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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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001176 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1177 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1178 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1179 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1180 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1181
1182 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1183
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001184 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1185 Format: off | on
1186 default: on
1187
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001188 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1189 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1190 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1191 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1192 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1193
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001194 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001195 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1196 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1197 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001198
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001199 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1200 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1201 Format: 0 | 1
1202 Default: 0
1203 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1204 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1205 Format: 0 | 1
1206 Default: 0
1207 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1208 Format: 0 | 1
1209 Default: 0
1210 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1211 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1212 Default: 1024
1213 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1214 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1215 Default: 1024
1216
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001217 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1218 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1219 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1220
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001221 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1222 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1223 backtraces on all cpus.
1224 Format: <integer>
1225
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001226 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1227 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001228 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001229 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001230
1231 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1232
1233 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1234 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1235
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001236 hest_disable [ACPI]
1237 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1238 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1239 logic will be disabled.
1240
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001241 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1242 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1243 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1244 size on bigger boxes.
1245
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001246 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1247 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1248 Default: "on"
1249
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001250 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1251 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1252
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001253 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1254
1255 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1256 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1257 verbose }
1258 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1259 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1260 VIA, nVidia)
1261 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1262
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001263 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1264 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1265
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001266 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1267 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001268 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1269 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1270 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1271 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001272 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001273
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001274 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1275 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001276 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1277 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1278 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001279
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001280 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1281 hardware thread id mappings.
1282 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1283
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001284 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1285 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1286 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1287 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1288 the real console.
1289
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001290 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001291 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1292 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001293 Format:
1294 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1295
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001296 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001297 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1298 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1299 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1300 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001301 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001302 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1303 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001304 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1305 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001306 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001307 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1308 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001309 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001310 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001311 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1312 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001313 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001314 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1315 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1316 transitions, or never reset
1317 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1318 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1319 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1320 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1321 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001322 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001323 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001324
1325 i810= [HW,DRM]
1326
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001327 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1328 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1329 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001330 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1331 does not match list of supported models.
1332 i8k.power_status
1333 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1334 (disabled by default)
1335 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1336 capability is set.
1337
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001338 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001339 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1340 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001341 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1342 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1343 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1344 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1345 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1346 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1347 value switches the backlight off.
1348 -1 -- never invert brightness
1349 0 -- machine default
1350 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001351
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001352 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1353 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1354
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001355 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1356 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001357 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1358 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001359 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001360
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001361 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1362 Format: <int>
1363 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1364 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1365 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1366 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1367 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1368 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1369 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1370 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1371 was 0x3.
1372
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001373 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1374 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1375
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001376 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001377 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001378 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1379 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1380 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1381 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001382 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001383 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001384 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001385
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001386 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1387 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1388 Default: strict
1389
1390 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1391 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1392 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1393 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1394 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1395 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1396 encoding mode.
1397
1398 Available settings are as follows:
1399 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1400 supported by the FPU
1401 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1402 by the FPU
1403 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1404 by the FPU
1405 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1406 supported by the FPU
1407
1408 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1409 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1410 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1411 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1412 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1413 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1414 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1415 MIPS64 CPUs.
1416
1417 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1418 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1419 except where unsupported by hardware.
1420
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001421 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1422 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1423 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001424 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1425 could change it dynamically, usually by
1426 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001427
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001428 ignore_rlimit_data
1429 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1430 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1431 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1432
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001433 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1434 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1435
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001436 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001437 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001438 default: "enforce"
1439
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001440 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1441 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1442 owned by uid=0.
1443
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001444 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001445 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1446 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001447 default: "sha1"
1448
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001449 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1450 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1451
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001452 ima_policy= [IMA]
1453 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1454 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1455 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1456 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1457 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1458 Format: "tcb"
1459
1460 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001461 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1462 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1463 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1464 opened for read by uid=0.
1465
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001466 ima_template= [IMA]
1467 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001468 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001469 Default: "ima-ng"
1470
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001471 ima_template_fmt=
1472 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1473 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1474
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001475 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1476 Format: <min_file_size>
1477 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1478 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1479
1480 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1481 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1482 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1483
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001484 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1485 Format: <bufsize>
1486 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1487
1488 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1489 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1490 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1491
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001492 init= [KNL]
1493 Format: <full_path>
1494 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1495 process.
1496
1497 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1498 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1499 startup.
1500
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001501 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1502 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1503 modules and initcalls.
1504
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001505 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1506
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001507 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1508 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1509 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1510 override in debugfs after boot.
1511
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001512 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1513 Format: <irq>
1514
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001515 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1516
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001517 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1518 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1519 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1520 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1521
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001522 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001523 on
1524 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001525 off
1526 Disable intel iommu driver.
1527 igfx_off [Default Off]
1528 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1529 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1530 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1531 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1532 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001533 forcedac [x86_64]
1534 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001535 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001536 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001537 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1538 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001539 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001540 strict [Default Off]
1541 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1542 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1543 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001544 sp_off [Default Off]
1545 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1546 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1547 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001548 ecs_off [Default Off]
1549 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1550 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1551 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1552 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1553 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001554
1555 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1556 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001557 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001558
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001559 intel_pstate= [X86]
1560 disable
1561 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1562 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001563 passive
1564 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1565 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1566 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1567 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1568 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001569 force
1570 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1571 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1572 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1573 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1574 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1575 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1576 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1577 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001578 no_hwp
1579 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1580 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001581 hwp_only
1582 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1583 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001584 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001585 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1586 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1587 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1588 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001589 per_cpu_perf_limits
1590 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1591 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001592
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001593 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001594 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1595 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1596 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001597 no_x2apic_optout
1598 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001599 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001600
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001601 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1602 strict regions from userspace.
1603 relaxed
1604
1605 iommu= [x86]
1606 off
1607 force
1608 noforce
1609 biomerge
1610 panic
1611 nopanic
1612 merge
1613 nomerge
1614 forcesac
1615 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001616 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001617 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1618 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001619
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001620
1621 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1622 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1623 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1624
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301625 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001626 0x80
1627 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1628 0xed
1629 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001630 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001631 Simple two microseconds delay
1632 none
1633 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001634
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001635 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001636 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001637
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001638 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001639 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001640
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001641 irqfixup [HW]
1642 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1643 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1644 firmware running.
1645
1646 irqpoll [HW]
1647 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1648 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1649 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1650 firmware running.
1651
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001652 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001653 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001654
1655 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001656 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001657
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001658 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1659 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001660 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1661 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001662 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1663 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1664
1665 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001666 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1667 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1668 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001669
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001670 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001671
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001672 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1673 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1674 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1675 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1676 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1677 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1678
1679 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1680 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1681 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1682 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1683 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1684 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1685
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001686 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1687 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1688 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1689 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1690 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1691 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1692
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001693 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1694 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1695
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001696 nokaslr [KNL]
1697 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1698 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1699 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001700
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001701 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1702
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001703 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1704 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1705 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001706 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1707 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1708 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1709 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1710 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1711 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1712 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001713 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001714 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1715 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1716 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1717 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1718 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1719 zone if it does not.
1720
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001721 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1722 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1723 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1724 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1725 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1726 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1727 time.
1728
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001729 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1730 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1731 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1732 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1733 optional and is the number seconds in between
1734 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1735 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1736 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1737 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1738 the kernel debugger.
1739
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001740 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001741 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1742 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001743 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1744 keyboard only format: kbd
1745 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1746 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1747 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1748 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001749
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001750 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1751 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1752
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001753 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1754 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1755 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1756
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001757 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1758 Valid arguments: on, off
1759 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001760 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1761 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001762
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001763 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1764 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1765 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1766 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1767 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1768 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1769
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001770 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1771 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1772
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001773 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1774 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001775 Default is 0 (off)
1776
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001777 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001778 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001779
1780 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1781 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001782 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001783
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001784 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1785 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1786 Default is 1 (enabled)
1787
1788 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1789 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1790 Default is 0 (disabled)
1791
1792 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1793 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1794 Default is 1 (enabled)
1795
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001796 kvm-intel.nested=
1797 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1798 Default is 0 (disabled)
1799
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001800 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1801 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1802 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1803 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1804
1805 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1806 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1807 Default is 1 (enabled)
1808
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001809 l2cr= [PPC]
1810
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001811 l3cr= [PPC]
1812
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001813 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001814 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001815
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001816 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1817 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1818 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1819
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301820 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001821 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001822
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001823 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1824 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1825 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1826 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001827 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001828 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1829 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001830
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001831 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1832 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1833 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001834
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001835 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1836 when set.
1837 Format: <int>
1838
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001839 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1840 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001841 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001842 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1843 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1844 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1845 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1846 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1847
1848 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1849 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1850 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1851 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1852 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1853 host link and device attached to it.
1854
1855 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1856 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1857 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1858 The following configurations can be forced.
1859
1860 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1861 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1862
1863 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1864
1865 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1866 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1867 allowed.
1868
1869 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1870
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001871 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1872
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001873 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1874 and both resets.
1875
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001876 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1877 hot-unplug link recovery
1878
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001879 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1880
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001881 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1882
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001883 * disable: Disable this device.
1884
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001885 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1886 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1887
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001888 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001889
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001890 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001891 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001892
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001893 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1894 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001895
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001896 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1897 Format: <integer>
1898
1899 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1900 Format: <integer>
1901
1902 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1903 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001904
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07001905 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1906 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1907 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1908 number of online CPUs.
1909
1910 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1911 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1912
1913 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1914 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1915
1916 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1917 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1918 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1919
1920 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1921 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1922 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1923 mode during the locktorture test.
1924
1925 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1926 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1927 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1928
1929 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1930 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1931
1932 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1933 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1934 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1935 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1936 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1937 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1938
1939 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1940 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1941
1942 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1943 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1944
1945 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1946 Enable additional printk() statements.
1947
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001948 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1949 Format: <irq>
1950
1951 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1952 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1953 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1954 loglevels are defined as follows:
1955
1956 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1957 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1958 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1959 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1960 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1961 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1962 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1963 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1964
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08001965 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07001966 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1967 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1968 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1969 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1970 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1971 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001972
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07001973 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1974 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1975 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1976 kernel boot problems.
1977
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001978 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1979 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1980 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1981 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1982 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1983 attached printers to be reset. Using
1984 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1985 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1986 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1987 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1988 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1989 port specification list means that device IDs
1990 from each port should be examined, to see if
1991 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1992 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1993 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1994
1995 lpj=n [KNL]
1996 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1997 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1998 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1999 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2000 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2001 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2002 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2003 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2004 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2005 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2006 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2007 hardware.
2008
2009 ltpc= [NET]
2010 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2011
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002012 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002013 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2014 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002015
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002016 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2017 yeeloong laptop.
2018 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2019
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002020 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2021 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002022
2023 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002024 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2025 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2026 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2027 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2028 only takes effect during system bootup.
2029 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2030 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002031
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002032 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2033 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2034 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2035 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2036 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2037 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002038
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002039 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002040
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002041 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002042
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002043 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002044 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002045
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002046 mdacon= [MDA]
2047 Format: <first>,<last>
2048 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002049
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002050 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2051 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2052 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002053 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2054 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2055 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2056 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002057
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002058 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002059 memory.
2060
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002061 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2062 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2063 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2064
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002065 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2066 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2067 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2068 set according to the
2069 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2070 option.
2071 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2072
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302073 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002074 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2075 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2076 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2077 option description.
2078
2079 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002080 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2081 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002082
2083 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2084 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002085 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002086
2087 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2088 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002089 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002090 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2091 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2092 or
2093 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002094
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002095 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2096 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2097 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2098 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2099 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2100
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002101 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2102 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2103 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2104 Setting this option will scan the memory
2105 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2106 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2107 from using the memory being corrupted.
2108 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2109 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2110 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2111 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2112
2113 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2114 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2115 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2116 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2117 corruption in more or less memory.
2118
2119 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2120 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2121 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2122 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2123
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002124 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002125 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002126 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002127 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2128 performed. Each pass selects another test
2129 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2130 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2131 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2132 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002133
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002134 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2135 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2136 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2137 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2138 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2139
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002140 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2141 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2142
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002143 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2144 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2145 platforms.
2146
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002147 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2148 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2149 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2150 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2151
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002152 mga= [HW,DRM]
2153
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002154 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2155 physical address is ignored.
2156
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002157 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2158 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2159 Default: "0tb"
2160 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2161 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2162 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2163 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2164 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2165 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2166 unconfigured.
2167 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2168 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2169 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2170 VGA shield.
2171 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2172 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2173 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2174 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2175 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2176 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2177
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002178 mminit_loglevel=
2179 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2180 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2181 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2182 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2183 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2184 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2185
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002186 module.sig_enforce
2187 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2188 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002189 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002190 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2191
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302192 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2193 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2194
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002195 mousedev.tap_time=
2196 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2197 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2198 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2199 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2200 Format: <msecs>
2201 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2202 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2203 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2204 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2205
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302206 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002207 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2208 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2209 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2210 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2211 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2212 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2213 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2214 is not too small.
2215
Reza Arbab39fa104d2016-12-12 16:42:55 -08002216 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002217 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2218
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002219 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2220 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2221
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002222 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2223 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002224
2225 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002226 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002227
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002228 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2229 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2230 at a time.
2231
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002232 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2233
2234 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2235
2236 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2237 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2238 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2239 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2240 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2241
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002242 mtdset= [ARM]
2243 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2244
2245 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2246
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002247 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002248 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2249 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002250
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002251 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002252 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002253 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2254
2255 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2256 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2257 Default is 1.
2258 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2259 using up MTRRs.
2260
2261 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2262 Format: <integer>
2263 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2264 Default : 1
2265 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2266 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2267
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002268 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2269
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002270 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2271 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2272 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2273 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002274 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2275 file if at all.
2276
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002277 nf_conntrack.acct=
2278 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2279 0 to disable accounting
2280 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002281 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002282
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002283 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002284 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002285
2286 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002287 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002288
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002289 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2290 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2291
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002292 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2293 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2294 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2295 requests.
2296
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002297 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2298 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2299 channel should listen.
2300
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002301 nfs.cache_getent=
2302 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2303 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2304
2305 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2306 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2307 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2308
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002309 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2310 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2311 entries.
2312
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002313 nfs.enable_ino64=
2314 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2315 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2316 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2317 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2318 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2319
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002320 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2321 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2322 slots the client will assign to the callback
2323 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2324 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2325 a particular server.
2326
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002327 nfs.max_session_slots=
2328 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2329 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2330 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2331 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2332 Note that there is little point in setting this
2333 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2334
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002335 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002336 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2337 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2338 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2339 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2340 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2341 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2342 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2343 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2344 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2345 back to using the idmapper.
2346 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002347 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2348 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2349 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2350 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2351 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002352
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002353 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2354 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2355 information in exchange_id requests.
2356 If zero, no implementation identification information
2357 will be sent.
2358 The default is to send the implementation identification
2359 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002360
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002361 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2362 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2363 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2364 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2365 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2366 after the locks are lost.
2367 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2368 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2369 parameter to '1'.
2370 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2371 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002372
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002373 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2374 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2375 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2376
2377 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2378 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2379 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2380 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2381
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002382 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2383 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2384 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2385 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2386 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2387 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002388
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002389 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2390 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2391 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2392 osd-targets. Please see:
2393 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2394
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002395 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002396 when a NMI is triggered.
2397 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2398
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302399 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002400 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002401 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002402 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2403 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002404 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002405 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002406 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2407 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002408 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2409 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002410
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002411 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2412 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2413 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2414 waits 4 seconds.
2415
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002416 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002417 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2418 is present.
2419
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002420 no_console_suspend
2421 [HW] Never suspend the console
2422 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2423 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2424 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2425 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2426 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2427 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2428 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002429 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2430 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2431 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2432 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2433 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002434
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002435 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2436 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2437 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002438
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002439 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2440
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002441 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2442 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2443
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002444 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2445
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002446 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2447 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2448
2449 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002450
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002451 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2452
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002453 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2454
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002455 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2456
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002457 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002458
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002459 noexec [IA-64]
2460
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302461 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002462 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002463 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002464 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2465
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002466 nosmap [X86]
2467 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2468 even if it is supported by processor.
2469
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002470 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002471 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002472 even if it is supported by processor.
2473
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002474 noexec32 [X86-64]
2475 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2476 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2477 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2478 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2479 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002480
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002481 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002482
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002483 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002484 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2485 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002486
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002487 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2488
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002489 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2490 Equivalent to smt=1.
2491
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002492 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2493 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2494 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2495
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002496 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2497 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2498 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2499 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2500 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2501 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2502
2503 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2504 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2505 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2506 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2507 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2508 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2509 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2510
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002511 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2512 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2513 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002514
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002515 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2516 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2517 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2518
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002519 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2520 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2521 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2522 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2523 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2524 real-time systems.
2525
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002526 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2527
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002528 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2529 Valid arguments: on, off
2530 Default: on
2531
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002532 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002533 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002534 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002535 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002536 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2537 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002538 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2539 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002540
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002541 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2542
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002543 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002544 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2545
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302546 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002547 broken timer IRQ sources.
2548
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002549 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2550
2551 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2552 initial RAM disk.
2553
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002554 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2555 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002556 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002557
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002558 nointroute [IA-64]
2559
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002560 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2561
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002562 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002563
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002564 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2565
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002566 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2567 fault handling.
2568
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002569 no-vmw-sched-clock
2570 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2571 clock and use the default one.
2572
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002573 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2574 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2575 behaviour
2576
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002577 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002578
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002579 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002580
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002581 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002582 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002583
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002584 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2585
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002586 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002587
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002588 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2589 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2590
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002591 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2592 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2593 irq.
2594
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002595 nomodule Disable module load
2596
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002597 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2598 pagetables) support.
2599
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002600 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2601 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2602
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002603 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002604
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002605 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002606 with UP alternatives
2607
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002608 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2609 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2610 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2611 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002612
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002613 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2614 space.
2615
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002616 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2617 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2618 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2619
2620 nosbagart [IA-64]
2621
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002622 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002623
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002624 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2625 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002626
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002627 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2628
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002629 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2630
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002631 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002632
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002633 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2634 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002635
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002636 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002637
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002638 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2639
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002640 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2641 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2642 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2643 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2644 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2645 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2646 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2647 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2648 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2649 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2650 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2651 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2652 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2653
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002654 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002655 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2656 SAL PALO.
2657
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002658 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2659 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002660 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2661 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2662 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2663 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2664 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2665 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002666
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002667 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2668
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002669 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2670 Allowed values are enable and disable
2671
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002672 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2673 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2674 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2675 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2676
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002677 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2678 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2679 info.
2680
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002681 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2682 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2683 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2684 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2685 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2686 interrupts *may* be lost!
2687
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002688 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2689 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2690 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2691 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2692
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002693 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2694 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2695
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002696 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2697 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2698 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002699 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2700 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002701 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2702 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002703 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2704 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2705 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002706
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002707 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2708 process, but there is a small probability of
2709 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002710 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2711 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2712
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002713 OSS [HW,OSS]
2714 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2715
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002716 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2717 Storage of the information about who allocated
2718 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2719 we can turn it on.
2720 on: enable the feature
2721
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002722 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2723 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2724 off: turn off poisoning
2725 on: turn on poisoning
2726
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002727 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002728 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2729 timeout = 0: wait forever
2730 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002731 Format: <timeout>
2732
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002733 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2734 on a WARN().
2735
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002736 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2737 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2738 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2739 succeeds in any situation.
2740 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2741 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2742 kernel more unstable.
2743
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002744 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2745 connected to, default is 0.
2746 Format: <parport#>
2747 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2748 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002749 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002750
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002751 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2752 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2753 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2754 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2755 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2756 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2757 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2758 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2759 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2760 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2761 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2762 are specified on the command line, starting
2763 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002764
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002765 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2766 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2767 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2768 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2769 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2770 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002771 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2772
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002773 pause_on_oops=
2774 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2775 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2776 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2777
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002778 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2779
2780 pcd. [PARIDE]
2781 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002782 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002783
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002784 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002785 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2786 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002787 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002788 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002789 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2790 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002791 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002792 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2793 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2794 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002795 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2796 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2797 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2798 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2799 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2800 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2801 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2802 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2803 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2804 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002805 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2806 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2807 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002808 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2809 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302810 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002811 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002812 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2813 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2814 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002815 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2816 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2817 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002818 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2819 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2820 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002821 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2822 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2823 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2824 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002825 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2826 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2827 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2828 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002829 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002830 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2831 on several machines and they hang the machine
2832 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2833 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2834 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2835 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2836 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002837 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002838 Use with caution as certain devices share
2839 address decoders between ROMs and other
2840 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002841 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002842 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2843 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002844 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2845 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002846 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002847 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2848 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2849 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002850 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002851 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2852 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2853 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002854 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002855 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2856 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2857 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002858 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002859 numbers ourselves, overriding
2860 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002861 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002862 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2863 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2864 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2865 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2866 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002867 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002868 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002869 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2870 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2871 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2872 please report a bug.
2873 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2874 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002875 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2876 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2877 so this option is a temporary workaround
2878 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002879 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2880 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002881 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2882 This might help on some broken boards which
2883 machine check when some devices' config space
2884 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2885 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002886 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2887 This sorting is done to get a device
2888 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2889 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08002890 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2891 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2892 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2893 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2894 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2895 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2896 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2897 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2898 or bus can support) for best performance.
2899 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2900 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2901 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2902 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2903 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2904 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08002905 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2906 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2907 The default value is 256 bytes.
2908 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2909 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2910 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002911 resource_alignment=
2912 Format:
2913 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00002914 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2915 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002916 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2917 aligned memory resources.
2918 If <order of align> is not specified,
2919 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2920 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2921 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02002922 To specify the alignment for several
2923 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2924 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2925 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06002926 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2927 end-to-end CRC checking).
2928 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2929 the default.
2930 off: Turn ECRC off
2931 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08002932 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2933 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2934 Default size is 256 bytes.
2935 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2936 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2937 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06002938 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2939 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2940 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08002941 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2942 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2943 accommodate resources required by all child
2944 devices.
2945 off: Turn realloc off
2946 on: Turn realloc on
2947 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01002948 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06002949 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2950 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2951 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002952
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04002953 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2954 Management.
2955 off Disable ASPM.
2956 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2957 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2958
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05002959 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2960 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2961 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2962
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002963 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002964 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2965 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2966 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2967 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2968 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002969 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2970 ports driver.
2971
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03002972 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
2973 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
2974 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
2975
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002976 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01002977 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002978 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002979
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002980 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2981
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05302982 pd_ignore_unused
2983 [PM]
2984 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2985 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2986 for debug and development, but should not be
2987 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2988
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002989 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002990 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002991
2992 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2993 boot time.
2994 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2995 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2996
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09002997 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09002998 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2999 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3000 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3001 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3002 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003003
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003004 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003005 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003006
3007 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003008 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003009
3010 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003011 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003012
3013 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3014 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3015 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3016
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003017 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003018 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3019 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3020
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003021 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3022 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3023 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3024 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3025 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3026 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003027
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003028 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3029 { off }
3030
3031 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3032 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3033
3034 pnp_reserve_irq=
3035 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3036
3037 pnp_reserve_dma=
3038 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3039
3040 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003041 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003042
3043 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003044 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3045 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003046 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3047
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003048 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3049 Default is 21.
3050 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3051 may be specified.
3052 Format: <port>,<port>....
3053
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003054 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3055 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3056 platform machine description specific power_save
3057 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3058 execution priority.
3059
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003060 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3061 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3062 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3063 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3064 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3065
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003066 print-fatal-signals=
3067 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003068
3069 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3070 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3071 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3072 coredump - etc.
3073
3074 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3075 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3076
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003077 default: off.
3078
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003079 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3080 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3081 panics
3082 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3083 default: disabled
3084
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003085 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3086 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3087 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3088 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3089 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3090 Default: ratelimit
3091
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003092 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3093 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3094
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003095 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3096 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3097 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3098
3099 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3100 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3101 instead using the legacy FADT method
3102
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003103 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003104 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3105 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3106 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3107 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003108 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3109 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003110 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003111
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003112 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3113 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003114 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003115
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003116 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3117 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003118 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3119 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003120 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3121 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003122 (0 = never).
3123 psmouse.resolution=
3124 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3125 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003126 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003127 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3128
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003129 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3130
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003131 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003132 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003133
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003134 pty.legacy_count=
3135 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3136 default number.
3137
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003138 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003139
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003140 r128= [HW,DRM]
3141
3142 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003143 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003144
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003145 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003146 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003147
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003148 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003149 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3150
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003151 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3152 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3153 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003154 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3155 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3156 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3157 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003158 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3159 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3160 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3161
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003162 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003163 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3164 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3165 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3166 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3167 This improves the real-time response for the
3168 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3169 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3170 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3171 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3172
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003173 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003174 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3175 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003176
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003177 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3178 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3179 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3180 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3181
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003182 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3183 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3184 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3185 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3186
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003187 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3188 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3189 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003190 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3191 is set.
3192
3193 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3194 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3195 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3196 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3197 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3198 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003199
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003200 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3201 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3202 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3203 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3204 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003205
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003206 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003207 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3208 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3209 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3210 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3211 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3212 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003213
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003214 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3215 Set required age in jiffies for a
3216 given grace period before RCU starts
3217 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3218 rcu_note_context_switch().
3219
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003220 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003221 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3222 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3223 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3224 and maximum value is HZ.
3225
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003226 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003227 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3228 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3229 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3230
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003231 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003232 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3233 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3234 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3235 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3236 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3237 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3238 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3239 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3240 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003241
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003242 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3243 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3244 defaults to the square root of the number of
3245 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3246 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3247 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3248
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003249 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003250 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3251 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003252
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003253 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003254 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3255 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003256
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003257 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003258 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3259 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003260
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003261 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003262 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3263 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3264 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3265 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003266
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003267 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3268 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3269 grace-period primitives.
3270
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003271 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3272 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3273 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3274 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3275 interference.
3276
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003277 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3278 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3279 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3280 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3281 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3282 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3283 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3284 a single reader.
3285
3286 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3287 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3288 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3289 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3290
3291 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3292 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3293
3294 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3295 Shut the system down after performance tests
3296 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3297 testing.
3298
3299 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3300 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3301
3302 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3303 Enable additional printk() statements.
3304
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003305 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3306 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3307 callback-flood tests.
3308
3309 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3310 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3311 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3312 test.
3313
3314 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3315 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3316 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3317 disable callback-flood testing.
3318
3319 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3320 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3321 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3322
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003323 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003324 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3325 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003326
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003327 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003328 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3329 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003330
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003331 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003332 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3333 in seconds.
3334
3335 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3336 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3337 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003338
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003339 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003340 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003341
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003342 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003343 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3344 update-side primitives, if available.
3345
3346 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3347 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3348 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3349 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3350 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3351 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3352 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003353
3354 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003355 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3356
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003357 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003358 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3359 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3360 test, hence the "fake".
3361
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003362 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003363 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3364 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3365 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3366 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3367 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003368
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003369 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3370 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3371
3372 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003373 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3374
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003375 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003376 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3377 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3378
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003379 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003380 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3381 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3382 during the rcutorture test.
3383
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003384 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003385 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3386 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3387
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003388 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003389 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3390 warnings, zero to disable.
3391
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003392 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003393 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3394
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003395 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003396 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3397
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003398 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003399 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3400 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3401 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3402 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3403
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003404 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003405 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3406 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3407 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3408
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003409 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003410 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3411
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003412 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003413 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3414
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003415 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003416 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3417 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3418
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003419 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3420 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3421
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003422 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003423 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3424
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003425 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003426 Enable additional printk() statements.
3427
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003428 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3429 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3430
3431 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3432 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3433
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003434 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3435 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3436 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3437 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3438 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3439 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003440 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003441
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003442 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3443 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3444 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3445 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003446 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3447 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3448 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3449 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3450 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003451
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003452 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3453 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3454 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003455 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3456 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003457
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003458 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3459 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3460 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3461 to zero.
3462
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003463 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3464 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3465
3466 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3467 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3468
3469 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3470 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3471
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003472 rdinit= [KNL]
3473 Format: <full_path>
3474 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3475 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3476
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003477 reboot= [KNL]
3478 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3479 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3480 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3481 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3482 [[,]f[orce]
3483 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3484 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3485 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3486 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3487 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003488
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003489 relax_domain_level=
3490 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003491 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003492
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003493 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3494
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003495 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003496 Format: nn[KMG]
3497 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3498 address space.
3499
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003500 reservelow= [X86]
3501 Format: nn[K]
3502 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3503 the bottom of the address space.
3504
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003505 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3506 during initialization.
3507
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003508 resume= [SWSUSP]
3509 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003510 Format:
3511 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003512
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003513 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3514 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3515 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3516 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3517 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3518
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003519 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3520 read the resume files
3521
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003522 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3523 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3524 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3525
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003526 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3527 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3528 present during boot.
3529 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003530 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003531 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3532 (that will set all pages holding image data
3533 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003534
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003535 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3536
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003537 rfkill.default_state=
3538 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3539 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3540 1 Unblocked.
3541
3542 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3543 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3544 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3545 blocked and the previous configuration.
3546 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3547 blocked and everything unblocked.
3548
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003549 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3550 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3551
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003552 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3553
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003554 rodata= [KNL]
3555 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3556 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3557
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003558 rockchip.usb_uart
3559 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3560 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3561 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3562 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3563
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003564 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003565 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003566
3567 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3568 mount the root filesystem
3569
3570 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3571
3572 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3573
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003574 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3575 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3576 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3577
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003578 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3579 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3580 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3581 managed by CMA.
3582
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003583 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3584
3585 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3586
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003587 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3588 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3589 strict
3590 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3591 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3592 which is faster.
3593
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003594 sa1100ir [NET]
3595 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3596
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003597 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003598
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003599 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3600
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003601 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3602 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3603 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3604 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3605
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003606 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3607 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3608 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3609 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3610 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3611 1 -- enable.
3612 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3613 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3614
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003615 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3616 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3617 security module asking for security registration will be
3618 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3619 as if no module has been chosen.
3620
3621 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003622 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3623 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3624 0 -- disable.
3625 1 -- enable.
3626 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3627 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3628 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3629
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003630 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3631 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3632 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3633 0 -- disable.
3634 1 -- enable.
3635 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3636
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003637 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003638
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003639 shapers= [NET]
3640 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003641
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003642 simeth= [IA-64]
3643 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003644
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003645 slram= [HW,MTD]
3646
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003647 slab_nomerge [MM]
3648 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3649 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3650 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3651 merging on their own.
3652 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3653
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003654 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3655 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3656 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3657 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3658 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3659
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003660 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3661 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3662 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3663 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3664 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3665 last alloc / free. For more information see
3666 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003667
3668 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003669 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3670 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3671 fragmentation. For more information see
3672 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003673
3674 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003675 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3676 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3677 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3678 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3679 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3680 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003681 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3682
3683 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003684 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003685 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003686 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3687
3688 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003689 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3690 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003691
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003692 smart2= [HW]
3693 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3694
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003695 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3696 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3697 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3698 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3699 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3700 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3701 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3702 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3703 1: Fast pin select (default)
3704 2: ATC IRMode
3705
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003706 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3707 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3708 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3709 actual hardware limit.
3710 Format: <integer>
3711 Default: -1 (no limit)
3712
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003713 softlockup_panic=
3714 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003715 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003716
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003717 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3718 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3719 backtraces on all cpus.
3720 Format: <integer>
3721
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003722 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003723 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003724
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003725 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3726 spia_fio_base=
3727 spia_pedr=
3728 spia_peddr=
3729
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003730 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3731 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3732
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003733 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3734 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3735 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3736 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3737 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3738 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3739 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3740
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003741 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3742 Format: <num>
3743 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3744 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3745 as the initial boot-console.
3746 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3747
3748 sti_font= [HW]
3749 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3750
3751 stifb= [HW]
3752 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3753
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003754 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3755 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3756 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3757 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3758 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3759 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3760 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3761 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3762 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3763 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3764 maximum port values.
3765
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04003766 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3767 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3768 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3769 process in parallel from a single connection.
3770 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3771
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003772 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3773 [NFS]
3774 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3775 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3776 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3777 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3778 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3779 NFS server is running.
3780
3781 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3782 automatically using heuristics
3783 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3784 percpu one pool for each CPU
3785 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3786 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3787
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003788 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3789 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3790 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3791 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3792 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3793 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3794 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3795 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3796
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003797 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3798 [SUSPEND]
3799 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3800 mode before resuming the system (see
3801 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3802 is set. Default value is 5.
3803
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003804 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003805 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3806 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003807 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003808
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003809 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3810 Format: { <int> | force }
3811 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3812 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3813 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003814
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003815 switches= [HW,M68k]
3816
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02003817 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3818 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3819 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3820 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3821 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3822 in older udev will not work anymore.
3823 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3824 the kernel configuration.
3825
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08003826 sysrq_always_enabled
3827 [KNL]
3828 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3829 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3830 Useful for debugging.
3831
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01003832 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3833 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3834 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3835 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3836 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3837 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3838
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003839 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3840
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003841 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003842 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003843 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3844 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3845 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3846 The system is woken from this state using a
3847 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003848
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003849 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3850 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3851
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04003852 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3853 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3854 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3855
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003856 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3857 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04003858 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003859
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04003860 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3861 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3862 critical and hot trip points.
3863
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04003864 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3865 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3866
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003867 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3868 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08003869 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3870 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003871
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04003872 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3873 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3874 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3875 0: no polling (default)
3876
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003877 threadirqs [KNL]
3878 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003879 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003880
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003881 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3882 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3883
3884 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3885 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3886 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3887
3888 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3889 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04003890 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3891 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003892
3893 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3894 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3895 to the hypervisor.
3896
3897 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3898 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3899 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3900 kernel based on different criteria.
3901
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003902 topology= [S390]
3903 Format: {off | on}
3904 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07003905 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3906 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003907 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02003908 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003909
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07003910 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3911 Format: {off}
3912 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3913 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3914 LPAR.
3915
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003916 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3917
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03003918 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3919 Format: integer pcr id
3920 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3921 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3922 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3923 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3924 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3925 are saved.
3926
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08003927 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09003928 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09003929
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003930 trace_event=[event-list]
3931 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07003932 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
3933 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
3934 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003935
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04003936 trace_options=[option-list]
3937 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3938 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3939 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3940 to echo the option name into
3941
3942 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3943
3944 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3945 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3946
3947 trace_options=stacktrace
3948
3949 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3950 section.
3951
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05003952 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3953 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3954 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3955 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3956 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3957 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3958
3959 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3960 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3961 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3962 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3963
3964 ** CAUTION **
3965
3966 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3967 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3968 the system to live lock.
3969
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04003970 traceoff_on_warning
3971 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3972 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3973 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3974 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3975
3976 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3977 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3978 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3979
3980 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3981 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3982
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07003983 transparent_hugepage=
3984 [KNL]
3985 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3986 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3987 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3988 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3989
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003990 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07003991 Format: <string>
3992 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003993 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3994 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
3995 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3996 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07003997 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3998 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3999 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4000 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004001
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004002 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4003 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4004 Format:
4005 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004006 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4007
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004008 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004009 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004010 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4011 help "seeing" what's going on.
4012
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004013 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4014 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4015
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004016 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4017 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4018 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4019 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4020 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4021 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4022 reported either.
4023
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004024 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004025 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004026
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004027 usbcore.authorized_default=
4028 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4029 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4030 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4031
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004032 usbcore.autosuspend=
4033 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4034 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4035 is the time required before an idle device will be
4036 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004037 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004038
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004039 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4040 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4041
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004042 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4043 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4044 (default = 65536).
4045
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004046 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4047 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4048
4049 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4050 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4051 scheme (default 0 = off).
4052
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004053 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4054 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4055 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4056
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004057 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4058 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4059 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4060
4061 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4062 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4063 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4064 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4065
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004066 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4067
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004068 usbhid.mousepoll=
4069 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004070
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004071 usb-storage.delay_use=
4072 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004073 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004074
4075 usb-storage.quirks=
4076 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4077 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4078 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4079 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4080 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4081 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4082 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004083 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4084 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004085 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4086 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004087 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4088 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004089 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4090 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4091 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4092 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004093 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4094 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004095 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4096 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004097 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4098 reported device capacity by one
4099 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004100 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4101 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004102 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4103 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004104 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4105 unlock ejectable media);
4106 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4107 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004108 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4109 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004110 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4111 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004112 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4113 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004114 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4115 bogus residue values);
4116 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4117 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004118 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4119 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004120 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004121 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4122 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004123 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4124 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004125 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4126
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004127 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4128 Format: <int>
4129 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4130 1 - undefined instruction events
4131 2 - system calls
4132 4 - invalid data aborts
4133 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4134 16 - SIGBUS faults
4135 Example: user_debug=31
4136
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004137 userpte=
4138 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4139
4140 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4141 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4142 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4143
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304144 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004145 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4146
4147 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004148 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4149
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004150 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4151 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4152 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4153
4154 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4155 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4156 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4157
4158 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4159 alias for vdso32=0.
4160
4161 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4162 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004163
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004164 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4165 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4166
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004167 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4168 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4169
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004170 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4171 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4172 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4173 level and then send out the event to user space through
4174 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4175 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4176 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004177 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004178
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004179 virtio_mmio.device=
4180 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4181
4182 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4183 where:
4184 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4185 like K, M and G)
4186 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4187 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4188 request_irq())
4189 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4190 example:
4191 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4192
4193 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4194
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004195 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004196 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004197 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004198 Use vga=ask for menu.
4199 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4200 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4201
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004202 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004203 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4204 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4205 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4206 mapped kernel RAM.
4207
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004208 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4209 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004210
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004211 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4212 Format: <command>
4213
4214 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4215 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004216
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004217 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4218 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4219 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4220 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4221 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4222 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4223 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4224
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004225 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4226 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004227
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004228 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004229 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4230 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4231 better than they would in emulation mode.
4232 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4233
4234 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4235 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4236 might break your system.
4237
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004238 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4239 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4240 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4241
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004242 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4243 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4244 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4245 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4246
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004247 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4248 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4249 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4250 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4251 ranging from 0-255.
4252
4253 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4254 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4255 Change the default green palette of the console.
4256 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4257 ranging from 0-255.
4258
4259 vt.default_red= [VT]
4260 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4261 Change the default red palette of the console.
4262 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4263 ranging from 0-255.
4264
4265 vt.default_utf8=
4266 [VT]
4267 Format=<0|1>
4268 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4269 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4270 newly opened terminals.
4271
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004272 vt.global_cursor_default=
4273 [VT]
4274 Format=<-1|0|1>
4275 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4276 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4277 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4278 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4279 cursors, 1 will display them.
4280
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004281 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4282 Default: 2 = green.
4283
4284 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4285 Default: 3 = cyan.
4286
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004287 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4288 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4289 or other driver-specific files in the
4290 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004291
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004292 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4293 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4294 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4295 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4296 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4297 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4298 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4299 corresponding sysfs file.
4300
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004301 workqueue.disable_numa
4302 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4303 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4304 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4305 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4306 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4307 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4308 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4309
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304310 workqueue.power_efficient
4311 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4312 they show better performance thanks to cache
4313 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4314 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4315
4316 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4317 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4318 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4319 power usage at the cost of small performance
4320 overhead.
4321
4322 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4323 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4324
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004325 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4326 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4327 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4328 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4329 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4330 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4331 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4332 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4333 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4334 impacted.
4335
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004336 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4337 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4338 supporting x2apic.
4339
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004340 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4341 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004342 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4343 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004344 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004345
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004346 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4347 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4348 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4349 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4350 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4351 domains.
4352
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004353 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4354 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4355 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4356 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4357 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4358 nics -- unplug network devices
4359 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004360 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4361 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4362 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004363 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004364
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004365 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4366 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4367 optimizations.
4368
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004369 xen_nopv [X86]
4370 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4371 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4372
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004373 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004374 Format:
4375 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]