771 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
772 some critical bits.
773
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700774 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
775 [ARM,X86,KNL]
776 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
777 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
778 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700779 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
780 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100781 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
782
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000783 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
784 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
785 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
786 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
787 a hypervisor.
788 Default: yes
789
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100790 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
791 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200792 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100793
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530794 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100795 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100796 Range: 0 - 8192
797 Default: 64
798
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700799 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700800 Format:
801 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700802
803 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
804 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
805
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700806 com90xx= [HW,NET]
807 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700808 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
809
810 condev= [HW,S390] console device
811 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700812
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700813 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
814
815 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
816
817 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800818 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700819 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800820 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
821 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
822 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
823 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700824
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800825 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
826 information. See
827 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
828 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700829
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700830 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
831 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900832 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400833 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
834 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700835 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
836 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400837 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
838 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900839 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
840 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
841 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
842 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400843 the h/w is not re-initialized.
844
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500845 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
846 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700847
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700848 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
849 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
850 console=brl,ttyS0
851 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
852
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700853 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
854 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
855 disables the blank timer.
856
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800857 coredump_filter=
858 [KNL] Change the default value for
859 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
860 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
861
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400862 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
863 disable the cpuidle sub-system
864
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400865 cpu_init_udelay=N
866 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
867 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
868 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
869 Default: 10000
870
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700871 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700872 Format:
873 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700874
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800875 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
876 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
877 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
878 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
879 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
880 is selected automatically. Check
881 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700882
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700883 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
884 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
885 in the running system. The syntax of range is
886 start-[end] where start and end are both
887 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800888 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700889
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700890 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700891 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
892 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
893 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
894 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
895 available.
896 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700897 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
898 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
899 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700900 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
901 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800902 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
903 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
904 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
905 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700906 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
907 for second kernel instead.
908 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700909 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700910 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700911
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100912 cryptomgr.notests
913 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
914
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700915 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
916 Format: <dma>
917
918 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
919 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700920
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700921 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700922 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
923
924 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
925 (one device per port)
926 Format: <port#>,<type>
927 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
928
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200929 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
930 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600931 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200932
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700933 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
934
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700935 debug_locks_verbose=
936 [KNL] verbose self-tests
937 Format=<0|1>
938 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
939 self-tests.
940 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
941 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
942 only useful to kernel developers.
943
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700944 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
945
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500946 no_debug_objects
947 [KNL] Disable object debugging
948
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc52012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800949 debug_guardpage_minorder=
950 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
951 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
952 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
953 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
954 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
955 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
956 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
957 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
958 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
959 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
960 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
961 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
962 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
963 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
964 bypassed) which are not detectable by
965 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
966 tracking down these problems.
967
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800968 debug_pagealloc=
969 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
970 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
971 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
972 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
973 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
974 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
975 on: enable the feature
976
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200977 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
978
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200979 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700980 Format: <area>[,<node>]
981 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
982
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700983 default_hugepagesz=
984 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
985 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
986 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
987 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
988 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
989 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700990
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700991 dhash_entries= [KNL]
992 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700993
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000994 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
995 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
996 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
997 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
998 miss to occur.
999
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -08001000 disable= [IPV6]
1001 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1002
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +05301003 disable_radix [PPC]
1004 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1005
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +09001006 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1007 Format: <int>
1008 The number of initial APIC ID for the
1009 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1010 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1011 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1012 causing system reset or hang due to sending
1013 INIT from AP to BSP.
1014
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +00001015 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
1016 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
1017 to workaround buggy firmware.
1018
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -08001019 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1020 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1021
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001022 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001023 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1024 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001025 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -07001026
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +01001027 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +01001028 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1029 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1030 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1031 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1032
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301033 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001034 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1035 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1036
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -04001037 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1038
Will Drewrya058da82010-06-09 17:47:38 -05001039 dm= [DM] Allows early creation of a device-mapper device.
1040 See Documentation/device-mapper/boot.txt.
1041
1042 dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buff
1043
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001044 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1045 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1046
1047 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1048 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1049 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1050 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1051 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1052 architectural default is too low.
1053
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +02001054 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1055 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1056 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1057 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1058 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1059 driver later using sysfs.
1060
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001061 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1062 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1063 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1064 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1065 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001066 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1067 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1068 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1069 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1070 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1071 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
1072 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1073 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -07001074 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1075 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1076 data set with no connector name will be used for
1077 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +01001078
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001079 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1080
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -06001081 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1082 module.dyndbg[="val"]
1083 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1084 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
1085
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -07001086 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
1087 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
1088 information about the feature.
1089
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -08001090 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1091 in some Intel CPUs.
1092
Borislav Petkovf29ba612015-03-27 16:15:18 +01001093 eagerfpu= [X86]
1094 on enable eager fpu restore
1095 off disable eager fpu restore
1096 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
1097 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
1098
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -07001099 module.async_probe [KNL]
1100 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1101
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -07001102 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1103 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1104 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1105 which are not unmapped.
1106
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001107 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001108
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -05001109 When used with no options, the early console is
1110 determined by the stdout-path property in device
1111 tree's chosen node.
1112
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +01001113 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1114 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1115 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1116 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1117 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1118 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +02001119
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001120 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1121 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -07001122 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001123 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001124 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001125 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1126 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001127 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001128 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1129 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1130 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1131 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001132 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001133
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001134 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001135 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001136 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1137 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1138 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001139 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1140 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1141 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001142
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +01001143 meson,<addr>
1144 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1145 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1146 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1147 supported.
1148
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -07001149 msm_serial,<addr>
1150 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1151 port at the specified address. The serial port
1152 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1153 yet supported.
1154
1155 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1156 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1157 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1158 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1159 yet supported.
1160
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -05001161 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1162
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +01001163 s3c2410,<addr>
1164 s3c2412,<addr>
1165 s3c2440,<addr>
1166 s3c6400,<addr>
1167 s5pv210,<addr>
1168 exynos4210,<addr>
1169 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1170 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1171 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1172 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1173 Options are not yet supported.
1174
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001175 lpuart,<addr>
1176 lpuart32,<addr>
1177 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1178 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1179 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1180 port must already be setup and configured.
1181
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001182 armada3700_uart,<addr>
1183 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1184 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1185 address. The serial port must already be setup
1186 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1187
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +10001188 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001189 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001190 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001191 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001192 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001193 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001194 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001195 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001196 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001197
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001198 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1199 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1200 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1201
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001202 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001203 takes over.
1204
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001205 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1206 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001207
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001208 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1209 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1210 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1211 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1212 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1213 You can find the port for a given device in
1214 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1215 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001216
1217 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1218 very good.
1219
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001220 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1221 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001222
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001223 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1224
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001225 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1226 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1227 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1228 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1229 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1230 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1231 default: on.
1232
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001233 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1234 ekgdboc=kbd
1235
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001236 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001237 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1238
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001239 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001240 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001241
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001242 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001243 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001244 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1245 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1246 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001247 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1248 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1249 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001250 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001251 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001252
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001253 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1254 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1255 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1256 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1257 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1258
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001259 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1260 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1261 updating original EFI memory map.
1262 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1263 from ss to ss+nn.
1264 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1265 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1266 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1267 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1268
1269 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1270 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1271 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1272 doesn't support it.
1273
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001274 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1275 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1276 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1277 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1278 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1279
1280
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001281 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1282 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1283
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001284 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001285 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001286 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001287
1288 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001289 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001290 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001291 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1292
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001293 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001294 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001295 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1296 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001297 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001298
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001299 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1300 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1301 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1302 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1303
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001304 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001305 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1306 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1307 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1308 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1309
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001310 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1311 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1312 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1313 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1314 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1315 Default value is 0.
1316 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1317
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001318 erst_disable [ACPI]
1319 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1320 support.
1321
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001322 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1323 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1324 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1325
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001326 evm= [EVM]
1327 Format: { "fix" }
1328 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1329 current integrity status.
1330
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001331 failslab=
1332 fail_page_alloc=
1333 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1334 General fault injection mechanism.
1335 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001336 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001337
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001338 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001339 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001340
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001341 force_pal_cache_flush
1342 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1343 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1344 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1345 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1346
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001347 forcepae [X86-32]
1348 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1349 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1350 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1351 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1352 and may cause unknown problems.
1353
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001354 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001355 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001356 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1357 boot debugging.
1358
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001359 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001360 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001361 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1362 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1363 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1364 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001365
1366 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1367 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1368 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1369 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1370 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001371 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001372
1373 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1374 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1375 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1376 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1377 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001378
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001379 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1380 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1381 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1382 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1383 that can be changed at run time by the
1384 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1385
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001386 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1387 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1388 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1389 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1390 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1391
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001392 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1393 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1394 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1395 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1396 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1397
1398 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1399
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001400 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1401 Format: off | on
1402 default: on
1403
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001404 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1405 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1406 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1407 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1408 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1409
Thomas Gleixner2709c2a2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001410 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1411 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1412 android emulator
1413
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001414 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001415 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1416 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1417 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001418
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001419 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1420 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1421 Format: 0 | 1
1422 Default: 0
1423 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1424 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1425 Format: 0 | 1
1426 Default: 0
1427 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1428 Format: 0 | 1
1429 Default: 0
1430 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1431 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1432 Default: 1024
1433 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1434 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1435 Default: 1024
1436
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001437 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1438 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1439 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1440
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001441 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1442 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1443 backtraces on all cpus.
1444 Format: <integer>
1445
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001446 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1447 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001448 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001449 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001450
1451 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1452
1453 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1454 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1455
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001456 hest_disable [ACPI]
1457 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1458 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1459 logic will be disabled.
1460
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001461 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1462 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1463 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1464 size on bigger boxes.
1465
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001466 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1467 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1468 Default: "on"
1469
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001470 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1471 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1472
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001473 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1474
1475 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1476 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1477 verbose }
1478 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1479 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1480 VIA, nVidia)
1481 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1482
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001483 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1484 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1485
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001486 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1487 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001488 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1489 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1490 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1491 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001492 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001493
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001494 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1495 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001496 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1497 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1498 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001499
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001500 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1501 hardware thread id mappings.
1502 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1503
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001504 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1505 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1506 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1507 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1508 the real console.
1509
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001510 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001511 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1512 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001513 Format:
1514 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1515
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001516 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001517 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1518 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1519 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1520 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001521 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001522 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1523 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001524 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1525 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001526 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001527 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1528 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001529 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001530 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001531 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1532 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001533 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e1922016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001534 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1535 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1536 transitions, or never reset
1537 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1538 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1539 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1540 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1541 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001542 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001543 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001544
1545 i810= [HW,DRM]
1546
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001547 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1548 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1549 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001550 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1551 does not match list of supported models.
1552 i8k.power_status
1553 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1554 (disabled by default)
1555 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1556 capability is set.
1557
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001558 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001559 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1560 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001561 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1562 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1563 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1564 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1565 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1566 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1567 value switches the backlight off.
1568 -1 -- never invert brightness
1569 0 -- machine default
1570 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001571
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001572 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1573 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1574
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001575 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1576 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001577 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1578 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001579 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001580
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001581 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1582 Format: <int>
1583 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1584 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1585 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1586 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1587 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1588 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1589 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1590 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1591 was 0x3.
1592
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001593 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1594 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1595
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001596 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001597 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001598 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1599 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1600 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1601 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001602 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001603 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001604 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001605
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001606 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1607 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1608 Default: strict
1609
1610 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1611 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1612 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1613 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1614 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1615 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1616 encoding mode.
1617
1618 Available settings are as follows:
1619 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1620 supported by the FPU
1621 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1622 by the FPU
1623 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1624 by the FPU
1625 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1626 supported by the FPU
1627
1628 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1629 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1630 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1631 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1632 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1633 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1634 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1635 MIPS64 CPUs.
1636
1637 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1638 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1639 except where unsupported by hardware.
1640
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001641 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1642 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1643 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001644 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1645 could change it dynamically, usually by
1646 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001647
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001648 ignore_rlimit_data
1649 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1650 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1651 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1652
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001653 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1654 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1655
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001656 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001657 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001658 default: "enforce"
1659
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001660 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1661 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1662 owned by uid=0.
1663
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001664 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001665 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1666 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec92009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001667 default: "sha1"
1668
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001669 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1670 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1671
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001672 ima_policy= [IMA]
1673 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1674 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1675 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1676 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1677 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1678 Format: "tcb"
1679
1680 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001681 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1682 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1683 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1684 opened for read by uid=0.
1685
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001686 ima_template= [IMA]
1687 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001688 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001689 Default: "ima-ng"
1690
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001691 ima_template_fmt=
1692 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1693 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1694
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001695 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1696 Format: <min_file_size>
1697 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1698 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1699
1700 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1701 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1702 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1703
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001704 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1705 Format: <bufsize>
1706 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1707
1708 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1709 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1710 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1711
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001712 init= [KNL]
1713 Format: <full_path>
1714 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1715 process.
1716
1717 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1718 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1719 startup.
1720
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001721 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1722 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1723 modules and initcalls.
1724
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001725 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1726
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001727 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1728 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1729 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1730 override in debugfs after boot.
1731
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001732 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1733 Format: <irq>
1734
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001735 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1736
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001737 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1738 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1739 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1740 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1741
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001742 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001743 on
1744 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001745 off
1746 Disable intel iommu driver.
1747 igfx_off [Default Off]
1748 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1749 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1750 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1751 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1752 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001753 forcedac [x86_64]
1754 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001755 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001756 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001757 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1758 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001759 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001760 strict [Default Off]
1761 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1762 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1763 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001764 sp_off [Default Off]
1765 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1766 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1767 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001768 ecs_off [Default Off]
1769 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1770 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1771 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1772 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1773 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001774
1775 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1776 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001777 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001778
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001779 intel_pstate= [X86]
1780 disable
1781 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1782 scaling driver for the supported processors
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001783 force
1784 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1785 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1786 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1787 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1788 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1789 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1790 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1791 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001792 no_hwp
1793 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1794 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001795 hwp_only
1796 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1797 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001798 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001799 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1800 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1801 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1802 then this feature is turned on by default.
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001803
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001804 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001805 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1806 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1807 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001808 no_x2apic_optout
1809 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001810 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001811
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001812 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1813 strict regions from userspace.
1814 relaxed
1815
1816 iommu= [x86]
1817 off
1818 force
1819 noforce
1820 biomerge
1821 panic
1822 nopanic
1823 merge
1824 nomerge
1825 forcesac
1826 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001827 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001828 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1829 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001830
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001831
1832 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1833 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1834 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1835
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301836 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001837 0x80
1838 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1839 0xed
1840 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001841 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001842 Simple two microseconds delay
1843 none
1844 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001845
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001846 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001847 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001848
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001849 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001850 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001851
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001852 irqfixup [HW]
1853 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1854 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1855 firmware running.
1856
1857 irqpoll [HW]
1858 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1859 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1860 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1861 firmware running.
1862
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001863 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001864 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001865
1866 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001867 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001868
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001869 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1870 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001871 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1872 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001873 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1874 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1875
1876 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001877 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1878 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1879 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001880
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001881 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001882
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001883 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1884 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1885 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1886 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1887 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1888 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1889
1890 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1891 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1892 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1893 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1894 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1895 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1896
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001897 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1898 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1899 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1900 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1901 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1902 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1903
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001904 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1905 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1906
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001907 nokaslr [KNL]
1908 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1909 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1910 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001911
Mark Rutland586b2bd2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001912 kasan_multi_shot
1913 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1914 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1915 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1916 invalid access.
1917
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001918 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1919
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001920 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1921 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1922 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001923 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1924 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1925 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1926 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1927 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1928 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1929 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001930 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001931 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1932 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1933 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1934 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1935 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1936 zone if it does not.
1937
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001938 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1939 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1940 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1941 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1942 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1943 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1944 time.
1945
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001946 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1947 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1948 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1949 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1950 optional and is the number seconds in between
1951 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1952 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1953 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1954 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1955 the kernel debugger.
1956
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001957 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001958 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1959 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001960 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1961 keyboard only format: kbd
1962 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1963 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1964 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1965 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001966
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001967 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1968 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1969
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001970 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1971 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1972 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1973
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001974 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1975 Valid arguments: on, off
1976 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001977 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1978 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001979
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001980 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1981 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1982 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1983 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1984 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1985 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1986
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301987 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001988 in oops dumps.
1989
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001990 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1991 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1992
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001993 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1994 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001995 Default is 0 (off)
1996
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001997 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001998 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001999
2000 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2001 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002002 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002003
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002004 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2005 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2006 Default is 1 (enabled)
2007
2008 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2009 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2010 Default is 0 (disabled)
2011
2012 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2013 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2014 Default is 1 (enabled)
2015
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03002016 kvm-intel.nested=
2017 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2018 Default is 0 (disabled)
2019
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002020 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2021 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2022 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2023 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2024
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilkaf6ce922018-07-02 12:29:30 +02002025 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2026 CVE-2018-3620.
2027
2028 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2029
2030 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2031 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2032 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2033 never: Disables the mitigation
2034
2035 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2036
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02002037 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2038 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2039 Default is 1 (enabled)
2040
Jiri Kosina2decbf52018-07-13 16:23:25 +02002041 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2042 affected CPUs
2043
2044 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2045 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2046
2047 full
2048 Provides all available mitigations for the
2049 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2050 enables all mitigations in the
2051 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2052
2053 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2054 sysfs interface is still possible after
2055 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2056 when the first VM is started in a
2057 potentially insecure configuration,
2058 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2059
2060 full,force
2061 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2062 flush runtime control. Implies the
2063 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2064 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2065
2066 flush
2067 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2068 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2069 L1D flush.
2070
2071 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2072 sysfs interface is still possible after
2073 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2074 when the first VM is started in a
2075 potentially insecure configuration,
2076 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2077
2078 flush,nosmt
2079
2080 Disables SMT and enables the default
2081 hypervisor mitigation.
2082
2083 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2084 sysfs interface is still possible after
2085 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2086 when the first VM is started in a
2087 potentially insecure configuration,
2088 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2089
2090 flush,nowarn
2091 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2092 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2093 insecure configuration.
2094
2095 off
2096 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2097 emit any warnings.
2098
2099 Default is 'flush'.
2100
2101 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
2102
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002103 l2cr= [PPC]
2104
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11002105 l3cr= [PPC]
2106
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002107 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002108 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002109
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07002110 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2111 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2112 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2113
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302114 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08002115 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01002116
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002117 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2118 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2119 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2120 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002121 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002122 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2123 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002124
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02002125 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2126 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2127 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01002128
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04002129 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2130 when set.
2131 Format: <int>
2132
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002133 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2134 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02002135 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002136 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2137 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2138 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2139 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2140 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2141
2142 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2143 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2144 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2145 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2146 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2147 host link and device attached to it.
2148
2149 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2150 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2151 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2152 The following configurations can be forced.
2153
2154 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2155 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2156
2157 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2158
2159 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2160 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2161 allowed.
2162
2163 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2164
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04002165 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2166
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09002167 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2168 and both resets.
2169
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07002170 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2171 hot-unplug link recovery
2172
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02002173 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2174
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02002175 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2176
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08002177 * disable: Disable this device.
2178
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002179 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2180 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2181
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002182 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002183
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002184 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002185 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002186
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002187 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2188 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002189
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002190 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2191 Format: <integer>
2192
2193 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2194 Format: <integer>
2195
2196 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2197 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002198
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002199 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2200 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2201 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2202 number of online CPUs.
2203
2204 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2205 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2206
2207 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2208 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2209
2210 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2211 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2212 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2213
2214 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2215 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2216 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2217 mode during the locktorture test.
2218
2219 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2220 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2221 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2222
2223 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2224 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2225
2226 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2227 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2228 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2229 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2230 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2231 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2232
2233 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2234 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2235
2236 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2237 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2238
2239 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2240 Enable additional printk() statements.
2241
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002242 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2243 Format: <irq>
2244
2245 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2246 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2247 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2248 loglevels are defined as follows:
2249
2250 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2251 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2252 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2253 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2254 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2255 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2256 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2257 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2258
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002259 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002260 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2261 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2262 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2263 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2264 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2265 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002266
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002267 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2268 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2269 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2270 kernel boot problems.
2271
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002272 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2273 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2274 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2275 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2276 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2277 attached printers to be reset. Using
2278 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2279 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2280 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2281 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2282 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2283 port specification list means that device IDs
2284 from each port should be examined, to see if
2285 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2286 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2287 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2288
2289 lpj=n [KNL]
2290 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2291 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2292 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2293 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2294 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2295 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2296 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2297 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2298 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2299 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2300 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2301 hardware.
2302
2303 ltpc= [NET]
2304 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2305
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002306 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002307 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2308 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002309
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002310 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2311 yeeloong laptop.
2312 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2313
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002314 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2315 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002316
2317 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002318 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2319 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2320 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2321 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2322 only takes effect during system bootup.
2323 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2324 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002325
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002326 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2327 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2328 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2329 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2330 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2331 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002332
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002333 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002334
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002335 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002336
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002337 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2338 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002339
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002340 mdacon= [MDA]
2341 Format: <first>,<last>
2342 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002343
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002344 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2345 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2346 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002347 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2348 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2349 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2350 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002351
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002352 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002353 memory.
2354
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002355 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2356 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2357 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2358
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002359 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2360 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2361 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2362 set according to the
2363 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2364 option.
2365 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2366
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302367 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002368 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2369 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2370 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2371 option description.
2372
2373 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002374 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2375 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002376
2377 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2378 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002379 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002380
2381 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2382 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002383 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002384 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2385 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2386 or
2387 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002388
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002389 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2390 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2391 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2392 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2393 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2394
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002395 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2396 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2397 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2398 Setting this option will scan the memory
2399 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2400 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2401 from using the memory being corrupted.
2402 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2403 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2404 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2405 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2406
2407 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2408 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2409 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2410 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2411 corruption in more or less memory.
2412
2413 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2414 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2415 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2416 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2417
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002418 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002419 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002420 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002421 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2422 performed. Each pass selects another test
2423 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2424 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2425 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2426 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002427
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002428 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2429 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2430
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002431 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2432 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2433 platforms.
2434
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002435 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2436 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2437 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2438 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2439
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002440 mga= [HW,DRM]
2441
Randy Dunlap1c207f92008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002442 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2443 physical address is ignored.
2444
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002445 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2446 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2447 Default: "0tb"
2448 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2449 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2450 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2451 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2452 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2453 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2454 unconfigured.
2455 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2456 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2457 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2458 VGA shield.
2459 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2460 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2461 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2462 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2463 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2464 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2465
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002466 mminit_loglevel=
2467 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2468 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2469 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2470 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2471 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2472 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2473
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002474 module.sig_enforce
2475 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2476 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002477 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002478 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2479
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302480 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2481 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2482
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002483 mousedev.tap_time=
2484 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2485 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2486 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2487 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2488 Format: <msecs>
2489 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2490 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2491 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2492 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2493
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302494 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002495 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2496 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2497 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2498 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2499 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2500 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2501 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2502 is not too small.
2503
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002504 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2505 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2506
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002507 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2508 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2509
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002510 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2511 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002512
2513 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002514 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002515
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002516 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2517 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2518 at a time.
2519
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002520 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2521
2522 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2523
2524 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2525 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2526 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2527 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2528 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2529
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002530 mtdset= [ARM]
2531 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2532
2533 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2534
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002535 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002536 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2537 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002538
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002539 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002540 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002541 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2542
2543 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2544 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2545 Default is 1.
2546 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2547 using up MTRRs.
2548
2549 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2550 Format: <integer>
2551 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2552 Default : 1
2553 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2554 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2555
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002556 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2557
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002558 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2559 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2560 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2561 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002562 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2563 file if at all.
2564
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002565 nf_conntrack.acct=
2566 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2567 0 to disable accounting
2568 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002569 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002570
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002571 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002572 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002573
2574 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002575 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002576
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002577 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2578 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2579
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002580 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2581 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2582 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2583 requests.
2584
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002585 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2586 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2587 channel should listen.
2588
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002589 nfs.cache_getent=
2590 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2591 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2592
2593 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2594 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2595 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2596
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002597 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2598 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2599 entries.
2600
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002601 nfs.enable_ino64=
2602 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2603 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2604 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2605 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2606 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2607
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002608 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2609 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2610 slots the client will assign to the callback
2611 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2612 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2613 a particular server.
2614
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002615 nfs.max_session_slots=
2616 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2617 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2618 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2619 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2620 Note that there is little point in setting this
2621 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2622
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002623 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002624 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2625 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2626 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2627 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2628 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2629 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2630 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2631 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2632 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2633 back to using the idmapper.
2634 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002635 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2636 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2637 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2638 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2639 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002640
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002641 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2642 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2643 information in exchange_id requests.
2644 If zero, no implementation identification information
2645 will be sent.
2646 The default is to send the implementation identification
2647 information.
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002648
2649 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2650 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2651 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2652 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2653 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2654 after the locks are lost.
2655 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2656 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2657 parameter to '1'.
2658 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2659 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002660
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002661 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2662 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2663 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2664
2665 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2666 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2667 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2668 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2669
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002670 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2671 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2672 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2673 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2674 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2675 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002676
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002677 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2678 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2679 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2680 osd-targets. Please see:
2681 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2682
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002683 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002684 when a NMI is triggered.
2685 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2686
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302687 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002688 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002689 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002690 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2691 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002692 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002693 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002694 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2695 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002696 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2697 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002698
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002699 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2700 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2701 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2702 waits 4 seconds.
2703
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002704 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002705 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2706 is present.
2707
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002708 no_console_suspend
2709 [HW] Never suspend the console
2710 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2711 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2712 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2713 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2714 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2715 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2716 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002717 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2718 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2719 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2720 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2721 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002722
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002723 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2724 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2725 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002726
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002727 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2728
Vasily Gorbikd69aa5e2018-04-27 07:36:39 +02002729 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2730 (CPU alternatives feature).
2731
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002732 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2733 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2734
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002735 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2736
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002737 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2738 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2739
2740 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002741
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002742 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2743
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002744 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2745
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002746 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2747
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002748 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002749
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002750 noexec [IA-64]
2751
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302752 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002753 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002754 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002755 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2756
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002757 nosmap [X86]
2758 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2759 even if it is supported by processor.
2760
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002761 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002762 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002763 even if it is supported by processor.
2764
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002765 noexec32 [X86-64]
2766 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2767 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2768 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2769 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2770 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002771
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002772 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002773
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002774 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002775 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2776 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002777
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002778 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2779
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002780 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2781 Equivalent to smt=1.
2782
Thomas Gleixnerf37486c2018-05-29 17:48:27 +02002783 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
Thomas Gleixnerfe2a9552018-06-29 16:05:47 +02002784 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2785 via the sysfs control file.
Thomas Gleixnerf37486c2018-05-29 17:48:27 +02002786
David Woodhouse8f96937ee2018-01-11 21:46:26 +00002787 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2788 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2789 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2790 to spectre_v2=off.
2791
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk6f70a552018-04-25 22:04:21 -04002792 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2793 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2794
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002795 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2796 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2797 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2798
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002799 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2800 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2801 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2802 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2803 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2804 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2805
2806 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2807 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2808 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2809 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2810 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2811 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2812 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2813
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002814 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2815 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2816 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002817
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002818 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2819 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2820 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2821
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002822 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2823 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2824 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2825 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2826 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2827 real-time systems.
2828
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002829 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2830
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002831 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2832 Valid arguments: on, off
2833 Default: on
2834
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002835 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002836 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002837 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002838 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002839 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2840 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002841 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2842 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002843
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002844 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2845
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002846 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002847 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2848
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302849 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002850 broken timer IRQ sources.
2851
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002852 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2853
2854 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2855 initial RAM disk.
2856
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002857 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2858 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002859 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002860
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002861 nointroute [IA-64]
2862
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002863 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2864
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002865 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002866
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002867 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2868
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002869 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2870 fault handling.
2871
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002872 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2873 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2874 behaviour
2875
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002876 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002877
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002878 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002879
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002880 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002881 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002882
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002883 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2884
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002885 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002886
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002887 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2888 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2889
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002890 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2891 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2892 irq.
2893
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002894 nomodule Disable module load
2895
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002896 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2897 pagetables) support.
2898
Andy Lutomirskie6a29322017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002899 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2900
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002901 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2902 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2903
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002904 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002905 with UP alternatives
2906
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002907 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2908 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2909 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2910 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002911
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002912 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2913 space.
2914
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002915 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2916 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2917 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2918
2919 nosbagart [IA-64]
2920
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002921 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002922
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002923 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2924 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002925
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002926 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2927
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002928 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2929
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002930 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002931
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002932 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2933 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002934
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002935 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002936
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002937 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2938
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002939 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2940 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2941 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2942 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2943 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2944 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2945 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2946 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2947 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2948 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2949 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2950 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2951 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2952
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002953 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002954 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2955 SAL PALO.
2956
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002957 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2958 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002959 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2960 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2961 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2962 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2963 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2964 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002965
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002966 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2967
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002968 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2969 Allowed values are enable and disable
2970
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002971 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2972 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2973 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2974 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2975
Randy Dunlap7c4be2532009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002976 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2977 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2978 info.
2979
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002980 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2981 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2982 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2983 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2984 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2985 interrupts *may* be lost!
2986
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002987 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2988 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2989 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2990 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2991
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002992 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2993 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2994
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002995 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2996 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2997 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002998 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2999 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02003000 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3001 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02003002 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3003 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3004 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02003005
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003006 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3007 process, but there is a small probability of
3008 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07003009 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3010 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3011
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07003012 OSS [HW,OSS]
3013 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
3014
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08003015 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3016 Storage of the information about who allocated
3017 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3018 we can turn it on.
3019 on: enable the feature
3020
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07003021 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3022 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
3023 off: turn off poisoning
3024 on: turn on poisoning
3025
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003026 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07003027 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3028 timeout = 0: wait forever
3029 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003030 Format: <timeout>
3031
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08003032 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3033 on a WARN().
3034
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07003035 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3036 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3037 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3038 succeeds in any situation.
3039 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3040 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3041 kernel more unstable.
3042
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003043 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3044 connected to, default is 0.
3045 Format: <parport#>
3046 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3047 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003048 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003049
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003050 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3051 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3052 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3053 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3054 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3055 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3056 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3057 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3058 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3059 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3060 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3061 are specified on the command line, starting
3062 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003063
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003064 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3065 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3066 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3067 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3068 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3069 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003070 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3071
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08003072 pause_on_oops=
3073 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3074 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3075 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3076
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003077 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3078
3079 pcd. [PARIDE]
3080 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003081 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003082
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003083 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07003084 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
3085 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003086 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003087 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003088 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3089 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003090 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003091 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3092 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3093 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01003094 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3095 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3096 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3097 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3098 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3099 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3100 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3101 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3102 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3103 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07003104 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3105 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3106 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04003107 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3108 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05303109 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08003110 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02003111 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3112 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3113 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07003114 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3115 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3116 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02003117 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3118 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3119 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02003120 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3121 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3122 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3123 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02003124 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3125 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3126 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3127 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003128 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003129 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3130 on several machines and they hang the machine
3131 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3132 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3133 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3134 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3135 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003136 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003137 Use with caution as certain devices share
3138 address decoders between ROMs and other
3139 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003140 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07003141 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3142 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07003143 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3144 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003145 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003146 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3147 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3148 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003149 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003150 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3151 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3152 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003153 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003154 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3155 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3156 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003157 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003158 numbers ourselves, overriding
3159 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003160 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003161 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3162 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3163 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3164 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3165 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003166 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003167 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003168 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3169 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3170 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3171 please report a bug.
3172 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3173 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003174 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3175 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3176 so this option is a temporary workaround
3177 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003178 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3179 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003180 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3181 This might help on some broken boards which
3182 machine check when some devices' config space
3183 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3184 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003185 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3186 This sorting is done to get a device
3187 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3188 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003189 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3190 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3191 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3192 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3193 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3194 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3195 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3196 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3197 or bus can support) for best performance.
3198 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3199 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3200 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3201 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3202 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3203 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003204 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3205 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3206 The default value is 256 bytes.
3207 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3208 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3209 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003210 resource_alignment=
3211 Format:
3212 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003213 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3214 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003215 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3216 aligned memory resources.
3217 If <order of align> is not specified,
3218 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3219 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3220 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003221 To specify the alignment for several
3222 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3223 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3224 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003225 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3226 end-to-end CRC checking).
3227 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3228 the default.
3229 off: Turn ECRC off
3230 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003231 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3232 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3233 Default size is 256 bytes.
3234 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3235 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3236 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003237 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3238 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3239 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003240 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3241 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3242 accommodate resources required by all child
3243 devices.
3244 off: Turn realloc off
3245 on: Turn realloc on
3246 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003247 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003248 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3249 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3250 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003251
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003252 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3253 Management.
3254 off Disable ASPM.
3255 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3256 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3257
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003258 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3259 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3260 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3261
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003262 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003263 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3264 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3265 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3266 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3267 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003268 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3269 ports driver.
3270
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003271 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3272 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3273 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3274
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003275 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003276 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003277 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003278
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003279 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3280
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303281 pd_ignore_unused
3282 [PM]
3283 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3284 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3285 for debug and development, but should not be
3286 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3287
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003288 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003289 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003290
3291 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3292 boot time.
3293 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3294 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3295
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003296 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003297 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3298 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3299 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3300 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3301 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003302
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003303 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003304 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003305
3306 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003307 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003308
3309 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003310 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003311
3312 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3313 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3314 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3315
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003316 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003317 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3318 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3319
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003320 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3321 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3322 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3323 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3324 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3325 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003326
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003327 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3328 { off }
3329
3330 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3331 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3332
3333 pnp_reserve_irq=
3334 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3335
3336 pnp_reserve_dma=
3337 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3338
3339 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003340 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003341
3342 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003343 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3344 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003345 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3346
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003347 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3348 Default is 21.
3349 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3350 may be specified.
3351 Format: <port>,<port>....
3352
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003353 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3354 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3355 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3356 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3357 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3358
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003359 print-fatal-signals=
3360 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003361
3362 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3363 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3364 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3365 coredump - etc.
3366
3367 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3368 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3369
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003370 default: off.
3371
Matthew Garrettc22ab332012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003372 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3373 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3374 panics
3375 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3376 default: disabled
3377
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003378 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3379 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3380 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3381 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3382 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3383 Default: ratelimit
3384
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003385 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3386 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3387
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003388 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3389 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3390 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3391
3392 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3393 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3394 instead using the legacy FADT method
3395
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003396 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003397 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3398 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3399 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3400 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003401 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3402 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003403 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003404
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003405 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3406 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003407 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003408
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003409 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3410 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003411 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3412 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003413 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3414 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003415 (0 = never).
3416 psmouse.resolution=
3417 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3418 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003419 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003420 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3421
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003422 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3423
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003424 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003425 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003426
Dave Hansen4e6c2af2018-01-05 09:44:36 -08003427 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3428 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3429 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3430 system calls and interrupts.
3431
3432 on - unconditionally enable
3433 off - unconditionally disable
3434 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3435 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3436
3437 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3438
3439 nopti [X86_64]
3440 Equivalent to pti=off
Borislav Petkov80183072018-01-02 14:19:48 +01003441
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003442 pty.legacy_count=
3443 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3444 default number.
3445
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003446 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003447
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003448 r128= [HW,DRM]
3449
3450 raid= [HW,RAID]
3451 See Documentation/md.txt.
3452
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003453 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003454 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003455
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003456 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003457 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3458
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003459 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3460 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3461 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003462 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3463 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3464 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3465 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003466 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3467 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3468 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3469
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003470 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003471 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3472 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3473 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3474 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3475 This improves the real-time response for the
3476 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3477 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3478 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3479 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3480
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003481 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003482 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3483 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003484
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003485 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3486 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3487 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3488 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3489
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003490 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3491 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3492 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3493 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3494
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003495 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3496 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3497 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003498 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3499 is set.
3500
3501 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3502 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3503 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3504 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3505 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3506 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003507
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003508 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3509 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3510 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3511 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3512 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003513
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003514 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003515 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3516 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3517 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3518 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3519 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3520 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003521
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003522 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3523 Set required age in jiffies for a
3524 given grace period before RCU starts
3525 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3526 rcu_note_context_switch().
3527
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003528 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003529 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3530 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3531 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3532 and maximum value is HZ.
3533
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003534 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003535 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3536 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3537 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3538
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003539 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003540 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3541 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3542 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3543 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3544 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3545 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3546 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3547 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3548 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003549
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003550 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3551 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3552 defaults to the square root of the number of
3553 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3554 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3555 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3556
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003557 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003558 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3559 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003560
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003561 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003562 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3563 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003564
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003565 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003566 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3567 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003568
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003569 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003570 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3571 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3572 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3573 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003574
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003575 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3576 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3577 grace-period primitives.
3578
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003579 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3580 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3581 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3582 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3583 interference.
3584
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003585 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3586 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3587 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3588 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3589 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3590 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3591 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3592 a single reader.
3593
3594 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3595 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3596 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3597 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3598
3599 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3600 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3601
3602 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3603 Shut the system down after performance tests
3604 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3605 testing.
3606
3607 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3608 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3609
3610 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3611 Enable additional printk() statements.
3612
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003613 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3614 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3615 callback-flood tests.
3616
3617 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3618 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3619 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3620 test.
3621
3622 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3623 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3624 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3625 disable callback-flood testing.
3626
3627 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3628 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3629 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3630
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003631 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003632 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3633 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003634
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003635 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003636 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3637 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003638
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003639 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003640 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3641 in seconds.
3642
3643 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3644 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3645 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003646
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003647 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003648 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003649
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003650 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003651 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3652 update-side primitives, if available.
3653
3654 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3655 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3656 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3657 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3658 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3659 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3660 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003661
3662 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003663 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3664
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003665 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003666 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3667 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3668 test, hence the "fake".
3669
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003670 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003671 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3672 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3673 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3674 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3675 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003676
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003677 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3678 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3679
3680 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003681 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3682
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003683 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003684 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3685 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3686
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003687 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003688 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3689 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3690 during the rcutorture test.
3691
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003692 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003693 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3694 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3695
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003696 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003697 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3698 warnings, zero to disable.
3699
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003700 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003701 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3702
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003703 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003704 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3705
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003706 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003707 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3708 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3709 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3710 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3711
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003712 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003713 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3714 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3715 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3716
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003717 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003718 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3719
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003720 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003721 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3722
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003723 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003724 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3725 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3726
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003727 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3728 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3729
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003730 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003731 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3732
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003733 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003734 Enable additional printk() statements.
3735
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003736 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3737 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3738
3739 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3740 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3741
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003742 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3743 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3744 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3745 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3746 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3747 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003748 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003749
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003750 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3751 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3752 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3753 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003754 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3755 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3756 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3757 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3758 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003759
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003760 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3761 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3762 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea02015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003763 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3764 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003765
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003766 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3767 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3768 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3769 to zero.
3770
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003771 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3772 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3773
3774 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3775 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3776
3777 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3778 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3779
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003780 rdinit= [KNL]
3781 Format: <full_path>
3782 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3783 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3784
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003785 reboot= [KNL]
3786 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3787 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3788 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3789 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3790 [[,]f[orce]
3791 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3792 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3793 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3794 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3795 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003796
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003797 relax_domain_level=
3798 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003799 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003800
Rafael J. Wysocki0399d4d2014-05-26 13:40:59 +02003801 relative_sleep_states=
3802 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3803 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3804 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3805 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3806 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3807
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003808 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3809
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003810 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9af2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003811 Format: nn[KMG]
3812 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3813 address space.
3814
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003815 reservelow= [X86]
3816 Format: nn[K]
3817 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3818 the bottom of the address space.
3819
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003820 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3821 during initialization.
3822
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003823 resume= [SWSUSP]
3824 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003825 Format:
3826 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003827
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003828 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3829 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3830 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3831 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3832 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3833
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003834 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3835 read the resume files
3836
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003837 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3838 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3839 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3840
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003841 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3842 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3843 present during boot.
3844 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003845 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003846 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3847 (that will set all pages holding image data
3848 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003849
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003850 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3851
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003852 rfkill.default_state=
3853 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3854 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3855 1 Unblocked.
3856
3857 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3858 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3859 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3860 blocked and the previous configuration.
3861 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3862 blocked and everything unblocked.
3863
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003864 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3865 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3866
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003867 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3868
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003869 rodata= [KNL]
3870 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3871 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3872
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003873 rockchip.usb_uart
3874 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3875 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3876 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3877 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3878
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003879 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd2011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003880 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003881
3882 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3883 mount the root filesystem
3884
3885 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3886
3887 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3888
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003889 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3890 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3891 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3892
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003893 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3894 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3895 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3896 managed by CMA.
3897
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003898 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3899
3900 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3901
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003902 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3903 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3904 strict
3905 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3906 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3907 which is faster.
3908
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003909 sa1100ir [NET]
3910 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3911
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003912 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003913
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003914 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3915
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003916 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3917 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3918 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3919 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3920
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003921 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3922 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3923 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3924 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3925 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3926 1 -- enable.
3927 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3928 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3929
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003930 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3931 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3932 security module asking for security registration will be
3933 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3934 as if no module has been chosen.
3935
3936 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003937 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3938 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3939 0 -- disable.
3940 1 -- enable.
3941 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3942 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3943 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3944
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003945 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3946 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3947 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3948 0 -- disable.
3949 1 -- enable.
3950 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3951
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003952 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003953
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003954 shapers= [NET]
3955 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003956
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07003957 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3958 Format: { <integer> }
3959 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3960 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3961 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3962
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003963 simeth= [IA-64]
3964 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003965
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003966 slram= [HW,MTD]
3967
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003968 slab_nomerge [MM]
3969 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3970 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3971 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3972 merging on their own.
3973 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3974
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003975 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3976 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3977 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3978 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3979 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3980
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003981 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3982 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3983 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3984 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3985 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3986 last alloc / free. For more information see
3987 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003988
Tejun Heoa4ffb672018-08-24 13:22:21 +09003989 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3990 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3991 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3992 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3993 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3994 directories and files being created under
3995 /sys/kernel/slub.
3996
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003997 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003998 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3999 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4000 fragmentation. For more information see
4001 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07004002
4003 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07004004 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4005 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4006 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4007 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4008 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4009 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07004010 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4011
4012 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004013 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07004014 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07004015 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
4016
4017 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07004018 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4019 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07004020
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004021 smart2= [HW]
4022 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4023
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07004024 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4025 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4026 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4027 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4028 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4029 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4030 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4031 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4032 1: Fast pin select (default)
4033 2: ATC IRMode
4034
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02004035 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4036 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4037 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4038 actual hardware limit.
4039 Format: <integer>
4040 Default: -1 (no limit)
4041
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02004042 softlockup_panic=
4043 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004044 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02004045
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07004046 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4047 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4048 backtraces on all cpus.
4049 Format: <integer>
4050
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004051 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02004052 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004053
David Woodhouse8f96937ee2018-01-11 21:46:26 +00004054 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4055 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4056
4057 on - unconditionally enable
4058 off - unconditionally disable
4059 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4060 vulnerable
4061
4062 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4063 mitigation method at run time according to the
4064 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4065 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4066 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4067
4068 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4069
4070 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4071 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4072 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4073
4074 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4075 spectre_v2=auto.
4076
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk6f70a552018-04-25 22:04:21 -04004077 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4078 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4079 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4080
4081 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4082 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4083 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4084 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4085 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4086 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4087 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4088 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4089
4090 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4091 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4092 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4093 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4094
4095 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4096 Bypass optimization is used.
4097
Kees Cook05a85a32018-05-03 14:37:54 -07004098 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4099 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4100 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4101 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4102 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4103 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4104 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4105 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4106 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4107 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4108 for a process by default. The state of the control
4109 is inherited on fork.
4110 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4111 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk6f70a552018-04-25 22:04:21 -04004112
4113 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4114 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4115
Kees Cook05a85a32018-05-03 14:37:54 -07004116 Default mitigations:
4117 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4118
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004119 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4120 spia_fio_base=
4121 spia_pedr=
4122 spia_peddr=
4123
Marc Zyngier3a64e6a2018-07-20 10:56:25 +01004124 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4125 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4126
4127 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4128 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4129 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4130 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4131
4132 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4133 for both kernel and userspace
4134 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4135 for both kernel and userspace
4136 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4137 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4138 to allow userspace to register its
4139 interest in being mitigated too.
4140
Hugh Dickinscfc0eb402017-06-19 04:03:24 -07004141 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4142 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4143 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4144 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4145 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4146 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4147
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05004148 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4149 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4150
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05004151 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4152 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4153 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4154 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4155 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4156 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4157 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4158
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004159 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4160 Format: <num>
4161 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4162 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4163 as the initial boot-console.
4164 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4165
4166 sti_font= [HW]
4167 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4168
4169 stifb= [HW]
4170 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4171
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004172 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4173 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4174 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4175 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4176 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4177 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4178 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4179 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4180 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4181 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4182 maximum port values.
4183
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04004184 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4185 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4186 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4187 process in parallel from a single connection.
4188 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4189
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08004190 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4191 [NFS]
4192 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4193 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4194 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4195 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4196 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4197 NFS server is running.
4198
4199 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4200 automatically using heuristics
4201 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4202 percpu one pool for each CPU
4203 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4204 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4205
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004206 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4207 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4208 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4209 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4210 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4211 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4212 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4213 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4214
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004215 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4216 [SUSPEND]
4217 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4218 mode before resuming the system (see
4219 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4220 is set. Default value is 5.
4221
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004222 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004223 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4224 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004225 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004226
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004227 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoeven41c6b3e2016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004228 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004229 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4230 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4231 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoeven41c6b3e2016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004232 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004233
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004234 switches= [HW,M68k]
4235
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004236 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4237 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4238 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4239 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4240 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4241 in older udev will not work anymore.
4242 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4243 the kernel configuration.
4244
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004245 sysrq_always_enabled
4246 [KNL]
4247 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4248 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4249 Useful for debugging.
4250
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004251 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4252 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4253 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4254 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4255 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4256 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4257
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004258 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4259
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004260 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004261 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004262 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4263 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4264 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4265 The system is woken from this state using a
4266 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004267
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004268 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4269 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4270
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004271 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4272 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4273 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4274
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004275 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4276 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004277 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004278
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004279 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4280 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4281 critical and hot trip points.
4282
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004283 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4284 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4285
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004286 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4287 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004288 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4289 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004290
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004291 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4292 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4293 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4294 0: no polling (default)
4295
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004296 threadirqs [KNL]
4297 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004298 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004299
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004300 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4301 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4302
4303 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4304 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4305 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4306
4307 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4308 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004309 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4310 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004311
4312 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4313 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4314 to the hypervisor.
4315
4316 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4317 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4318 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4319 kernel based on different criteria.
4320
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004321 topology= [S390]
4322 Format: {off | on}
4323 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004324 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4325 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004326 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004327 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004328
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004329 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4330 Format: {off}
4331 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4332 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4333 LPAR.
4334
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004335 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4336
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004337 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4338 Format: integer pcr id
4339 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4340 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4341 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4342 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4343 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4344 are saved.
4345
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004346 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004347 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004348
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004349 trace_event=[event-list]
4350 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004351 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4352 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4353 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004354
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004355 trace_options=[option-list]
4356 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4357 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4358 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4359 to echo the option name into
4360
4361 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4362
4363 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4364 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4365
4366 trace_options=stacktrace
4367
4368 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4369 section.
4370
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004371 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4372 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4373 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4374 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4375 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4376 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4377
4378 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4379 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4380 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4381 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4382
4383 ** CAUTION **
4384
4385 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4386 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4387 the system to live lock.
4388
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004389 traceoff_on_warning
4390 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4391 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4392 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4393 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4394
4395 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4396 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4397 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4398
4399 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4400 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4401
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004402 transparent_hugepage=
4403 [KNL]
4404 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4405 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4406 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4407 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4408
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004409 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004410 Format: <string>
4411 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004412 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4413 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4414 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4415 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004416 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4417 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4418 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4419 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004420
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004421 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4422 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4423 Format:
4424 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004425 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4426
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004427 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4428 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4429 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4430 help "seeing" what's going on.
4431
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004432 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4433 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4434
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004435 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4436 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4437 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4438 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4439 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4440 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4441 reported either.
4442
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004443 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004444 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004445
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004446 usbcore.authorized_default=
4447 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4448 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4449 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4450
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004451 usbcore.autosuspend=
4452 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4453 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4454 is the time required before an idle device will be
4455 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004456 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004457
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004458 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4459 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4460
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004461 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4462 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4463 (default = 65536).
4464
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004465 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4466 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4467
4468 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4469 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4470 scheme (default 0 = off).
4471
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004472 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4473 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4474 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4475
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004476 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4477 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4478 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4479
4480 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4481 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4482 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4483 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4484
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004485 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4486
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004487 usbhid.mousepoll=
4488 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004489
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004490 usb-storage.delay_use=
4491 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004492 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004493
4494 usb-storage.quirks=
4495 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4496 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4497 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4498 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4499 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4500 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4501 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004502 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4503 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004504 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4505 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004506 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4507 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004508 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4509 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4510 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4511 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004512 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4513 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004514 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4515 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004516 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4517 reported device capacity by one
4518 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004519 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4520 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004521 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4522 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004523 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4524 unlock ejectable media);
4525 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4526 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004527 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4528 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004529 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4530 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004531 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4532 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004533 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4534 bogus residue values);
4535 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4536 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004537 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4538 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004539 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004540 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4541 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004542 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4543 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004544 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4545
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004546 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4547 Format: <int>
4548 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4549 1 - undefined instruction events
4550 2 - system calls
4551 4 - invalid data aborts
4552 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4553 16 - SIGBUS faults
4554 Example: user_debug=31
4555
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004556 userpte=
4557 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4558
4559 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4560 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4561 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4562
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304563 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004564 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4565
4566 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004567 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4568
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004569 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4570 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4571 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4572
4573 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4574 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4575 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4576
4577 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4578 alias for vdso32=0.
4579
4580 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4581 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004582
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004583 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4584 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4585
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004586 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4587 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4588
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004589 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4590 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4591 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4592 level and then send out the event to user space through
4593 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4594 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4595 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004596 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004597
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004598 virtio_mmio.device=
4599 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4600
4601 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4602 where:
4603 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4604 like K, M and G)
4605 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4606 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4607 request_irq())
4608 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4609 example:
4610 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4611
4612 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4613
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004614 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004615 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004616 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004617 Use vga=ask for menu.
4618 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4619 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4620
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004621 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004622 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4623 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4624 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4625 mapped kernel RAM.
4626
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004627 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4628 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004629
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004630 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4631 Format: <command>
4632
4633 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4634 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004635
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004636 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4637 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4638 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4639 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4640 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4641 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4642 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4643
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004644 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4645 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004646
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004647 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004648 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4649 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4650 better than they would in emulation mode.
4651 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4652
4653 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4654 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4655 might break your system.
4656
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004657 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4658 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4659 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4660
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004661 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4662 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4663 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4664 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4665
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004666 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4667 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4668 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4669 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4670 ranging from 0-255.
4671
4672 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4673 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4674 Change the default green palette of the console.
4675 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4676 ranging from 0-255.
4677
4678 vt.default_red= [VT]
4679 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4680 Change the default red palette of the console.
4681 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4682 ranging from 0-255.
4683
4684 vt.default_utf8=
4685 [VT]
4686 Format=<0|1>
4687 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4688 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4689 newly opened terminals.
4690
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004691 vt.global_cursor_default=
4692 [VT]
4693 Format=<-1|0|1>
4694 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4695 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4696 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4697 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4698 cursors, 1 will display them.
4699
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004700 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4701 Default: 2 = green.
4702
4703 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4704 Default: 3 = cyan.
4705
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004706 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4707 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4708 or other driver-specific files in the
4709 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004710
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004711 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4712 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4713 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4714 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4715 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4716 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4717 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4718 corresponding sysfs file.
4719
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004720 workqueue.disable_numa
4721 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4722 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4723 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4724 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4725 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4726 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4727 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4728
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304729 workqueue.power_efficient
4730 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4731 they show better performance thanks to cache
4732 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4733 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4734
4735 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4736 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4737 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4738 power usage at the cost of small performance
4739 overhead.
4740
4741 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4742 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4743
Tejun Heof303fcc2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004744 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4745 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4746 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4747 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4748 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4749 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4750 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4751 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4752 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4753 impacted.
4754
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004755 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4756 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4757 supporting x2apic.
4758
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004759 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4760 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004761 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4762 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004763 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004764
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004765 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4766 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4767 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4768 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4769 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4770 domains.
4771
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004772 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4773 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4774 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4775 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4776 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4777 nics -- unplug network devices
4778 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004779 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4780 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4781 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004782 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004783
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004784 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4785 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4786 optimizations.
4787
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004788 xen_nopv [X86]
4789 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4790 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4791
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004792 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004793 Format:
4794 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004795
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004796______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004797
4798TODO:
4799
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004800 Add more DRM drivers.