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Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +00001 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -08002 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02003 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +03004 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02006 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07009 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +080011 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +080012 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +020013 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +020016 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040018 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -040022 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040023
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +020024 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +000031 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020037 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070045 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070048 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060055 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060059 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070063 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070066 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +020068
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070069 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +080072
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020073 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +080089 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -070094 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800109 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
110 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800111 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
112 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
113 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800114 This feature is enabled by default.
115 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800116
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200117 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
118 kernels.
119
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800120 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
121 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
122 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
123 installed automatically and they will appear under
124 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
125 This option turns off this feature.
126 Note that specifying this option does not affect
127 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
128 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700129
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200130 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
131 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
132 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
133 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800134
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700135 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
136 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
137
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200138 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
139 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
140 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
141 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
142 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
143
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700144 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800145 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
146 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800147 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800148 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
149 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800150 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
151 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700152 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
153
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800154 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
155 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
156 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
157 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
158 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
159 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
160 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800161 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
162 care about the state of the feature group strings which
163 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800164 Examples:
165 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
166 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
167 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
168
169 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
170 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
171 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
172 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
173 multiple times through kernel command line is also
174 meaningless.
175 Examples:
176 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
177 FALSE.
178
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800179 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
180 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
181 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
182 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
183 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
184 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
185 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
186 there are quirks related to this string. This command
187 is useful when one want to control the state of the
188 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
189 the OSPM features.
190 Examples:
191 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
192 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
193 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
194 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
195 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
196 equivalent to
197 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
198 and
199 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
200 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
201
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530202 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700203 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
204 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
205 and always returns good values.
206
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700207 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
208 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
209
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700210 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
211 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
212 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
213
214 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
215 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200216 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700217 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
218 s3_bios and s3_mode.
219 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
220 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
221 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
222 used during resume from hibernation.
223 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
224 control method, with respect to putting devices into
225 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
226 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200227 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
228 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800229 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
230 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
231 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700232
233 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
234 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
235 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
236
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700237 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
238 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
239
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700240 agp= [AGP]
241 { off | try_unsupported }
242 off: disable AGP support
243 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
244 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
245
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700246 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
247 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
248
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000249 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
250 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
251 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
252 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
253
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200254 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
255 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
256 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
257 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
258 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
259 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
260 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
261
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100262 32: only for 32-bit processes
263 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200264 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
265 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
266
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500267 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
268 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
269 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
270 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
271 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
272 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
273
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100274 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200275 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
276 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900277 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
278 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
279 flushed before they will be reused, which
280 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200281 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
282 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100283 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
284 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
285 allowed anymore to lift isolation
286 requirements as needed. This option
287 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900288
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600289 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
290 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
291 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
292 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
293 IOMMU initialization.
294
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500295 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
296 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
297 remapping modes:
298 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
299 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
300 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
301 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
302 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
303
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700304 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
305 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
306 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200307 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700308
309 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
310 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
311 connected to one of 16 gameports
312 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
313
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700314 apc= [HW,SPARC]
315 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700316 Format: noidle
317 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
318 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
319 APC and your system crashes randomly.
320
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700321 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700322 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700323 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
324 Change the amount of debugging information output
325 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700326
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100327 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
328 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
329 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
330 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
331 backup of CPU 0
332 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
333 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
334 shot down by NMI
335
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800336 autoconf= [IPV6]
337 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
338
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400339 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
340 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
341 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
342 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
343 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
344 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
345 apic=verbose is specified.
346 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
347
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700348 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700349 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700350
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700351 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
352 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
353
354 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
355
356 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700358 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
359 EzKey and similar keyboards
360
361 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
362
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700363 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
364 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700365
366 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
367 keyboards
368
369 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
370 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700371
372 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
373 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700374
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400375 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
376 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500377 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
378 until the next reboot
379 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
380 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
381 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
382 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
383 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
384 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400385 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400386
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400387 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
388 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
389 Default: 64
390
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500391 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
392 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
393 Format: { "0" | "1" }
394 0 - Disable the BAU.
395 1 - Enable the BAU.
396 unset - Disable the BAU.
397
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700398 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
399 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700400
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700401 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
402 Format: <io>,<mode>
403 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
404
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700405 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
406 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700407 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
408 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
409
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700410 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
411 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700412 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
414
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700415 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
416 embedded devices based on command line input.
417 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
418
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700419 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
420 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
421 no delay (0).
422 Format: integer
423
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700424 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
425
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700426 bert_disable [ACPI]
427 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
428
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700429 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700430 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
431 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700432 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200433 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700434
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000435 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
436 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
437 at a time.
438
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700439 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
440
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700441 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700442 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
443 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
444 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
445 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
446 This option provides an override for these situations.
447
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300448 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
449 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
450 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300451 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300452
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700453 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
454 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
455 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
456 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
457 others).
458
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100459 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
460 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700461
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700462 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
463 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800464 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
465 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
466 a single hierarchy
467 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
468 subsystem
469 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
470 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
471 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700472
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500473 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
474 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
475 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
476 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
477
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800478 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
479 Format: <string>
480 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800481 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800482
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700483 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
484 Format: { "0" | "1" }
485 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700486 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
487 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700488 1 -- check protection requested by application.
489 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700490 Value can be changed at runtime via
491 /selinux/checkreqprot.
492
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100493 cio_ignore= [S390]
494 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700495 clk_ignore_unused
496 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700497 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
498 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
499 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
500 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
501 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
502 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
503 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
504 platform with proper driver support. For more
505 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100506
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700507 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700508 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200509 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700510 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200511 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700512 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
513
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700514 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700515 Format: <string>
516 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
517 with the name specified.
518 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
519 the platform:
520 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
521 [ACPI] acpi_pm
522 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
523 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
524 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700525 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700526 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
527 [MIPS] MIPS
528 [PARISC] cr16
529 [S390] tod
530 [SH] SuperH
531 [SPARC64] tick
532 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
533
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100534 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
535 [ARM,ARM64]
536 Format: <bool>
537 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
538 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
539 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
540 systems.
541
Scott Woodf6dc1572016-09-22 03:35:17 -0500542 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
543 [ARM64]
544 Format: <bool>
545 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
546 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
547 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
548 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
549 enabled based on the device tree.
550
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100583
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100585 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700602
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800608 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700614
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +0200615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700619
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400623 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700637
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645 disables the blank timer.
646
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400652 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
653 disable the cpuidle sub-system
654
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400655 cpu_init_udelay=N
656 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
657 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
658 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
659 Default: 10000
660
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700661 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700662 Format:
663 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700664
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800665 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
666 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
667 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
668 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
669 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
670 is selected automatically. Check
671 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700672
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700673 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
674 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
675 in the running system. The syntax of range is
676 start-[end] where start and end are both
677 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800678 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700679
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700680 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700681 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
682 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
683 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
684 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
685 available.
686 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700687 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
688 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
689 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700690 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
691 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800692 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
693 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
694 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
695 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700696 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
697 for second kernel instead.
698 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700699 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700700 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700701
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100702 cryptomgr.notests
703 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
704
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700705 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
706 Format: <dma>
707
708 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
709 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700710
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700711 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700712 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
713
714 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
715 (one device per port)
716 Format: <port#>,<type>
717 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
718
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200719 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
720 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600721 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200722
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700723 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
724
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700725 debug_locks_verbose=
726 [KNL] verbose self-tests
727 Format=<0|1>
728 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
729 self-tests.
730 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
731 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
732 only useful to kernel developers.
733
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700734 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
735
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500736 no_debug_objects
737 [KNL] Disable object debugging
738
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800739 debug_guardpage_minorder=
740 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
741 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
742 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
743 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
744 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
745 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
746 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
747 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
748 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
749 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
750 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
751 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
752 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
753 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
754 bypassed) which are not detectable by
755 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
756 tracking down these problems.
757
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800758 debug_pagealloc=
759 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
760 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
761 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
762 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
763 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
764 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
765 on: enable the feature
766
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200767 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
768
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200769 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700770 Format: <area>[,<node>]
771 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
772
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700773 default_hugepagesz=
774 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
775 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
776 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
777 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
778 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
779 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700780
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700781 dhash_entries= [KNL]
782 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700783
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000784 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
785 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
786 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
787 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
788 miss to occur.
789
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800790 disable= [IPV6]
791 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
792
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530793 disable_radix [PPC]
794 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
795
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900796 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
797 Format: <int>
798 The number of initial APIC ID for the
799 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
800 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
801 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
802 causing system reset or hang due to sending
803 INIT from AP to BSP.
804
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000805 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
806 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
807 to workaround buggy firmware.
808
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800809 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
810 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
811
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700812 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700813 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
814 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700815 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700816
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100817 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100818 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
819 memory out of your available memory pool based on
820 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
821 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
822
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530823 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700824 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
825 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
826
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400827 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
828
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700829 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
830 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
831
832 dma_debug_entries=<number>
833 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
834 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
835 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
836 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
837 architectural default is too low.
838
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200839 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
840 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
841 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
842 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
843 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
844 driver later using sysfs.
845
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700846 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
847 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
848 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
849 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
850 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100851 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
852 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
853 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
854 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
855 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
856 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
857 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
858 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700859 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
860 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
861 data set with no connector name will be used for
862 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100863
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700864 dscc4.setup= [NET]
865
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000866 dump_apple_properties [X86]
867 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
868 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
869 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
870
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600871 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
872 module.dyndbg[="val"]
873 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
874 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
875
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700876 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
877 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
878 information about the feature.
879
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800880 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
881 in some Intel CPUs.
882
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700883 module.async_probe [KNL]
884 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
885
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700886 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
887 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
888 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
889 which are not unmapped.
890
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700891 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500892
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500893 When used with no options, the early console is
894 determined by the stdout-path property in device
895 tree's chosen node.
896
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100897 cdns,<addr>[,options]
898 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
899 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
900 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
901 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
902 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200903
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700904 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
905 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700906 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300907 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400908 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700909 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
910 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700911 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300912 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
913 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
914 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
915 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400916 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700917
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500918 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600919 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500920 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
921 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
922 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600923 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
924 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
925 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500926
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100927 meson,<addr>
928 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
929 port at the specified address. The serial port must
930 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
931 supported.
932
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700933 msm_serial,<addr>
934 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
935 port at the specified address. The serial port
936 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
937 yet supported.
938
939 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
940 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
941 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
942 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
943 yet supported.
944
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500945 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
946
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100947 s3c2410,<addr>
948 s3c2412,<addr>
949 s3c2440,<addr>
950 s3c6400,<addr>
951 s5pv210,<addr>
952 exynos4210,<addr>
953 Use early console provided by serial driver available
954 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
955 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
956 serial port must already be setup and configured.
957 Options are not yet supported.
958
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -0700959 lpuart,<addr>
960 lpuart32,<addr>
961 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
962 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
963 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
964 port must already be setup and configured.
965
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +0100966 armada3700_uart,<addr>
967 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
968 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
969 address. The serial port must already be setup
970 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
971
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +1000972 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700973 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +0100974 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -0500975 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700976 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700977 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -0500978 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -0500979 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +0600980 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700981
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700982 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
983 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
984 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
985
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700986 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700987 takes over.
988
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +0100989 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
990 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700991
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700992 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
993 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
994 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
995 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
996 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
997 You can find the port for a given device in
998 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
999 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001000
1001 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1002 very good.
1003
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001004 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1005 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001006
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001007 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1008
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001009 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1010 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1011 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1012 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1013 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1014 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1015 default: on.
1016
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001017 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1018 ekgdboc=kbd
1019
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001020 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001021 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1022
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001023 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001024 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001025
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001026 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001027 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001028 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1029 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1030 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001031 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1032 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1033 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001034 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001035 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001036
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001037 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1038 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1039 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1040 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1041 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1042
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001043 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1044 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1045 updating original EFI memory map.
1046 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1047 from ss to ss+nn.
1048 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1049 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1050 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1051 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1052
1053 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1054 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1055 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1056 doesn't support it.
1057
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001058 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1059 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1060 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1061 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1062 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1063
1064
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001065 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1066 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1067
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001068 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001069 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001070 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001071
1072 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001073 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001074 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001075 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1076
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001077 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001078 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001079 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1080 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001081 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001082
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001083 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1084 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1085 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1086 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1087
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001088 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001089 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1090 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1091 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1092 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1093
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001094 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1095 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1096 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1097 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1098 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1099 Default value is 0.
1100 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1101
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001102 erst_disable [ACPI]
1103 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1104 support.
1105
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001106 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1107 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1108 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1109
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001110 evm= [EVM]
1111 Format: { "fix" }
1112 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1113 current integrity status.
1114
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001115 failslab=
1116 fail_page_alloc=
1117 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1118 General fault injection mechanism.
1119 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001120 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001121
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001122 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001123 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001124
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001125 force_pal_cache_flush
1126 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1127 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1128 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1129 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1130
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001131 forcepae [X86-32]
1132 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1133 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1134 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1135 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1136 and may cause unknown problems.
1137
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001138 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001139 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001140 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1141 boot debugging.
1142
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001143 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001144 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001145 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1146 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1147 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1148 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001149
1150 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1151 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1152 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1153 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1154 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001155 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001156
1157 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1158 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1159 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1160 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1161 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001162
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001163 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1164 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1165 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1166 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1167 that can be changed at run time by the
1168 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1169
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001170 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1171 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1172 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1173 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1174 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1175
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001176 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1177 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1178 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1179 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1180 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1181
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001182 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1183 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1184 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1185 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1186 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1187
1188 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1189
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001190 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1191 Format: off | on
1192 default: on
1193
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001194 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1195 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1196 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1197 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1198 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1199
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001200 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001201 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1202 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1203 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001204
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001205 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1206 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1207 Format: 0 | 1
1208 Default: 0
1209 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1210 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1211 Format: 0 | 1
1212 Default: 0
1213 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1214 Format: 0 | 1
1215 Default: 0
1216 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1217 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1218 Default: 1024
1219 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1220 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1221 Default: 1024
1222
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001223 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1224 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1225 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1226
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001227 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1228 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1229 backtraces on all cpus.
1230 Format: <integer>
1231
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001232 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1233 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001234 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001235 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001236
1237 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1238
1239 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1240 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1241
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001242 hest_disable [ACPI]
1243 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1244 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1245 logic will be disabled.
1246
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001247 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1248 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1249 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1250 size on bigger boxes.
1251
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001252 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1253 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1254 Default: "on"
1255
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001256 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1257 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1258
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001259 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1260
1261 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1262 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1263 verbose }
1264 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1265 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1266 VIA, nVidia)
1267 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1268
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001269 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1270 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1271
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001272 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1273 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001274 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1275 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1276 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1277 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001278 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001279
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001280 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1281 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001282 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1283 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1284 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001285
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001286 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1287 hardware thread id mappings.
1288 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1289
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001290 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1291 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1292 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1293 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1294 the real console.
1295
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001296 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001297 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1298 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001299 Format:
1300 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1301
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001302 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001303 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1304 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1305 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1306 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001307 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001308 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1309 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001310 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1311 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001312 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001313 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1314 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001315 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001316 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001317 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1318 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001319 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001320 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1321 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1322 transitions, or never reset
1323 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1324 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1325 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1326 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1327 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001328 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001329 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001330
1331 i810= [HW,DRM]
1332
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001333 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1334 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1335 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001336 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1337 does not match list of supported models.
1338 i8k.power_status
1339 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1340 (disabled by default)
1341 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1342 capability is set.
1343
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001344 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001345 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1346 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001347 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1348 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1349 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1350 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1351 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1352 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1353 value switches the backlight off.
1354 -1 -- never invert brightness
1355 0 -- machine default
1356 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001358 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1359 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1360
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001361 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1362 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001363 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1364 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001365 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001366
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001367 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1368 Format: <int>
1369 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1370 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1371 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1372 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1373 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1374 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1375 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1376 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1377 was 0x3.
1378
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001379 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1380 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1381
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001382 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001383 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001384 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1385 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1386 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1387 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001388 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001389 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001390 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001391
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001392 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1393 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1394 Default: strict
1395
1396 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1397 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1398 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1399 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1400 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1401 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1402 encoding mode.
1403
1404 Available settings are as follows:
1405 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1406 supported by the FPU
1407 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1408 by the FPU
1409 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1410 by the FPU
1411 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1412 supported by the FPU
1413
1414 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1415 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1416 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1417 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1418 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1419 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1420 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1421 MIPS64 CPUs.
1422
1423 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1424 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1425 except where unsupported by hardware.
1426
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001427 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1428 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1429 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001430 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1431 could change it dynamically, usually by
1432 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001433
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001434 ignore_rlimit_data
1435 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1436 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1437 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1438
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001439 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1440 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1441
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001442 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001443 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001444 default: "enforce"
1445
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001446 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1447 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1448 owned by uid=0.
1449
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001450 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1451 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1452 measurements, instead of host native format.
1453
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001454 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001455 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1456 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001457 default: "sha1"
1458
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001459 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1460 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1461
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001462 ima_policy= [IMA]
1463 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1464 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1465 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1466 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1467 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1468 Format: "tcb"
1469
1470 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001471 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1472 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1473 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1474 opened for read by uid=0.
1475
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001476 ima_template= [IMA]
1477 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001478 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001479 Default: "ima-ng"
1480
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001481 ima_template_fmt=
1482 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1483 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1484
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001485 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1486 Format: <min_file_size>
1487 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1488 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1489
1490 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1491 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1492 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1493
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001494 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1495 Format: <bufsize>
1496 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1497
1498 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1499 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1500 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1501
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001502 init= [KNL]
1503 Format: <full_path>
1504 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1505 process.
1506
1507 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1508 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1509 startup.
1510
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001511 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1512 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1513 modules and initcalls.
1514
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001515 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1516
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001517 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1518 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1519 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1520 override in debugfs after boot.
1521
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001522 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1523 Format: <irq>
1524
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001525 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1526
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001527 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1528 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1529 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1530 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1531
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001532 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001533 on
1534 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001535 off
1536 Disable intel iommu driver.
1537 igfx_off [Default Off]
1538 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1539 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1540 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1541 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1542 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001543 forcedac [x86_64]
1544 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001545 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001546 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001547 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1548 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001549 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001550 strict [Default Off]
1551 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1552 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1553 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001554 sp_off [Default Off]
1555 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1556 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1557 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001558 ecs_off [Default Off]
1559 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1560 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1561 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1562 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1563 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001564
1565 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1566 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001567 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001568
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001569 intel_pstate= [X86]
1570 disable
1571 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1572 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001573 passive
1574 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1575 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1576 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1577 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1578 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001579 force
1580 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1581 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1582 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1583 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1584 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1585 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1586 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1587 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001588 no_hwp
1589 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1590 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001591 hwp_only
1592 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1593 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001594 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001595 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1596 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1597 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1598 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001599 per_cpu_perf_limits
1600 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1601 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001602
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001603 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001604 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1605 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1606 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001607 no_x2apic_optout
1608 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001609 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001610
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001611 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1612 strict regions from userspace.
1613 relaxed
1614
1615 iommu= [x86]
1616 off
1617 force
1618 noforce
1619 biomerge
1620 panic
1621 nopanic
1622 merge
1623 nomerge
1624 forcesac
1625 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001626 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001627 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1628 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001629
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001630
1631 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1632 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1633 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1634
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301635 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001636 0x80
1637 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1638 0xed
1639 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001640 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001641 Simple two microseconds delay
1642 none
1643 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001644
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001645 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001646 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001647
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001648 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001649 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001650
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001651 irqfixup [HW]
1652 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1653 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1654 firmware running.
1655
1656 irqpoll [HW]
1657 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1658 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1659 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1660 firmware running.
1661
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001662 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001663 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001664
1665 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001666 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001667
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001668 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1669 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001670 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1671 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001672 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1673 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1674
1675 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001676 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1677 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1678 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001679
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001680 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001681
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001682 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1683 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1684 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1685 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1686 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1687 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1688
1689 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1690 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1691 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1692 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1693 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1694 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1695
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001696 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1697 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1698 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1699 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1700 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1701 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1702
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001703 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1704 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1705
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001706 nokaslr [KNL]
1707 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1708 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1709 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001710
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001711 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1712
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001713 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1714 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1715 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001716 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1717 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1718 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1719 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1720 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1721 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1722 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001723 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001724 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1725 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1726 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1727 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1728 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1729 zone if it does not.
1730
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001731 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1732 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1733 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1734 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1735 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1736 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1737 time.
1738
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001739 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1740 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1741 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1742 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1743 optional and is the number seconds in between
1744 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1745 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1746 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1747 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1748 the kernel debugger.
1749
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001750 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001751 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1752 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001753 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1754 keyboard only format: kbd
1755 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1756 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1757 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1758 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001759
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001760 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1761 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1762
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001763 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1764 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1765 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1766
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001767 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1768 Valid arguments: on, off
1769 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001770 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1771 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001772
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001773 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1774 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1775 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1776 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1777 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1778 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1779
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001780 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1781 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1782
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001783 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1784 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001785 Default is 0 (off)
1786
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001787 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001788 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001789
1790 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1791 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001792 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001793
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001794 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1795 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1796 Default is 1 (enabled)
1797
1798 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1799 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1800 Default is 0 (disabled)
1801
1802 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1803 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1804 Default is 1 (enabled)
1805
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001806 kvm-intel.nested=
1807 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1808 Default is 0 (disabled)
1809
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001810 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1811 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1812 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1813 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1814
1815 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1816 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1817 Default is 1 (enabled)
1818
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001819 l2cr= [PPC]
1820
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001821 l3cr= [PPC]
1822
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001823 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001824 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001825
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001826 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1827 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1828 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1829
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301830 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001831 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001832
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001833 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1834 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1835 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1836 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001837 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001838 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1839 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001840
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001841 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1842 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1843 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001844
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001845 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1846 when set.
1847 Format: <int>
1848
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001849 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1850 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001851 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001852 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1853 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1854 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1855 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1856 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1857
1858 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1859 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1860 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1861 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1862 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1863 host link and device attached to it.
1864
1865 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1866 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1867 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1868 The following configurations can be forced.
1869
1870 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1871 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1872
1873 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1874
1875 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1876 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1877 allowed.
1878
1879 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1880
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001881 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1882
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001883 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1884 and both resets.
1885
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001886 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1887 hot-unplug link recovery
1888
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001889 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1890
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001891 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1892
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001893 * disable: Disable this device.
1894
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001895 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1896 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1897
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001898 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001899
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001900 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001901 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001902
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001903 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1904 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001905
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001906 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1907 Format: <integer>
1908
1909 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1910 Format: <integer>
1911
1912 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1913 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001914
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07001915 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1916 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1917 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1918 number of online CPUs.
1919
1920 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1921 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1922
1923 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1924 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1925
1926 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1927 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1928 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1929
1930 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1931 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1932 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1933 mode during the locktorture test.
1934
1935 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1936 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1937 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1938
1939 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1940 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1941
1942 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1943 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1944 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1945 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1946 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1947 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1948
1949 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1950 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1951
1952 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1953 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1954
1955 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1956 Enable additional printk() statements.
1957
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001958 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1959 Format: <irq>
1960
1961 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1962 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1963 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1964 loglevels are defined as follows:
1965
1966 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1967 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1968 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1969 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1970 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1971 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1972 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1973 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1974
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08001975 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07001976 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1977 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1978 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1979 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1980 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1981 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001982
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07001983 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1984 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1985 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1986 kernel boot problems.
1987
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001988 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1989 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1990 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1991 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1992 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1993 attached printers to be reset. Using
1994 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1995 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1996 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1997 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1998 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1999 port specification list means that device IDs
2000 from each port should be examined, to see if
2001 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2002 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2003 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2004
2005 lpj=n [KNL]
2006 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2007 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2008 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2009 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2010 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2011 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2012 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2013 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2014 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2015 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2016 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2017 hardware.
2018
2019 ltpc= [NET]
2020 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2021
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002022 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002023 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2024 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002025
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002026 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2027 yeeloong laptop.
2028 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2029
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002030 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2031 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002032
2033 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002034 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2035 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2036 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2037 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2038 only takes effect during system bootup.
2039 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2040 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002041
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002042 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2043 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2044 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2045 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2046 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2047 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002048
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002049 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002050
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002051 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002052
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002053 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002054 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002055
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002056 mdacon= [MDA]
2057 Format: <first>,<last>
2058 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002059
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002060 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2061 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2062 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002063 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2064 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2065 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2066 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002067
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002068 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002069 memory.
2070
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002071 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2072 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2073 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2074
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002075 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2076 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2077 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2078 set according to the
2079 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2080 option.
2081 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2082
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302083 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002084 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2085 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2086 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2087 option description.
2088
2089 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002090 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2091 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002092
2093 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2094 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002095 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002096
2097 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2098 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002099 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002100 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2101 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2102 or
2103 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002104
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002105 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2106 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2107 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2108 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2109 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2110
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002111 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2112 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2113 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2114 Setting this option will scan the memory
2115 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2116 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2117 from using the memory being corrupted.
2118 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2119 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2120 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2121 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2122
2123 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2124 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2125 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2126 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2127 corruption in more or less memory.
2128
2129 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2130 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2131 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2132 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2133
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002134 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002135 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002136 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002137 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2138 performed. Each pass selects another test
2139 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2140 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2141 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2142 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002143
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002144 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2145 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2146 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2147 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2148 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2149
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002150 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2151 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2152
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002153 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2154 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2155 platforms.
2156
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002157 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2158 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2159 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2160 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2161
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002162 mga= [HW,DRM]
2163
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002164 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2165 physical address is ignored.
2166
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002167 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2168 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2169 Default: "0tb"
2170 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2171 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2172 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2173 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2174 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2175 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2176 unconfigured.
2177 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2178 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2179 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2180 VGA shield.
2181 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2182 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2183 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2184 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2185 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2186 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2187
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002188 mminit_loglevel=
2189 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2190 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2191 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2192 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2193 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2194 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2195
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002196 module.sig_enforce
2197 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2198 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002199 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002200 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2201
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302202 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2203 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2204
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002205 mousedev.tap_time=
2206 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2207 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2208 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2209 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2210 Format: <msecs>
2211 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2212 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2213 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2214 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2215
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302216 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002217 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2218 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2219 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2220 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2221 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2222 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2223 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2224 is not too small.
2225
Reza Arbab39fa104d2016-12-12 16:42:55 -08002226 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002227 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2228
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002229 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2230 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2231
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002232 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2233 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002234
2235 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002236 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002237
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002238 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2239 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2240 at a time.
2241
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002242 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2243
2244 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2245
2246 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2247 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2248 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2249 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2250 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2251
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002252 mtdset= [ARM]
2253 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2254
2255 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2256
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002257 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002258 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2259 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002260
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002261 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002262 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002263 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2264
2265 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2266 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2267 Default is 1.
2268 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2269 using up MTRRs.
2270
2271 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2272 Format: <integer>
2273 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2274 Default : 1
2275 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2276 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2277
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002278 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2279
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002280 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2281 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2282 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2283 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002284 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2285 file if at all.
2286
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002287 nf_conntrack.acct=
2288 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2289 0 to disable accounting
2290 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002291 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002292
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002293 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002294 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002295
2296 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002297 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002298
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002299 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2300 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2301
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002302 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2303 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2304 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2305 requests.
2306
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002307 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2308 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2309 channel should listen.
2310
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002311 nfs.cache_getent=
2312 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2313 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2314
2315 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2316 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2317 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2318
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002319 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2320 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2321 entries.
2322
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002323 nfs.enable_ino64=
2324 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2325 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2326 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2327 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2328 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2329
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002330 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2331 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2332 slots the client will assign to the callback
2333 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2334 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2335 a particular server.
2336
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002337 nfs.max_session_slots=
2338 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2339 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2340 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2341 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2342 Note that there is little point in setting this
2343 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2344
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002345 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002346 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2347 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2348 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2349 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2350 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2351 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2352 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2353 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2354 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2355 back to using the idmapper.
2356 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002357 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2358 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2359 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2360 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2361 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002362
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002363 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2364 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2365 information in exchange_id requests.
2366 If zero, no implementation identification information
2367 will be sent.
2368 The default is to send the implementation identification
2369 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002370
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002371 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2372 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2373 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2374 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2375 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2376 after the locks are lost.
2377 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2378 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2379 parameter to '1'.
2380 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2381 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002382
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002383 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2384 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2385 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2386
2387 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2388 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2389 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2390 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2391
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002392 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2393 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2394 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2395 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2396 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2397 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002398
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002399 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2400 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2401 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2402 osd-targets. Please see:
2403 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2404
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002405 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002406 when a NMI is triggered.
2407 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2408
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302409 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002410 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002411 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002412 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2413 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002414 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002415 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002416 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2417 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002418 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2419 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002420
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002421 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2422 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2423 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2424 waits 4 seconds.
2425
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002426 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002427 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2428 is present.
2429
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002430 no_console_suspend
2431 [HW] Never suspend the console
2432 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2433 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2434 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2435 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2436 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2437 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2438 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002439 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2440 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2441 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2442 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2443 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002444
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002445 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2446 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2447 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002448
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002449 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2450
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002451 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2452 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2453
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002454 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2455
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002456 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2457 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2458
2459 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002460
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002461 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2462
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002463 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2464
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002465 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2466
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002467 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002468
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002469 noexec [IA-64]
2470
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302471 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002472 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002473 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002474 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2475
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002476 nosmap [X86]
2477 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2478 even if it is supported by processor.
2479
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002480 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002481 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002482 even if it is supported by processor.
2483
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002484 noexec32 [X86-64]
2485 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2486 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2487 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2488 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2489 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002490
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002491 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002492
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002493 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002494 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2495 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002496
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002497 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2498
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002499 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2500 Equivalent to smt=1.
2501
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002502 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2503 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2504 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2505
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002506 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2507 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2508 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2509 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2510 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2511 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2512
2513 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2514 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2515 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2516 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2517 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2518 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2519 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2520
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002521 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2522 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2523 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002524
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002525 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2526 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2527 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2528
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002529 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2530 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2531 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2532 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2533 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2534 real-time systems.
2535
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002536 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2537
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002538 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2539 Valid arguments: on, off
2540 Default: on
2541
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002542 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002543 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002544 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002545 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002546 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2547 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002548 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2549 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002550
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002551 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2552
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002553 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002554 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2555
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302556 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002557 broken timer IRQ sources.
2558
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002559 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2560
2561 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2562 initial RAM disk.
2563
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002564 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2565 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002566 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002567
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002568 nointroute [IA-64]
2569
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002570 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2571
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002572 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002573
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002574 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2575
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002576 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2577 fault handling.
2578
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002579 no-vmw-sched-clock
2580 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2581 clock and use the default one.
2582
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002583 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2584 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2585 behaviour
2586
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002587 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002588
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002589 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002590
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002591 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002592 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002593
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002594 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2595
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002596 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002597
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002598 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2599 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2600
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002601 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2602 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2603 irq.
2604
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002605 nomodule Disable module load
2606
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002607 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2608 pagetables) support.
2609
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002610 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2611 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2612
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002613 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002614
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002615 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002616 with UP alternatives
2617
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002618 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2619 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2620 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2621 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002622
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002623 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2624 space.
2625
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002626 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2627 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2628 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2629
2630 nosbagart [IA-64]
2631
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002632 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002633
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002634 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2635 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002636
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002637 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2638
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002639 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2640
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002641 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002642
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002643 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2644 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002645
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002646 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002647
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002648 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2649
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002650 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2651 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2652 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2653 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2654 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2655 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2656 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2657 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2658 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2659 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2660 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2661 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2662 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2663
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002664 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002665 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2666 SAL PALO.
2667
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002668 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2669 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002670 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2671 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2672 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2673 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2674 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2675 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002676
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002677 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2678
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002679 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2680 Allowed values are enable and disable
2681
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002682 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2683 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2684 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2685 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2686
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002687 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2688 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2689 info.
2690
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002691 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2692 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2693 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2694 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2695 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2696 interrupts *may* be lost!
2697
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002698 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2699 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2700 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2701 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2702
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002703 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2704 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2705
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002706 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2707 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2708 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002709 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2710 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002711 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2712 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002713 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2714 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2715 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002716
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002717 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2718 process, but there is a small probability of
2719 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002720 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2721 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2722
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002723 OSS [HW,OSS]
2724 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2725
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002726 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2727 Storage of the information about who allocated
2728 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2729 we can turn it on.
2730 on: enable the feature
2731
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002732 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2733 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2734 off: turn off poisoning
2735 on: turn on poisoning
2736
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002737 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002738 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2739 timeout = 0: wait forever
2740 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002741 Format: <timeout>
2742
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002743 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2744 on a WARN().
2745
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002746 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2747 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2748 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2749 succeeds in any situation.
2750 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2751 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2752 kernel more unstable.
2753
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002754 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2755 connected to, default is 0.
2756 Format: <parport#>
2757 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2758 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002759 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002760
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002761 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2762 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2763 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2764 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2765 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2766 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2767 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2768 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2769 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2770 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2771 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2772 are specified on the command line, starting
2773 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002774
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002775 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2776 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2777 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2778 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2779 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2780 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002781 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2782
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002783 pause_on_oops=
2784 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2785 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2786 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2787
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002788 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2789
2790 pcd. [PARIDE]
2791 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002792 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002793
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002794 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002795 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2796 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002797 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002798 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002799 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2800 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002801 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002802 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2803 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2804 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002805 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2806 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2807 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2808 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2809 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2810 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2811 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2812 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2813 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2814 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002815 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2816 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2817 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002818 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2819 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302820 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002821 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002822 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2823 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2824 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002825 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2826 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2827 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002828 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2829 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2830 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002831 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2832 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2833 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2834 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002835 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2836 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2837 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2838 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002839 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002840 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2841 on several machines and they hang the machine
2842 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2843 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2844 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2845 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2846 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002847 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002848 Use with caution as certain devices share
2849 address decoders between ROMs and other
2850 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002851 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002852 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2853 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002854 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2855 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002856 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002857 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2858 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2859 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002860 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002861 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2862 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2863 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002864 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002865 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2866 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2867 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002868 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002869 numbers ourselves, overriding
2870 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002871 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002872 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2873 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2874 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2875 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2876 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002877 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002878 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002879 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2880 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2881 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2882 please report a bug.
2883 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2884 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002885 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2886 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2887 so this option is a temporary workaround
2888 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002889 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2890 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002891 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2892 This might help on some broken boards which
2893 machine check when some devices' config space
2894 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2895 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002896 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2897 This sorting is done to get a device
2898 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2899 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08002900 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2901 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2902 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2903 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2904 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2905 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2906 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2907 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2908 or bus can support) for best performance.
2909 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2910 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2911 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2912 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2913 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2914 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08002915 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2916 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2917 The default value is 256 bytes.
2918 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2919 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2920 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002921 resource_alignment=
2922 Format:
2923 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00002924 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2925 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002926 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2927 aligned memory resources.
2928 If <order of align> is not specified,
2929 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2930 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2931 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02002932 To specify the alignment for several
2933 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2934 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2935 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06002936 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2937 end-to-end CRC checking).
2938 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2939 the default.
2940 off: Turn ECRC off
2941 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08002942 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2943 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2944 Default size is 256 bytes.
2945 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2946 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2947 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06002948 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2949 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2950 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08002951 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2952 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2953 accommodate resources required by all child
2954 devices.
2955 off: Turn realloc off
2956 on: Turn realloc on
2957 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01002958 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06002959 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2960 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2961 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002962
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04002963 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2964 Management.
2965 off Disable ASPM.
2966 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2967 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2968
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05002969 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2970 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2971 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2972
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002973 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002974 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2975 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2976 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2977 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2978 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002979 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2980 ports driver.
2981
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03002982 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
2983 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
2984 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
2985
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002986 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01002987 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002988 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002989
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002990 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2991
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05302992 pd_ignore_unused
2993 [PM]
2994 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2995 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2996 for debug and development, but should not be
2997 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2998
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002999 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003000 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003001
3002 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3003 boot time.
3004 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3005 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3006
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003007 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003008 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3009 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3010 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3011 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3012 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003013
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003014 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003015 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003016
3017 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003018 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003019
3020 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003021 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003022
3023 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3024 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3025 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3026
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003027 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003028 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3029 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3030
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003031 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3032 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3033 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3034 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3035 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3036 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003037
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003038 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3039 { off }
3040
3041 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3042 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3043
3044 pnp_reserve_irq=
3045 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3046
3047 pnp_reserve_dma=
3048 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3049
3050 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003051 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003052
3053 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003054 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3055 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003056 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3057
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003058 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3059 Default is 21.
3060 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3061 may be specified.
3062 Format: <port>,<port>....
3063
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003064 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3065 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3066 platform machine description specific power_save
3067 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3068 execution priority.
3069
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003070 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3071 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3072 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3073 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3074 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3075
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003076 print-fatal-signals=
3077 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003078
3079 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3080 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3081 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3082 coredump - etc.
3083
3084 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3085 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3086
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003087 default: off.
3088
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003089 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3090 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3091 panics
3092 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3093 default: disabled
3094
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003095 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3096 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3097 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3098 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3099 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3100 Default: ratelimit
3101
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003102 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3103 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3104
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003105 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3106 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3107 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3108
3109 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3110 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3111 instead using the legacy FADT method
3112
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003113 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003114 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3115 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3116 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3117 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003118 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3119 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003120 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003121
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003122 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3123 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003124 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003125
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003126 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3127 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003128 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3129 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003130 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3131 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003132 (0 = never).
3133 psmouse.resolution=
3134 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3135 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003136 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003137 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3138
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003139 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3140
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003141 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003142 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003143
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003144 pty.legacy_count=
3145 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3146 default number.
3147
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003148 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003149
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003150 r128= [HW,DRM]
3151
3152 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003153 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003154
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003155 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003156 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003157
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003158 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003159 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3160
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003161 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3162 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3163 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003164 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3165 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3166 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3167 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003168 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3169 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3170 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3171
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003172 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003173 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3174 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3175 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3176 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3177 This improves the real-time response for the
3178 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3179 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3180 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3181 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3182
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003183 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003184 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3185 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003186
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003187 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3188 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3189 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3190 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3191
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003192 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3193 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3194 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3195 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3196
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003197 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3198 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3199 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003200 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3201 is set.
3202
3203 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3204 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3205 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3206 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3207 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3208 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003209
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003210 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3211 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3212 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3213 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3214 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003215
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003216 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003217 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3218 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3219 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3220 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3221 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3222 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003223
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003224 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3225 Set required age in jiffies for a
3226 given grace period before RCU starts
3227 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3228 rcu_note_context_switch().
3229
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003230 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003231 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3232 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3233 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3234 and maximum value is HZ.
3235
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003236 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003237 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3238 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3239 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3240
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003241 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003242 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3243 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3244 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3245 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3246 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3247 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3248 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3249 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3250 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003251
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003252 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3253 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3254 defaults to the square root of the number of
3255 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3256 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3257 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3258
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003259 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003260 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3261 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003262
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003263 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003264 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3265 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003266
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003267 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003268 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3269 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003270
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003271 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003272 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3273 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3274 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3275 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003276
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003277 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3278 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3279 grace-period primitives.
3280
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003281 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3282 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3283 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3284 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3285 interference.
3286
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003287 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3288 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3289 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3290 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3291 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3292 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3293 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3294 a single reader.
3295
3296 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3297 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3298 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3299 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3300
3301 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3302 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3303
3304 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3305 Shut the system down after performance tests
3306 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3307 testing.
3308
3309 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3310 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3311
3312 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3313 Enable additional printk() statements.
3314
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003315 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3316 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3317 callback-flood tests.
3318
3319 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3320 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3321 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3322 test.
3323
3324 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3325 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3326 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3327 disable callback-flood testing.
3328
3329 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3330 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3331 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3332
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003333 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003334 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3335 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003336
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003337 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003338 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3339 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003340
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003341 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003342 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3343 in seconds.
3344
3345 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3346 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3347 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003348
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003349 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003350 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003351
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003352 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003353 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3354 update-side primitives, if available.
3355
3356 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3357 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3358 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3359 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3360 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3361 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3362 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003363
3364 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003365 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3366
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003367 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003368 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3369 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3370 test, hence the "fake".
3371
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003372 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003373 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3374 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3375 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3376 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3377 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003378
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003379 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3380 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3381
3382 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003383 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3384
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003385 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003386 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3387 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3388
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003389 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003390 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3391 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3392 during the rcutorture test.
3393
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003394 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003395 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3396 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3397
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003398 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003399 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3400 warnings, zero to disable.
3401
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003402 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003403 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3404
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003405 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003406 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3407
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003408 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003409 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3410 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3411 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3412 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3413
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003414 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003415 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3416 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3417 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3418
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003419 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003420 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3421
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003422 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003423 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3424
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003425 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003426 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3427 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3428
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003429 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3430 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3431
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003432 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003433 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3434
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003435 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003436 Enable additional printk() statements.
3437
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003438 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3439 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3440
3441 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3442 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3443
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003444 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3445 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3446 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3447 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3448 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3449 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003450 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003451
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003452 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3453 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3454 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3455 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003456 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3457 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3458 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3459 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3460 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003461
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003462 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3463 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3464 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003465 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3466 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003467
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003468 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3469 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3470 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3471 to zero.
3472
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003473 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3474 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3475
3476 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3477 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3478
3479 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3480 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3481
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003482 rdinit= [KNL]
3483 Format: <full_path>
3484 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3485 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3486
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003487 reboot= [KNL]
3488 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3489 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3490 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3491 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3492 [[,]f[orce]
3493 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3494 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3495 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3496 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3497 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003498
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003499 relax_domain_level=
3500 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003501 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003502
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003503 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3504
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003505 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003506 Format: nn[KMG]
3507 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3508 address space.
3509
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003510 reservelow= [X86]
3511 Format: nn[K]
3512 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3513 the bottom of the address space.
3514
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003515 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3516 during initialization.
3517
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003518 resume= [SWSUSP]
3519 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003520 Format:
3521 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003522
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003523 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3524 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3525 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3526 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3527 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3528
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003529 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3530 read the resume files
3531
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003532 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3533 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3534 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3535
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003536 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3537 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3538 present during boot.
3539 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003540 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003541 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3542 (that will set all pages holding image data
3543 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003544
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003545 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3546
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003547 rfkill.default_state=
3548 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3549 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3550 1 Unblocked.
3551
3552 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3553 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3554 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3555 blocked and the previous configuration.
3556 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3557 blocked and everything unblocked.
3558
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003559 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3560 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3561
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003562 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3563
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003564 rodata= [KNL]
3565 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3566 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3567
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003568 rockchip.usb_uart
3569 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3570 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3571 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3572 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3573
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003574 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003575 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003576
3577 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3578 mount the root filesystem
3579
3580 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3581
3582 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3583
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003584 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3585 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3586 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3587
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003588 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3589 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3590 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3591 managed by CMA.
3592
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003593 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3594
3595 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3596
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003597 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3598 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3599 strict
3600 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3601 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3602 which is faster.
3603
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003604 sa1100ir [NET]
3605 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3606
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003607 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003608
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003609 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3610
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003611 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3612 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3613 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3614 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3615
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003616 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3617 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3618 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3619 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3620 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3621 1 -- enable.
3622 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3623 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3624
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003625 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3626 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3627 security module asking for security registration will be
3628 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3629 as if no module has been chosen.
3630
3631 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003632 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3633 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3634 0 -- disable.
3635 1 -- enable.
3636 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3637 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3638 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3639
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003640 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3641 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3642 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3643 0 -- disable.
3644 1 -- enable.
3645 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3646
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003647 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003648
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003649 shapers= [NET]
3650 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003651
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003652 simeth= [IA-64]
3653 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003654
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003655 slram= [HW,MTD]
3656
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003657 slab_nomerge [MM]
3658 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3659 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3660 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3661 merging on their own.
3662 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3663
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003664 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3665 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3666 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3667 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3668 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3669
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003670 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3671 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3672 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3673 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3674 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3675 last alloc / free. For more information see
3676 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003677
3678 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003679 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3680 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3681 fragmentation. For more information see
3682 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003683
3684 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003685 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3686 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3687 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3688 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3689 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3690 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003691 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3692
3693 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003694 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003695 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003696 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3697
3698 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003699 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3700 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003701
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003702 smart2= [HW]
3703 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3704
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003705 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3706 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3707 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3708 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3709 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3710 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3711 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3712 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3713 1: Fast pin select (default)
3714 2: ATC IRMode
3715
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003716 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3717 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3718 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3719 actual hardware limit.
3720 Format: <integer>
3721 Default: -1 (no limit)
3722
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003723 softlockup_panic=
3724 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003725 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003726
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003727 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3728 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3729 backtraces on all cpus.
3730 Format: <integer>
3731
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003732 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003733 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003734
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003735 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3736 spia_fio_base=
3737 spia_pedr=
3738 spia_peddr=
3739
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003740 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3741 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3742
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003743 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3744 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3745 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3746 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3747 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3748 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3749 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3750
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003751 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3752 Format: <num>
3753 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3754 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3755 as the initial boot-console.
3756 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3757
3758 sti_font= [HW]
3759 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3760
3761 stifb= [HW]
3762 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3763
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003764 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3765 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3766 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3767 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3768 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3769 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3770 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3771 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3772 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3773 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3774 maximum port values.
3775
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04003776 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3777 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3778 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3779 process in parallel from a single connection.
3780 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3781
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003782 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3783 [NFS]
3784 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3785 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3786 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3787 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3788 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3789 NFS server is running.
3790
3791 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3792 automatically using heuristics
3793 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3794 percpu one pool for each CPU
3795 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3796 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3797
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003798 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3799 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3800 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3801 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3802 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3803 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3804 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3805 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3806
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003807 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3808 [SUSPEND]
3809 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3810 mode before resuming the system (see
3811 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3812 is set. Default value is 5.
3813
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003814 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003815 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3816 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003817 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003818
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003819 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3820 Format: { <int> | force }
3821 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3822 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3823 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003824
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003825 switches= [HW,M68k]
3826
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02003827 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3828 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3829 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3830 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3831 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3832 in older udev will not work anymore.
3833 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3834 the kernel configuration.
3835
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08003836 sysrq_always_enabled
3837 [KNL]
3838 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3839 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3840 Useful for debugging.
3841
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01003842 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3843 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3844 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3845 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3846 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3847 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3848
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003849 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3850
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003851 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003852 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003853 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3854 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3855 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3856 The system is woken from this state using a
3857 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003858
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003859 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3860 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3861
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04003862 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3863 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3864 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3865
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003866 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3867 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04003868 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003869
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04003870 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3871 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3872 critical and hot trip points.
3873
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04003874 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3875 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3876
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003877 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3878 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08003879 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3880 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003881
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04003882 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3883 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3884 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3885 0: no polling (default)
3886
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003887 threadirqs [KNL]
3888 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003889 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003890
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003891 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3892 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3893
3894 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3895 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3896 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3897
3898 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3899 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04003900 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3901 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003902
3903 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3904 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3905 to the hypervisor.
3906
3907 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3908 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3909 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3910 kernel based on different criteria.
3911
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003912 topology= [S390]
3913 Format: {off | on}
3914 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07003915 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3916 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003917 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02003918 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003919
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07003920 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3921 Format: {off}
3922 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3923 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3924 LPAR.
3925
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003926 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3927
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03003928 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3929 Format: integer pcr id
3930 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3931 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3932 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3933 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3934 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3935 are saved.
3936
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08003937 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09003938 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09003939
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003940 trace_event=[event-list]
3941 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07003942 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
3943 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
3944 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003945
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04003946 trace_options=[option-list]
3947 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3948 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3949 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3950 to echo the option name into
3951
3952 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3953
3954 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3955 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3956
3957 trace_options=stacktrace
3958
3959 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3960 section.
3961
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05003962 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3963 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3964 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3965 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3966 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3967 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3968
3969 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3970 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3971 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3972 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3973
3974 ** CAUTION **
3975
3976 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3977 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3978 the system to live lock.
3979
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04003980 traceoff_on_warning
3981 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3982 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3983 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3984 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3985
3986 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3987 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3988 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3989
3990 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3991 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3992
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07003993 transparent_hugepage=
3994 [KNL]
3995 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3996 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3997 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3998 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3999
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004000 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004001 Format: <string>
4002 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004003 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4004 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4005 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4006 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004007 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4008 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4009 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4010 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004011
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004012 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4013 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4014 Format:
4015 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004016 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4017
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004018 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004019 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004020 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4021 help "seeing" what's going on.
4022
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004023 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4024 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4025
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004026 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4027 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4028 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4029 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4030 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4031 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4032 reported either.
4033
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004034 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004035 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004036
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004037 usbcore.authorized_default=
4038 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4039 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4040 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4041
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004042 usbcore.autosuspend=
4043 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4044 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4045 is the time required before an idle device will be
4046 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004047 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004048
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004049 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4050 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4051
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004052 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4053 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4054 (default = 65536).
4055
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004056 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4057 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4058
4059 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4060 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4061 scheme (default 0 = off).
4062
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004063 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4064 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4065 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4066
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004067 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4068 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4069 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4070
4071 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4072 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4073 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4074 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4075
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004076 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4077
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004078 usbhid.mousepoll=
4079 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004080
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004081 usb-storage.delay_use=
4082 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004083 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004084
4085 usb-storage.quirks=
4086 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4087 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4088 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4089 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4090 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4091 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4092 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004093 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4094 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004095 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4096 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004097 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4098 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004099 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4100 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4101 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4102 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004103 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4104 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004105 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4106 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004107 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4108 reported device capacity by one
4109 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004110 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4111 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004112 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4113 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004114 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4115 unlock ejectable media);
4116 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4117 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004118 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4119 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004120 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4121 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004122 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4123 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004124 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4125 bogus residue values);
4126 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4127 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004128 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4129 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004130 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004131 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4132 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004133 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4134 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004135 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4136
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004137 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4138 Format: <int>
4139 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4140 1 - undefined instruction events
4141 2 - system calls
4142 4 - invalid data aborts
4143 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4144 16 - SIGBUS faults
4145 Example: user_debug=31
4146
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004147 userpte=
4148 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4149
4150 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4151 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4152 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4153
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304154 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004155 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4156
4157 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004158 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4159
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004160 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4161 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4162 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4163
4164 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4165 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4166 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4167
4168 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4169 alias for vdso32=0.
4170
4171 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4172 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004173
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004174 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4175 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4176
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004177 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4178 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4179
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004180 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4181 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4182 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4183 level and then send out the event to user space through
4184 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4185 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4186 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004187 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004188
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004189 virtio_mmio.device=
4190 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4191
4192 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4193 where:
4194 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4195 like K, M and G)
4196 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4197 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4198 request_irq())
4199 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4200 example:
4201 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4202
4203 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4204
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004205 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004206 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004207 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004208 Use vga=ask for menu.
4209 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4210 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4211
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004212 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004213 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4214 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4215 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4216 mapped kernel RAM.
4217
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004218 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4219 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004220
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004221 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4222 Format: <command>
4223
4224 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4225 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004226
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004227 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4228 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4229 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4230 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4231 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4232 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4233 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4234
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004235 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4236 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004237
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004238 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004239 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4240 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4241 better than they would in emulation mode.
4242 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4243
4244 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4245 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4246 might break your system.
4247
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004248 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4249 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4250 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4251
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004252 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4253 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4254 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4255 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4256
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004257 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4258 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4259 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4260 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4261 ranging from 0-255.
4262
4263 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4264 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4265 Change the default green palette of the console.
4266 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4267 ranging from 0-255.
4268
4269 vt.default_red= [VT]
4270 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4271 Change the default red palette of the console.
4272 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4273 ranging from 0-255.
4274
4275 vt.default_utf8=
4276 [VT]
4277 Format=<0|1>
4278 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4279 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4280 newly opened terminals.
4281
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004282 vt.global_cursor_default=
4283 [VT]
4284 Format=<-1|0|1>
4285 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4286 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4287 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4288 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4289 cursors, 1 will display them.
4290
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004291 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4292 Default: 2 = green.
4293
4294 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4295 Default: 3 = cyan.
4296
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004297 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4298 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4299 or other driver-specific files in the
4300 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004301
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004302 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4303 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4304 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4305 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4306 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4307 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4308 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4309 corresponding sysfs file.
4310
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004311 workqueue.disable_numa
4312 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4313 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4314 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4315 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4316 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4317 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4318 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4319
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304320 workqueue.power_efficient
4321 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4322 they show better performance thanks to cache
4323 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4324 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4325
4326 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4327 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4328 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4329 power usage at the cost of small performance
4330 overhead.
4331
4332 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4333 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4334
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004335 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4336 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4337 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4338 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4339 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4340 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4341 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4342 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4343 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4344 impacted.
4345
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004346 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4347 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4348 supporting x2apic.
4349
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004350 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4351 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004352 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4353 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004354 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004355
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004356 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4357 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4358 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4359 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4360 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4361 domains.
4362
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004363 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4364 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4365 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4366 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4367 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4368 nics -- unplug network devices
4369 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004370 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4371 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4372 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004373 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004374
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004375 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4376 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4377 optimizations.
4378
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004379 xen_nopv [X86]
4380 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4381 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4382
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004383 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004384 Format:
4385 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]