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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 Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800126
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700139
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800144
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900298
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700336
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700360
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700384
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400395 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400396
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700410
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200443 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700444
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300462
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700482
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800492
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100516
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700518 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
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 Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500655 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
656 disable the cpufreq sub-system
657
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400658 cpu_init_udelay=N
659 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
660 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
661 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
662 Default: 10000
663
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700664 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700665 Format:
666 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700667
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800668 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
669 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
670 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
671 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
672 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
673 is selected automatically. Check
674 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700675
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700676 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
677 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
678 in the running system. The syntax of range is
679 start-[end] where start and end are both
680 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700682
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700683 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700684 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
685 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
686 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
687 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
688 available.
689 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700690 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
691 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
692 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700693 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
694 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800695 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
696 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
697 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
698 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700699 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
700 for second kernel instead.
701 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700702 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700703 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700704
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100705 cryptomgr.notests
706 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
707
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700708 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
709 Format: <dma>
710
711 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
712 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700713
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700714 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700715 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
716
717 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
718 (one device per port)
719 Format: <port#>,<type>
720 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
721
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200722 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200723 time. See
724 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600725 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200726
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700727 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
728
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700729 debug_locks_verbose=
730 [KNL] verbose self-tests
731 Format=<0|1>
732 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
733 self-tests.
734 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
735 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
736 only useful to kernel developers.
737
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700738 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
739
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500740 no_debug_objects
741 [KNL] Disable object debugging
742
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800743 debug_guardpage_minorder=
744 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
745 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
746 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
747 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
748 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
749 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
750 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
751 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
752 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
753 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
754 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
755 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
756 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
757 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
758 bypassed) which are not detectable by
759 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
760 tracking down these problems.
761
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800762 debug_pagealloc=
763 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
764 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
765 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
766 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
767 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
768 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
769 on: enable the feature
770
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200771 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
772
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200773 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700774 Format: <area>[,<node>]
775 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
776
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700777 default_hugepagesz=
778 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
779 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
780 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
781 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
782 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
783 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700784
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700785 dhash_entries= [KNL]
786 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700787
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000788 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
789 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
790 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
791 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
792 miss to occur.
793
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800794 disable= [IPV6]
795 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
796
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530797 disable_radix [PPC]
798 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
799
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900800 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
801 Format: <int>
802 The number of initial APIC ID for the
803 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
804 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
805 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
806 causing system reset or hang due to sending
807 INIT from AP to BSP.
808
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000809 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
810 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
811 to workaround buggy firmware.
812
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800813 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
814 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
815
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700816 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700817 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
818 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700819 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700820
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100821 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100822 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
823 memory out of your available memory pool based on
824 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
825 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
826
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530827 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700828 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
829 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
830
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400831 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
832
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700833 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
834 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
835
836 dma_debug_entries=<number>
837 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
838 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
839 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
840 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
841 architectural default is too low.
842
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200843 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
844 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
845 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
846 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
847 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
848 driver later using sysfs.
849
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700850 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
851 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
852 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
853 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
854 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100855 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
856 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
857 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
858 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
859 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
860 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
861 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
862 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700863 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
864 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
865 data set with no connector name will be used for
866 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100867
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700868 dscc4.setup= [NET]
869
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000870 dump_apple_properties [X86]
871 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
872 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
873 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
874
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600875 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
876 module.dyndbg[="val"]
877 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200878 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
879 for details.
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600880
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700881 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
882 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
883 information about the feature.
884
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800885 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
886 in some Intel CPUs.
887
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700888 module.async_probe [KNL]
889 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
890
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700891 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
892 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
893 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
894 which are not unmapped.
895
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700896 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500897
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500898 When used with no options, the early console is
899 determined by the stdout-path property in device
900 tree's chosen node.
901
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100902 cdns,<addr>[,options]
903 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
904 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
905 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
906 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
907 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200908
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700909 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
910 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700911 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300912 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400913 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700914 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
915 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700916 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300917 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
918 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
919 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
920 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400921 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700922
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500923 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600924 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500925 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
926 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
927 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600928 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
929 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
930 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500931
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100932 meson,<addr>
933 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
934 port at the specified address. The serial port must
935 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
936 supported.
937
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700938 msm_serial,<addr>
939 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
940 port at the specified address. The serial port
941 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
942 yet supported.
943
944 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
945 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
946 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
947 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
948 yet supported.
949
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500950 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
951
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100952 s3c2410,<addr>
953 s3c2412,<addr>
954 s3c2440,<addr>
955 s3c6400,<addr>
956 s5pv210,<addr>
957 exynos4210,<addr>
958 Use early console provided by serial driver available
959 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
960 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
961 serial port must already be setup and configured.
962 Options are not yet supported.
963
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +0100964 lantiq,<addr>
965 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
966 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
967 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
968 yet supported.
969
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -0700970 lpuart,<addr>
971 lpuart32,<addr>
972 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
973 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
974 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
975 port must already be setup and configured.
976
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +0100977 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +0100978 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
979 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
980 address. The serial port must already be setup
981 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
982
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +0100983 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700984 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +0100985 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +0100986 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -0500987 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700988 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700989 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -0500990 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -0500991 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +0600992 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +0800993 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700994
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700995 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
996 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
997 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
998
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700999 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001000 takes over.
1001
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001002 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1003 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001004
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001005 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1006 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1007 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1008 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1009 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1010 You can find the port for a given device in
1011 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1012 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001013
1014 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1015 very good.
1016
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001017 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1018 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001019
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001020 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1021
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001022 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1023
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001024 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1025 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1026 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1027 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1028 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1029 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1030 default: on.
1031
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001032 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1033 ekgdboc=kbd
1034
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001035 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001036 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1037
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001038 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001039 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001040
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001041 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001042 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001043 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1044 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1045 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001046 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1047 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1048 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001049 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001050 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001051
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001052 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1053 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1054 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1055 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1056 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1057
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001058 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1059 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1060 updating original EFI memory map.
1061 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1062 from ss to ss+nn.
1063 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1064 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1065 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1066 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1067
1068 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1069 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1070 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1071 doesn't support it.
1072
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001073 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1074 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1075 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1076 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1077 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1078
1079
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001080 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1081 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1082
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001083 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001084 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001085 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001086
1087 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001088 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001089 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001090 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1091
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001092 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001093 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001094 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1095 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001096 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001097
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001098 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1099 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1100 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1101 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1102
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001103 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001104 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1105 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1106 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1107 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1108
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001109 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1110 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1111 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1112 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1113 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1114 Default value is 0.
1115 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1116
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001117 erst_disable [ACPI]
1118 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1119 support.
1120
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001121 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1122 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1123 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1124
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001125 evm= [EVM]
1126 Format: { "fix" }
1127 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1128 current integrity status.
1129
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001130 failslab=
1131 fail_page_alloc=
1132 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1133 General fault injection mechanism.
1134 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001135 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001136
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001137 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001138 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001139
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001140 force_pal_cache_flush
1141 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1142 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1143 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1144 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1145
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001146 forcepae [X86-32]
1147 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1148 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1149 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1150 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1151 and may cause unknown problems.
1152
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001153 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001154 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001155 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1156 boot debugging.
1157
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001158 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001159 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001160 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1161 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1162 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1163 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001164
1165 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1166 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1167 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1168 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1169 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001170 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001171
1172 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1173 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1174 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1175 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1176 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001177
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001178 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1179 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1180 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1181 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1182 that can be changed at run time by the
1183 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1184
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001185 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1186 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1187 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1188 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1189 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1190
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001191 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1192 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1193 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1194 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1195 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1196
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001197 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1198 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1199 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1200 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1201 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1202
1203 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1204
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001205 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1206 Format: off | on
1207 default: on
1208
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001209 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1210 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1211 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1212 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1213 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1214
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001215 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1216 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1217 android emulator
1218
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001219 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001220 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1221 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1222 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001223
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001224 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1225 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1226 Format: 0 | 1
1227 Default: 0
1228 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1229 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1230 Format: 0 | 1
1231 Default: 0
1232 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1233 Format: 0 | 1
1234 Default: 0
1235 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1236 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1237 Default: 1024
1238 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1239 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1240 Default: 1024
1241
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001242 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1243 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1244 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1245
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001246 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1247 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1248 backtraces on all cpus.
1249 Format: <integer>
1250
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001251 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1252 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001253 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001254 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001255
1256 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1257
1258 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1259 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1260
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001261 hest_disable [ACPI]
1262 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1263 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1264 logic will be disabled.
1265
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001266 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1267 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1268 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1269 size on bigger boxes.
1270
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001271 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1272 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1273 Default: "on"
1274
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001275 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1276 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1277
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001278 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1279
1280 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1281 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1282 verbose }
1283 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1284 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1285 VIA, nVidia)
1286 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1287
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001288 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1289 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1290
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001291 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1292 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001293 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1294 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1295 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1296 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001297 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001298
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001299 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1300 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001301 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1302 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1303 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001304
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001305 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1306 hardware thread id mappings.
1307 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1308
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001309 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1310 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1311 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1312 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1313 the real console.
1314
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001315 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001316 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1317 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001318 Format:
1319 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1320
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001321 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001322 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1323 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1324 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1325 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001326 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001327 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1328 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001329 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1330 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001331 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001332 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1333 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001334 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001335 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001336 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1337 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001338 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001339 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1340 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1341 transitions, or never reset
1342 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1343 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1344 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1345 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1346 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001347 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001348 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001349
1350 i810= [HW,DRM]
1351
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001352 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1353 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1354 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001355 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1356 does not match list of supported models.
1357 i8k.power_status
1358 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1359 (disabled by default)
1360 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1361 capability is set.
1362
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001363 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001364 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1365 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001366 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1367 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1368 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1369 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1370 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1371 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1372 value switches the backlight off.
1373 -1 -- never invert brightness
1374 0 -- machine default
1375 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001376
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001377 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1378 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1379
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001380 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1381 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001382 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1383 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001384 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001385
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001386 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1387 Format: <int>
1388 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1389 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1390 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1391 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1392 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1393 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1394 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1395 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1396 was 0x3.
1397
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001398 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1399 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1400
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001401 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001402 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001403 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1404 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1405 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1406 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001407 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001408 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001409 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001410
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001411 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1412 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1413 Default: strict
1414
1415 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1416 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1417 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1418 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1419 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1420 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1421 encoding mode.
1422
1423 Available settings are as follows:
1424 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1425 supported by the FPU
1426 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1427 by the FPU
1428 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1429 by the FPU
1430 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1431 supported by the FPU
1432
1433 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1434 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1435 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1436 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1437 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1438 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1439 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1440 MIPS64 CPUs.
1441
1442 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1443 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1444 except where unsupported by hardware.
1445
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001446 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1447 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1448 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001449 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1450 could change it dynamically, usually by
1451 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001452
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001453 ignore_rlimit_data
1454 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1455 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1456 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1457
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001458 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1459 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1460
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001461 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001462 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001463 default: "enforce"
1464
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001465 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1466 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1467 owned by uid=0.
1468
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001469 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1470 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1471 measurements, instead of host native format.
1472
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001473 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001474 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1475 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001476 default: "sha1"
1477
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001478 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1479 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1480
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001481 ima_policy= [IMA]
1482 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1483 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1484 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1485 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1486 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1487 Format: "tcb"
1488
1489 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001490 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1491 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1492 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1493 opened for read by uid=0.
1494
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001495 ima_template= [IMA]
1496 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001497 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001498 Default: "ima-ng"
1499
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001500 ima_template_fmt=
1501 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1502 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1503
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001504 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1505 Format: <min_file_size>
1506 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1507 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1508
1509 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1510 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1511 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1512
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001513 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1514 Format: <bufsize>
1515 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1516
1517 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1518 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1519 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1520
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001521 init= [KNL]
1522 Format: <full_path>
1523 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1524 process.
1525
1526 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1527 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1528 startup.
1529
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001530 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1531 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1532 modules and initcalls.
1533
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001534 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1535
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001536 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1537 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1538 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1539 override in debugfs after boot.
1540
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001541 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1542 Format: <irq>
1543
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001544 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1545
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001546 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1547 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1548 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1549 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1550
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001551 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001552 on
1553 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001554 off
1555 Disable intel iommu driver.
1556 igfx_off [Default Off]
1557 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1558 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1559 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1560 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1561 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001562 forcedac [x86_64]
1563 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001564 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001565 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001566 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1567 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001568 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001569 strict [Default Off]
1570 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1571 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1572 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001573 sp_off [Default Off]
1574 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1575 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1576 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001577 ecs_off [Default Off]
1578 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1579 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1580 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1581 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1582 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001583 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1584 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1585 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1586 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1587 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1588 mapping is enabled.
1589 Note that using this option lowers the security
1590 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1591 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001592
1593 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1594 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001595 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001596
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001597 intel_pstate= [X86]
1598 disable
1599 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1600 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001601 passive
1602 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1603 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1604 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1605 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1606 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001607 force
1608 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1609 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1610 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1611 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1612 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1613 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1614 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1615 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001616 no_hwp
1617 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1618 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001619 hwp_only
1620 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1621 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001622 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001623 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1624 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1625 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1626 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001627 per_cpu_perf_limits
1628 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1629 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001630
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001631 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001632 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1633 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1634 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001635 no_x2apic_optout
1636 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001637 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001638
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001639 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1640 strict regions from userspace.
1641 relaxed
1642
1643 iommu= [x86]
1644 off
1645 force
1646 noforce
1647 biomerge
1648 panic
1649 nopanic
1650 merge
1651 nomerge
1652 forcesac
1653 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001654 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001655 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1656 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001657
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001658 iommu.passthrough=
1659 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1660 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1661 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1662 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1663 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001664
1665 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1666 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1667 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1668
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301669 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001670 0x80
1671 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1672 0xed
1673 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001674 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001675 Simple two microseconds delay
1676 none
1677 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001678
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001679 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001680 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001681
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001682 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001683 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001684
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001685 irqfixup [HW]
1686 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1687 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1688 firmware running.
1689
1690 irqpoll [HW]
1691 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1692 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1693 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1694 firmware running.
1695
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001696 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001697 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001698
1699 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001700 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001701
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001702 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1703 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001704 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1705 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001706 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1707 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1708
1709 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001710 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1711 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1712 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001713
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001714 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001715
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001716 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1717 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1718 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1719 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1720 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1721 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1722
1723 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1724 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1725 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1726 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1727 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1728 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1729
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001730 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1731 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1732 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1733 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1734 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1735 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1736
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001737 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1738 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1739
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001740 nokaslr [KNL]
1741 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1742 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1743 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001744
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001745 kasan_multi_shot
1746 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1747 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1748 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1749 invalid access.
1750
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001751 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1752
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001753 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1754 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1755 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001756 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1757 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1758 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1759 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1760 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1761 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1762 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001763 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001764 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1765 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1766 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1767 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1768 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1769 zone if it does not.
1770
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001771 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1772 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1773 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1774 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1775 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1776 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1777 time.
1778
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001779 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1780 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1781 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1782 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1783 optional and is the number seconds in between
1784 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1785 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1786 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1787 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1788 the kernel debugger.
1789
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001790 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001791 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1792 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001793 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1794 keyboard only format: kbd
1795 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1796 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1797 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1798 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001799
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001800 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1801 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1802
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001803 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1804 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1805 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1806
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001807 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1808 Valid arguments: on, off
1809 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001810 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1811 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001812
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001813 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1814 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1815 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1816 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1817 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1818 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1819
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001820 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1821 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1822
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001823 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1824 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001825 Default is 0 (off)
1826
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001827 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001828 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001829
1830 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1831 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001832 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001833
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001834 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1835 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1836 Default is 1 (enabled)
1837
1838 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1839 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1840 Default is 0 (disabled)
1841
1842 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1843 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1844 Default is 1 (enabled)
1845
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001846 kvm-intel.nested=
1847 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1848 Default is 0 (disabled)
1849
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001850 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1851 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1852 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1853 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1854
1855 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1856 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1857 Default is 1 (enabled)
1858
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001859 l2cr= [PPC]
1860
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001861 l3cr= [PPC]
1862
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001863 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001864 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001865
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001866 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1867 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1868 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1869
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301870 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001871 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001872
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001873 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1874 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1875 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1876 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001877 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001878 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1879 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001880
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001881 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1882 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1883 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001884
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001885 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1886 when set.
1887 Format: <int>
1888
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001889 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1890 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001891 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001892 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1893 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1894 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1895 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1896 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1897
1898 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1899 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1900 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1901 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1902 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1903 host link and device attached to it.
1904
1905 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1906 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1907 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1908 The following configurations can be forced.
1909
1910 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1911 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1912
1913 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1914
1915 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1916 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1917 allowed.
1918
1919 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1920
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001921 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1922
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001923 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1924 and both resets.
1925
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001926 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1927 hot-unplug link recovery
1928
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001929 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1930
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001931 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1932
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001933 * disable: Disable this device.
1934
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001935 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1936 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1937
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001938 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001939
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001940 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001941 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001942
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001943 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1944 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001945
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001946 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1947 Format: <integer>
1948
1949 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1950 Format: <integer>
1951
1952 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1953 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001954
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07001955 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1956 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1957 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1958 number of online CPUs.
1959
1960 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1961 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1962
1963 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1964 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1965
1966 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1967 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1968 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1969
1970 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1971 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1972 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1973 mode during the locktorture test.
1974
1975 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1976 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1977 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1978
1979 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1980 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1981
1982 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1983 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1984 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1985 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1986 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1987 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1988
1989 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1990 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1991
1992 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1993 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1994
1995 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1996 Enable additional printk() statements.
1997
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001998 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1999 Format: <irq>
2000
2001 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2002 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2003 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2004 loglevels are defined as follows:
2005
2006 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2007 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2008 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2009 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2010 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2011 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2012 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2013 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2014
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002015 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002016 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2017 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2018 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2019 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2020 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2021 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002022
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002023 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2024 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2025 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2026 kernel boot problems.
2027
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002028 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2029 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2030 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2031 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2032 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2033 attached printers to be reset. Using
2034 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2035 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2036 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2037 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2038 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2039 port specification list means that device IDs
2040 from each port should be examined, to see if
2041 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2042 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2043 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2044
2045 lpj=n [KNL]
2046 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2047 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2048 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2049 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2050 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2051 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2052 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2053 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2054 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2055 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2056 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2057 hardware.
2058
2059 ltpc= [NET]
2060 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2061
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002062 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002063 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2064 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002065
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002066 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2067 yeeloong laptop.
2068 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2069
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002070 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2071 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002072
2073 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002074 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2075 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2076 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2077 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2078 only takes effect during system bootup.
2079 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2080 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002081
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002082 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2083 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2084 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2085 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2086 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2087 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002088
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002089 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002090
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002091 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002092
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002093 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002094 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002095
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002096 mdacon= [MDA]
2097 Format: <first>,<last>
2098 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002099
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002100 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2101 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2102 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002103 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2104 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2105 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2106 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002107
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002108 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002109 memory.
2110
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002111 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2112 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2113 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2114
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002115 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2116 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2117 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2118 set according to the
2119 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2120 option.
2121 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2122
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302123 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002124 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2125 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2126 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2127 option description.
2128
2129 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002130 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2131 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002132
2133 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2134 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002135 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002136
2137 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2138 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002139 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002140 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2141 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2142 or
2143 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002144
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002145 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2146 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2147 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2148 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2149 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2150
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002151 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2152 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2153 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2154 Setting this option will scan the memory
2155 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2156 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2157 from using the memory being corrupted.
2158 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2159 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2160 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2161 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2162
2163 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2164 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2165 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2166 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2167 corruption in more or less memory.
2168
2169 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2170 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2171 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2172 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2173
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002174 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002175 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002176 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002177 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2178 performed. Each pass selects another test
2179 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2180 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2181 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2182 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002183
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002184 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2185 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2186 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2187 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2188 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2189
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002190 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2191 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2192
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002193 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2194 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2195 platforms.
2196
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002197 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2198 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2199 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2200 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2201
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002202 mga= [HW,DRM]
2203
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002204 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2205 physical address is ignored.
2206
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002207 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2208 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2209 Default: "0tb"
2210 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2211 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2212 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2213 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2214 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2215 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2216 unconfigured.
2217 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2218 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2219 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2220 VGA shield.
2221 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2222 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2223 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2224 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2225 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2226 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2227
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002228 mminit_loglevel=
2229 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2230 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2231 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2232 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2233 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2234 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2235
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002236 module.sig_enforce
2237 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2238 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002239 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002240 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2241
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302242 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2243 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2244
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002245 mousedev.tap_time=
2246 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2247 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2248 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2249 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2250 Format: <msecs>
2251 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2252 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2253 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2254 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2255
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302256 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002257 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2258 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2259 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2260 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2261 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2262 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2263 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2264 is not too small.
2265
Reza Arbab39fa104d2016-12-12 16:42:55 -08002266 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002267 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2268
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002269 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2270 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2271
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002272 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2273 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002274
2275 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002276 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002277
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002278 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2279 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2280 at a time.
2281
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002282 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2283
2284 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2285
2286 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2287 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2288 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2289 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2290 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2291
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002292 mtdset= [ARM]
2293 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2294
2295 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2296
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002297 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002298 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2299 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002300
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002301 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002302 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002303 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2304
2305 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2306 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2307 Default is 1.
2308 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2309 using up MTRRs.
2310
2311 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2312 Format: <integer>
2313 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2314 Default : 1
2315 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2316 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2317
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002318 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2319
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002320 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2321 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2322 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2323 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002324 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2325 file if at all.
2326
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002327 nf_conntrack.acct=
2328 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2329 0 to disable accounting
2330 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002331 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002332
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002333 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002334 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002335
2336 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002337 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002338
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002339 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2340 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2341
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002342 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2343 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2344 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2345 requests.
2346
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002347 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2348 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2349 channel should listen.
2350
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002351 nfs.cache_getent=
2352 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2353 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2354
2355 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2356 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2357 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2358
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002359 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2360 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2361 entries.
2362
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002363 nfs.enable_ino64=
2364 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2365 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2366 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2367 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2368 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2369
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002370 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2371 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2372 slots the client will assign to the callback
2373 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2374 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2375 a particular server.
2376
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002377 nfs.max_session_slots=
2378 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2379 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2380 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2381 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2382 Note that there is little point in setting this
2383 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2384
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002385 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002386 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2387 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2388 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2389 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2390 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2391 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2392 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2393 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2394 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2395 back to using the idmapper.
2396 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002397 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2398 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2399 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2400 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2401 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002402
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002403 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2404 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2405 information in exchange_id requests.
2406 If zero, no implementation identification information
2407 will be sent.
2408 The default is to send the implementation identification
2409 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002410
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002411 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2412 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2413 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2414 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2415 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2416 after the locks are lost.
2417 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2418 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2419 parameter to '1'.
2420 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2421 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002422
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002423 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2424 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2425 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2426
2427 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2428 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2429 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2430 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2431
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002432 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2433 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2434 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2435 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2436 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2437 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002438
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002439 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002440 when a NMI is triggered.
2441 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2442
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302443 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002444 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002445 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002446 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2447 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002448 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002449 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002450 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2451 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002452 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2453 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002454
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002455 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2456 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2457 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2458 waits 4 seconds.
2459
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002460 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002461 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2462 is present.
2463
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002464 no_console_suspend
2465 [HW] Never suspend the console
2466 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2467 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2468 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2469 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2470 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2471 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2472 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002473 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2474 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2475 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2476 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2477 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002478
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002479 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2480 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2481 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002482
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002483 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2484
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002485 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2486 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2487
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002488 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2489
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002490 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2491 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2492
2493 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002494
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002495 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2496
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002497 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2498
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002499 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2500
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002501 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002502
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002503 noexec [IA-64]
2504
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302505 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002506 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002507 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002508 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2509
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002510 nosmap [X86]
2511 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2512 even if it is supported by processor.
2513
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002514 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002515 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002516 even if it is supported by processor.
2517
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002518 noexec32 [X86-64]
2519 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2520 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2521 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2522 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2523 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002524
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002525 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002526
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002527 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002528 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2529 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002530
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002531 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2532
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002533 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2534 Equivalent to smt=1.
2535
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002536 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2537 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2538 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2539
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002540 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2541 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2542 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2543 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2544 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2545 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2546
2547 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2548 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2549 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2550 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2551 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2552 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2553 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2554
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002555 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2556 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2557 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002558
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002559 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2560 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2561 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2562
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002563 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2564 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2565 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2566 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2567 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2568 real-time systems.
2569
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002570 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2571
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002572 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2573 Valid arguments: on, off
2574 Default: on
2575
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002576 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002577 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002578 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002579 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002580 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2581 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002582 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2583 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002584
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002585 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2586
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002587 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002588 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2589
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302590 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002591 broken timer IRQ sources.
2592
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002593 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2594
2595 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2596 initial RAM disk.
2597
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002598 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2599 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002600 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002601
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002602 nointroute [IA-64]
2603
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002604 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2605
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002606 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002607
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002608 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2609
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002610 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2611 fault handling.
2612
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002613 no-vmw-sched-clock
2614 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2615 clock and use the default one.
2616
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002617 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2618 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2619 behaviour
2620
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002621 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002622
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002623 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002624
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002625 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002626 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002627
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002628 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2629
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002630 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002631
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002632 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2633 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2634
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002635 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2636 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2637 irq.
2638
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002639 nomodule Disable module load
2640
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002641 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2642 pagetables) support.
2643
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002644 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2645 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2646
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002647 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002648
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002649 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002650 with UP alternatives
2651
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002652 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2653 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2654 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2655 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002656
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002657 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2658 space.
2659
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002660 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2661 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2662 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2663
2664 nosbagart [IA-64]
2665
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002666 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002667
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002668 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2669 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002670
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002671 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2672
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002673 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2674
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002675 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002676
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002677 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2678 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002679
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002680 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002681
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002682 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2683
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002684 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2685 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2686 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2687 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2688 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2689 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2690 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2691 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2692 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2693 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2694 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2695 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2696 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2697
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002698 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002699 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2700 SAL PALO.
2701
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002702 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2703 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002704 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2705 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2706 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2707 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2708 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2709 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002710
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002711 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2712
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002713 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2714 Allowed values are enable and disable
2715
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002716 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2717 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2718 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2719 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2720
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002721 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2722 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2723 info.
2724
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002725 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2726 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2727 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2728 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2729 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2730 interrupts *may* be lost!
2731
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002732 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2733 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2734 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2735 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2736
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002737 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2738 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2739
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002740 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2741 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2742 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002743 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2744 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002745 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2746 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002747 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2748 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2749 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002750
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002751 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2752 process, but there is a small probability of
2753 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002754 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2755 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2756
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002757 OSS [HW,OSS]
2758 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2759
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002760 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2761 Storage of the information about who allocated
2762 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2763 we can turn it on.
2764 on: enable the feature
2765
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002766 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2767 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2768 off: turn off poisoning
2769 on: turn on poisoning
2770
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002771 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002772 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2773 timeout = 0: wait forever
2774 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002775 Format: <timeout>
2776
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002777 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2778 on a WARN().
2779
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002780 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2781 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2782 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2783 succeeds in any situation.
2784 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2785 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2786 kernel more unstable.
2787
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002788 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2789 connected to, default is 0.
2790 Format: <parport#>
2791 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2792 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002793 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002794
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002795 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2796 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2797 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2798 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2799 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2800 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2801 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2802 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2803 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2804 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2805 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2806 are specified on the command line, starting
2807 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002808
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002809 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2810 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2811 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2812 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2813 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2814 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002815 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2816
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002817 pause_on_oops=
2818 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2819 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2820 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2821
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002822 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2823
2824 pcd. [PARIDE]
2825 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002826 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002827
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002828 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002829 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2830 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002831 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002832 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002833 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2834 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002835 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002836 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2837 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2838 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002839 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2840 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2841 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2842 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2843 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2844 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2845 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2846 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2847 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2848 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002849 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2850 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2851 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002852 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2853 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302854 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002855 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002856 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2857 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2858 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002859 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2860 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2861 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002862 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2863 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2864 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002865 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2866 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2867 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2868 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002869 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2870 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2871 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2872 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002873 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002874 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2875 on several machines and they hang the machine
2876 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2877 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2878 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2879 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2880 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002881 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002882 Use with caution as certain devices share
2883 address decoders between ROMs and other
2884 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002885 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002886 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2887 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002888 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2889 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002890 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002891 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2892 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2893 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002894 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002895 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2896 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2897 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002898 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002899 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2900 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2901 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002902 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002903 numbers ourselves, overriding
2904 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002905 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002906 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2907 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2908 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2909 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2910 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002911 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002912 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002913 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2914 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2915 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2916 please report a bug.
2917 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2918 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002919 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2920 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2921 so this option is a temporary workaround
2922 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002923 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2924 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002925 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2926 This might help on some broken boards which
2927 machine check when some devices' config space
2928 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2929 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002930 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2931 This sorting is done to get a device
2932 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2933 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08002934 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2935 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2936 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2937 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2938 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2939 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2940 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2941 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2942 or bus can support) for best performance.
2943 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2944 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2945 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2946 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2947 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2948 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08002949 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2950 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2951 The default value is 256 bytes.
2952 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2953 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2954 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002955 resource_alignment=
2956 Format:
2957 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00002958 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2959 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002960 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2961 aligned memory resources.
2962 If <order of align> is not specified,
2963 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2964 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2965 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02002966 To specify the alignment for several
2967 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2968 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2969 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06002970 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2971 end-to-end CRC checking).
2972 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2973 the default.
2974 off: Turn ECRC off
2975 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08002976 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2977 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2978 Default size is 256 bytes.
2979 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2980 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2981 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06002982 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2983 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2984 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08002985 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2986 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2987 accommodate resources required by all child
2988 devices.
2989 off: Turn realloc off
2990 on: Turn realloc on
2991 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01002992 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06002993 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2994 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2995 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002996
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04002997 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2998 Management.
2999 off Disable ASPM.
3000 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3001 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3002
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003003 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3004 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3005 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3006
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003007 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003008 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3009 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3010 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3011 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3012 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003013 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3014 ports driver.
3015
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003016 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3017 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3018 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3019
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003020 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003021 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003022 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003023
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003024 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3025
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303026 pd_ignore_unused
3027 [PM]
3028 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3029 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3030 for debug and development, but should not be
3031 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3032
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003033 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003034 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003035
3036 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3037 boot time.
3038 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3039 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3040
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003041 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003042 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3043 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3044 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3045 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3046 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003047
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003048 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003049 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003050
3051 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003052 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003053
3054 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003055 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003056
3057 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3058 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3059 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3060
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003061 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003062 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3063 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3064
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003065 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3066 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3067 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3068 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3069 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3070 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003071
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003072 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3073 { off }
3074
3075 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3076 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3077
3078 pnp_reserve_irq=
3079 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3080
3081 pnp_reserve_dma=
3082 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3083
3084 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003085 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003086
3087 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003088 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3089 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003090 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3091
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003092 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3093 Default is 21.
3094 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3095 may be specified.
3096 Format: <port>,<port>....
3097
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003098 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3099 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3100 platform machine description specific power_save
3101 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3102 execution priority.
3103
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003104 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3105 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3106 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3107 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3108 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3109
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003110 print-fatal-signals=
3111 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003112
3113 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3114 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3115 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3116 coredump - etc.
3117
3118 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3119 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3120
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003121 default: off.
3122
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003123 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3124 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3125 panics
3126 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3127 default: disabled
3128
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003129 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3130 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3131 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3132 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3133 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3134 Default: ratelimit
3135
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003136 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3137 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3138
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003139 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3140 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3141 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3142
3143 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3144 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3145 instead using the legacy FADT method
3146
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003147 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003148 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3149 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3150 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3151 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003152 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3153 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003154 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003155
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003156 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3157 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003158 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003159
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003160 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3161 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003162 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3163 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003164 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3165 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003166 (0 = never).
3167 psmouse.resolution=
3168 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3169 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003170 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003171 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3172
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003173 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3174
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003175 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003176 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003177
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003178 pty.legacy_count=
3179 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3180 default number.
3181
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003182 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003183
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003184 r128= [HW,DRM]
3185
3186 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003187 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003188
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003189 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003190 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003191
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003192 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3193
3194 cec_disable [X86]
3195 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3196 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3197
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003198 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003199 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3200
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003201 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3202 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3203 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003204 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3205 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3206 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3207 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003208 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3209 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3210 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3211
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003212 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003213 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3214 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3215 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3216 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3217 This improves the real-time response for the
3218 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3219 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3220 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3221 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3222
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003223 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003224 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3225 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003226
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003227 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3228 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3229 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3230 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3231
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003232 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3233 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3234 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3235 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3236
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003237 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3238 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3239 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003240 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3241 is set.
3242
3243 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3244 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3245 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3246 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3247 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3248 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003249
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003250 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3251 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3252 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3253 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3254 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003255
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003256 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003257 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3258 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3259 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3260 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3261 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3262 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003263
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003264 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3265 Set required age in jiffies for a
3266 given grace period before RCU starts
3267 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3268 rcu_note_context_switch().
3269
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003270 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003271 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3272 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3273 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3274 and maximum value is HZ.
3275
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003276 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003277 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3278 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3279 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3280
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003281 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003282 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3283 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3284 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3285 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3286 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3287 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3288 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3289 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3290 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003291
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003292 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3293 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3294 defaults to the square root of the number of
3295 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3296 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3297 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3298
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003299 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003300 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3301 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003302
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003303 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003304 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3305 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003306
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003307 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003308 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3309 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003310
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003311 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003312 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3313 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3314 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3315 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003316
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003317 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3318 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3319 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3320 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3321 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3322 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3323
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003324 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3325 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3326 grace-period primitives.
3327
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003328 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3329 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3330 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3331 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3332 interference.
3333
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003334 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3335 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3336 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3337 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3338 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3339 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3340 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3341 a single reader.
3342
3343 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3344 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3345 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3346 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3347
3348 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3349 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3350
3351 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3352 Shut the system down after performance tests
3353 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3354 testing.
3355
3356 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3357 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3358
3359 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3360 Enable additional printk() statements.
3361
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003362 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3363 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3364 callback-flood tests.
3365
3366 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3367 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3368 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3369 test.
3370
3371 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3372 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3373 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3374 disable callback-flood testing.
3375
3376 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3377 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3378 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3379
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003380 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003381 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3382 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003383
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003384 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003385 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3386 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003387
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003388 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003389 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3390 in seconds.
3391
3392 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3393 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3394 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003395
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003396 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003397 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003398
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003399 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003400 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3401 update-side primitives, if available.
3402
3403 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3404 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3405 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3406 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3407 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3408 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3409 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003410
3411 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003412 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3413
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003414 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003415 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3416 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3417 test, hence the "fake".
3418
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003419 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003420 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3421 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3422 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3423 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3424 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003425
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003426 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3427 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3428
3429 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003430 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3431
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003432 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003433 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3434 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3435
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003436 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003437 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3438 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3439 during the rcutorture test.
3440
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003441 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003442 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3443 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3444
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003445 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003446 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3447 warnings, zero to disable.
3448
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003449 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003450 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3451
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003452 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003453 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3454
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003455 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003456 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3457 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3458 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3459 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3460
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003461 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003462 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3463 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3464 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3465
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003466 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003467 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3468
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003469 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003470 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3471
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003472 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003473 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3474 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3475
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003476 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3477 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3478
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003479 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003480 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3481
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003482 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003483 Enable additional printk() statements.
3484
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003485 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3486 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3487
3488 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3489 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3490
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003491 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3492 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3493 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3494 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3495 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3496 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003497 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003498
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003499 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3500 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3501 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3502 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003503 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3504 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3505 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3506 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3507 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003508
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003509 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3510 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3511 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003512 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3513 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003514
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003515 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3516 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3517 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3518 to zero.
3519
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003520 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3521 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3522
3523 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3524 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3525
3526 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3527 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3528
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003529 rdinit= [KNL]
3530 Format: <full_path>
3531 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3532 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3533
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003534 reboot= [KNL]
3535 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3536 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3537 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3538 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3539 [[,]f[orce]
3540 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3541 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3542 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3543 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3544 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003545
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003546 relax_domain_level=
3547 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003548 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003549
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003550 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3551
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003552 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003553 Format: nn[KMG]
3554 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3555 address space.
3556
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003557 reservelow= [X86]
3558 Format: nn[K]
3559 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3560 the bottom of the address space.
3561
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003562 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3563 during initialization.
3564
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003565 resume= [SWSUSP]
3566 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003567 Format:
3568 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003569
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003570 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3571 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3572 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3573 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3574 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3575
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003576 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3577 read the resume files
3578
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003579 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3580 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3581 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3582
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003583 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3584 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3585 present during boot.
3586 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003587 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003588 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3589 (that will set all pages holding image data
3590 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003591
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003592 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3593
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003594 rfkill.default_state=
3595 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3596 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3597 1 Unblocked.
3598
3599 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3600 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3601 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3602 blocked and the previous configuration.
3603 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3604 blocked and everything unblocked.
3605
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003606 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3607 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3608
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003609 ring3mwait=disable
3610 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3611 CPUs.
3612
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003613 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3614
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003615 rodata= [KNL]
3616 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3617 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3618
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003619 rockchip.usb_uart
3620 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3621 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3622 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3623 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3624
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003625 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003626 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003627
3628 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3629 mount the root filesystem
3630
3631 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3632
3633 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3634
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003635 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3636 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3637 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3638
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003639 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3640 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3641 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3642 managed by CMA.
3643
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003644 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3645
3646 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3647
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003648 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3649 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3650 strict
3651 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3652 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3653 which is faster.
3654
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003655 sa1100ir [NET]
3656 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3657
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003658 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003659
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003660 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3661
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003662 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3663 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3664 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3665 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3666
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003667 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3668 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3669 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3670 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3671 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3672 1 -- enable.
3673 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3674 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3675
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003676 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3677 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3678 security module asking for security registration will be
3679 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3680 as if no module has been chosen.
3681
3682 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003683 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3684 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3685 0 -- disable.
3686 1 -- enable.
3687 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3688 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3689 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3690
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003691 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3692 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3693 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3694 0 -- disable.
3695 1 -- enable.
3696 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3697
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003698 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003699
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003700 shapers= [NET]
3701 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003702
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003703 simeth= [IA-64]
3704 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003705
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003706 slram= [HW,MTD]
3707
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003708 slab_nomerge [MM]
3709 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3710 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3711 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3712 merging on their own.
3713 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3714
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003715 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3716 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3717 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3718 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3719 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3720
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003721 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3722 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3723 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3724 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3725 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3726 last alloc / free. For more information see
3727 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003728
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003729 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3730 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3731 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3732 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3733 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3734 directories and files being created under
3735 /sys/kernel/slub.
3736
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003737 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003738 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3739 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3740 fragmentation. For more information see
3741 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003742
3743 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003744 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3745 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3746 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3747 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3748 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3749 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003750 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3751
3752 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003753 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003754 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003755 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3756
3757 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003758 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3759 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003760
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003761 smart2= [HW]
3762 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3763
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003764 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3765 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3766 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3767 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3768 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3769 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3770 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3771 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3772 1: Fast pin select (default)
3773 2: ATC IRMode
3774
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003775 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3776 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3777 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3778 actual hardware limit.
3779 Format: <integer>
3780 Default: -1 (no limit)
3781
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003782 softlockup_panic=
3783 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003784 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003785
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003786 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3787 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3788 backtraces on all cpus.
3789 Format: <integer>
3790
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003791 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003792 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003793
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003794 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3795 spia_fio_base=
3796 spia_pedr=
3797 spia_peddr=
3798
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07003799 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3800 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3801 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3802 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3803 grace period will be considered for automatic
3804 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3805 expediting.
3806
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003807 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3808 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3809
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003810 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3811 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3812 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3813 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3814 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3815 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3816 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3817
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003818 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3819 Format: <num>
3820 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3821 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3822 as the initial boot-console.
3823 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3824
3825 sti_font= [HW]
3826 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3827
3828 stifb= [HW]
3829 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3830
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003831 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3832 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3833 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3834 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3835 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3836 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3837 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3838 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3839 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3840 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3841 maximum port values.
3842
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04003843 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3844 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3845 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3846 process in parallel from a single connection.
3847 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3848
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003849 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3850 [NFS]
3851 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3852 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3853 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3854 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3855 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3856 NFS server is running.
3857
3858 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3859 automatically using heuristics
3860 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3861 percpu one pool for each CPU
3862 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3863 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3864
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003865 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3866 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3867 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3868 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3869 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3870 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3871 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3872 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3873
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003874 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3875 [SUSPEND]
3876 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3877 mode before resuming the system (see
3878 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3879 is set. Default value is 5.
3880
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003881 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003882 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3883 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003884 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003885
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003886 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01003887 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003888 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3889 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3890 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01003891 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003892
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003893 switches= [HW,M68k]
3894
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02003895 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3896 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3897 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3898 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3899 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3900 in older udev will not work anymore.
3901 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3902 the kernel configuration.
3903
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08003904 sysrq_always_enabled
3905 [KNL]
3906 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3907 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3908 Useful for debugging.
3909
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01003910 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3911 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3912 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3913 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3914 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3915 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3916
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003917 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3918
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003919 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003920 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003921 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3922 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3923 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3924 The system is woken from this state using a
3925 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003926
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003927 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3928 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3929
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04003930 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3931 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3932 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3933
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003934 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3935 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04003936 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003937
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04003938 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3939 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3940 critical and hot trip points.
3941
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04003942 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3943 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3944
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003945 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3946 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08003947 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3948 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003949
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04003950 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3951 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3952 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3953 0: no polling (default)
3954
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003955 threadirqs [KNL]
3956 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003957 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003958
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003959 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3960 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3961
3962 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3963 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3964 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3965
3966 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3967 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04003968 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3969 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003970
3971 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3972 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3973 to the hypervisor.
3974
3975 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3976 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3977 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3978 kernel based on different criteria.
3979
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003980 topology= [S390]
3981 Format: {off | on}
3982 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07003983 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3984 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003985 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02003986 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003987
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07003988 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3989 Format: {off}
3990 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3991 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3992 LPAR.
3993
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003994 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3995
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03003996 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3997 Format: integer pcr id
3998 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3999 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4000 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4001 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4002 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4003 are saved.
4004
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004005 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004006 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004007
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004008 trace_event=[event-list]
4009 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004010 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4011 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4012 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004013
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004014 trace_options=[option-list]
4015 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4016 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4017 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4018 to echo the option name into
4019
4020 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4021
4022 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4023 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4024
4025 trace_options=stacktrace
4026
4027 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4028 section.
4029
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004030 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4031 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4032 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4033 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4034 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4035 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4036
4037 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4038 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4039 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4040 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4041
4042 ** CAUTION **
4043
4044 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4045 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4046 the system to live lock.
4047
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004048 traceoff_on_warning
4049 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4050 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4051 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4052 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4053
4054 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4055 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4056 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4057
4058 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4059 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4060
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004061 transparent_hugepage=
4062 [KNL]
4063 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4064 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4065 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4066 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4067
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004068 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004069 Format: <string>
4070 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004071 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4072 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4073 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4074 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004075 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4076 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4077 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4078 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004079
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004080 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4081 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4082 Format:
4083 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004084 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4085
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004086 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004087 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004088 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4089 help "seeing" what's going on.
4090
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004091 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4092 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4093
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004094 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4095 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4096 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4097 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4098 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4099 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4100 reported either.
4101
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004102 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004103 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004104
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004105 usbcore.authorized_default=
4106 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4107 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4108 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4109
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004110 usbcore.autosuspend=
4111 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4112 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4113 is the time required before an idle device will be
4114 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004115 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004116
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004117 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4118 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4119
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004120 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4121 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4122 (default = 65536).
4123
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004124 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4125 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4126
4127 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4128 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4129 scheme (default 0 = off).
4130
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004131 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4132 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4133 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4134
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004135 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4136 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4137 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4138
4139 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4140 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4141 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4142 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4143
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004144 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4145
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004146 usbhid.mousepoll=
4147 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004148
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004149 usbhid.jspoll=
4150 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4151
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004152 usb-storage.delay_use=
4153 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004154 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004155
4156 usb-storage.quirks=
4157 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4158 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4159 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4160 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4161 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4162 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4163 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004164 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4165 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004166 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4167 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004168 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4169 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004170 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4171 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4172 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4173 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004174 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4175 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004176 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4177 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004178 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4179 reported device capacity by one
4180 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004181 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4182 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004183 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4184 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004185 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4186 unlock ejectable media);
4187 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4188 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004189 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4190 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004191 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4192 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004193 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4194 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004195 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4196 bogus residue values);
4197 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4198 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004199 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4200 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004201 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004202 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4203 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004204 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4205 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004206 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4207
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004208 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4209 Format: <int>
4210 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4211 1 - undefined instruction events
4212 2 - system calls
4213 4 - invalid data aborts
4214 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4215 16 - SIGBUS faults
4216 Example: user_debug=31
4217
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004218 userpte=
4219 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4220
4221 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4222 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4223 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4224
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304225 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004226 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4227
4228 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004229 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4230
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004231 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4232 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4233 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4234
4235 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4236 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4237 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4238
4239 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4240 alias for vdso32=0.
4241
4242 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4243 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004244
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004245 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4246 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4247
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004248 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4249 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4250
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004251 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4252 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4253 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4254 level and then send out the event to user space through
4255 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4256 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4257 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004258 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004259
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004260 virtio_mmio.device=
4261 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4262
4263 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4264 where:
4265 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4266 like K, M and G)
4267 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4268 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4269 request_irq())
4270 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4271 example:
4272 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4273
4274 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4275
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004276 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004277 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004278 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004279 Use vga=ask for menu.
4280 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4281 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4282
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004283 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004284 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4285 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4286 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4287 mapped kernel RAM.
4288
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004289 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4290 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004291
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004292 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4293 Format: <command>
4294
4295 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4296 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004297
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004298 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4299 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4300 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4301 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4302 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4303 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4304 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4305
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004306 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4307 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004308
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004309 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004310 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4311 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4312 better than they would in emulation mode.
4313 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4314
4315 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4316 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4317 might break your system.
4318
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004319 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4320 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4321 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4322
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004323 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4324 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4325 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4326 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4327
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004328 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4329 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4330 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4331 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4332 ranging from 0-255.
4333
4334 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4335 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4336 Change the default green palette of the console.
4337 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4338 ranging from 0-255.
4339
4340 vt.default_red= [VT]
4341 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4342 Change the default red palette of the console.
4343 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4344 ranging from 0-255.
4345
4346 vt.default_utf8=
4347 [VT]
4348 Format=<0|1>
4349 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4350 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4351 newly opened terminals.
4352
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004353 vt.global_cursor_default=
4354 [VT]
4355 Format=<-1|0|1>
4356 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4357 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4358 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4359 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4360 cursors, 1 will display them.
4361
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004362 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4363 Default: 2 = green.
4364
4365 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4366 Default: 3 = cyan.
4367
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004368 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4369 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4370 or other driver-specific files in the
4371 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004372
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004373 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4374 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4375 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4376 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4377 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4378 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4379 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4380 corresponding sysfs file.
4381
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004382 workqueue.disable_numa
4383 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4384 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4385 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4386 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4387 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4388 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4389 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4390
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304391 workqueue.power_efficient
4392 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4393 they show better performance thanks to cache
4394 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4395 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4396
4397 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4398 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4399 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4400 power usage at the cost of small performance
4401 overhead.
4402
4403 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4404 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4405
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004406 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4407 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4408 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4409 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4410 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4411 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4412 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4413 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4414 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4415 impacted.
4416
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004417 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4418 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4419 supporting x2apic.
4420
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004421 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4422 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004423 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4424 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004425 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004426
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004427 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4428 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4429 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4430 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4431 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4432 domains.
4433
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004434 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4435 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4436 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4437 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4438 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4439 nics -- unplug network devices
4440 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004441 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4442 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4443 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004444 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004445
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004446 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4447 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4448 optimizations.
4449
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004450 xen_nopv [X86]
4451 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4452 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4453
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004454 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004455 Format:
4456 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]